Dr. med. Georg Philipp Ferdinand Katz
- Berlin, 13.12.1894
- Great Neck, Nassau County, New York, USA, 01.05.1972
- Member since 1925
- Escaped to the USA in 1938
- Berlin
- Specialist in internal medicine and pulmonary specialist
Georg Philipp Ferdinand Katz was born in Berlin on 13 December 1894.
Education and Places of Work
Georg Katz actively participated in the First World War.
He studied medicine at the University of Rostock, among other places. He completed his doctorate at the University of Rostock in 1920 with the thesis “Ueber Ulcus ventriculi und Morbus Basedowii”. He received his licence to practise medicine in July 1920.
He undertook his training in internal medicine and worked as an intern, and later as senior physician at the II Medical Clinic of the Moabit Municipal Hospital in Berlin under Wilhelm Zinn from 1921. He was particularly concerned with the diagnosis and therapy of pulmonary tuberculosis. He worked together with the tuberculosis specialist Lydia Rabinowitsch-Kempner, director of the Institute for Bacteriology at the Moabit Hospital.
Katz headed the department of internal medicine at the Ludwig Hoffmann Municipal Hospital in Berlin-Pankow as head physician from 1930 to 1933. He was dismissed from his position as head physician in 1933.
Escape to the USA in 1938
Katz fled Germany in January 1938 to the USA, via Le Havre, aboard the S.S. Normandie. He arrived in New York on 4 February 1938. In the USA, he received a licence to practise internal medicine in Great Neck, New York.
Georg Katz died in Great Neck, Nassau County, New York in 1972.