Hertha Wiegand

Stumbling block for Hertha Wiegand

Hertha Wiegand (born July 6, 1890 in Ettenheim ; † January 12, 1944 in Karlsruhe ) was a German doctor and victim of the Holocaust.

Life

In 1909 Hertha Wiegand, née Lion, was one of the first high school graduates at the Realgymnasium in Ettenheim. She then studied medicine in Munich, Freiburg im Breisgau and Heidelberg. During the First World War, she worked from 1914 to 1915 as an assistant doctor at the Grafenberg Sanatorium near Düsseldorf, where she also treated soldiers who had been traumatized by the detonation of grenades in the adjoining hospital. She also wrote her dissertation on this topic . In 1915 she married the Protestant Christian Otto Wiegand, also a doctor, with whom she opened a joint practice in Offenburg in 1919, which she continued to run alone after the death of her husband. In 1920 their daughter Dorothea, married Siegler-Wiegand (1920–2012), was born.

After 1933, Hertha Wiegand was banned from working, but because of her “privileged mixed marriage ” she was initially spared deportation . On January 10, 1944, however, she was put on the deportation train to the Theresienstadt concentration camp , where she took an overdose of sleeping pills and died two days later in a Karlsruhe hospital.

In Offenburg, a street and a department of the hospital were named after Hertha Wiegand. A stumbling block was laid for her in 2003, but it was stolen and had to be relocated in 2013.

Works

• About garnet commotion neuroses , Freiburg i. Br .: Speyer & Kaerner 1915 (Freiburg i. B., Univ., Diss., 1915)

literature

• Martin Ruch: "Garnet commotion neuroses". The Jewish doctor Dr. Hertha Wiegand treats traumatized soldiers. In: Die Ortenau, Vol. 94, 2014, pp. 303–308.
• Martin Ruch: Dr. Hertha Wiegand (1890-1944) . In: ders .: Jewish women from Offenburg: ten résumés under the sign of the Shoah , Norderstedt: Books on Demand [2016], ISBN 978-3-7412-2189-7 , p. 147ff.
• Dieter Petri: Dr. med. Hertha Wiegand (1890-1944) . In: Jürgen Stude, Bernd Rottenecker, Dieter Petri: Jüdisches Leben in der Ortenau , Bühl: seitenweise 2018, ISBN 978-3-943874-25-9 , p. 220.