Karl Kollwitz

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The facial features of Karl Kollwitz adorn a figure of the " Mourning Parents " created by Käthe Kollwitz from 1914 to 1932 on the German military cemetery in Vladslo , West Flanders
Memorial plaque on the house at Kollwitzstrasse 58, in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg
Tomb of Käthe and Karl Kollwitz

Karl Kollwitz (Johannes Carl August Kollwitz; born June 13, 1863 in Rudau (since 1945 Melnikowo ), Fischhausen district in East Prussia; † July 19, 1940 in Berlin ) was a Berlin doctor for the poor , SPD city ​​councilor and husband of the painter and sculptor Käthe Kollwitz .

Life

Karl Kollwitz and his sister Lisbeth, who was three years younger than him, were the only survivors of Friedrich and Dorothea Kollwitz's nine children. His father died early, so that his mother moved him to the royal orphanage in Königsberg i. Pr. From which he later attended the prestigious Royal Wilhelms-Gymnasium . Although he lost his mother at the age of 15, he was able to finish school and complete a medical degree at Albertus University , which he received with a Dr. med. completed. After his marriage in 1891 he moved to Berlin, where he settled in what would later become the Prenzlauer Berg district and opened a general practice. With Käthe he had two sons, the later doctor Hans Kollwitz (1892-1971) and the painter Peter Kollwitz (1896-1914).

When he died in 1940, he was buried in the family grave at the Friedrichsfelde central cemetery , together with his brother-in-law Conrad Schmidt and his wife Anna. Also Kathe Kollwitz found her final resting place there later.

Services

Karl Kollwitz ran his medical practice as a poor doctor . In 1913 he founded the Social Democratic Medical Association with Ernst Simmel and Ignaz Zadek . He was a member of the youth welfare committee in the Prenzlauer Berg district and in the German League for Human Rights . After the November Revolution of 1919, he became involved as a city councilor for the SPD in local politics in Berlin and as a member of the International Socialist League .

Appreciation

The health center on Prenzlauer Allee near the planetarium in Ernst-Thälmann-Park , built in Berlin in 1983 for basic medical care in the Prenzlauer Berg district and the neighboring districts of Pankow and Weißensee, was named “Poliklinik Dr. Karl Kollwitz ”. After the fall of the Wall , the house came to the Sana Group , which had it extensively renovated, but kept the name.

The former Weißenburger Strasse, in which the house of the Kollwitz family stood (house number 56A), was renamed in 1947 in honor of Käthe Kollwitz in Kollwitzstrasse, the Wörther Platz (1875-1947) in Kollwitzplatz. On April 22, 2005, the Pankow District Office had a commemorative plaque attached to the house in which Karl Kollwitz had lived until his death.

monument

The two-part sculptural group, Mourning Parents, made of Belgian granite on the German military cemetery in Vladslo , West Flanders , Belgium, shows the facial features of Karl and Käthe Kollwitz. A copy made of shell limestone is in Cologne; in this case the figure of the man was executed by Joseph Beuys .

Works

  • Comments on the Tuberculosis Congress . In: Socialist monthly books . 3 = 5 (1899), No. 6, pp. 300-303. fes.de
  • Doctors and sickness funds . In: Socialist monthly books . 7 = 9 (1903), No. 8, pp. 603-608. fes.de
  • Doctors and health insurance companies . In: Socialist monthly books . 19 (1913), No. 4, pp. 222-232. Digitized
  • Joint work of doctors and health insurance companies. fes.de of doctors and health insurance companies . In: Socialist monthly books . 27 (1921), No. 4, pp. 187-192. fes.de
  • The critical situation of health insurance . In: Socialist monthly books . 29 (1923), No. 12, pp. 725-729. fes.de
  • Conflicting Aspirations in the Health Care Field . In: Socialist monthly books . 30 (1924), No. 12, pp. 760-766. fes.de

literature

  • Käthe Kollwitz : My husband Karl Kollwitz (1942) . In: Jutta Bohnke-Kollwitz (Ed.): Die Tagebücher 1908–1943 . Siedler, Berlin 1989, p. 748-751 (reviewed in 1999. TB Issue No. 75543).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernhard Meyer: For the ideal of social justice. The "Association of Socialist Doctors" 1913–1933 . In: Berlin monthly magazine ( Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein ) . Issue 5, 1996, ISSN  0944-5560 , p. 22-29 ( luise-berlin.de ).
  2. ^ Ignaz Zadek: A social democratic medical association . In: Socialist monthly books . 20, 1914, No. 3, pp. 158-171.
  3. ↑ Catharine Krahmer: Käthe Kollwitz with self-testimonies and photo documents . 11th edition. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-499-50294-1 , p. 29.
  4. ↑ Homepage Sana Health Center Dr. Karl-Kollwitz; Retrieved April 21, 2010
  5. ^ Weissenburger Strasse . In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein
  6. ↑ Press release from April 20, 2005 ( Memento of the original from December 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the district office at berlin.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / berlin.de
  7. ↑ Memorial plaque in the list of honor of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein
  8. ↑ Gisbert Kuhn: The stone suffering of Käthe Kollwitz (PDF; 281 kB) Konrad Adenauer Foundation
personal data
SURNAME Kollwitz, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kollwitz, Johannes Carl August (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Rudau
DATE OF DEATH July 19, 1940
Place of death Berlin