Leo Klauber

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Leo Klauber (born April 8, 1890 in Forbach , † September 16, 1935 in Nice ) was a German general practitioner and activist of the Red Aid Germany .

life and work

After attending grammar school in Saarbrücken until 1909 and studying medicine in Strasbourg , Berlin , Bonn , Heidelberg and Munich , Leo Klauber obtained his license to practice medicine in 1914 and then became a Dr. med. PhD . He established himself as a general practitioner in Berlin.

Klauber postulated the socialization of the health system. He dealt with questions about social hygiene, called for comprehensive welfare benefits for the workforce and opposed the dismantling of social security benefits. In addition, he campaigned against the use of chemical weapons in military conflicts.

In June 1921 he called for the establishment of the Proletarian Health Service (PGD). After the establishment of the PGD, he was a member of the federal management of this organization and of the “Medical Association of the PGD”. He was active in the Society for Sexual Reform and, in this context, promoted the abolition of § 218 .

He worked in the "Red Aid Germany" . In 1927 he was a member of the extended Central Committee of the Red Aid together with Käthe Kollwitz , Clara Zetkin and Albert Einstein . Until his expulsion from the KPD in 1928, he was a doctor at the Soviet embassy. Then he joined the KPD-O . He was a member of the Reich Executive Committee of the "Association of Socialist Doctors" .

In the night after the Reichstag fire at the end of February 1933, he was arrested and, after a week, taken seriously ill to the city hospital, from which he was finally released. Marked by two operations, he was able to flee Germany with his partner to France at the end of 1933. In Nice he set up a small private practice and was able to devote himself to health policy issues and reactivate old contacts. Seriously ill, he died of uremia on September 16, 1935 .

Works (selection)

Journal articles in: The socialist doctor

  • The plight of the young doctors. Volume II (1927), 4 (March), pp. 7–11 (digitized version)
  • Socialist program speech [for the VSÄ ] in the new medical association. Volume III (1928), Issue 4 (April), pp. 13–16 (digitized version)
  • The Berlin Medical Association and Section 218. Volume V (1929), Issue 1 (March), pp. 2–5 (digitized version)
  • The infant deaths in Lübeck . Volume VI (1930), Issue 3 (July), pp. 113–115 (digitized version )
  • From the Berlin Medical Association. Volume VII (1931), Issue 5–6 (May – June), pp. 155–157 (digitized version )
  • Doctors elections in Berlin. Volume VIII (1932), Issue 1 (January), p. 26 (digitized version)

Book contributions:

  • Abortion in: Sexual Disasters. Pictures from modern sex and married life, ed. v. Ludwig Levy-Lenz, Leipzig 1929, pp. 107-170

literature

  • International medical bulletin . Prague 1935, Issue 7 (September), pp. 100–101: Obituary (digitized version)
  • Stephan Leibfried and Florian Tennstedt (eds.).
    • Professional bans and social policy 1933. The effects of the National Socialist seizure of power on the health insurance administration and the health insurance doctors. Analysis. Assault and self-help materials. Memories. (Working papers of the research focus on reproductive risks, social movements and social policy. No. 2. University of Bremen.) Research focus on reproductive risks, social movements and social policy University of Bremen, Bremen 1979, p. 106–128: Professional bans and the "Association of Socialist Doctors" Here: p. 122
    • Georg Loewenstein. Municipal health care and socialist medical policy between the German Empire and National Socialism. Autobiographical, Biographical, and Health Policy Notes. (Working reports on buried alternatives in health policy 3) Univ. Bremen, Bremen 1980, p. 54

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hartwig Hawerkamp: Contributions to the history of the Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund from its foundation (1888) to its ban (1933) , dissertation at the medical faculty of the Westphalian Wilhelms-Universität Münster 2012, p. 86
  2. ↑ Hartwig Hawerkamp: Contributions to the history of the Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund from its foundation (1888) to its ban (1933) , dissertation at the medical faculty of the Westphalian Wilhelms-Universität Münster 2012, p. 90f.
  3. ↑ Hartwig Hawerkamp: Contributions to the history of the Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund from its foundation (1888) to its ban (1933) , dissertation at the medical faculty of the Westphalian Wilhelms-Universität Münster 2012, p. 100
personal data
SURNAME Klauber, Leo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Forbach
DATE OF DEATH September 16, 1935
Place of death Nice