Hans Turkheim

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Hans Jakob Türkheim (born July 23, 1889 in Hamburg , † April 27, 1955 in London ) was a German-British dentist .

Life and activity

Stumbling blocks in front of the entrance to the main building O 10 of the Hamburg University Hospital, including a stumbling block for Hans Türkheim

From 1921 to 1933 Türkheim was a private lecturer or associate professor ( associate professor ) at the Dental Institute of the University of Hamburg . From 1930 he was also head of department there.

After the National Socialists came to power, his license to teach was revoked in 1933 and he emigrated to Great Britain in 1936, where he opened a private practice in London.

After his emigration, Türkheim was classified as an enemy of the state by the police forces of National Socialist Germany: around 1938 his German citizenship was revoked. In the spring of 1940, the Reich Main Security Office in Berlin put him on the special wanted list GB , a directory of people whom the Nazi surveillance apparatus considered particularly dangerous or important, which is why they would be removed from the occupation troops in the event of a successful invasion and occupation of the British Isles by the Wehrmacht Subsequent SS special commands were to be identified and arrested with special priority.

In 1951 he resumed teaching in Hamburg. From 1952 to 1955, Türkheim taught again as an honorary professor at Hamburg University.

In 2014, a stumbling block in memory of Türkheim was laid in front of the entrance to the main building of the Hamburg-Eppendorf University Medical Center.

Fonts

  • Investigations into the sensibility of dentine , 1920. (Dissertation)
  • The sensory physiology of the oral cavity and teeth , 1921. (Habilitation)

literature

  • Carmen C. Hohmann: The fate of a Jewish professor between Hamburg and London: the dentist Hans Jacob Türkheim (1889-1955). , Publisher: LIT, October 6, 2009, ISBN 978-3-643-10077-1 .
  • Displaced German Scholars. A Guide to Academic in Peril in Nazi Germany During the 1930s , 1993, p. 61.
  • Hendrik van den Bussche / Angela Bottin: Medical Science in the "Third Reich": Continuity, Adaptation and Opposition at the Hamburg Medical Faculty , p. 50.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Hepp / Hans Georg Lehmann: The expatriation of German citizens 1933-45 according to the lists published in the Reichsanzeiger , 1985, p. 125.
  2. ^ Entry on Türkheim on the special wanted list GB (reproduced on the website of the Imperial War Museum in London) .
personal data
SURNAME Türkheim, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Türkheim, Hans Jakob (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-British dentist
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 1955
Place of death London