Hans Mühsam

Hans Günther Mühsam (born July 15, 1876 in Berlin , † 1957 in Haifa ) was a doctor and Zionist.

Life

Siegfried Mühsam's eldest son spent his youth in Lübeck , where his school attendance was denied by anti-Semitic classmates. At the request of his parents, he studied medicine. In his first semester in Berlin he took the opportunity to visit his cousin Paul Mühsam and then moved to Kiel . After his medical license in 1900, he took a position at the Jewish Hospital in Berlin . In 1906 he debated the degeneration of the Jewish people with Albert Koch in the Jüdische Turnzeitung . A Zionist group of Russian refugees, for whom he was socially committed, elected him chairman of the Jewish People's Association founded in 1905 . a. Provided inexpensive inns in Berlin's Grenadierstrasse for Jews passing through. Almost 120 members took care of 21,000 emigrants.

In 1908 his sister Charlotte (1881–1971) married the lawyer Leo Landau . Margarethe (1875–1958) married Julius Joel (1867–1933). November 12, 1911 was the first Mühsam family day.

He became a board member of the Society of Jewish Scientists and Doctors for Sanitary Interests in Palestine, founded in 1913 . On the one hand, malaria posed problems for the new colonists every year, and the new Hejaz Railway favored the introduction of infectious diseases from Asia to Palestine. The Lithuanian doctor Arieh Beham (1877–1941) was won over as head of the hygienic institute founded in May 1913, later the Pasteur Institute in Jerusalem. He left the negotiations with German companies about quinine deliveries to Otto Warburg . When he was drafted as a battalion doctor in the spring of 1917, he left Warburg in charge of the company.

In 1915 he had treated Albert Einstein's mother, Pauline († 1920), who was suffering from cancer , which resulted in a close friendship with Einstein. Just before he left for the French front in April 1917, Einstein had sent him the first copy of his book On Special and General Theory of Relativity . At the end of the war he served in an epidemic hospital in Belgium.

After the First World War he established himself as a general practitioner in Charlottenburg. He married (around 1906 or after the end of the war) Minna Adler, a daughter of Agathe, nee. Joel and Ephraim Adler (1855-1910). Minna became chairwoman of the children's folk kitchen of the Jewish national women's association.

In 1923 he developed a virus filter with Einstein.

His foster daughter was Betty Neumann (born October 25, 1900 in Graz, † June 1, 1975), the daughter of Isidor Neumann and his distant relatives Flora, born. Laborious (* 1868 in Postelberg). Betty worked as Einstein's secretary for a few weeks in 1923/24, during which an affair developed. When Betty got into trouble in Graz in May 1938, Einstein managed to get her to Princeton. In 1964 she lived Betty at 418 Central Park West, New York 25. It may have been this affair that had cooled Mühsam's relationship with Einstein until her mutual friend Hermann Struck mediated between the two.

In 1934 Hans Mühsam had to identify his younger brother Erich after his alleged suicide in Sachsenhausen concentration camp. With the help of the bloodshot strangulation marks, he recognized "that the death was caused by strangulation or hanging and that the corpse was not hung up after the previous death".

When he followed his sisters to Palestine with his wife Minna in 1938, he had to leave his property behind. His nephews had reported to the police there in order to legally gain possession of weapons as a gaffir. In August 1942 he stayed on Mount Carmel near Haifa . After his Parkinson's disease, he dictated his letters to Minna.

Publications

• Eligibility and prospects of a national Jewish party in Germany. In: Die Welt, Central Organ of the Zionist Movement , No. 42, October 19, 1906
• On the relationship between anaphylaxis, urticaria, and parenteral protein digestion
• For taking blood for serodiagnostic purposes
• Experimental determination of the channel width of filters

literature

• Charlotte Landau-Mühsam: My memories
• Anne Kerber, Frank glue ball: Quinine for Jerusalem! - The botanist Otto Warburg and the Lübeck doctor Hans Mühsam in the service of the "Society of Jewish Doctors and Natural Scientists for Sanitary Interests in Palestine".

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://edocs.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/volltexte/2008/38032/original/Welt_1907_12.pdf  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ http://www.scienceandsociety.co.uk/results.asp?image=10411847
3. ↑ http://ssdmf.info/by_number/083/083-14-0960.html  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. New York Social Security number, 083-14-0960  
4. ↑ http://www.thekesters.net/Genealogy/Muhsam_I.html ( Memento from August 15, 2012 on WebCite )
5. ↑ http://www.badische-zeitung.de/panorama/einstein-archiv-nun-im-internet--57242520.html
6. ↑ http://alberteinstein.info/vufind1/Author/Home?author=Neumann%20(Newman)%2C%20Betty%20(Mentioned%20In)
7. ↑ My memories , p. 29
8. ↑ Anne Kerber, Frank Leimkugel: The dynasty Pappendem-difficulty - to academisation of Jews in the 19th century in the natural sciences and medicine using the example of a family. In: Dominik Groß et al. (Ed.): Medical history in spotlights. Contributions of the "Rheinischer Kreis der Medizinhistoriker". Kassel 2011, pp. 193–203, here pp. 197–200 ( PDF file ).
9. ↑ http://edocs.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/volltexte/2008/38032/original/Welt_1906_42.pdf  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

Web links

• http://alberteinstein.info/vufind1/Author/Home?author=M%C3%BChsam+%5BMuehsam%5D%2C+Hans+(Author)&page=6