Gumpert, martin

(¤ 1897, † 1955) Dermatologist, working in Berlin, New York In the 1920s he was one of the most distinguished and committed dermatologists in Berlin. He established disfigurement treatment as a new field of dermatology and introduced geriatrics into the medical field. After graduating from high school, Gumpert served as a medical orderly in a German war hospital in Turkey during World War I and then studied medicine in Berlin and Heidelberg. His later father-in-law Alfred Blaschko was an important medical role model for Gumpert. From 1923 to 1927 he was an assistant in the Rudolf-Virchow-Hospital in Berlin-Wedding. In 1928 Gumpert became head of the Städtisches Ambulatorium für Geschlechtskrankheiten in Berlin-Wedding and opened his own dermatological practice at the same time. In April 1933, Gumpert was removed from his medical offices as a "non-Aryan" and his license as a panel doctor was revoked. 1936 Emigration to the USA. In New York, Gumpert initially lived in the Bedford Hotel, which served as temporary accommodation for many German emigrants. Klaus Mann (1906-1949), who lived here from 1936, commemorated Gumpert as Professor Abel in his 1939 novel "Der Vulkan - Roman unter Emigranten" (The Volcano - Novel Among Emigrants). In addition to his work as a general practitioner, he worked at several New York hospitals over the years. From 1952 until his death, he was head of the Geriatric Outpatient Clinic of the Jewish Memorial Hospital. He was also a temporary medical advisor to "Time Magazine". In April 1955 Martin Gumpert, barely 58 years old, died of heart disease.