Philipp Bamberger

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Philipp Bamberger (born July 22, 1898 in Munich ; † June 27, 1983 ) was a German pediatrician, full professor of the University Children's Hospital in Königsberg from 1937 to 1945 and in Heidelberg from 1946 to 1967.

Philipp Bamberger, Königsberg Children's Hospital

Life

Philipp Bamberger, studied chemistry and medicine and trained as a specialist in paediatrics. In 1937 he was offered a position at the University of Königsberg as the successor to Wilhelm Stoeltzner (1872–1954) and Hugo Falkenheim (1856–1945). Despite the war that had existed since 1939, Bamberger succeeded in building an infection house with 60 inpatient beds next to the main building of the clinic. In addition, he built an outpatient "advisory network" (outpatient clinics or polyclinics) for the mothers and their infectious children. As a result, infant and child mortality in Königsberg could be significantly reduced.

Bamberger was hostile to National Socialism. This may have been one reason the clinic was not evacuated by the end of 1944. The sometimes seriously ill children and the staff spent several weeks under siege of Königsberg in a bunker. Bamberger did not leave the children entrusted to him, also orphans due to the war, not for a day. "On April 7, 1945, a direct hit put the clinic in ruins while the children were in protection in the bunker built next to the clinic, until a few days later, after the close fighting in the rubble of the clinic, the Russians invaded here too and brought all the horror with them, that accompanied her everywhere. Finally they dragged Prof. Bamberger, Dr. Erben and the last assistant doctor still present, Dr. Collier, along with some colleagues who had sought protection in the bunker, into the basement of the medical clinic ”(Linstädt). There, in the “Red House”, the Russian secret service was quartered. Because of their anti-National Socialist attitude, Erbe, Collier and Bamberger were not arrested or exiled to Siberia, but were forcibly transferred to run an epidemic house in Prussian Holland . When Polish doctors took over the management of the clinic, they managed to escape to the West.

In 1946, Bamberger was appointed full professor of the University Clinic in Heidelberg as the successor to the Nazi-charged Johann Duken .In April 1946, several infants and children were infected with a newly acquired syphilis . Bamberger as the clinic director and Rudolf Sefrin as the senior physician in charge were relieved of their office and brought to justice. A tormenting process began that lasted three years and ended with rehabilitation. During this time he was represented by Hans Opitz . After the new beginning, a rapid rise began: the first new clinic was completed in 1951, the Moro House opened in 1954, the infection building in 1956 and the high-rise clinic in 1965. Until he was released in 1967, he managed the clinic.

Bamberger was u. a. 1961–63 chairman of the German Society for Paediatrics and organizer of the Society's 1961 congress in Heidelberg, 1973–75 chairman of the German section of the International League Against Epilepsy ILAE (since 2004: German Society for Epileptology ). It was a particular concern of Bamberger to reestablish contact with the pediatricians and members of the children's clinic who were expelled after 1933.

University Children's Hospital Königsberg until its destruction in 1945

literature

  • R. Lindstädt: The University Hospital Children's Hospital in Königsberg. East Prussian Doctor's Family , 1965, Easter, pp. 15–16.
  • E. Neumann-Redlin von Meding: The University Children's Clinic in Königsberg 1925-1945. Notes on children's orphanages 1945–1948 . Königsberg Citizen Letter 2013; 81: pp. 44-47.
  • H. Scholz, P. Schroeder: Doctors in East and West Prussia . Würzburg: Holznerverlag, 1970.
  • Wolfgang U. Eckart : Long shadows from Königsberg - Philipp Bamberger (1898-1985) and the Heidelberg children's clinic in the difficult post-war period , in: Georg F. Hoffmann, Wolfgang U. Eckart, Philipp Osten (ed.): Developments and perspectives of children's und Jugendmedizin (1918–2000), 150 Years of Pediatrics in Heidelberg, Heidelberg University Hospital 2015, pp. 99–135, online resource

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Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ University of Greifswald: Personal files. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on September 7, 2017 (German).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / unimatrix.uni-egoswald.de  
  2. ^ Seidler, Eduard: Pediatrics in Heidelberg. On the 100th anniversary of the University Children's Clinic (Luisenheilanstalt) 1860 - 1960, Frankfurt 1960, p. 113-122
personal data
SURNAME Bamberger, Philipp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pediatrician, full professor at the University Children's Hospital in Königsberg and in Heidelberg
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 1983