Hermann Jastrowitz

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Händelstrasse 26. Residential building with Dr. Jastrowitz 1921 to 1941

Hermann Emanuel Jastrowitz (born May 4, 1882 in Berlin , † after February 27, 1943 in Auschwitz ) was a German physician, first assistant and senior physician at the Medical Polyclinic of the University of Halle and a victim of the Holocaust .

Life

Hermann Jastrowitz was the son of the respected psychiatrist Moritz Jastrowitz (1838–1912) and his wife Henriette, b. Mendelsohn. After attending the French grammar school , he studied medicine in Heidelberg, Berlin and Leipzig. With his doctoral thesis "On the inhibition of digestion due to the binding of free hydrochloric acid by amphoteric amino bodies" he received his doctorate at the Physiological-Chemical Institute of the University of Leipzig . After receiving his medical license in 1907, he initially worked at the Medical Clinic of the University of Kiel , but in April 1909 he went to Halle to the Medical Polyclinic of the local university. From 1906 he wrote numerous scientific papers that resulted from his work in laboratory research and that suggested that he was aiming for a university career with a habilitation .

From 1915 to 1918 he participated in the First World War ; in September 1915 he was awarded the Iron Cross, Second Class. This was followed by deployments in army hospitals until December 1918. When he returned to the University Polyclinic in Halle, he was appointed first assistant to the then director Hermann Straub and continued his laboratory research and publication activities in medical journals. In addition, he devoted himself to the training of laboratory employees.

On August 2, 1920, he married his cousin Adele Jastrowitz (1892–1943) in Berlin and one year later bought the house at Handelstrasse 26 in Halle, where he also set up a practice. In addition to his extensive practical work, however, he continued to work - now free of charge - in the laboratory and published further scientific papers until 1931.

time of the nationalsocialism

After the "seizure of power" by the NSDAP, he was initially able to continue working at the university, as the law to restore the civil service initially excluded front-line fighters . On August 7, 1935, he received - on the basis of an ordinance of July 13, 1934 - the Cross of Honor for Frontline Fighters donated by Hindenburg . Due to the Reich Citizenship Act of September 15, 1935, he had to give up any hopes that might have arisen for him from this . So at the beginning of October 1935 he agreed with the director Georg Grund to end his work in the university polyclinic and to devote himself exclusively to his practice.

In 1938 the general license withdrawal followed and with it the expiry of the license to practice medicine. As a nurse, Jastrowitz was only allowed to receive Jewish patients. After the November pogroms of 1938 he was arrested and held in Buchenwald concentration camp until December . The aim of this campaign was to get those affected to leave Germany. Jastrowitz then tried to find work opportunities abroad, especially for England and the USA, which dragged on until the beginning of the war and was finally too late. In November 1941 he and his wife had to move into the Judenhaus Forsterstrasse 13, where he took over medical care for the residents.

On April 13, 1942, the furniture in his house was auctioned at 26 Handelstrasse; he received 65.96 marks for it. In a letter dated August 12, 1942, he was informed that he would no longer use the previous titles and job titles in any correspondence, as a penalty. His last address in Halle was the Jewish nursing home at Großer Berlin 8, formerly the school and cantor house of the Jewish community.

On February 27, 1943, Leo Israel Hirsch, the chairman of the Jewish community in Halle, informed the Leipzig district office of the Reich Association of Jews in Germany that 19 Jews had moved their residence, 17 of them to Theresienstadt and two to Upper East Silesia. According to the deportation list, the latter were Hermann Jastrowitz and his wife Adele, who had "migrated to the east".

Commemoration

Memorial plaque on the house at Handelstrasse 26
Stumbling blocks for Hermann and Adele Jastrowitz in front of the house

On November 9, 2001, a memorial plaque for Hermann Jastrowitz was unveiled on the former residential building at 26 Handelstrasse. Furthermore, two stumbling blocks in front of the house that were laid in 2014 remind of Adele and Hermann Jastrowitz.

Publications (selection)

  • On the balance of the metabolism in scleroderma In: Z. exper. Pathol. u. Ther. , Volume 4, 1907.
  • Experiments on glycocol degradation in liver damage In: Archive exper. Pathol. u. Pharm. , Vol. 59, 1908.
  • Hereditary ataxia with muscular dystrophy In: Neurol. Zbl. , No. 8, 1911.
  • Typhus and measles, at the same time a contribution to the clinic of typhus in children . In: Dtsch. Med. Wschr. , No. 35, 1913.
  • Cholera and paratyphoid B . In: Dtsch. Med. Wschr. , No. 32, 1916.
  • To the clinic of tertian fever In: Dtsch. Med. Wschr. , No. 13, 1917.
  • Biological investigations on degradation products of the tubercle bacillus . In: Z. ges. exper. Medicine , Volume XXXIII, H. 3/6, 1923.
  • On the chemistry of the bone marrow in experimental anemia . In: Z. ges. exper. Medicine , Volume LX, 1927.

literature

  • Wolfram Kaiser, Arina Völker: In memory of Dr. med. Hermann Jastrowitz (1882–1943). In: Jüdische Gemeinde zu Halle (Ed.): 300 years of Jews in Halle. Life, achievement, suffering, wages. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 1992, ISBN 3-354-00786-9 , pp. 487-500.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Moritz Jastrowitz in the Polish language Wikipedia
personal data
SURNAME Jastrowitz, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jastrowitz, Hermann Emanuel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor, first assistant and senior physician at the Medical Polyclinic of the University of Halle and victim of the Holocaust
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 1943
Place of death Auschwitz