Max Bergmann (doctor)

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Max Bergmann (born March 30, 1874 in Hausberge ; murdered in October 1944 or later in Auschwitz concentration camp ) was a German doctor, head of the Jewish hospital in Hanover and a victim of the Holocaust .

Life

Born in the early days of the German Empire near the city of Porta Westfalica , Max Bergmann studied medicine at the Philipps University there in Marburg , where he was awarded a Dr. med. PhD .

View of the former Jewish hospital and later “ Judenhaus ” in Ellernstrasse in Hanover's Zoo district

After Bergmann had initially worked as a doctor in Wolfhagen , he went to Hanover , where from 1905 he worked as a "[...] doctor, surgeon and obstetrician " and also took over the management of the Jewish hospital.

After following the seizure of power by the Nazis Jewish increasingly professional livelihood deprived doctors and doctors, according to the so-called " Kristallnacht " and after the start of World War II, the Jewish Hospital was in the Ellernstraße one of the so-called Hanoverian " Jewish houses converted" of which People of Jewish faith or Jewish ancestry were crammed together in order to then be deported to the Nazis' extermination camps .

Max Bergmann was deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp on July 23, 1942 . At the end of October 1944 he was deported to Auschwitz and murdered there.

Max Bergmann Way

In 2003, the state capital Hanover honored the former doctor and head of the Jewish Hospital by naming the Max-Bergmann-Weg in the Hanover district of Wettbergen .

See also

literature

  • Theresa Gnatz et al. : "The Jewish hospital across the street ...". An attempt to work through the history of the Israelitisches Krankenhaus and Altenheims in Ellernstrasse for a new experience , published and available by the Christians Community Hanover , Ellernstrasse 44, 30175 Hanover, Hanover, 2006
  • Raimund Dehmlow, Andreas Pagel (Red.): Jewish doctors in Hanover. Remembrance and Commemoration , ed. from the “Fates of Jewish Doctors in Hanover” working group in the Lower Saxony Medical Association , Hanover District Office, Hanover: “Fates of Jewish Doctors in Hanover” working group, 2008, p. 12

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Bergmann, Max in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in the version dated March 17, 2016
  2. ↑ Remembrance and Future Network - Former Jewish Hospital
  3. ↑ Helmut Zimmerman : Hanover's street names - changes since 2001 , in: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series Volume 57/58, 2003/2004, pp. 277–286; here: p. 282
personal data
SURNAME Bergmann, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor, head of the Jewish hospital in Hanover and victim of the Holocaust
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Local mountains
DATE OF DEATH uncertain: October 1944
Place of death Auschwitz concentration camp