Siegfried Wahle
Siegfried Wahle (born August 5, 1869 in Uehlfeld , † November 25, 1941 in Kauen concentration camp ) was a German general practitioner , senior physician and medical officer of Jewish descent.
Life
Siegfried Wahle was born on August 5, 1869 in Uehlfeld . Wahle's parents had moved to the Central Franconian community around the second half of the 19th century . Wahle completed his medical studies at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich and the University of Erlangen in 1893 with his doctorate and dissertation on the methods of craniometry , in which he dealt with various applications of skull and bone measurement - tragically, of all things, a scientific approach that was also instrumentalized by the National Socialists for racial ideological theories .
On March 27, 1902, Wahle moved to Bad Kissingen ( Ludwigstrasse 14 ). Already in 1905 Wahle had himself put up there as a candidate for the state elections for the Liberal Association founded three years earlier in the spa town, a forerunner of the FDP . From May 30, 1913 to October 3, 1938 he was registered with his apartment and practice at Ludwigstrasse 3 (today 9) . He married Johanna Frank and had two children with her, Kurt (* May 5, 1907) and Anna (* October 24, 1908; † August 26, 1921).
The Grieben travel guide for Kissingen and the surrounding area led him in 1935 as senior physician and medical adviser. He was one of the most important doctors in the spa town of Bad Kissingen. In 1938 Wahle left Bad Kissingen with his wife and moved into an apartment in Frankfurt am Main at Hamannstrasse 21.
Wahle was a member of the "Frankenloge XXXIV" in Würzburg , which was close to the Jewish organization Independent Orden Bne Briss (UOBB) , German: "Sons of the Federation") and was committed to spreading knowledge about the Jewish religion . He also devoted himself to breaking down prejudices against Jews and promoting the rights of Jews and understanding Judaism. He actively campaigned for tolerance and humanity in dealing with one another. Not least, his work for the UOBB was a thorn in the side of the National Socialists. Such activists as Siegfried Wahle were accused of sedition and undermining the German statehood.
Under pressure from the National Socialists, Siegfried Wahle tried to emigrate to the USA with his wife , but this failed due to a lack of financial resources and strict American visa requirements . One year after Wahle's unsuccessful attempt to emigrate, his wife Johanna died on November 5, 1940 in Frankfurt, where she is buried in the Jewish cemetery at Eckenheimer Landstrasse 238.
Wahle was on 22 November 1941 after Riga deported . Just three days later, on November 25, 1941, the 72-year-old died in the Kauen concentration camp in Kaunas, Lithuania .
On June 29, 2011, the Cologne artist Gunter Demnig laid a stumbling block in memory of Wahle in Bad Kissingen in front of his home and work place at Ludwigstrasse 9.
See also
Web links
- Siegfried Wahle . In: Biografisches-Gedenkbuch-BK.de
- Siegfried Wahle . In: BadKissingen.de
- Siegfried Wahle . In: Bundesarchiv.de
- Siegfried Wahle . In: Central database of the names of the Holocaust victims
Individual evidence
- ↑ Commemorative Book: Victims of the Persecution of the Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny in Germany 1933-1945
- ↑ Mentioned in the summer semester of 1890 in: Official directory of the staff of teachers, civil servants and students at the Ludwig Maximilians University , Munich 1890, page 93 PDF file
- ↑ About the methods of craniometry , Erlangen 1893
- ↑ FDP Bad Kissingen ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Kissingen and surroundings , Grieben's travel guide, Volume 71, Grieben Verlag Albert Goldschmidt, Berlin a. Leipzig 1935
- ^ The lodges of Germans of Jewish faith
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Choose, Siegfried |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German general practitioner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 5, 1869 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Uehlfeld |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 25, 1941 |
| Place of death | Chewing concentration camp |