Moritz Fürst

Moritz Fürst (born February 14, 1865 in Hamburg , † October 28, 1942 in Mariannhill-Pinetown , today KwaZulu-Natal Province , South Africa ) was a dermatologist and urologist .

Life

Fürst came from a Hamburg Jewish family. In 1895 he married Elsbeth Wiener in Potsdam . This marriage resulted in two children, a son and a daughter.

education and profession

After visiting the Christianeum in Altona, Moritz Fürst studied medicine in Marburg, Kiel, Munich and Jena. In Jena he received his doctorate in November 1889 at the Physiological Institute under Wilhelm Biedermann (1854–1929). He received his license to practice medicine in July 1890, during which time he worked at the Jena University Hospital until the beginning of his military service under Vieradt . He completed his three-year military service as a medical officer from 1891–93 and was promoted to medical officer of the reserve in 1905. In 1893 he went back to Hamburg, where he worked until September 1896 as an assistant doctor in the St. Georg AK in the department of dermatology and venereology under the senior physician Engel-Reimers (1837-1906). Due to the technical orientation of Engel-Reimers, the focus of the department was on venereology. During this time Moritz Fürst also acquired the qualification of a specialist in skin and urinary disorders.

In July 1900, Fürst passed the physics test and had been deputy examining doctor for the Hamburg police authority since 1904. From June 1905 the doctor, who had his own practice before 1900, was employed by the Medizinalkolleg of the Hanseatic City of Hamburg , first as an assistant doctor and from October 1907 as a school doctor. The office was elected for six years and in September 1913 he was elected a second time. In Hamburg he had also become a member of a Masonic lodge .

After the National Socialists came to power in January 1933, his practice fell sharply. Anti-Jewish laws and edicts excluded him from health insurance and his non-Jewish patients stayed away. He ran his practice on Rathausmarkt until 1938, before he had to give it up and his license to practice medicine was revoked in September 1938.

emigration

In May 1939, Fürst and his wife emigrated to South Africa via the Netherlands. He settled near Durban in the Natal province . He and his wife were financially dependent on the support of the two children who had previously emigrated to South Africa.

Fonts (selection)

• The doctor, his position and his tasks in contemporary cultural life. A Guide to Social Medicine. Leipzig 1909.
• The healthy home and its proper use. Leipzig 1919.
• Critical considerations about the nutritional value of so-called children's meals . Hamburg 1890.
• with E. Pfeiffer (Ed.): Schulhygienisches Taschenbuch. Hamburg / Leipzig 1907.
• Position and duties of the doctor in public poor relief. (= Handbook of Social Medicine. Volume 1). Jena 1903.
• About death from toxic gases. Berlin-Südende / Leipzig 1901.
• About the etiology and prophylaxis of leprosy disease. Wiesbaden / Leipzig 1901.
• On the Physiology of Smooth Muscle. In: Archives for the entire physiology of humans and animals . 46, No. 1, 1890, pp. 367-382. (also dissertation)

literature

• J. Bellmann: Hamburg Jewish Urologists, Eight Life Stories from the German Empire to the Third Reich in the Hanseatic City. In: The Urologist. 50, No. 8, 2011, pp. 968-973.
• M. Krischel, F. Moll, J. Bellmann, A. Scholz, D. Schultheiss: Urologists in National Socialism . Volume 2: Biographies and Materials. Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-942271-40-0 .
• A. v. Villiez: Replaced with all my might. Disenfranchisement and persecution of “non-Aryan” doctors in Hamburg 1933 to 1945. Munich / Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-937904-84-9 .

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