Leo Catzenstein

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Leo Catzenstein (actually: Louis Catzenstein , born November 22, 1863 in Hemmendorf , † January 18, 1936 in Hanover ) was a German doctor .

Life

Louis Catzenstein came from a Jewish family and was the son of a merchant . After attending school in Celle and Hameln , he studied medicine in Berlin and Munich . In 1889 he made his doctorate .

He settled in Hanover as a general practitioner and soon became a well-known and popular doctor as the "Lüttjer Doctor", who was honored with the title of Medical Councilor .

In the Jewish community , Catzenstein was involved in numerous associations , including being chairman of the Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith , active as a member and later as chairman of the board of trustees of the Israelite Horticultural School in Ahlem . He also belonged to the to the B'nai B'rith belonging UOBB Zion Lodge XV. No. 360 in Hanover and was one of the pioneers for the children's rest home of the Zion Lodge UOBB on Norderney .

Leo Catzenstein was an art lover and collector , collected old miniatures and art from Southeast Asia , as well as netsuke from Japan . Together with his wife Anna Catzenstein , he ran a house that was open to Hanoverian artists. In 1916, in the middle of World War I , he was one of the founding members of the Kestner Society .

Anna and Louis Catzenstein's son, Franz Catzenstein , initially worked and later became the owner of the important art gallery Matthiesen in Munich.

Anna and Leo Catzensteins daughter, Ellen Catzenstein , was a well-known sculptor: But when they in the seizure of power by the Nazis in 1933 in her hometown of an exhibition had and "was vilified in the wake of the Nazi cultural policy in the newspapers," emigrated Ellen detours as first from her family to Palestine .

Leo Catzenstein died of natural causes in Hanover in 1936 at the age of 72. He was buried in the Jewish cemetery at An der Strangriede .

His widow , Anna Catzenstein, experienced the Reichskristallnacht in 1938 and also fled to Palestine in 1939, where her daughter had given birth to little Yael .

See also

literature

  • The twenties in Hanover. Fine arts, literature, theater, dance, architecture 1916–1933 , catalog, ed. from the Kunstverein Hannover , 1962, p. 84.
  • Ernst G. Lowenthal: Jews in Prussia. Biographical directory. A representative cross-section , with a foreword by Roland Klemig, ed. from the Bildarchiv Preußischer Kulturbesitz , Berlin 1981, p. 42.
  • Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945. Edited by the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. Saur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 55.
  • Ines Katenhusen : Art and Politics. Hanover's examination of modernity in the Weimar Republic (corresponds to: Hannoversche Studien , vol. 5), Hanover 1998, p. 192 and so on.
  • Paul Rosenfeld: In memory of our brother Dr. Leo Catzenstein: memorial speech for the funeral service of the w. Zion Lodge and the w. Leibniz Lodge UOBB in Hanover on February 3, 1936 , Hanover 1936
  • Peter Schulze : Catzenstein, Leo. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 84; online through google books
  • Peter Schulze: Catzenstein, Leo. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 109.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Peter Schulze: Catzenstein, Leo (see literature)
  2. ↑ Ingeborg Pauluhn: Jewish migrants in the seaside resort of Norderney 1893-1938 with special consideration of the children's rest home UOBB. Zion Lodge XV. No. 360 Hanover and Jewish businesses , Igel-Verlag Literatur & Wissenschaft, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86815-541-9 , p. 42
  3. ^ Ines Katenhusen: Kestner Society, kestner Society. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 345f.
  4. ↑ a b Manfred Mayer (responsible for the internet editing): Ellen-Bernkopf-Archiv , online on the website of the Academy of Arts in Berlin
  5. ↑ Peter Schulze: Reichskristallnacht. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 520
personal data
SURNAME Catzenstein, Leo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Catzenstein, Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor, chairman of the Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Hemmendorf
DATE OF DEATH January 18, 1936
Place of death Hanover