Leopold Black

Carl Leopold Schwarz (born July 27, 1877 in Göttingen ; † November 5, 1962 ) was a German hygienist and professor at the Hamburg State Hygiene Institute .

Carl Leopold Schwarz was born as the son of the Berlin mathematician Hermann Amandus Schwarz and Marie, nee Kummer. He was a grandson of Ottilie Kummer , daughter of Nathan Mendelssohn . Schwarz studied medicine at the Universities of Greifswald and Berlin and was awarded a Dr. med. PhD . He researched air pollution in Hamburg . He took part in the First World War as a senior staff doctor and was awarded the Iron Cross 1st class . The head of department at the Hygienic State Institute was from 1919 private lecturer for hygiene and in 1923 was appointed associate professor at the University of Hamburg . He was a member of the DVP .

From May 1, 1933 to November 30, 1934, Schwarz was a member of the NSDAP . In November 1933 he signed the confession of the German professors about Adolf Hitler . At the end of March 1938, he had to return his teaching permit because his mother was of Jewish descent from the Mendelssohn family . Leopold Schwarz himself asked for it - "to protect the Nazi state". Therefore, according to the son, he had not previously become head of the institute.

The University of Hamburg reinstated him in June 1945 and awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1954 .

Fonts

• About an epithelioma papillare. For the spontaneous healing of epithelial tumors , Berlin 1904 (= medical dissertation, Berlin, 1904)
• Rudolf Rothfuchs, Friedrich Barkow, Leopold Schwarz: Hygiene and health hazards in shipyard and port work and the work of heating staff on ships , Springer, Berlin 1928

Web links

• Herbert Hoffmann-Loss: Aryan proof 1934 , July 2009 ( letter from his son Dr. Hermann Schwarz dated February 14, 2008 )

Single receipts

1. ↑ Irene Rahlmann: Ergonomics in National Socialism , Wiesbaden 2005, p. 69