Rudolf Bertram
Bernhard Rudolf Bertram (born May 8, 1893 in Olpe , † 1975 in Gelsenkirchen ) was a German surgeon and Righteous Among the Nations .
Life
In March 1914, Bertram graduated from high school in Wipperfürth and began studying medicine at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . After military service in World War I and subsequent imprisonment, Rudolf Bertram received his doctorate in 1922.
In the following years he worked at hospitals in Cologne and Elberfeld ( Wuppertal ) and was senior physician at the Marienkrankenhaus in Hamburg for ten years before he came to the St. Josefs Hospital in Gelsenkirchen-Horst . The reason for the move from Hamburg to Gelsenkirchen were disputes among Hamburg's doctors. Dr. Bertram was denounced that he had made defamatory statements about the party and the state; however, he was acquitted.
Act
From the surgeon Dr. Rudolf Bertram, who from 1937 looked after the Marien Hospital in Rotthausen and the St. Josefs Hospital in Gelsenkirchen-Horst, has been handed down that he, together with the hospital carer Ruth Theobald and the religious sister Epimacha, 17 Jewish women before they were transported to Sömmerda there satellite camp of Buchenwald saved.
In the bombing raids of September 11, 1944 on Gelsenberg Petrol AG in Gelsenkirchen-Horst, many of the female forced laborers who had been deported to the Gelsenberg camp , a subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp on the premises of Gelsenberg Petrol AG , were killed.
Of the seriously injured who were then taken to the Gelsenkirchen hospitals, a total of 17 women were saved from the Gestapo .
Through the selfless commitment of Dr. Bertram and many other hospital employees saw these women and girls liberated in April 1945 in the Marienhospital in Rotthaus. For this act of humanity, Dr. In 1979, Bernhard Rudolf Bertram was awarded the “Righteous Among the Nations” award posthumously by the Israeli Yad Vashem Memorial . Dr. Bertram remained chief physician at St. Josefs Hospital until his retirement in 1965 and died in Gelsenkirchen in 1975.
In 1996 a stele with a plaque was erected in his honor in front of the St. Josefs Hospital in Gelsenkirchen-Horst, which commemorates the events. The square in front of the hospital was named "Rudolf-Bertram-Platz".
Web links
- GELSENZENTRUM - Portal for City and Contemporary History Gelsenkirchen Dr. Bertram's role in rescuing the survivors of the Gelsenberg camp .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rudolf Bertram on the website of Yad Vashem (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bertram, Rudolf |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bertram, Bernhard Rudolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German medic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 8, 1893 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Olpe |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1975 |
| Place of death | Gelsenkirchen |