Raphael Silberstein

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Raphael Silberstein (born March 19, 1873 in Gollnow , Pomerania , † August 23, 1926 in Berlin ) was a German hygiene doctor and social democratic local politician .

Life

Silberstein completed his school career in Gollnow and Berlin, where he passed the Abitur. He then studied medicine at the University of Würzburg and was awarded a Dr. med. PhD . He lived in the Neukölln district of Rixdorf (Berliner Straße 73, today: Karl-Marx-Straße ) and, after obtaining his license to practice medicine, practiced as a general practitioner in the Neukölln district from 1897 . He joined the SPD in 1898 . From 1899 to 1918 he was a city ​​councilor and from 1919 until his death he was an honorary city councilor of Neukölln with responsibility for health care. His successor in office was KPD member Richard Schmincke .

Silberstein was committed to the health care of the Neukölln population and particularly promoted the care of babies. He was the chairman of the Children's Recreation Agency. He gave the suggestion for the construction of the Stadtbad Neukölln in Ganghoferstraße. Among other things, he set up the Neukölln hospital .

From 1913 to 1924 he was with his brother-in-law, the "worker doctor" Ignaz Zadek (1858-1931), as well as Karl Kollwitz and Julius Moses founding and board member of the Social Democratic Medical Association and the Association of Socialist Doctors (VsÄ), the first left medical association and finally, as the successor to his brother-in-law, also chairman. Until 1918, during the German Empire , Silberstein was only able to disseminate his ideas for health reform in small brochures. Silberstein campaigned for the union of doctors. He also worked for the SPD party newspaper Vorwärts and for Zadek's Workers' Health Library . He was an elected member of the Medical Association and worked for the contract commission of the Greater Berlin Medical Association. In 1924 Silberstein left the VsÄ with others and initially revived the Social Democratic Medical Association . This association merged in 1926 with the Social Democratic Medical Association to form the Working Group of Social Democratic Doctors , in which doctors of the SPD were organized.

Raphael Silberstein's grave in the Britz I cemetery in Berlin-Britz

Silberstein married Sidonie Nathan (born February 25, 1873 in New York City , † December 31, 1958 in Tel Aviv ), the daughter of Heimann Nathan (around 1826 - around 1890) and Fanny Bernstein (1845–1925), older sister of Social Democrat Eduard Bernstein . Sidonie's older sister July Nathan became the second wife of the doctor Ignaz Zadek (see above), who became Silberstein's brother-in-law. Silberstein died on August 23, 1926 as a result of a gallstone operation. His family had to emigrate in 1933.

Awards

  • Silbersteinstraße in Berlin-Neukölln (district Rixdorf) has been named after him since 1950 .
  • There is also the Silberstein elementary school in Silbersteinstrasse, which was given its new name in 1967.

Works

  • About Lipoma sarcomatodes . P. Schreiner's Buchdruckerei, Würzburg 1896. (Inaugural dissertation. Royal Bavarian. Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg 1896)
  • The first year of life. How do we feed and care for the infant? Buchhandlung Vorwärts, Berlin 1904. (= Workers Health Library . Volume 2) (3rd, complete edition. 1909)
  • The school child. Buchhandlung Vorwärts, Berlin 1905. (= Arbeiter-Gesundheit-Bibliothek . Volume 6) (2nd edition 1907; 3rd edition 1911)
  • Sport and workers . Buchhandlung Vorwärts, Berlin 1911. (= Workers Health Library . Volume 27) Digitized
  • The occupational diseases of the printer . Vorwärts bookstore, Berlin 1912. (= Workers Health Library . Volume 31)
  • To the chapter "Health insurance companies and doctors" . In: The new time . Weekly of the German Social Democracy . 20.1901-1902, Volume 2 (1902), issue 26 = 52, pp. 816-820. Digitized
  • Against the state compulsion to give birth. Speeches by the Reichstag member August Brey , Comrade Silberstein and Comrade Luise Zietz . Volksbuchhandlung, Hanover 1914. Digitized

literature

  • Ignaz Zadek: Raphael Silberstein † . In: Arbeiterwohlfahrt . 1 (1926), No. 1, pp. 22-24. Digitized
  • Ernst Simmel . Raphael Silberstein †. In: The Socialist Doctor . Volume 2 (1926), Issue 2–3 (November), p. 51 ff. Digitized
  • Jewish bourgeoisie: Dr. Raphael Silberstein and family. In: Monika Richarz: Jewish life in Germany. Personal reports on social history. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1982, ISBN 3421060940 (Volume 3).
  • Raphael Silberstein In: Florian Tennstedt : Occupational bans and social policy. Journal for Social Reform, 1979, p. 148 u. 228
  • Alfons Labisch / Florian Tennstedt : The way to the "law on the standardization of the health system" of July 3, 1934. Development lines and moments of the state and municipal health system in Germany , part 2, Academy for public health in Düsseldorf 1985, ISSN 0172-2131 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Raphael Silberstein: About Lipoma sarcomatodes . P. Schreiner's printing press, Würzburg 1896.
  2. ^ A b Alfons Labisch / Florian Tennstedt: The way to the "Law on the Unification of Health" of July 3, 1934. Development lines and moments of the state and municipal health system in Germany , part 2, Academy for Public Health in Düsseldorf 1985, p 498
  3. ^ Arnold Paucker (Ed.): Year book 1994. Verlag Secker & Warburg, 1994, ISBN 0436202417 , p. 184.
  4. ↑ Christiane Eifert: Women's policy and welfare. On the history of the social democratic "workers' welfare". Campus Verlag, 1993, ISBN 3593348802 , p. 32 u. 106 ( History and Gender. Volume 5).
  5. ^ Gert Mattenklott: Jewish townscape of Berlin. Jüdischer Verlag, 1997, p. 26.
  6. ↑ Florian Tennstedt: Doctors, labor movement and self-administration in the statutory health insurance. In: Yearbook for Critical Medicine. Argument-Verlag, Berlin 1977, p. 15 ( PDF file )
  7. ^ Florian Tennstedt : Labor movement and family history with Eduard Bernstein and Ignaz Zadek. In: Henryk Skrzypczak (Hrsg.): International scientific correspondence on the history of the German labor movement. Historical Commission to Berlin, Berlin 1982, p. 479 ( PDF file ).
  8. ↑ Dagmar Girra, Sylvia Lais, Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (ed.): Berlins street names, Neukölln. Edition Luisenstadt, 1995, ISBN 3895420727 .
  9. ↑ History of the school on the homepage of the Silberstein-Grundschule, accessed on August 3, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Silberstein, Raphael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German hygiene doctor and local politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Gollnow
DATE OF DEATH August 23, 1926
Place of death Berlin