Leopold Langstein

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Leopold Langstein (born April 13, 1876 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary , † June 7, 1933 in Berlin ) was director of the Kaiserin-Auguste-Victoria-Haus (KAVH), the Imperial Institute for Combating Child and Infant Mortality in the German Empire, and the first chairman of the German Paritätischer Wohlfahrtsverband .

The pediatrician of Jewish descent was an excellent organizer in the field of health and welfare . He played an essential part in the creation of the job description of the baby nurse and health care worker. After the First World War he was one of the founders of the association of non-governmental and non-communal non-profit hospitals and nursing homes in Greater Berlin and the Province of Brandenburg and of the Reich Association of private, non-profit medical and care institutions. Langstein played a leading role in founding the Fifth Welfare Association and the German League of Independent Welfare Care as the umbrella organization for welfare organizations. He was a member of the Reich and Prussian State Health Councils and the Presidium of the German Central Committee for Combating Tuberculosis.

Life

Youth and education

Leopold Langstein was born the son of a lawyer. In 1893 he passed his school leaving certificate at the Schottengymnasium in Vienna and then began studying medicine and chemistry in Vienna and Heidelberg . In the summer of 1899 doctorate Long Stone in Vienna for the doctor of medicine. He did his military service from October 1899 to March 31, 1900 at the ophthalmological department of the Vienna Garrison Hospital No. 1.

After completing his military service, Langstein was enrolled in the medical and philosophical faculties in Strasbourg in Alsace . During this time he worked as an assistant doctor at Ferdinand Siegert's children's outpatient clinic and as an intern at Hofmeister's physiological-chemical laboratory. Langstein later became a secondary doctor at the University Children's Hospital in Graz under Theodor Escherich . In the summer of 1902, Langstein received his doctorate in philosophy with chemistry as a major. He then took a position as an assistant doctor at the medical university clinic in Basel under Friedrich Müller.

At the end of 1902 Langstein came to Berlin, where he worked with the chemist Emil Fischer and later with Adalbert Czerny at the University Children's Hospital in Breslau . In 1904 he became an assistant doctor at Otto Heubner's University Children's Clinic in Berlin .

Professional development

In 1908 he was admitted as a private lecturer in paediatrics at Berlin University. In 1909 Langstein was appointed senior physician at the newly built Empress Auguste Victoria House to combat infant and small child mortality in the German Empire, based in Charlottenburg. On October 1, 1911, Langstein became director of this institution and remained so until his death on June 7, 1933.

In 1914 he married Henrietta Franziska Hertz. The marriage remained childless.

Langstein wrote scientific books and works in the field of paediatrics and founded a. a. the "Journal for Paediatrics" and the "Results of Internal Medicine and Paediatrics". Together with Fritz Rott he published the "Atlas of the Hygiene of Infants and Toddlers" in 1918, of which a total of three editions appeared up to 1926.

On April 7, 1924, the “Association of Free Private Non-Profit Welfare Institutions in Germany” was founded in the Empress Auguste Victoria House in Berlin-Charlottenburg, and Langstein was elected its first executive chairman. At the end of 1924 the name was changed to “Fünfter Wohlfahrtsverband”, and in November 1932 to “ Deutscher Paritätischer Wohlfahrtsverband ”. Langstein remained in his position until April 29, 1933.

Grave of Leopold Langstein in the Heerstrasse cemetery in Berlin-Westend

In the period from 1924 until his forced resignation, he was instrumental in founding the "German League of Independent Welfare Care" (March 1925), the relief fund (today: Bank for Social Economy) and other welfare institutions in which he also held offices and functions.

On June 7, 1933, Langstein suffered a heart attack after leaving his apartment, from which he died. The burial took place on June 10, 1933 at the Heerstrasse cemetery in Charlottenburg (today's Westend district ) (grave location: 18-L-197/198). His grave was dedicated to the State of Berlin from 1987 to 2009 as an honorary grave .

Controversy over his death

For a long time it was controversial whether Langstein died from a heart attack or from suicide . However, a last letter that emerged, written the day before his death, suggests that it was most likely not a suicide, but - as described by a friend of Langstein's - a heart attack. To date, there is no reliable evidence or concrete evidence of suicide.

Publications (selection)

  • Infant nutrition and metabolism. JF Bergmann. 1910
  • Female school youth and infant protection. Stilke. Berlin 1913
  • Healthy children in the play, school, and development years. Hesse. Leipzig 1914
  • Development, experience and practical work of the Empress Auguste Victoria House to combat infant mortality in the German Empire. Hirschfeld. Berlin 1915
  • Infant and Young Child Hygiene Atlas. Julius Springer. Berlin 1918
  • (Ed.) Contributions to the physiology, pathology and social hygiene of childhood from the Empress Auguste Victoria House to combat infant mortality in the German Empire. Julius Springer. Berlin 1919
  • Infant feeding and care. Julius Springer. Berlin 1923
  • Diseases of the respiratory organs, heart and urogenital organs. G. Thieme. Leipzig 1924
  • Nutrition and care of the older child (after infancy). Hesse. Berlin 1923

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Leopold Langstein: New Year's Greetings 1933 to the patrons' association of the KAVH at: zeitzeichen.paritaet.org
  2. ↑ The 1920s at: zeitzeichen.paritaet.org
  3. ^ Burial of Prof. Leopold Langstein at: zeitzeichen.paritaet.org. Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 . P. 490.
  4. ^ Death of Leopold Langstein on June 7, 1933 at: zeitzeichen.paritaet.org
personal data
SURNAME Langstein, Leopold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian physician and director of the Kaiserin-Auguste-Victoria-Haus (KAVH)
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH June 7, 1933
Place of death Berlin