Commemoration of the German Society of Gastroenterology
In memory of

Dr. med.
Walter Kaufmann
1877 - 1949

Dissertation, Kiel 1901
Dissertation, Kiel 1901
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Member since 1929

Studied medicine in Munich, Freiburg, Berlin, and Kiel

General practitioner in Hamburg

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Dr. med. Walter Kaufmann

  • Hamburg, 0‌4‌.‌0‌8‌.‌1‌8‌7‌7‌
  • London, 0‌2‌.‌0‌8‌.‌1‌9‌4‌9‌
  • Member since 1929
  • Escaped to England in 1938
  • Hamburg
  • General practitioner

Education and Places of Work

Walter Kaufmann attended Hamburg’s oldest grammar school, the Academic School of the Johanneum and passed his school-leaving exams in 1896. He then studied medicine in Munich, Freiburg, Berlin, and Kiel. He passed the state examination at the Royal Christian Albrechts University in Kiel on 20 June 1901 and was awarded his doctorate in August 1901 with the thesis “Günstige Beeinflussung einer bestehenden Infektionskrankheit durch eine hinzutretende zweite”.

He set up as a general practitioner in Hamburg in 1905. His licence to practise medicine was withdrawn on 30 September 1938.

 

Escape to England in 1938

The 61-year-old Kaufmann fled to England in December 1938, together with his wife, and their 24-year-old daughter. He was temporarily able to work at St. Mary’s Hospital. After the beginning of the Second World War, he was interned as an enemy alien. He was released from internment in August 1940.

Walter Kaufmann died in London on 2 August 1949 at the age of 71.

Walter Kaufmann’s brother, Dr. jur. Ernst Kaufmann, was deported from Hamburg to the Theresienstadt ghetto in 1943 and murdered in Auschwitz in October 1944. A niece of Walter Kaufmann, the actress Elisabeth Bendix, Berlin, was murdered at the Riga-Rumbula ghetto, Latvia, in November 1941 at the age of 44.

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Biographie of Dr. med. Walter Kaufmann

Bibliography

  • Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. Kaufmann W. Dissertation: Günstige Beeinflussung einer bestehenden Infektionskrankheit durch eine hinzutretende zweite. Kiel 1901. BSB Sign Diss.med. 366-57 / 64:22
  • Staatsarchiv Hamburg (StAHH) 213-13_4410 (Wiedergutmachungsamt / Rückerstattungssachen Dr. med. Walter Kaufmann), 213-13_4411 und 4412 (Wiedergutmachungsamt / Rückerstattungssachen Ehefrau Lili Kaufmann)
  • Staatsarchiv Hamburg (StAHH) 213-13_2494 (Dr. Ernst Kaufmann, Wiedergutmachungsamt / Rückerstattungssachen, Z-Akten)

Literature

  • von Villiez A [A]. Mit aller Kraft verdrängt. Entrechtung und Verfolgung „nicht arischer“ Ärzte in Hamburg 1933 bis 1945. In: Schüler-Springorum S, Brämer A [Hg]. Studien zur jüdischen Geschichte Band 11. München, Hamburg: Dölling und Galitz Verlag; 2009: 317f.

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