Isidor Hirschfelder

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Isidor Hirschfelder , from the 1920s Kurt Hirschfelder (born March 11, 1878 in Rexingen , † October 29, 1941 in Krefeld ), was a German doctor .

life and work

Isidor Kurt Hirschfelder was the youngest survivor of ten children of the married couple Max Marx Hirschfelder (1836–1909) and Rieka (Rike) Wälder (1845–1914). His parents came from old Württemberg rural Jewish families . His mother was a niece of the Laupheim rabbi Abraham Wälder. She was the founder and long-time chairwoman of the Rexinger women's association. The oldest known ancestor was Jakob Joseph Hirschfelder (* before 1740). In the Krefeld address book 1907/08 he was listed as Dr. Kurt Hirschfelder registered.

After attending elementary school in Rexingen, he switched to the humanistic Uhland grammar school in Tübingen in 1893 , where he obtained his secondary school leaving certificate in 1898 . The study of medicine , he graduated in Freiburg , Tübingen, Berlin and finally back to Freiburg, where 1903 he his State Examination was with the thesis the consistency conditions in the first months About a Doctor of Medicine doctorate was. He trained as a pediatrician in the city's Kaiserin and Kaiser Friedrich Hospital in Berlin. His clinical teachers there were Professors Baginsky and Gluck.

In 1906 he was the first pediatrician to settle in Krefeld and opened his practice on April 14th at Ostwall 148 on the first floor. He immediately got in touch with the Krefeld women's association and in 1908 introduced the first mother counseling. In 1914, in collaboration with the Krefeld Association for Infant Care, he succeeded in renting rooms in the former craft hospital (Wilhelm-Mariannen-Handwerker-Kranken-Anstalt) - the first hospital in Krefeld built in 1835 - on Petersstrasse. 71 to establish an infant home . In 1915 a maternity ward was added.

In 1914 he was drafted into the imperial army in the 39th regiment as a medical officer . In the first days of August he saved his superior's life in the battle for Maubeuge fortress , for which he received the Iron Cross 1st class .

In 1916 a part of the Krefeld zoo on Kaiserstraße was donated by the married couple Ernst and Emma Kniffler as property for a new baby home. Hirschfelder repeatedly pointed out the inadequacies of the old hospital building. But due to the financial situation after the lost war and the hyperinflation , a completely new building could not be built. In 1928 a school for nurses was established. In 1930 the new construction of the nursing home on Petersstrasse 71-79 took place on loan from the city. The house was designed in such a way that it could easily be converted into rental apartments, which also happened after the Second World War. He also performed surgical deliveries and operations on children in the clinic.

Hirschfelder ran a large practice with a catchment area extending far into the Lower Rhine . He enjoyed great popularity with the Krefeld population. Scientifically, he always kept up to date. In 1919 an article by him appeared. In 1933 he was dismissed as chief physician of the nursing home and banned from running the practice. In 1939, the Krefeld women's association was expropriated and the infant home was integrated into the municipal clinic as a children's clinic.

Before the threatened deportation by the National Socialists , Isidor Hirschfelder committed suicide on October 29, 1941 at the age of 63.

The then Lord Mayor Dieter Pützhofen and the Jewish community in Krefeld established the Dr. Isidor Hirschfelder founded. The purpose of the association was to build a synagogue for the Jewish community in Krefeld. Ten years later, the synagogue at Wiedstrasse 17 b was ready for use. Today a memorial plaque in the children's clinic, donated in 1991 by the then director Hermann Schulte-Wissermann, reminds of Dr.-Hirschfelder-Straße and Dr.-Hirschfelder-Platz in front of Petersstraße 71-79 as well as the former school camp named after him in Krefeld him.

Honors

  • Naming of the Dr.-Hirschfelder-Platz in Krefeld.
  • The school camp in Herongen is called “Dr. Isidor Hirschfelder ”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eduard Seidler : Jewish paediatricians 1933–1945 . Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers, 2007 (p. 445)
  2. ^ Hilmar Schmuck, Willi Gorzny, Peter Geils: Complete directory of German-language literature 1700–1910 . Walter de Gruyter, 2019 (p. 142)
  3. ↑ Volker Klimpel : Doctors Death . Königshausen & Neumann, 2005 (p. 124)
  4. ↑ Historic places in Krefeld: Places that are actually war fallow , Westdeutsche Zeitung, August 8, 2019.
  5. ↑ Norbert Stirken: Herongen becomes a problem for Krefeld . Article in RP-Online on April 17, 2019, accessed October 25, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Hirschfelder, Isidore
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hirschfelder, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Rexingen
DATE OF DEATH October 29, 1941
Place of death Krefeld