Julius Schoeps

Stolperstein , Hasenheide 54, in Berlin-Kreuzberg

Julius Schoeps (born January 5, 1864 in Neuchâtel , Schwetz (Weichsel) district in West Prussia ; † December 27, 1942 in the Theresienstadt ghetto ) was a German doctor with the title of medical councilor and Royal Prussian Guard officer .

Life

After attending school in Graudenz and completing his doctorate in medicine, Schoeps settled in Berlin as a doctor in 1891 . He had been a medical officer in the Landwehr since 1900 and headed field hospitals in Berlin, Prostken ( East Prussia ) and Berlin-Mariendorf from 1914 to 1920 during the First World War . Schoeps received several awards for his self-sacrificing treatment and care of the wounded soldiers and also looked after wounded soldiers after the end of the war. In 1920 he was promoted to senior staff doctor.

After the war Schoeps worked again as a general practitioner in Berlin. The Nazi regime withdrew his doctorate from him in 1938. Nevertheless, the now 75-year-old wanted to volunteer for the military when the Second World War broke out . On June 5, 1942, he and other Berlin Jews were deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto in retaliation for the assassination attempt on Reinhard Heydrich . His wife Käthe, b. Frank (1886–1944) accompanied him voluntarily. Julius Schoeps died on December 27, 1942 in Theresienstadt of untreated uremia . Käthe Schoeps was murdered with poison gas in the Auschwitz extermination camp in May or June 1944 .

Julius Schoeps' son was the religious scholar and philosopher Hans-Joachim Schoeps ; the historian Julius H. Schoeps (* 1942) is his grandson.

Commemoration

A Bundeswehr barracks in Hildesheim was named after Schoeps ( Dr.-Julius-Schoeps-Kaserne ), which was closed in 2003 as part of the troop reduction. In Berlin-Kladow there is a memorial stone on Sakrower Landstrasse on the site of the Blücher barracks , which commemorates Schoeps. Every year there, the military regiment 31, since July 1, 2015 Sanitary Regiment 1 command area Berlin, commemorates the day of the Bundeswehr's death. In front of the former home, Hasenheide 54 in Berlin-Kreuzberg , there are stumbling blocks for Julius and Käte Schoeps.

literature

German Jewish soldiers , published by the Bundeswehr Military History Research Office (MGFA). Verlag ES Mittler & Sohn, Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3-8132-0525-8 .
Hans-Joachim Schoeps: The parental home . In: ders .: Retrospectives. The last thirty years (1925–1955) and beyond . 2nd expanded edition. Haude & Spener, Berlin 1963. pp. 11-20.

Web links

Commons : Julius Schoeps - collection of images, videos and audio files

Military hospital regiment 31 of the Bundeswehr commemorates OStabsarzt Dr. Schoeps

Individual evidence

^ Richard Faber : German-conscious Judaism and Jewish-conscious Germanness - The Historical and Political Theologian Hans-Joachim Schoeps . Königshausen & Neumann, 2008, p. 32.

personal data
SURNAME	Schoeps, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German medical officer
DATE OF BIRTH	January 5, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH	Neuchâtel , Schwetz District (Vistula) , West Prussia
DATE OF DEATH	December 27, 1942
Place of death	Theresienstadt ghetto

[1] Richard Faber : German-conscious Judaism and Jewish-conscious Germanness - The Historical and Political Theologian Hans-Joachim Schoeps . Königshausen & Neumann, 2008, p. 32.