Ludwig Pick

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Ludwig Pick
Berlin memorial plaque on the house, Landsberger Allee 49, in Berlin-Friedrichshain
Stolperstein , Kunzendorfstrasse 20, in Berlin-Zehlendorf

Ludwig Pick (born August 31, 1868 in Landsberg an der Warthe ; † February 3, 1944 in the Theresienstadt ghetto ) was a German pathologist . According to him, which is Niemann-Pick disease named.

Life

Ludwig Pick was born as the son of the businessman Hermann Pick and his wife Beatrice, née Schoenflies, in Landsberg an der Warthe . To study medicine he went to Heidelberg, Leipzig, Berlin and, for the last two semesters of 1891/92, to Königsberg , where his teacher Ernst Neumann (1834–1918) issued the following certificate: “The general practitioner Dr. med. Ludwig Pick in Berlin worked as an amanuensis during his studies in Königsberg at the local pathological institute from Easter 1890 to Easter 1891 and during this time he continuously and with great fervor the opportunity offered to him to gain in-depth knowledge in the field of pathological anatomy and histology acquire, used. During the following summer semesters in 1891 and 1892, Dr. Pick, insofar as [...] his military service permitted, in the laboratory of the institute sincerely concerned himself with various subjects proposed by me for assessment and tried with success to acquire a comprehensive pathological training. From these studies comes the essay, unpublished by him, About diaphragmatic perforations through the round gastric ulcer '” (Ernst Neumann, Königsberg, lit. about Neumann-Redlin von Meding et al., P. 34).

Pick was awarded a Dr. med. In 1893 at the University of Leipzig with his thesis A contribution to the etiology, genesis and significance of hyaline thrombosis. med. PhD. In the same year 1893 Pick changed to the private gynecological clinic of Leopold Landau (1848-1920) in Berlin and became head of the clinic's own pathological-anatomical laboratory.

In 1899 he qualified as a professor for pathological anatomy in Berlin, in 1909 he became adjunct professor and in 1921 honorary professor for pathology at the Medical Faculty of the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin . In 1906 he succeeded David Paul von Hansemann (1858–1920) as director of the department for pathological anatomy in the Friedrichshain Clinic .

Pick's great creative power was not hidden from abroad. In 1913/14 he gave lectures in New York, in 1919 he spoke to the Swedish Medical Association, in 1932 he gave the "Harvey Lecture" in London and in 1932 the "Dunham Lecture" at the Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. His medical career was only interrupted by the First World War: from 1914 to 1916 he was an advisory pathologist for the Berlin Guard Corps. As chief medical officer, he received great honors, including a. the Iron Cross First and Second Class and the “Turkish Crescent”. Although the political situation in Germany against Jewish fellow citizens came to a head, Pick wanted to "support the fatherland Germany even in difficult times " and even refused the offer to the University of Chicago in 1933 (!) (Neumann-Redlin von Meding et al., P. 34).

His house, completed in 1936, Kunzendorfstrasse 20, in Berlin-Zehlendorf, was designed by the architect Fritz Crzellitzer , who lived with Pick's cousin Martha, née. Schoenflies was married, whereby a non-Jewish architect was officially brought forward. A stumbling block was laid in front of the house on June 27, 2011 .

On June 27, 1938, although he never intended to emigrate, he was imposed a " Reich Flight Tax " of RM 10,000 as a security mortgage. How the National Socialists drove him out of his own house to the Jewish Hospital, Iranische Strasse 2, is not known, but he became head of the Pathological Institute here, and in 1939 he became a “ patient handler ” for pathology. Finally, in 1940, an SS leader moved into the ground floor of his house, who registered himself in the land register as the new owner in 1942 (Simmer, p. 68). On June 16, 1943 (his wife, posthumously legitimized after the war) Anna Clara König and Ludwig Pick were arrested by the Gestapo. While Anna C. König was released after three weeks in prison, Ludwig Pick was deported to Theresienstadt on June 16, 1943. Here he died on February 3, 1944 of malnutrition and pneumonia, which was given as the cause of death. His ashes were poured into the Eger near Theresienstadt.

The Reich judge Georg Pick was his younger brother.

literature

  • GG Gruber: In memoriam Ludwig Pick (8-31-1868-2-3-1944) . In: Negotiations of the German Society for Pathology 52, 1968, ISSN  0070-4113 , pp. 574-580.
  • Hans H. Simmer: The Berlin pathologist Ludwig Pick (1868-1944). Life and work of a Jewish German . Matthiesen Verlag, 2000. ISBN 3-7868-4094-6 , ( Treatises on the history of medicine and natural sciences 94), ISSN  0174-870X .
  • Hans H. Simmer: The 50th anniversary of the death of Ludwig Pick (1868-1944) . In: Der Pathologe 15, 1994, ISSN  0172-8113 , pp. 65-68.
  • Hans H. Simmer:  Pick, Ludwig. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 420 ( digitized version ).
  • Eberhard Neumann-Redlin von Meding, Hella Conrad: Doctors under the swastika. The Berlin Medical Society under National Socialism . Berlin: Jaron Verlag 2013, ISBN 978-3-89773-718-1

Web links

Commons : Ludwig Pick (pathologist)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Horst Kalthoff : "I was a democrat and a pacifist". The life of the German-Jewish citizen Otto Hecht (1900–1973) and the fate of his relatives . Donat, Bremen 2005, p. 151.
  2. ↑ Horst Kalthoff : "I was a democrat and a pacifist." The life of the German-Jewish citizen Otto Hecht (1900–1973) and the fate of his relatives . Donat, Bremen 2005, p. 19.
personal data
SURNAME Pick, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pathologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Landsberg on the Warta
DATE OF DEATH February 3, 1944
Place of death Theresienstadt ghetto