Ignaz Zadek senior

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Ignaz Zadek 1858-1931
Tomb of the Zadek family in the Wilmersdorf cemetery

Ignaz Zadek (born February 14, 1858 in Posen , † July 17, 1931 in Berlin ) was a German doctor and city councilor in Berlin ( SPD ).

Act

After the end of his school career, the businessman's son completed a medical degree at the University of Berlin, which he graduated with a state examination in 1880. In the same year he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD . He then worked at the Jewish Hospital Berlin , then for a year at North German Lloyd as a ship's doctor and finally he practiced as a general practitioner in Berlin.

Zadek was the founder and chairman of the Socialist Doctors 'Association in Berlin , editor of the workers' health library and author of social medicine treatises. From 1892 to 1911 he was, with interruption, a city ​​councilor in Berlin for the SPD . In this function he pursued the reform of the health system, so in 1893 he demanded the establishment of a municipal health department.

Zadek implemented free disinfection points in Berlin to contain infection.

He represented eugenic breeding ideas:

"The extermination of the unsuitable, the rearing of high-quality, physically and mentally healthy individuals will cause the socialist community to take measures that plan for the advancement of its members."

- Central organ of the USPD, according to online

Zadek was the brother-in-law of the Neukölln hygiene doctor Raphael Silberstein (1873–1926). His sister Regina was the wife of the politician and theoretician Eduard Bernstein (1850-1932). Zadek was married twice: first to Hedwig Korbasiewicz, with whom he had two children (Käthe and Ignaz ), then to July Nathan, with whom he had three children (Lilli, Else and Walter ). Ignaz Zadek's grave in the Wilmersdorf cemetery was kept as an honorary grave for the State of Berlin from 1990 to 2014 (grave location B2-UW-123).

Journal articles (selection)

In: The Socialist Doctor

  • To the ambulatory question. Volume I (1925) Issue 2-3 (July), pp. 11-16 digitized
  • Eight hour day. Volume II (1927), Issue 4 (March), p. 36 digitized
  • To the medical association election. Volume III (1927), Issue 1-2 (August), pp. 1-7 digitized
  • Dr. Hirschfeld-Harburg †. Volume III (1927), Issue 1-2 (August), pp. 61-62 digitized
  • Doctors and health insurance companies. Volume III (1927), Issue 3 (December), pp. 3–5 digitized
  • To the program of the Association of Socialist Doctors. Volume IV (1928), Issue 1-2 (August), pp. 17-24 digitized
  • M. Epstein 60th years old. Volume IV (1928), Issue 3-4 (December), pp. 41-43 digitized
  • Household consultations in the Berlin Medical Association. Volume V (1929), Issue 1, (March), pp. 6-10 digitized

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Ascher-Zadek, Else (nee Zadek) ( Memento of the original from May 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the FU Berlin  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / web.fu-berlin.de
  2. Ignaz Zadek Sr. on the side of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
  3. See his speech on German social insurance in 1894 at the 8th international hygiene congress in Budapest, in: Collection of sources for the history of German social policy 1867 to 1914 , III. Department: Development and differentiation of social policy since the beginning of the New Course (1890-1904) , Volume 1, Basic Questions of Social Policy , edited by Wolfgang Ayaß , Darmstadt 2016, No. 76.
  4. Andrea Kamphuis: Sarrazin: The missing chapter , March 8, 2011 on science-texts.de
  5. Bugs, cockroaches, fleas and lice for a time online
  6. Online source: About Thilo Sarrazin's eugenic thinking: The missing chapter - The quote is also shorter with Daniel Nadav: Julius Moses and Alfred Grotjahn . The behavior of two social democratic doctors on questions of eugenics and population policy . In: The Value of Man. Medical Association, Berlin 1989, pp. 143 - 152, here p. 146
  7. ^ Florian Tennstedt : Labor movement and family history with Eduard Bernstein and Ignaz Zadek. In: Henryk Skrzypczak (Hrsg.): International scientific correspondence on the history of the German labor movement . Historical Commission to Berlin , Berlin 1982, p. 479 ( PDF file ).