Kate Frankenthal

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Käte Frankenthal (born January 30, 1889 in Kiel , † April 21, 1976 in New York City ) was a German doctor and social democratic politician .

Life

The daughter of the chairman of the Jewish community of Kiel passed the Abitur in 1909 and then began studying medicine at the universities of Kiel, Heidelberg, Erlangen, Freiburg, Vienna and Munich, which she completed on September 18, 1914 with a doctorate at Christian -Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel . She was one of the first women to take the medical state examination at a German university . Then she worked a. a. five months at the Rudolf Virchow Hospital in Berlin. Despite her pacifist sentiments, she wanted to support the soldiers medically in the First World War . For theThe German imperial army came as a complete surprise at this request. Military doctors have not yet been planned. The Austro-Hungarian army then accepted the doctor into their ranks. Until the beginning of 1918 Käte Frankenthal served in front-line hospitals in the Balkans. From there she returned to Berlin.

During the war she became a member of the SPD . In 1923 she left the Jewish community .

In 1918 she got a job as an assistant doctor at the Berlin Charité , where she worked until 1924. In addition, she ran a practice in which she carried out marriage and sexual counseling and, as a committed opponent of the legal prohibition on abortion (Section 218), distributed contraceptives free of charge and helped her predominantly poor clientele with the procurement of housing, food and clothing.

Politically she was initially involved in the SPD, where she belonged to the left wing. Initially from 1920 to 1925 she was district councilor for the party in the Tiergarten district. In 1925 she was elected to the Berlin city council, to which she belonged until 1931. She was a health and welfare deputy, worked on the budget committee and was a member of the party executive committee. In 1928 she was elected deputy to the city ​​doctor Richard Schmincke and the school doctor for the Neukölln district. In 1931 she moved up as a member of the Prussian state parliament one year before the end of the legislative period and in December of that year she converted to the newly founded Socialist Workers' Party of Germany (SAP). Here she was elected to the party executive committee in spring 1932, committed herself to a socialist health policy and ran unsuccessfully for the Prussian state parliament and the Reichstag in April or November of that year.

After the seizure of power by the Nazis , she was fired because she was considered a "national unreliable" and "non-Aryan". She left Nazi Germany at the end of March 1933 and finally came to New York City in 1936 via Prague, Zurich and Paris . “I fit into any category that the Nazis loathed; Jewish, socialist, representative, emancipated woman… I had nothing more to do in Germany… ”In New York she completed a training analysis with the psychoanalyst Harry Stack Sullivan and ran her own psychoanalytic practice into old age.

In 1996 a street in Berlin-Rudow was named after her.

Publications

  • Contribution to the teaching of diseases caused by Balantidium coli. From the medical clinic in Kiel. Dissertation. Kiel 1914
  • Delete § 218 - do not change. E. Laub, Berlin 1931
  • The triple curse: Jewish, intellectual, socialist. Memories of a doctor in Germany and in exile. Edited by Kathleen M. Pearle & Stephan Leibfried. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt / New York 1981, ISBN 3-593-32845-3 ; Paperback edition, ibid. 1985, ISBN 3-593-33556-5

Journal articles (selection)

The Blue Book . Prague.

  • New beginning. 12 (1933), No. 9 (December), pp. 276-279

The socialist doctor ”. Quarterly magazine of the »Association of Socialist Doctors .

The community .

  • Community health care. 5, pp. 1011-1014 (1928)
  • To reform the public health system. 7 (1930), pp. 772-776

The comrade .

  • The biological tragedy of women. 5 (1928), No. 1 (January), pp. 10-13
  • Urban health care. 5 (1928), No. 7 (July), pp. 236-239
  • On the question of birth control. 6 (1929), No. 9 (September), pp. 388-391

The new world stage . Prague.

  • Marriage promotion. (Pseudonym Käte Kenta) 31 (1935), issue 50 (December 12), pp. 1577-1579
  • Concentration camp for women. (Pseudonym Käte Kenta) 32 (1936), No. 4 (January 23), pp. 100-104
  • Women to the united front. 32 (1936), No. 5 (January 390), pp. 137-138
  • In the concentration camp for women. (Pseudonym Käte Kenta) 32 (1936), Issue 8 (February 20), pp. 236-238

Health and welfare. Revue Suisse d'Hygiene . Zurich.

  • Crisis and public health. (Pseudonym Dr. K. Kenta) 1934, pp. 446-452

International Medical Bulletin «, Prague. Central organ of the »International Association of Socialist Doctors .

Social medical review . Vienna.

  • The problem of unwanted pregnancy. 2 (1931), No. 6, pp. 99-100
  • Hitler's first annual plan. 4 (1933), No. 5 (May), pp. 69-72
  • Fascism and Social Policy. (Pseudonym Kenta) 4 (1933), No. 5 (May), pp. 72-73
  • The law against unemployment in Germany. (Pseudonym K. Kenta) 4 (1933), No. 6 (June), pp. 87-88
  • Population and Health Policy in the Third Reich. (Pseudonym Kenta) 4 (1933), No. 6 (June), pp. 97-99
  • German doctors prepare for war. (Pseudonym Kenta) 4 (1933), No. 7 (September), pp. 115-116
  • Germany. (Pseudonym Kenta) 4 (1933), Issue 7 (September), pp. 116-117
  • Doctors as builders in the Third Reich. (Pseudonym K. Kenta) 4 (1933), No. 8 (October), pp. 135-136
  • The mass misery in the Third Reich. (Pseudonym K. Kenta) 4 (1933), No. 9 (November), pp. 146-149
  • Germany today. (Pseudonym K. Kenta) 4 (1933), No. 10 (December), pp. 166-168
  • Germany today. (Pseudonym K. Kenta) 5 (1934), No. 2 (February), pp. 30-31

Socialist workers newspaper .

  • Why not more SPD? Comrade Käte Frankenthal justifies her transfer to SAP. December 25, 1931 (issue 46), p. 6 ( fes.de )

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Frankenthal, Käte, Dr. med. In: Alfons Labisch , Florian Tennstedt : The way to the "Law on the Unification of Health Care" of July 3, 1934. Lines and moments of development of the state and municipal health system in Germany , part 2. Academy for Public Health in Düsseldorf 1985, p. 406, ISSN  0172-2131 . Download
personal data
SURNAME Frankenthal, Kate
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and health politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 1976
Place of death New York City