Hugo Falkenheim (Internist)

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Hugo Falkenheim

Hugo Falkenheim (born September 4, 1856 in Preussisch Eylau , East Prussia , † September 22, 1945 in Rochester (New York) ) was a German internist, pediatrician, medical officer and university professor.

Life

Falkenheim studied medicine at the Albertus University in Königsberg and the Kaiser Wilhelms University of Strasbourg . In the winter semester of 1874/75 he became a member of the Germania Königsberg fraternity . 1880 as a doctor approved , he was in 1881 in Königsberg to Dr. med. PhD . First in Vienna and Leipzig , he returned to Königsberg in 1882. Trained with Bernhard Naunyn at the Königsberg University Clinic, he qualified as a professor for internal medicine in 1885 . Naunyn's successor was Ludwig Lichtheim in 1888 , who immediately assigned his two senior physicians, Julius Schreiber and Hugo Falkenheim, to independent functional departments within the medical clinic. With his increasing interest in pediatrics , he was therefore entrusted in 1888 with the representation of paediatrics as a subject at the Albertina. In 1896 he received an associate's post . He took over lectures to students and thus laid the foundation stone for an independent subject for pediatrics in Königsberg. In particular, the high infant mortality rate up to then called for independent pediatric medicine. In 1895 the children's outpatient clinic he directed was recognized as a university outpatient clinic for childhood diseases. An ordinariate for paediatrics did not exist until 1921, which fell to Falkenheim from the beginning until 1924. Falkenheim was supported by the Königsberg health care system, which is urging to improve the situation. He soon realized that satisfactory progress would not be possible without an own children's hospital. Through an association for infant protection he founded in 1907 , Falkenstein obtained a binding commitment from the city in 1912 to be allowed to start planning the construction of a children's hospital. This house in the Volkspark below the Königsberg observatory , Steindammer Wall 43/44, was opened as the Wilhelm and Auguste Viktoria Hospital in July 1916.

University Children's Hospital Königsberg

In the Weimar Republic , the Albertina did not appoint him to the chair of pediatrics until 1921 - at the age of 65 . As can be seen in a report by the assistant doctor L. Teichert, Frankenheim was “probably” reluctant to transfer the ordinariate for religious reasons. At the same time, he headed the internal department and the children's ward of the St. Elisabeth Hospital for over 40 years, from 1895 to 1935. He retired in 1926 at the age of 72.

From 1915 until the end of the First World War he was chief physician of the fortress auxiliary hospital VI in Königsberg. Since 1916 he has been a secret medical advisor , and in 1922 he became senior physician general in the reserve in the Reichswehr . In 1908 Falkenheim was one of the founders of the Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith in Königsberg . In 1928 the Jewish community in Königsberg elected him chairman.

"With a respectable attitude and with iron energy, the almost eighty-year-old ensured the emigration of most of his community."

- Shimon Rosenbaum

Falkenheim held the presidency until 1941. In October he had to emigrate, leaving behind all his possessions. He was transported to Barcelona in a locked car and from there was able to emigrate to Havana in Cuba on a smaller freight steamer. With his son Curt Falkenheim he went to Rochester in 1942, where he died in 1945.

See also

literature

  • Shimon Rosenbaum: Jewish doctors at Königsberg University 50 years ago. In: Leo Baeck Institute Bulletin. 6 (1963), No. 21, pp. 92-97.
  • Eduard Seidler: Jewish paediatricians 1933–1945: disenfranchised, fled, murdered. Freiburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-8055-8284-1 , digitized
  • Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2.1. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 280
  • Евреи в Кёнигсберге на рубеже столетий / The Jews of Königsberg at the turn of the 20th Century . Berlin: Association of Jews in East Prussia. ISBN  978-3-00-057974-5

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christian Tilitzki : The Albertus University of Königsberg. Volume 1: 1871-1918. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2012. ISBN 978-3-05-004312-8 . P. 524.
  2. ^ A b Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon. Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-441-1 .
  3. ^ H. Scholz et al .: Doctors in East and West Prussia . Holzner-Verlag 1970.
  4. ↑ Eberhard Neumann-Redlin von Meding : The University Children's Hospital in Königsberg until 1945. References to children's orphanages 1945–1948 . Königsberger Bürgerbrief 81 (2013), pp. 44–47.
  5. ↑ L. Teichert-Hoenisch: Memory of my work as an assistant in the Königsberg University Clinic under Prof. Dr. Stoeltzner . East Prussian family of doctors, Easter circular 1964, pp. 15–16 (4 images of the University Children's Hospital in Königsberg).
  6. ↑ a b c E. Seidler, 2007.
personal data
SURNAME Falkenheim, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German internist, pediatrician, medical officer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 4, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Prussian Eylau
DATE OF DEATH September 22, 1945
Place of death Rochester (New York)