Sanel Beer

Sanel Beer (born September 4, 1886 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary , † July 18, 1981 in Miami , Florida , United States ) was an Austrian-American doctor and writer .

Life

Sanel Beer was born on September 4, 1886 as the son of Naftali and Etty Beily Beer (nee Muhlendorf; † 1925) as one of eight children. After the general school, he began studying medicine at the University of Vienna and received his doctorate at this in 1913 for Doctor of Medicine (double doctorate (DDr. Of gynecology and pediatrics )). He then began his military service in World War I and spent the war as a military doctor with Landwehr Infantry Regiment 24 (LIR 24) and then with LIR 36 before he became a general practitioner in his hometown of Vienna. As a one-year volunteer , he was initially stationed in Rzeszów and, after being promoted to assistant doctor, came to LIR 36 in Kolomyja in March 1914 . Towards the end of 1914 he was promoted to senior physician in the reserve. In May 1918 the previous senior physician was appointed regimental physician in the reserve.

After the war, after a four-year absence, he returned to his hometown and became primary at the first public children's health institute in Vienna and was a member - at times even president - of the Association of Independent Practitioners in Vienna. Until his escape he had his practice on Praterstraße 25a and from the 1930s also on Linke Wienzeile . In addition, he was a medical assistant for Austrian newspapers such as the Neue Wiener Journal , Wiener Morgenpost or the Wiener Morgenzeitung . The Zionist was a longstanding active member of the Vienna Jewish Community and founder of various humanitarian and sporting associations. In addition, he was a shop steward for the Rothschild hospital and retirement home. While transporting a seriously ill patient to Vienna, Beer was shot at near Wolkersdorf on the night of August 6th, 1925 , but got away without injury. On August 12, 1934, he married Elisabeth Barany, known as Lizzy or Lisl , in the city ​​temple , Vienna's main synagogue . In 1936 he was appointed to the Vienna Cultural Committee, to which he had already belonged in two previous terms.

After the annexation of Austria and the beginning of the systematic exclusion of Jews, Beer fled to the United States via Italy . Here he passed the American medical examination in 1938/39 before he became director and owner of the Rivermont Park Hospital (actually Rivermont Park Hospital And Sanatorium Inc. ) in Miami in the US state of Florida in 1939 . As director and owner, he was a member of the facility until 1948. He then worked in 1950 as a doctor at the Southern Pacific Hospital in San Francisco , California ; In 1951 he went to Norwich State Hospital in Norwich , Connecticut . In 1952 he was in the medical service of Glacier National Park in Montana . In 1958 he was again in the medical service of Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming .

Beer was the founder and first president of the Austro-American Association and the Pro-Mozart Society in Miami. Beer spent his twilight years back in Miami, where he also appeared as a writer, above all with fiction . His works include the novel Dr. Reebs strangely life (1969) or the volume of poems The Muse of My Leisure from 1962 (with illustrations by his wife Lisl Beer). In 1966 he published the novel Zwischen Linden und Palmen, published by the Europäische Verlag in Vienna .

In 1962 Beer was awarded the Golden Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria .

On July 18, 1981, Beer died in Miami at the age of 94.

Works (selection)

• 1962: The muse of my leisure
• 1966: Between linden and palm trees
• 1969: Dr. Reeb's strange life

literature

• Susanne Blumesberger , Michael Doppelhofer , Gabriele Mauthe : Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin from the 18th to the 20th century . Volume 2: J – R, Register. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , p. 87.
• Eduard Seidler : Jewish paediatricians 1933–1945: Disenfranchised - Fled - Murdered | Jewish Pediatricians - Victims of Persecution 1933–1945. S. Karger , Basel 2007, ISBN 978-3-8055-8284-1 , p. 381.

Web links

• Sanel Beer on the official website of the German Society for Child and Adolescent Medicine

Individual evidence

1. ^ Sports paper of the Wiener Morgenzeitung. In:  Wiener Morgenzeitung , August 10, 1925, p. 6 (online at ANNO ).
2. ↑ ^{a b} Small Chronicle. In:  Neue Freie Presse , September 8, 1918, p. 7 (online at ANNO ).
3. ↑ ^{a b} From the ordinance sheet for the kk Landwehr No. 22. In:  Fremd-Blatt , 3 May 1913, p. 48 (online at ANNO ).
4. ^ Ordinances of the Imperial and Royal Ministry of Defense. In:  Neue Freie Presse , March 29, 1914, p. 48 (online at ANNO ).
5. ^ Landwehr personnel news .. In:  Prager Tagblatt , December 8, 1914, p. 28 (online at ANNO ).
6. ↑ Military medical awards and appointments. In:  Wiener Medizinische Wochenschrift , January 1, 1918, p. 371 (online at ANNO ).
7. ↑ Shot on a car. In:  Die Stunden , August 7, 1925, p. 5 (online at ANNO ).
8. ↑ (shot on a car) .. In:  Neues Wiener Journal , August 7, 1925, p. 11 (online at ANNO ).
9. ↑ marriage: In:  Neues Wiener Journal , August 10, 1934, p. 9 (online at ANNO ).
10. ↑ (The resignation of the Vice-President of the Vienna Religious Community.). In:  Neues Wiener Journal , January 10, 1936, p. 9 (online at ANNO ).
11. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF file; 6.6 MB)