Siegfried Korach

Siegfried Samuel Korach (born June 30, 1855 in Posen , † July 1, 1943 in Theresienstadt ) was a German doctor .

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A stumbling block for Siegfried Korach in Hamburg-Rotherbaum

Siegfried Korach came from Posen, where his father practiced as a doctor. Following the example of his father, he passed the medical exam in Breslau in 1878 . He then completed his training as a general practitioner in Cologne. In 1881 he went to the Israelite Hospital in Hamburg as an internist , where a short time later he headed the internal department. In 1886 he took over the medical department as senior physician in charge. During the First World War he managed a reserve hospital attached to the hospital . In 1930 he retired as a specialist in nervous and heart diseases.

Korach was committed to social causes for life, for example in the context of the cholera epidemic of 1892 . The Hamburg Senate awarded him the title of professor for his scientific work on the treatment of tuberculosis in 1917. In the 1920s he was a member of the Medical Association as a medical representative. In the Hamburg health authority he represented the Israelite Hospital in several committees. In addition to working as a doctor, he also trained nurses. He took over the medical management of the Jewish orphanage and the old people's and infirmary home, which he also continued in retirement.

The Nazis deprived the now blind Korach 1938 approval . A housekeeper looked after him and his wife Mathilde. The couple had a daughter named Gretel, married Dreyfuss, who died young. The rulers planned to deport both of them to the Theresienstadt ghetto on June 23, 1943 . Mathilde Korach died four days earlier. Siegfried Korach had to board the train that arrived in the ghetto on June 25, 1943. He died there five days later. A Jewish doctor recorded "old age" as the cause on the death certificate.

Since 1965 the "Korachstrasse" in Hamburg-Lohbrügge has been named after the doctor. In 2002 a stumbling block was laid for him in front of his former home at Hartungstrasse 1 .

literature

• Beate Meyer: Korach, Siegfried . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 5 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8353-0640-0 , p. 218-219 .
• Israelite hospital in Hamburg - 175 years . Harro Jenss, Marcus Jahn, Peter Layer, Carsten Zornig (eds.), Berlin 2016, pp. 43–44.

Web links

• Beate Meyer: DR. SIEGFRIED KORACH * 1855 on: Stolpersteine-Hamburg.de