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Hugo Falkenheim (4 September 1856 – 22 September 1945) was a German Medical Doctor and the last Chairman of the Jewish congregation of Königsberg.
In 1921 he became the director of the pediatric section of the university hospital. Falkenheim retired in 1926.
Falkenheim was also active in the Jewish congregation of Königsberg and the founder of the local section of the Centralverein deutscher Staatsbürger jüdischen Glaubens (Central Association of German Citizens of Jewish Faith) in 1908. In 1928 he became the Chairman of the Jewish congregation of KönigsbergJuden in Königsberg
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obituary in the German-language newspaper "Aufbau"
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Biography
Falkenheim was born inPreußisch Eylau
Bagrationovsk (russian: Багратио́новск; german: Preußisch Eylau; pl, Pruska Iława or '; lt, Ylava or ') is a town and the administrative center of Bagrationovsky District in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, located close to the borde ...
(today Bagrationovsk, Russia) and studied medicine at the Universities of Königsberg
Königsberg (, ) was the historic Prussian city that is now Kaliningrad, Russia. Königsberg was founded in 1255 on the site of the ancient Old Prussian settlement ''Twangste'' by the Teutonic Knights during the Northern Crusades, and was name ...
and Straßburg
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. He specialized in pediatrics and passed his doctorate in 1881. After further studies in Vienna
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and Leipzig
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he returned to Königsberg in 1882, where he worked at the University's pediatric clinic and habilitated in 1885. In 1885 he became the director of the internist and pediatric sections of St. Elisabeth hospital, a position he held until 1935, and in 1896 Professor for pediatrics at the University of Königsberg.
Falkenheim took an active part in the foundation of a Baby nursery and was awarded the title of a ''Geheimer Medizinalrat'' in 1916. Throughout World War I
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...
he served as a physician and was finally promoted to a ''Generaloberarzt (Res.)'' (Physician-General of the Reserve) in 1922.
In 1921 he became the director of the pediatric section of the university hospital. Falkenheim retired in 1926.
Falkenheim was also active in the Jewish congregation of Königsberg and the founder of the local section of the Centralverein deutscher Staatsbürger jüdischen Glaubens (Central Association of German Citizens of Jewish Faith) in 1908. In 1928 he became the Chairman of the Jewish congregation of KönigsbergJuden in Königsberg/ref> and managed to organize the flight of a large number of Jewish Königsbergers. Falkenheim himself emigrated via Spain and
Cuba
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to the United States in October 1941/ref> just before the remaining Jews were deported and killed in the
Holocaust
The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; ...
in June 1942.
Falkenheim was married to Margarethe née Caro and died in Rochester, N.Y.
Rochester () is a City (New York), city in the U.S. state of New York (state), New York, the county seat, seat of Monroe County, New York, Monroe County, and the fourth-most populous in the state after New York City, Buffalo, New York, Buffalo, ...
in 1945.
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obituary in the German-language newspaper "Aufbau"
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