Shortly after the
National Socialist takeover, the
Association of Statutory Health
Insurance Physicians
and the
medical association began
compiling lists of those physicians considered “Jewish” or
“non-Aryan.” These lists were not public, but were shared with welfare offices,
hospitals, and other health care institutions. This undated list was probably
printed in 1935 by the
Hamburg
Association of Statutory Health
Insurance Physicians . It lists
150 physicians in
Hamburg,
Wandsbek, and
Altona who were
considered “Jewish” according to National Socialist terminology. The medical
practices listed are located all over
Hamburg, with a
concentration in the Jewish quarters Grindel and
Harvestehude and also in some streets where medical practices
were clustered. For example, a particularly large number of practices was
located in the Colonnaden in
the
city center.
These lists represent valuable sources as they not only document the significant
share of Jewish physicians in
Hamburg’s public health
system, but also the medical profession’s unhesitant and early collaboration in
their exclusion.
List of Jewish Physicians in the Arztregisterbezirk Hamburg (translated by Insa Kummer), edited in: Key Documents of German-Jewish History,
<https://dx.doi.org/10.23691/jgo:source-140.en.v1> [December 04, 2024].