Siegbert Joseph

Siegbert Joseph (born July 18, 1894 in Konitz ; † December 22, 1944 in the Libau concentration camp ) was a German gynecologist .

life and work

Siegbert Joseph was born on July 18, 1894 in Konitz in West Prussia . Little is known about his career. From 1919 he was a senior gynecologist in the surgical department of the Moabit Hospital in Berlin , headed by Moritz Borchardt . In 1925 he took over the management of pregnant women in the Tiergarten district in the Turmstrasse health department. In 1927 the gynecological and obstetric department in the Moabit hospital was separated from the surgery department and Siegbert Joseph was appointed head of this independent department. In 1931, 1,450 women were delivered and 800 gynecological operations were performed in the department.

Jews in the Riga ghetto are not allowed to use the sidewalks, but have to walk on the street. (1942)

Siegbert Joseph was discharged in 1933 together with other Jewish doctors from the Moabit hospital. He worked at the Jewish Hospital in Berlin until 1939 , then fled to Riga , where he was interned by the Soviets after the start of the Second World War and the occupation. Under German occupation he came to the Riga ghetto , where from July 1941 he headed the gynecological department of the general hospital, which was set up in the rooms of the former Jewish women's clinic "Linas Hazedek" ("decent accommodation"). When the ghetto was finally dissolved in autumn 1943, Siegbert Joseph ended up in the Army Clothing Office in the Riga district of Mīlgrāvis (Mühlgraben). Here, too, he headed a sick department. In autumn 1944, shortly before the fall of Riga, the SS evacuated the last Jewish prisoners to the Liepāja-Libau concentration camp , including Siegbert Joseph. Liepāja-Libau was constantly bombed from the air by the Russians, and on December 22, 1944, Siegbert Joseph was killed during one such attack.

literature

• Christian Pross and Rolf Winau (eds.). Do not abuse. Moabit Hospital. 1920-1933 A center for Jewish doctors in Berlin. 1933-1945 Persecution • Resistance • Destruction. Published on behalf of the Berlin Society for the History of Medicine (Sites of the History of Berlin Volume 5). Edition Hentich, Berlin 1984 ISBN 3-88725-109-1 , p. 163
• Bernhard Press: Murder of Jews in Latvia 1941-1945. Metropol-Verlag, Berlin 1992. ISBN 3-926893-13-3 , pp. 67-68, pp. 102-103 and pp. 131-132

Web links

Commons : Siegbert Joseph  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Jewish doctors in the Moabit Hospital (digitized version)