Wilhelm von Gonzenbach

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Wilhelm von Gonzenbach

Viktor Wilhelm "Willi" von Gonzenbach (born April 7, 1880 in St. Gallen , † October 16, 1955 in Zurich ) was a Swiss physician and politician of the LdU .

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Wilhelm von Gonzenbach was a son of the merchant Karl Heinrich Louis von Gonzenbach and Maria Margaretha Sophia, nee. Mayer. Until 1908 he studied medicine in Munich and Zurich. Due to the consequences of polio , he could not take up work as a practicing doctor, so he turned to bacteriology .

From 1914 to 1920 he was a private lecturer at the University of Zurich and from 1920 to 1950 professor for hygiene and bacteriology at the ETH Zurich as well as a lecturer at the Zurich Social School for Women . From 1920 to 1955 he was editor of the magazine Gesundheit und Wohlfahrt . From 1939 to 1947 he held the mandate of an LdU canton council of the canton of Zurich and worked closely with Gottlieb Duttweiler . During the years of the Second World War , the couple Willi and Rita von Gonzenbach supported emigrants who were in distress due to the Nazi regime, such as Hugo Wolfgang Philipp , whom they met in Florence in 1938 .

He married on July 21, 1914 in Zurich in Pallanza born Margherita ( "Rita") Serena Frenkel (1891-1972), daughter of the physician and neurologist Heinrich Simon Frenkel (1860-1931), a pioneer of neurological rehabilitation. The photographer Ellinor von Gonzenbach , born in 1916, was her daughter. From 1942 she was married to the regional planner Rolf Meyer von Gonzenbach (1910–1982). The archaeologist Victorine von Gonzenbach (Clairmont-von Gonzenbach; 1921-2016), who was married to Christoph W. Clairmont (1924-2004) from 1959 , was a daughter.

Wilhelm von Gonzenbach and his family lived in Zurich in the same house as Albert Einstein's ex-wife Mileva with her sons. Therefore, correspondence between Albert Einstein and the von Gonzenbach family from this period in the 1920s has been preserved and edited. Towards the end of Mileva Einstein's life, in 1948, Rita von Gonzenbach was a very close confidante.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Thomas Fuchs: Gonzenbach, Willi von. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  2. ↑ Hugo Wolfgang Philipp: I just want to get away from here. Letters and writings from exile , p. 20 and p. 278.
  3. ↑ a b University of Zurich : Matriculation Edition Gonzenbach, (Viktor) Wilhelm (= Willy) (von)
  4. ↑ Peter Lotar : In memory of Rita Serena von Gonzenbach-Frenkel , 1972.
  5. ↑ Sabine and Hans Lamprecht: Training in the Neuroreha. Medical training therapy, sport and exercises , 2016, p. 10.
  6. ↑ Ernst Zinn: Viva Vox, 1994, p. 306 and 313.
  7. ^ German biography : Rolf Meyer-von Gonzenbach ; Historical encyclopedia of Switzerland : Rolf Meyer
  8. ↑ Neue Zürcher Zeitung on April 27, 2016: Obituary notice Victorine Clairmont-von Gonzenbach (Victorine von Gonzenbach-Clairmont)
  9. ^ Wilhelm von Gonzenbach. Retrieved February 17, 2020 .
  10. ↑ [1] , [2] , [3]
  11. ↑ " Trouble in Israel because of Einstein's certificate ", letter from Dr. Rita von Gonzenbach, August 1, 1948
personal data
SURNAME Gonzenbach, Wilhelm von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gonzenbach, Willi von; Gonzenbach, Willy von; Gonzenbach, Viktor Wilhelm von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss doctors and politicians (LdU)
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Gallen
DATE OF DEATH October 16, 1955
Place of death Zurich