Leo Wislicki

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Leo Wislicki (born August 12, 1901 in Katowice , Silesia, † July 31, 1983 in Jerusalem ) was a German-Israeli medic.

Life and activity

After attending school, Wislicki studied medicine. In 1925 he received his license to practice medicine. From 1925 to 1927 Wislicki was an assistant at the University Clinic in Breslau . He then worked from 1928 as a senior doctor at the welfare medical advice center in Berlin-Kreuzberg and as an assistant in the internal department at the Urban Hospital .

A few weeks after the National Socialists came to power in the spring of 1933, Wislicki was dismissed from the medical service of the city of Berlin. Shortly before, on March 11, 1933, he and all the other Jewish doctors who were employed in the Spital am Urban were arrested by members of the Berlin SA and taken to a wild SA prison, where he, like the others, was beaten and was mistreated.

Soon thereafter, Wislicki emigrated to Great Britain, where he was employed as assistant to Hermann and Samuel Zondek at the Victorial Memorial Jewish Hospital in Manchester . In 1935 he became a resident doctor in Manchester.

After his emigration, the National Socialist police officers classified Wislicki as an enemy of the state: In the spring of 1940, the Reich Security Main Office in Berlin put him on the special wanted list GB , a directory of people who would be succeeded by the occupying forces in the event of a successful invasion and occupation of the British Isles by the Wehrmacht Special SS commandos were to be identified and arrested with special priority.

After 1949, Wislicki conducted research in Israel. He eventually settled permanently in the newly established country, where he held positions as an associate professor of pharmacology at Bar Ilan University in Ramat Gan and later at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

In the 1960s, Wislicki became the coordinator of the Drug Monitoring Center of the Israel Ministry of Health.

Since March 1988 a plaque on the house at Dieffenbachstrasse 1 in Berlin-Kreuzberg has been commemorating Wislicki and nine other Jewish doctors from the hospital on Urban who were abducted and abused by the SA in March 1933.

Fonts

  • Investigations into the ability to influence the excretion of bile acids in biliary fistula dogs , 1925. (Dissertation)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Albrecht Scholz: The image of the Jewish doctor in literature , 2002, p. 22.
  2. ^ Entry on Wislicki on the special wanted list GB (reproduction on the website of the Imperial War Museum in Berlin)
  3. ↑ Memorial plaques in Berlin
personal data
SURNAME Wislicki, Leo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Israeli doctor
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Katowice , Silesia
DATE OF DEATH July 31, 1983
Place of death Jerusalem