Hermann Strauss : 1868-1944 /

Account of Hermann Strauss' professional career as a physician told by his son Walter; despite his outstanding achievements Strauss did not become professor due to his being Jewish.Born in Heilbronn in 1868, Hermann Strauss was a physician at the Charité hospital in Berlin, and from 1910 until 1941 the director of the department of internal medicine at the Jewish hospital in Berlin. He was deported to Theresienstadt in 1941 and died there in 1944.Published in Joseph Walk: "Kurzbiographien zur Geschichte der Juden, 1918-1945": page 35