James Fraenkel

James Fraenkel (born March 21, 1859 in Rybnik , Upper Silesia , † June 7, 1935 in Berlin ) was a German physician .

Life

Memorial plaque on the house at Leonorenstrasse 17–33 in Berlin-Lankwitz

Fraenkel was born the son of the rabbi Daniel Fraenkel (1821-1890) and Julie Fraenkel, nee Rosenstein, daughter of a Berlin rabbi. He had 11 siblings, including Siegmund Fraenkel (1855–1909), Semitist , Max Fraenkel (1856–1926), architect and government master builder , and Martin Fraenkel (1863–1928), businessman and Jewish philanthropist .

After studying medicine, he went to Berlin and married Paula Barth, with whom he had three daughters and a son.

In Berlin, he and his colleague Albert Oliven opened the private Berolinum sanatorium and nursing home for the mentally and mentally ill on April 1, 1890 . His brother Max Fraenkel set up a women's and men's department on both sides of Lankwitz's Leonorenstrasse. In 1907 an extensive park and a spa house for convalescents were added. This made the Berolinum the largest private sanatorium in Berlin and offered space for 450 men and 50 women. The later well-known psychoanalyst Karen Horney did her practical year in his sanatorium.

James Fraenkel paid the highest taxes in Lankwitz at that time. In 1910 he was elected community representatives, in 1911 he founded the Council of silver and 1912 the Four winds Fountain of Ludwig Isenbeck at City Hall Lankwitz . After the beginning of the First World War , a large part of the sanatorium was converted into a military hospital . Fraenkel's wife Paula and his daughters Julie, Resi and Hilda worked here as nurses.

After the war, Fraenkel withdrew from work in the sanatorium. In 1921 he sold the Kurhaus and the hospital buildings to the Association of Health Insurance Companies of Greater Berlin.

James Fraenkel fell ill in 1934 and died in June 1935. His grave is in the Jewish cemetery in Berlin-Weißensee .

Shortly before the start of the war, his wife Paula managed to flee to Palestine . Fraenkel's children also went abroad.

literature

• Historical Lankwitz Working Group: In memory of Medical Councilor Dr. med. James Fraenkel 1859-1935 . Berlin 2001.
• Memories of grandparents Paula and James Fraenkel . In: Steglitzer Heimat - Bulletin of the Heimatverein Steglitz e. V. , Volume 47, No. 2/2002, pp. 35-43.

Web links

Commons : James Fraenkel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Short biography of James Fraenkel (1859–1935): neurologist, clinic founder, local politician, with picture (PDF file; 712 kB)