Paul Sotier

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Paul Sotier with his wife Anna Dürig

Paul Sotier (born September 6, 1876 in Kissingen ; † April 2, 1950 ibid) was a German doctor and personal physician to Kaiser Wilhelm II in Doorn .

Life

Sotier tomb
( chapel cemetery , Bad Kissingen)

Paul Sotier was the son of the royal Bavarian medical councilor Dr. Alfred Sotier (1833–1902). After studying medicine at the University of Würzburg , doing his doctorate on “Contributions to the pathology of skin pigmentation” and obtaining a license to practice medicine (1903), Sotier continued his education in Paris , St. Petersburg and Moscow . Three years later (1906) he settled as a doctor in Bad Kissingen, where he got the " Fürstenhof ", formerly "Hotel de Bavière" through his marriage to Anna Düring (* December 21, 1885 - December 25, 1958 in Bad Kissingen) “Took over.

Medical Council Dr. Sotier treated Princess Hermine during her cure in Bad Kissingen in 1927 and became the personal physician of her husband, the last German Emperor Wilhelm II, in his exile in the Dutch house of Doorn .

Due to the close friendship between the Sotier family and the emperor's family - the emperor's first wife, Empress Auguste Viktoria , had confided in Sotier's father Alfred during her visits to Kissingen - the emperor's grandson Louis Ferdinand lived with his wife Kira , children and his own from 1945 to 1946 Mother Crown Princess Cecilie in the “Fürstenhof” after they fled Berlin from the Russian troops . Since the sanatorium already housed countless refugees, only small attic chambers could be cleared for the Hohenzollern family. Louis Ferdinand and Kira's fifth child, Prince Christian-Sigismund, was born here on March 14, 1946. Crown Princess Cecilie stayed in the "Fürstenhof" until 1952 and died there on May 6, 1954 while on vacation.

The family grave of the Sotiers is in the chapel cemetery in Bad Kissingen.

publication

  • Contributions to the pathology of skin pigmentation , dissertation at the University of Würzburg, Borst Verlag, Würzburg 1903

literature

  • Gerhard Wulz: The chapel cemetery in Bad Kissingen. A guide with short biographies. City of Bad Kissingen, Bad Kissingen 2001, ISBN 3-934912-04-4 .

Web links

Commons : Paul Sotier  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Notes / individual evidence

  1. ↑ This close connection to the spa town of Bad Kissingen can be attributed to the fact that each family member of the once imperial family is a member of the board of trustees at the annual classical music festival " Kissinger Sommer ". First it was Emperor's grandson Louis Ferdinand , after his death (1994) his daughter Princess Kira of Prussia , and after her death (2004) her brother Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia .
personal data
SURNAME Sotier, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and personal physician to Kaiser Wilhelm II.
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Kissingen
DATE OF DEATH April 2, 1950
Place of death Bad Kissingen