Otto Loewe
Otto Loewe (born October 31, 1878 in Frankfurt am Main ; † November 11 or 12, 1938 there ) was a German surgeon of Jewish origin.
life and work
Loewe was baptized as a Protestant and studied medicine in Marburg, Munich, Berlin and Würzburg, where he received his doctorate in medicine in 1903. In 1907 he went as a surgeon at the hospital, founded in 1866 the deaconess home in Falkenstraße in Frankfurt-Bockenheim . There he had one of the first X-ray systems installed in Frankfurt.
After the National Socialist seizure of power in 1933, “non-Aryans” in Germany were exposed to increasing repression , and this was particularly true of doctors. In April 1933, “non-Aryan” doctors were initially withdrawn from health insurance , and the ordinances on the Reich Citizenship Act of 1935 made it largely impossible for them to practice their profession. Loewe had to give up his position as chief physician in 1933, but initially continued to work at the Markus Hospital . In October 1935 the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians withdrew the hospital's approval because the management refused to release Loewe. Loewe then voluntarily withdrew from the hospital, and the medical director Wilhelm Schöndube resigned from his position in protest.
Loewe then practiced at the Viktoria Institute in Westendstrasse , an institute assigned to Jewish and non-Aryan doctors. He prepared the emigration of his family and had some of his medical equipment brought to Mexico, but wanted to stay in Frankfurt as long as possible.
During the November pogroms , Loewe was arrested on November 11, 1938 by a Gestapo detachment and, like hundreds of other Frankfurt Jews, was brought to the festival hall . After severe abuse, he was released that evening; he died on the way home of internal bleeding in his spleen and brain.
In 1954 the city of Frankfurt named a street in the Bockenheim district after Otto Loewe.
literature
- Thomas Bauer, Roland Hoede: In good hands. From the Bockenheim Deaconess Association to the Frankfurt Markus Hospital , Frankfurt am Main 2001
- Institute for City History , victims of Nazi persecution 4048
Web links
- Article about Otto Loewe on the Frankfurt 1933–1945 website of the Institute for Urban History
Individual evidence
- ^ Bockenheimer Strasse telling , pro literatur Verlag, Mammendorf, 2006, ISBN 3866111525 , page 155
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Loewe, Otto |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Leo, Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German surgeon |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 31, 1878 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 11, 1938 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |