Heinrich Lauber

Heinrich Karl Johann Lauber , since 1946 Henry Lauber (born October 24, 1899 in Bettenhausen , † March 19, 1979 in London ) was a German-British medic.

Life and activity

Early years and education

Lauber was the oldest of three children of Carl Theodor Lauber (1870–1944) and his wife Adelheid geb. Landauer (1873-1950).

From 1909 to 1917 Lauber attended the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Kassel , which he left during the third year of the First World War with a secondary school diploma: Thereupon he joined the Guard Foot Artillery Regiment No. 2 in Jüterbog . Due to a severe intestinal abscess , however, he was shortly admitted to a hospital, where he was operated on twice and where he remained for seven months. In the early summer of 1918 he was released from the hospital, but did not return to the front before the end of the war. Instead, he continued to struggle with health problems in the years that followed. He lost his vision in one eye as a result of tuberculous retinal disease.

After the war, Lauber studied medicine at the universities of Marburg, Göttingen (summer semester 1920 and winter semester 1920/1921) and Freiburg (summer semester 1922 and winter semester 1922/1923). In Marburg he belonged to the Corps Hasso-Nassovia Marburg from 1919 . In Freiburg Lauber was also one of the main founders of the student hiking society Luginsland . At the end of 1923 Lauber passed the state examination in Freiburg, which he graduated with a grade of 1. He received his doctorate in medicine in 1925 .

Lauber completed his assistantship at the Psychiatric Clinic in Freiburg with Alfred Hoche and then at the Medical Clinic in Munich with Friedrich von Müller . He spent his time as a volunteer assistant at the Pharmaceutical Institute with Walther Straub . At that time he also attended lectures again at the Natural Science Section of the Philosophical Faculty in Munich.

From October 1, 1925 to September 30, 1926, Lauber deepened his knowledge at the Physiological Institute in Basel with Philipp Broemser .

Worked as a doctor in Germany (1926 to 1933)

On October 1, 1926, Lauber moved to the Medical University Clinic in Greifswald as an unscheduled assistant , where he initially worked under Hermann Straub . After Straub's departure from this facility in autumn 1928, Lauber stayed in Greifswald.

In 1932 Lauber qualified as a private lecturer in Greifswald. On July 30, 1932, he gave his inaugural lecture.

After coming to power of the Nazis in the spring of 1933 Lauber came because of his - by Nazi definition - Jewish descent targeted by the new rulers, in September 1933, he finally received a letter from the Prussian Ministry of Science, Culture and Education, in which he was told that he would be deprived of his teaching license in accordance with the provisions of the Article of the Restoration of the Civil Service Act . A previous request by Lauber to remain in the civil service in accordance with the exemption provisions of Article 3, Paragraph 2, Clause 2 of this Act, had not been considered.

Emigration and Life in Great Britain (1945 to 1979)

At the end of 1935, Lauber emigrated to Great Britain , seeing no longer any prospects for himself in Germany . In order to be able to practice there, he attended university again in Glasgow and Edinburgh and obtained the British degree of MRCP&S . In 1935 he took over the management of the internal department of the German Hospital in London-Dalston, where he remained until 1965. He also ran a private practice as a consulting doctor.

After his emigration, Lauber was classified as an enemy of the state by the police of National Socialist Germany. 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 should 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.

After the outbreak of the Second World War , Lauber was interned in 1940 as an "enemy alien" on the Isle of Man for one and a half years, since he was still formally a German citizen .

In October 1946 Lauber was naturalized in Great Britain. At the same time he changed his name to Henry Charles John Lauber.

After the Second World War, Lauber's range of activities as a doctor broadened considerably. From purely clinical work as head physician in internal medicine and resident cardiologist, he developed his focus on social-medical issues through the work he began in 1947 as a medical officer of the German Embassy. He prepared a total of more than 1,500 reports and senior reports for various insurance and supply authorities as well as for high courts in Germany and England.

In Germany, after the Second World War, Lauber received the title of "extraordinary professor with the addition of em." awarded. In May 1959 he was naturalized again in Germany after his citizenship had been revoked on the basis of the Eleventh Ordinance on the Reich Citizenship Act of November 25, 1941 in conjunction with Section 5 (2b) of the First Ordinance on the Reich Citizenship Act.

At a reception by the British Queen for the German President Theodor Heuss on October 22, 1958 in Lancaster House , Lauber was awarded the Cross of Merit First Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. The reason stated that he had received this "for medical care work for Germans in England and for participating in the efforts to expand and strengthen German-English relations".

In 1965 Lauber retired as a doctor.

A seminar room named after Lauber in 1980 and a memorial plaque in the London German Hospital, which was closed in 1987, used to be a reminder of his work there.

family

Lauber met Erika Wertheimer (born May 29, 1915 in Bielefeld) in London. She was the daughter of the Jewish silk fabric manufacturer Paul Wertheimer, who had to sell his company in the Bielefeld district of Jöllenbeck under the pressure of Nazi persecution and who emigrated to Great Britain with his entire family in August 1936. They married on June 26, 1943. The marriage had a daughter, Sonia (* 1946), and a son (* Charles). Erica Jenny Lauber (her adopted British name) passed away on October 29, 2014 at the age of 99.

Fonts

• Determination of the value of Herba Adonis Vernalis and Herba Convallaria Majalis , Munich 1925. (Dissertation)
• "Studies on the measurement of the current strength in blood vessels", in: Zeitschrift für Biologie 88, p. 277.
• "About the blood speed in the arteries" in: Journal for the entire experiment Medicine 58, p. 634.
• "About the blood flow velocity in the arteries of humans", in: Journal for the entire experimental medicine 64 p. 621-
• "To the clinic of the rhythm of movement of the stomach", in: Journal for the entire experiment medicine 74, p. 566.
• "About the physical determination of stroke volume in humans" in: Journal for clinical medicine 114, p. 96 (with EL Przywara)
• "About psychological influencing of the cardiac minute volume", in: Journal for clinical medicine 114, p. 111 (with R. Pannhorst).
• "About the pharmacological influencing of the size of the circulation and the work of the heart in humans", in: Journal for clinical medicine 114, p. 120 (with F. Brauch).
• "The insulin diabetes", in: Journal for clinical medicine 114, p. 20 (with P. Wichels).
• "Investigations on the mechanism of development of insulin diabetes", in: Journal for clinical medicine 119, p. 67 (with EL Przywara and G. Velde).
• "To measure the aortic diameter in a certain functional phase", in: Journal for clinical medicine 119, p. 67 (with EL Przywara and G. Velde).
• "About the heart effect of the hot partial bath" in: Journal for clinical medicine 119, p. 54 (with H. Scholderer).
• "About the adrenaline pulmonary edema" in: Journal of Clinical Medicine 119, p. 42 (with P. Wichels).
• "Insulin and hyperglycemia" in: German Archive for Clinical Medicine 172, p. 613 (with P. Wichels).
• "Artificial respiration and cardiac activity. A contribution to the theory and practice of resuscitation", in: Medizin Klinik im Druck (with P. Wichels).

literature

• Günter Ewert / Ralf Ewert: Emigrants from the Medical University Hospital Greifswald in the time of National Socialism , 2011, pp. 72–101.
• Ders./Ders .: "Henry Charles John Lauber (formerly Heinrich Karl Johann Lauber, October 24, 1899 to March 19, 1979). Emigrant from the Greifswald Medical University Clinic", in: Zeitgeschichte regional 1/2011, pp. 47–57 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Entry on Lauber on the special wanted list GB (reproduced on the website of the Imperial War Museum in London) .