Hugo Falkenheim

Hugo Falkenheim ( born September 4, 1856 in Prussian Eylau, † September 22, 1945 in Rochester (New York)) was a German internist, pediatrician, medical officer and high school teacher.

Life

Falkenheim studied medicine at the Albertus University of Königsberg and the Kaiser- Wilhelms- University of Strasbourg. In the winter semester 1847/75 he was a member of the fraternity Germania Königsberg.

1880 approved as a doctor, he received his doctorate in 1881 in Königsberg for Dr. med. Initially in Vienna and Leipzig, 1882, he returned to Königsberg back. In Bernhard Naunyn trained in the Königsberg University Hospital, located Falkenheim habilitated in 1885 for Internal Medicine. Successor Naunyns 1888 Ludwig Lichtheim, who transferred at once his two senior physicians Julius Schreiber and Hugo Falkenheim independent functional departments within the Medical Clinic. With his increasing interest in pediatrics, he was therefore entrusted in 1888 with the Representation of Pediatrics as a subject at the Albertina. In 1896 he was awarded a professorship. He took lectures to students and lay thus in Königsberg the foundation for an independent school subject for Pediatrics. In particular, the previously high mortality of infants required a separate " Pediatrics ". 1895 he led children's polyclinic was recognized as " University Department of teething problems". A chair of pediatrics there was only from 1921, which fell to Falkenheim from the beginning to 1924. Falkenheim was supported by the pressing of improvement of the situation of Königsberg health care. He realized immediately that satisfactory progress without a separate children's hospital would not be met. About one founded by him in 1907 " club for infant protection " reached Falkenstein in 1912 by the city's binding commitment to be able to start planning the construction of a children's hospital. This house at the public park below the observatory King Mountain, Stone Wall Dammer 43-44, was when William and Auguste -Viktoria in July 1916 - transferred to the hospital of its determination.

In the Weimar Republic appointed him the Albertina in 1921 - at the age of 65 years - to the chair of pediatrics. As a report by the assistant doctor L.Teichert can be seen, Franks home was " probably " the Ordinariate transferred reluctant for religious reasons. At the same time he led for over 40 years, from 1895 to 1935, the interior department and the children's ward of the St. Elisabeth Hospital .. In 1926 he was retired with 72 years.

From 1915 to the end of the First World War he was chief physician of the hospital auxiliary fort VI in Königsberg. Since 1916, Go. Medical officer, he was in 1922 in the Reichswehr General Consultant at the reserve. In Konigsberg Falkenheim belonged in 1908 to the founders of the Central Association of German Citizens of Jewish Faith. 1928 elected him the Jewish community Königsberg chairman.

"With a commanding attitude and with iron energy caused the nearly octogenarian for the emigration of the greatest part of his community. "

The Chair kept Falkenheim until 1941. In October, he had to emigrate, leaving behind all his belongings. In the closed car he was transported to Barcelona and was able to emigrate from there with a smaller cargo steamer to Havana, Cuba. With his son Curt Falkenheim 1942 he went to Rochester, where he died in 1945.

1933, 773 of 1,418 pediatricians in the German Reich " Jews " within the meaning of the Nuremberg Laws.