Harry Fischgold

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Harry Fischgold , later Henry Fisher (born 1903 ; died after 1991) was a German medic .

Life and activity

After attending school, Fischgold studied medicine in Berlin . He completed his training in 1928 with a doctorate as Dr. med. with a paper on hemophilic bacteria. From 1928 to 1933 Fischgold was employed as an assistant in the chemical department at the Pathological Institute of the Berlin Charité .

After the National Socialists came to power in spring 1933, Fischgold emigrated to Great Britain, where he worked as a researcher at the University College Hospital in London from 1933 to 1935 . From 1936 he worked as an Assistant Medical Officer at City Mental Hospital (later Mapperley Hospital) in Nottingham .

After his emigration, Fischgold was classified as an enemy of the state by the National Socialist police. In the spring of 1940, the Reich Main Security Office in Berlin put him on the special wanted list GB , a list of people whom the Nazi surveillance apparatus considered particularly dangerous or important, which is why they will be succeeded by the occupation troops in the event of a successful invasion and occupation of the British Isles by the Wehrmacht Special SS commandos were to be identified and arrested with special priority.

Fischgold changed its name to Henry Fisher. In the 1950s he was "Consultant Psychiatrist and Deputy Physician Superintendent" at Mapperley Hospital and, from 1966, Chairman of the Hospital Management Committee.

He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and the Royal College of Psychiatrists .

Fonts (selection)

  • Active iron compounds in the culture of hemophilic bacteria , dissertation , Berlin 1929.
  • With Helmut Petow and Hans Kosterlitz : On the question of active iron II. Its biological activity: Can it act as an X-factor in the culture of hemophilic bacteria? In: Journal of Experimental Medicine , January 1929, Vol. 66, 491-499; doi: 10.1007 / BF02621974
  • IM Kolthoff , Harry Fischgold: Acid - Base - Indicators: Their application in the colorimetric determination of the hydrogen ion concentration. Springer Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg 1932; ISBN 978-3-642-52567-4 ; limited preview in Google Book search
  • With Peter Rona , Nelly Neuenschwander-Lemmer: Dilatometric investigations in fermentation processes. II. Mitt. Studies on di- and trisaccharide cleavage. In: Biochemical Journal 247, 257 (1932)
  • With Ernst Chain : The spontaneous decomposition of lecithin and its bearing on the determination of the isoelectric point. In: Biochemical Journal 28 (6), Jan. 1, 1934, pp. 2044-2051 online
  • With Joseph Weiß: About the mechanism of fluorescence quenching in solutions. In: Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie 1936, pp. 135-138.
  • Drug Treatment of Neurosis. Blessing or Curse , in: Arzneimittelforschung , 1960.
  • Problems of Open Treatment of Psychiatric Patients , in: Die Medizinische Welt 1962.
  • Psychiatry as a social service. Community Psychiatry in Nottingham. Lecture in Berlin on the world-famous “Nottingham Experiment”, in: German medical journal 22 (1965), pp. 709–714.

literature

  • Displaced German Scholars. A Guide to Academics in Peril in Nazi Germany During the 1930s , (= Studies in Judaica and the Holocaust. Volume 7) Borgo Press, San Bernardino (CF) 1993; ISBN 0-89370-474-1 ; limited preview in Google Book search

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b For the name change see The Medical Register , 1957, p. 688: entry "Fisher Henry (formerly Fischgold, Harry)"; limited preview in Google Book search
  2. ^ Hospital Records Database: Details: Mapperley Hospital, Nottingham , The National Archives
  3. ↑ Valérie Luniewska, Christopher Booth: Lives of the Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians of London: continued to 1993. Munk's Roll Vol. 9, Royal College of Physicians, London 1994, ISBN 1-873240-96-1 , p. 166 f.
  4. ^ Entry on Fischgold in the yearbook of the Medico-Psychological Association from 1940, p. XXX
  5. ^ Displaced German Scholars. A Guide to Academics in Peril in Nazi Germany During the 1930s , (= Studies in Judaica and the Holocaust. Volume 7) Borgo Press, San Bernardino (CF) 1993; ISBN 0-89370-474-1 ; limited preview in Google Book search
  6. ↑ Mapperley Hospital: Open Week, June 1955 ( Memento of the original from July 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Nottingham Hospitals History  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nottinghamhospitalshistory.co.uk
  7. ^ The Centenary of Mapperley Hospital 1880-1980 , Nottingham Hospitals History
  8. ^ The Medical Directory 1988, p. 1002; limited preview in Google Book search
personal data
SURNAME Fish gold, Harry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fisher, Henry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH 1903
DATE OF DEATH after 1991