Harald Berkowitz

Harald Berkowitz (born January 10, 1896 in Königsberg , † October 26, 1952 in Srinagar / Kashmir ) was a German doctor .

biography

Harald Berkowitz was the son of the Jewish businessman David Berkowitz and Ernestine. He had two brothers, Horst (* 1901, † after 1941, after deportation to the Riga Ghetto ) and Horst Egon Berkowitz .

The family moved to Hanover in 1902 . Harald Berkowitz attended the Leibniz School there and graduated from high school in 1914. After initially studying medicine in Freiburg , Göttingen and Kiel , he did military service in the First World War. In 1920 he received his doctorate and settled as a doctor in Hanover.

In Hanover, Harald Berkowitz became known as the “doctor for the poor”. He joined the SPD as a socially committed physician and gave lectures on health and welfare .

After the seizure of power of the Nazis to the Jewish physicians in 1933 was initially the insurance license revoked in 1938 disbarment granted. After the Reichspogromnacht and a few months before the start of the Second World War , Berkowitz emigrated to England .

After 1945, Harald Berkowitz worked in India to fight an "Indian eye disease". He died in Srinagar in 1952 after an X-ray accident .

Honors

• The Berkowitzweg in Groß-Buchholz , laid out in 1970, honors the physician with its name.

See also

• History of the Jews in Hanover

literature

• Udo Benzenhöfer : Jewish Doctors in Hanover 1933 to 1945 , in the series Studies on the History of Medicine under National Socialism , Vol. 3, Wetzlar: GWAB-Verlag, 2000, ISBN 3-9803221-5-7 , p. 52
• Raimund Dehmlow, Andreas Pagel (Red.): Jewish Doctors in Hanover / Remembrance and Commemoration , 2nd edition, Working Group Fate of Jewish Doctors in Hanover , Lower Saxony Medical Association , District Office Hanover, 2013
• Peter Schulze : Berkowitz, (1) Harald , in: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 52.
• Peter Schulze: Berkowitz, (1) Harald. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 62.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Peter Schulze: Berkowitz, (1) Harald. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 52
2. ↑ Peter Schulze: Berkowitz, (2) Horst Egon. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 52f.
3. ↑ Julia Berlit-Jackstien, Karljosef Kreter (ed.): Deported into death. The deportation of 1001 Hanoverians to Riga on December 15, 1941 , exhibition catalog for the exhibition of the same name from December 15, 2011 to January 27, 2012 in the Bürgersaal of the New Town Hall , ed. on behalf of the historical seminar of the Leibniz University Hannover and the state capital Hannover, department of education and qualification, project remembrance culture, with contributions by Julia Berlit-Jackstien, Marlis Buchholz, Hans Harer, Wiebke Hiemesch, Karljosef Kreter, Hans-Dieter Schmid, Christiane Schröder, Peter Schulze and Edel Sheridan-Quantz, in the series Writings on Memory Culture in Hanover , Vol. 1, Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung Hanover, 2011, ISBN 978-3-7752-6200-2 , p. 290
4. ↑ ^{a b} Helmut Zimmermann : Berkowitzweg. In: The street names of the state capital Hanover , Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hanover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 38