Yusuf Ibrahim

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Yusuf Ibrahim, January 1953
Ibrahim's tombstone in the Jena North Cemetery

Jussuf Murad Bey Ibrahim ( Arabic يوسف إبراهيم) (* May 27, 1877 in Cairo ; † February 3, 1953 in Jena ) was a highly respected and at the same time controversial Egyptian-German pediatrician because of its participation in the so-called euthanasia program during the Nazi era . From 1912 he had German citizenship .

Life

Ibrahim, son of an Egyptian doctor and a German mother, studied medicine at the University of Munich , where he also received his doctorate in 1900 . As an unpaid assistant at the Heidelberg Luisenheilanstalt, he then discovered his interest in pediatrics and completed his habilitation under Oswald Vierorth in 1904 on congenital pyloric stenosis in childhood.

In 1906 he moved again to Munich, where he was made a German citizen and an associate professor in 1912. After he first moved to the University of Würzburg as the successor to Carl Gerhardt in 1915 , he was appointed professor on April 1, 1917 to the chair of paediatrics in Jena , which was newly created through the financial commitment of the Carl Zeiss Foundation and stayed until his Death 1953 director of the local children's hospital. His successor in this chair was Erich Häßler .

During the time of National Socialism he was attracted to the Nazi ideology , but was not accepted into the NSDAP as a "half-barber" . As head of the Jena University Children's Clinic, he was involved in the so-called euthanasia murders of children , as he referred severely injured patients from his clinic to the “ children's department ” responsible for euthanasia at the state hospital in Stadtroda , or despite the fate of the children known to him since 1943 at the latest in Stadtroda took note of their transfer. According to the results report of the “Jussuf Ibrahim Children's Clinic” commission published in April 2000, “[…] between 1941 and 1945 a total of seven seriously injured children were transferred to Stadtroda who also died there”, “[…] for two children are handwritten Ibrahim's referral letters openly propose “euthanasia” ”. In January 1943 he was awarded the War Merit Cross, Second Class , but was reprimanded by the Reich Ministry of the Interior in July of the same year for having delayed or not approving the applications for euthanasia drawn up by his subordinates according to the medical records of the children's clinic.

Ibrahim, who laid out the Jena Rosarium in the 1930s , received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Social Education at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena in 1947 . The physician, who is highly regarded for his services to the training of nurses , to social pediatrics and to reducing infant mortality , was also made an honorary citizen of the city of Jena in 1947 . In 1949 he received the award of Honored Physician of the People and in 1952 the GDR National Prize in Class I for Science and Technology.

His grave is in the north cemetery in Jena.

Honors

The university children's clinic, two kindergartens and a street in Jena bore his name until 2000, when they were renamed after public criticism. After Ibrahim's involvement in the " annihilation of life unworthy of life " during the Nazi era had become known to the general public in January 2000 through a habilitation thesis , and the university had prepared an investigation report on it in May 2000, his name became the same year City's appearance deleted. Ibrahimstraße was given its original name Forstweg again, and the kindergartens and the university clinic were given different names. In October 2000, the city council of Jena Ibrahim voted on honorary citizenship. An absolute majority of 56 percent was achieved, but the two-thirds majority set for the revocation of honorary citizenship was not achieved. On November 15, 2000, the Weimar Regional Administration Office announced that honorary citizenship could no longer be subsequently revoked because of Ibrahim's death, but that a simple majority would have been sufficient for living honorary citizens.

literature

  • Wolfgang Schneider: Children's doctor. From the life of Yusuf Ibrahim. 4th, modified edition. Greifenverlag, Rudolstadt 1986, ISBN 3-7352-0035-4 .
  • V. Hesse: Jussuf Ibrahaim (1877–1953), Dr. med. habil., Dr. paed. hc, a major pediatric teacher. In: B. Wilhelmi, G. Wagner (ed.): Jena university professor of medicine. Jena 1988, DNB 880189215 , pp. 165-188.
  • Scientific contributions (poster session) to the festival symposium for the 75th anniversary of the “Jussuf Ibrahim” University Children's Hospital in Jena. Edited by the Medical Faculty of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena. Jena 1992, ISBN 3-925978-15-1 .
  • Peter Reif-Spirek: Later farewell to a myth. Jussuf Ibrahim and the city of Jena. In: Peter Reif-Spirek and Annette Leo: polyphonic silence. New studies on GDR anti-fascism. Metropol, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-932482-78-6 .
  • Sandra Liebe: Prof. Dr. med. Jussuf Ibrahim (1877–1953): Life and Work. Dissertation at the Medical Faculty of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena 2006.
  • Willy Schilling : The Ibrahim "case" - facts, problems, positions. In: Human responsibility yesterday and today. Contributions and reflections on the National Socialist euthanasia events in Thuringia and the current debate on death. Edited by Eggert Beleites , Thuringia State Medical Association. Jena 2008, ISBN 3-9806989-4-7 .

Web links

Commons : Jussuf Ibrahim  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. 2nd, updated edition. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2005, p. 277.
  2. ^ Rhein-Neckar-Wiki: Oswald Vierorth. Retrieved May 6, 2019.
  3. ↑ hpsmedia: IBRAHIM, Murad Jussuf Bey (1877–1953) ( Memento from November 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). In: geschichte-der-pflege.info, database, accessed on May 6, 2019.
  4. ↑ a b Günther Wagner: Ibrahim, Jussuf. In: Werner E. Gerabek : Encyclopedia Medical History. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2004, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 658.
  5. ↑ Ibrahim, Jusuff. In: Rolf Castell: History of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in Germany from 1937 to 1961. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-525-46174-7 , pp. 519-520.
  6. ↑ Quoted from the summary of the report of the results of the commission "Children's Clinic Jussuf Ibrahim" ( Memento of September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) of April 17, 2000; published in Uni-Journal Jena, May 2000 edition, accessed on May 6, 2019.
  7. ↑ Party colleague Prof. Dr. Ibrahim, Honored Physician of the People. For the 75th birthday. In: LDPD information. 6th year, issue 8, 1952, p. 195.
  8. ↑ On the awarding of the national prizes. In: LDPD information. 6th year, issue 14, 1952, p. 328.
  9. ↑ Photo of Ibrahim's tomb. In: kandil.de, accessed on May 6, 2019.
  10. ↑ a b c d Dirk Moldt : A memorial from the old days - German dominant culture? Requests to speak in the debate about honorary citizenship Prof. Dr. Jussuf Ibrahims in Jena. In: Listen and Look . Journal of the Memorial Museum in the "Round Corner" . No. 31 , 2000, ISSN  1437-6164 , p. 40–44 ( horch-und-guck.info ( memento of August 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) [accessed on May 6, 2019]).
  11. ↑ What does “Euth.” Mean? In: The time . 12/2000, March 16, 2000, accessed May 6, 2019.
  12. ↑ Katrin Zeiss: No benefactor: Jena has to accept that Jussuf Ibrahim, the well-known pediatrician, was involved in the Nazi euthanasia. In: The time. 18/2000, April 27, 2000, accessed May 6, 2019.
  13. ↑ Götz Aly : The shepherd dog milieu of the PDS sticks to him, but Jena says goodbye to Jussuf Ibrahim. Philanthropist and murder assistant. In: Berliner Zeitung . May 4, 2000, accessed May 6, 2019.
  14. ↑ History in almost every house: Street routing through the forest path on Saturday. In: Ostthüringer Zeitung, October 18, 2016, accessed on May 6, 2019.
  15. ↑ Yesterday in Today. In: taz . January 27, 2001, accessed May 6, 2019.
  16. ↑ Detlef Friedrich: A majority rejected Jussuf Ibrahim from being an honorary citizen. He remains Jena's honorary citizen: The Thuringian solution. In: Berliner Zeitung. October 14, 2006, accessed May 6, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Ibrahim, Yusuf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ibrahim, Yusuf Murad Bey
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor, pediatrician
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Cairo
DATE OF DEATH 3rd February 1953
Place of death Jena