Oskar Ehrhardt

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Oskar Ehrhardt (born March 23, 1873 in Strausberg ; † January 27, 1950 in Göttingen ) was a German surgeon and university professor in Königsberg .

Life

Oskar Ehrhardt came from a Jewish family who had converted to the Christian faith several generations ago. In the "credit reporting agency" set up by the National Socialists in 1930, Oskar Ehrhardt is listed as "not Jewish", but as " Jewish ". He was married to Martha, geb. Rosenhain. During the First World War he served as a medical officer in hospitals and headed the field hospital of the 1st Army Corps on the Eastern Front. Here he learned Russian. Because of his knowledge of the Russian language, he treated many Russian patients between the wars. In 1933 he was able to evade the reprisals of the National Socialists. During the occupation of Königsberg, he and his wife were taken into "Soviet civil imprisonment". His wife died here while being transported to a camp. When his identity was recognized, he was employed by the Russian leadership in the regional hospital and - again because of his language skills - enjoyed a relatively high reputation among the Russians. On October 31, 1947 Ehrhardt was expelled from Kaliningrad and moved to his daughter in Göttingen. Ehrhardt succumbed to the consequences of a traffic accident in Göttingen, where many Königsberg university lecturers had come in the post-war period .

Professional background

Ehrhardt studied medicine at the Albertus University in Königsberg and received his doctorate in 1897 under Ernst Neumann (pathologist) at the Pathological Institute on a successful spleen transplant . He then switched to surgery with Anton von Eiselsberg as an assistant and senior physician , where he completed his habilitation in 1903 and became a professor in 1910. At the same time, he opened a doctor's practice in 1900 and operated in two private clinics. In 1901 he published the report on the "Prussian knife eater" Andreas Grünheide, which was important for medical history . which he himself gave a lecture on after the war (see itemization). In the summer of 1918 he took over the management of surgery at the Königsberg Elisabeth Hospital as professor and chief physician . The further career from 1933 can be found in the section "Life".

Rescue of cultural assets

Ehrhardt saved not only Carl Friedrich Hagemann's Kant bust from the rubble of the destroyed university , but also Spinoza's Tractatus theologico-politicus . The world-famous treatise came to the University of Haifa in an adventurous way . Furthermore, he found a certificate conferring an honorary doctorate on Prof. Ludimar Hermann , as well as the handwritten circular (original) from the then dean of the Philosophical Faculty, the astronomer Prof. Hans Battermann, dated February 11, 1913, about the time for the presentation - and that Thank you letter from Ludimar Hermann to the university.

Works

  • About tumors of the female nipple. In: German journal for surgery . 50, 1899, pp. 373-388.
  • Dr. Laurentius Wilde, Duke Albrecht's personal physician, and the beginnings of medical science in Prussia . Wroclaw 1905.
  • with Carl Garrè : kidney surgery. A handbook for practitioners . Karger 1907. (GoogleBooks)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b On the hundredth birthday of Oskar Ehrhardt . Easter circular from the East Prussian family of doctors (editor), 1973, p. 17.
  2. ↑ The East Prussian family. ( Memento from May 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Preußische Allgemeine Zeitung. April 23, 2005
  3. ^ Circle of Friends and Patrons of the German Credit Agency (ed.): The Jewish Influence on the German High Schools. A family history certificate of the Jewish and Judged university and college professors. Booklet 4: The University of Königsberg. Self-print 1930, p. 54.
  4. ^ E. Neumann-Redlin von Meding: The Königsberg "German credit agency 1930" of the National Socialists. In: Königsberger Bürgerbrief. No. 83, 2014, pp. 40–43 with an addendum in: Königsberger Bürgerbrief. No. 84, 2014, pp. 39-40.
  5. ^ O. Ehrhardt: A flyer about the first operative opening of the stomach. With an autotype. (= The East Prussian family of doctors ). In: Easter circular. 1973, pp. 17-19.
  6. ^ A b Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon. Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-441-1 .
  7. ^ WorldCat
  8. ^ A flyer on the first surgical opening of the stomach. In: Old Prussian monthly. 38, 1901, p. 290 ff.
  9. ^ Rudolf Malter: But still witnesses from German times. Hagemann's Kant bust in the 'Kaliningrad' Kant Museum. In: Ostpreußenblatt. April 19, 1980. (kant.uni-mainz.de , PDF; 60 kB)
  10. ↑ A. Gilead, Haifa (Digital Gallery) lib.haifa.ac.il ( Memento from December 19, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  11. ^ Heinz-Dietrich Müller: Oskar Erhardt - Circular letter contribution. (= The East Prussian family of doctors. ) In: Easter circular. 1965, p. 5.
personal data
SURNAME Ehrhardt, Oskar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ehrhardt, Oscar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German surgeon and university professor in Königsberg
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Strausberg
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 1950
Place of death Goettingen