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Fritz Pfeffer is rejected for registration as a dentist in the United Kingdom

In 1937, Fritz Pfeffer applied for registration as a dentist in the United Kingdom, but the application was rejected.

Event

May 5, 1937

51.52074 N -0.14353 E

Hallam Street 44-50

W1W 6JJ Londen

Verenigd Koninkrijk

Because of the Nazi persecutions in Germany, Fritz Pfeffer and his brother Ernst Pfeffer sent a request for registration as a dentist in the United Kingdom to the General Medical Council (GMC) in London in the mid-1930s. Between 1932 and 1939, about a thousand Jewish dentists made the same request, hoping in this way to escape Nazi Germany and Austria. Of the thousand applications, about three hundred were approved.[1]

Ernst Pfeffers application was approved by the GMC on 13 November 1935. He subsequently fled to England in 1936 and continued to practice his profession as a dentist in London.[2]

Fritz Pfeffer's request was denied on 5 May 1937. He had attended the same dental school in Würzburg as his brother. Nevertheless, the GMC ruled that it did not have sufficient guarantees that Fritz's knowledge and skills met the requirements of the Dental Act of 1878.[3]

Footnotes

  1. ^ John Zamet, German and Austrian refugee dentists. The response of the Britisch authorities 1933-1945, Ph.D. thesis, Oxford Brookes University, 2007.
  2. ^ The minutes of the General Medical Council (G.M.C. London) Volume 72 - 1935. Reports on Applications for Registration of Foreign dentists under the Dentists Act 1878, p. 245-251.
  3. ^ The minutes of the General Medical Council (G.M.C. London) Volume 74 - 1937. Reports on Applications for Registration of Foreign dentists under the Dentists Act 1878, p. 239-242.