Salomon Doeblin

Salomon Doeblin (born July 16, 1864 in Bernkastel , † January 14, 1945 in Bullay ) was a German doctor and medical officer .

Life

Salomon "Salli" Doeblin was the oldest of the eight children of the Jewish doctors from Bernkastel, Dr. med. Friedrich Wilhelm Moritz Doeblin (1833–1907) and Eleonore Isaak (1845–1893). The father came from Glogau in Lower Silesia and had settled in Bernkastel after his marriage. From 1877 to 1904 he was the district physicist of the Bernkastel district and, after his retirement from service, appointed by Kaiser Wilhelm II to the secret medical council, practiced as a doctor in Bernkastel.

Salomon Doeblin attended the Progymnasium Trarbach and the grammar school in Trier and after graduating from high school in 1885 studied medicine at the Military Medical Academy ( Pépinière ) in Berlin . In 1888 he received his doctorate in medicine there . His brother Albert received his doctorate there in 1894.

In 1889 Doeblin joined the Royal Prussian Army as an assistant doctor and held various posts there until he was retired from active service in 1908 as a regimental doctor of the 3rd Lorraine Field Artillery Regiment in Saint-Avold . When he returned to Bernkastel-Kues, he took over the medical practice of his father, who had died the year before. When the First World War broke out , he was reactivated and initially returned to his old unit on the Western Front. In 1915 he became chief physician of the Diedenhofen field hospital ( Thionville ). In the same year he married Angelika Antonia Stöck (1878-1945), the daughter of the late Bernkastel pharmacist Anton Stöck. Towards the end of the war, Doeblin was the last chief physician to head the Trier reserve hospital. 1919 in the rank of senior physician a. D. adopted, he returned to his country doctor's practice in Bernkastel-Kues.

Awarded the Iron Cross 2nd class and the title of Medical Councilor, Doeblin practiced there until the Nuremberg Race Laws in 1935 forced him to give up his practice. After the Reichspogromnacht in 1938, the Doeblin couple left Bernkastel-Kues and went into the anonymity of the city of Cologne , where they lived in poor circumstances until the end of the war. His marriage to a Christian woman and his high military rank probably saved Doeblin from deportation. Two of the siblings, Eva and Paul (with wife and two sons) perished in the Theresienstadt and Auschwitz concentration camps ; his youngest brother Fritz was the only one of the family to survive in the Theresienstadt concentration camp.

In January 1945 the Doeblin couple traveled back to Bernkastel-Kues to avoid the constant danger of bombs and the threatened deportation. Since the city and their parents' house at Graacher Str. 22 were overcrowded with refugees, they tried to drive back to Cologne on January 14, 1945, but were killed on the return journey in a bombing raid on the Bullayer railway bridge along with 14 other people Life. First buried in Bullay-Neumerl, the remains of the Doeblin couple were later reburied in a collective grave at the Prinzenkopf cemetery near Marienburg .

Fonts

• About the effect of diphtheria on the heart. Berlin: G. Schade, 1889 (dissertation).

literature

• Heinz-Günther Böse: In the collective grave on the Prinzenkopf: General Senior Physician Dr. Doeblin. In: District of Cochem Zell: Yearbook 1995. P. 84 f.
• Heinz Grundhöfer: Senior Consultant General a. D. Dr. Salomon Doeblin: In memory of a forgotten Bernkastel doctor. In: Bernkastel-Wittlich: District Yearbook 2012. P. 301 f.

Web links

• Entry for Salomon Doeblin in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database

Remarks

1. ↑ Dr. med. Albert Doeblin (1869–1922), studied medicine in Berlin, doctorate in 1894 (Amennorrhea and its treatment with electricity, Berlin, 1894), medical officer, 1910–1914 garrison doctor of the 16th Army Corps in Diedenhofen, Lorraine; Adopted as General Senior Physician after the war.