Hermann Freund (doctor)

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Hermann Freund (born August 11, 1882 in Breslau ; † October 14, 1944 in Auschwitz concentration camp ) was a German pharmacologist .

Life

Hermann Freund was a son of the lawyer and Wroclaw MP Wilhelm Salomon Freund . After graduating from Maria-Magdalenen-Gymnasium , he studied chemistry in Breslau , where he received his doctorate in 1906, and medicine in Heidelberg , where he received another doctorate in 1909. During the First World War he was placed in the UK and was awarded the Baden War Merit Cross. At the University of Heidelberg he received the venia legendi in 1916 and was associate professor for internal medicine and experimental pharmacology from 1920 . In 1924 he was appointed to the University of Münster as a pharmacologist . He was unmarried, but adopted Irmgard Fischer, the wife of his pupil Willy König.

After the transfer of power to the National Socialists , he initially remained on duty in accordance with an exception provision for civil servants from before 1914 in the law for the restoration of the professional civil service. He was then immediately dismissed on the basis of the Reich Citizenship Act of 1935. On October 3, 1939, after paying the Jewish property tax , he was allowed to emigrate to Amsterdam , where he was able to work in the chemical industry. In Germany, in June 1941, his remaining assets were confiscated . On November 26, 1942, he was locked up in the Westerbork transit camp and deported from there on January 18, 1944 to the Theresienstadt ghetto . It is possible that he was taken to Auschwitz on October 12, 1944 . He probably died in Mauthausen concentration camp of blood poisoning caused by frostbite of his toes because he had to stand for hours in the snow. In 1947 Freund was pronounced dead by the Münster District Court .

His brother Walther was able to flee to Switzerland, his brother Rudolf to the USA.

On November 6, 2010, a stumbling block was laid at his former apartment in Münster and at the University's Pharmacological Institute. In 2011 Ingeborg Huhn and Ursula Kilian, two daughters of Irmgard, geb. Fischer, and Willy König, excerpts from their father's correspondence with Hermann Freund.

Fonts (selection)

  • About isopropyl- [gamma] -stilbazole, m-methyl- [gamma] -stilbazole and m-methyl- [alpha] -stilbazole. , 1906. (Dissertation Breslau)
  • The biological behavior of iodized protein bodies , J. Springer, Berlin 1909. (Dissertation Heidelberg)
  • Studies on fever caused by a blood fall and blood transfusion , Heidelberg 1917. (Habilitation thesis)
  • with R. Gottlieb Studies on unspecific stimulus therapy: About d. Enhancement of the effectiveness of autonomic neurotoxins as a reaction to the change in mood , C. Winters University Bookshop , Heidelberg 1921.

literature

  • Gisela Möllenhoff; Rita Schlautmann-Overmeyer: Jewish families in Münster 1918 to 1945. Biographical Lexicon , Westfäl. Steam boat, Münster 1995, ISBN 3-929586-48-7 . (The information about the marriage to Antonia Biedenstein is incorrect. Antonia Biedenstein was Hermann Freund's housekeeper, cf. Huhn / Kilian, p. 219, note 739 and Hermann Freund's personal files in the Münster University Archives.)
  • Ingeborg Huhn, Ursula Kilian (ed.): “Everything will be fine”: the correspondence between the Jewish pharmacologist Hermann Freund and his student Willy König 1925 to 1939 . Among employees by Sabine Happ, Aschendorff, Münster 2011, ISBN 978-3-402-15883-8 .
  • Christian Walter Keitel: In memory of Hermann Freund , floor talk, University of Münster, 2014

swell

  1. ^ Leo-Baeck-Institut, Elisabeth Freund Collection, Series II: Correspondence, Box 2, Folder 1, page 69.

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personal data
SURNAME Friend, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pharmacologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH uncertain: October 14, 1944
Place of death uncertain: Auschwitz concentration camp