Hermann Zondek

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Memorial plaque at the Urban Hospital

Hermann Zondek (born September 4, 1887 in Wronke , Posen Province , † July 11, 1979 in Jerusalem ) was a doctor .

Life

Hermann Zondek studied at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin . In 1912 he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD. In 1918 he completed his habilitation in internal medicine , was appointed associate professor in 1922 and taught at the 1st Medical Clinic and Polyclinic of the Charité .

In 1926 he was appointed medical director and head of the I. Internal Department of the Am Urban Municipal Hospital . Politicians such as Gustav Stresemann and Kurt von Schleicher were also among his patients . On March 12, 1933, because of his Jewish descent, he was one of the first to be thrown from the post by the National Socialists . He fled to England via Zurich and emigrated to Palestine in 1934 .

Hermann Zondek's brother was the gynecologist Bernhard Zondek .

Fonts (selection)

  • The Diseases of the Endocrine Glands - A Textbook for Students and Physicians . 1923.
  • On a firm footing. Memories of a Jewish Clinician . 1973.

literature

  • Zondek, Hermann , in: Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2.2. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 1283
  • Walter Tetzlaff: 2000 short biographies of important German Jews of the 20th century. Askania, Lindhorst 1982, ISBN 3-921730-10-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Dissertation: On topography in the kidney .