Hans Schlossmann

Hans Schlossmann (born May 21, 1894 in Dresden , † September 7, 1956 in Düsseldorf ) was a German-British physician and pharmacologist.

Life and activity

Schloßmann was a son of the physician Arthur Schlossmann, the founder of the Medical Academy in Düsseldorf . After attending school, he studied medicine. In 1920 he received his doctorate with a thesis on diphtheria and pneumococci . From 1923 to 1924 he worked as an assistant at the Pharmacological Institute of Heidelberg University .

From 1924 to 1933, Schlossmann worked as an assistant or as a private lecturer at the Medical Academy in Düsseldorf.

After the National Socialists came to power, Schloßmann was ousted from civil service because of his - according to National Socialist definition - Jewish descent. According to the provisions of the law for the restoration of the civil service , he was fired from the Düsseldorf Academy, although as a veteran of the First World War he was actually protected from dismissal by an exceptional provision despite his origins.

In 1933, Schlossmann emigrated and made a detour to Utrecht in the Netherlands and South Africa to Great Britain. There he found a job in the Physiological Department of Cambridge University in 1935/1936 .

Schlossmann died of a heart attack in 1956 while visiting Düsseldorf .

family

Schlossmann was married to Margarete, b. Bondi, with whom he had four children.

Fonts

• On the reduction of the natural resistance of gray mice and white rats to infection with diphtheria bacilli and pneumococci through cold, heat and hunger. From the laboratory of the Academic Clinic for Pediatrics in Düsseldorf , 1920. (Dissertation)

literature

• Düsseldorf memorial: expulsion of Jewish artists and scientists from Düsseldorf 1933-1945 , 1998.