Lothar Wolf (doctor)

Lothar Wolf (born June 17, 1882 in Wiesbaden , † October 4, 1938 in Butowo ) was a German doctor and author.

Life

Lothar Wolf completed a medical degree and obtained a doctorate in medicine. med. (Dissertation: On the therapeutic effect of high frequency currents, Berlin 1912). He then practiced as a resident doctor in Berlin. Together with his wife Martha Ruben-Wolf , he had been an active member of the KPD since 1920 . He was involved in the working group of sociopolitical organizations (ARSO), the communist group of doctors and in the club of intellectual workers of the KPD. In the 1920s and early 1930s, he and his wife published a number of travelogues, including about the Soviet Union and Italy.

In February 1933, Wolf and his family fled to Moscow via Lugano and Paris . There he worked primarily as a lecturer.

After he was arrested by the NKVD as a "Gestapospion" in 1937 or 1938 , his family - with the support of Lion Feuchtwanger - turned to public prosecutor Wyschinki and Dimitrov . Wolf was convicted and immediately executed on October 4, 1938.

His wife Martha Ruben-Wolf committed suicide in 1939. His son Walter was drafted into the Labor Army and the Red Army during World War II ; he fell at the front in 1943. His daughter Sonja Friedmann-Wolf , who achieved her father's posthumous rehabilitation in 1956 , returned to East Berlin in 1958 and migrated to Israel via West Berlin in the same year.

Works

with Martha Ruben-Wolf: Moscow sketches by two doctors. Berlin 1926.
with Martha Ruben-Wolf: Russian sketches by two doctors. Second trip to Russia in spring 1926. Berlin 1927.
with Martha Ruben-Wolf: German doctors in the Caucasus. Third trip to Russia in 1927. Berlin 1928.
with Martha Ruben-Wolf: In the free Asia. Travel sketches by two doctors. Berlin 1931.
with Martha Ruben-Wolf: Fascist country. Italian travel sketches. Spring 1931. Berlin 1932.

Journal articles (selection)

In: The Socialist Doctor

The 45th German Medical Congress in Eisenach. Volume II (1926), Issue 2-3 (November), pp. 35-38 digitized

literature

Sonja Friedmann-Wolf : In the red ice. The fate of my family from 1933–1958. Berlin 2013.
Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 ( online ).

Individual evidence

^ Ruben-Wolf, Martha. In: Hermann Weber, Andreas Herbst: German Communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .

personal data
SURNAME	Wolf, Lothar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German doctor and author
DATE OF BIRTH	June 17, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wiesbaden
DATE OF DEATH	October 4, 1938
Place of death	Butowo

[1] Ruben-Wolf, Martha. In: Hermann Weber, Andreas Herbst: German Communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .