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Ernst Pfeffer

Ernst Pfeffer was a younger brother of Fritz Pfeffer

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  • Ernst Elias Pfeffer
  • Born on: Oct. 21, 1892
  • Born in: Gießen, Duitsland
  • Died on: Aug. 15, 1944
  • Died in: Leicester, Engeland

Ernst Pfeffer, Gießen, rond 1905

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Ernst Elias Pfeffer was the fifth child of Ignatz Pfeffer and Jeanette Pfeffer-Hirsch and a younger brother of Fritz Pfeffer. Like Fritz, he studied medicine at the University of Würzburg.[1] In 1918 Ernst moved to Berlin, where he completed his dental training in 1920.[2] Between 1929 and 1936 he had a dental practice at Friedrich Wilhelm Straße 12 in Berlin-Tempelhof.[3]

Because of the Nazi persecutions in Germany, Ernst applied to the General Medical Council (GMC) in London for registration as a dentist in the United Kingdom in 1935.[4] His application was approved on 13 November 1935 and he subsequently fled to England in 1936. Here he continued to practice his profession as a dentist. About a thousand Jewish dentists from Nazi Germany and Austria applied for registration with the GMC in the 1930s, just like Ernst, hoping to escape to the United Kingdom that way. Out of a thousand applications, about three hundred were approved. Fritz Pfeffer also started an application, but it was rejected by the GMC on 5 May 1937.[5]

However, Fritz did manage to send his son, Werner Pfeffer, to England on the 1 December 1938 children's transport. Arriving in London via Harwich, Werner was taken in by his uncle Ernst.[6] Werner survived the war.

A birthday card from 1937 or 1938 is known from Fritz addressed to Ernst, written on the back of a photo of Fritz with his son Werner.[7]

Ernst died a natural death in Leicester on 15 August 1944. He was 51 years old at the time.

Source personal data.[8] Addresses: Gießen; Lützowplatz 11 (1926-1930), Lützowplatz 21 (1931-1936), Berlin; 14 Park Lane, London; 2 Highpoint, North Hill, Highgate.[2]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Brief van Stadtarchiv Gießen aan Bernd Lindenthal, 2 september 1999.
  2. a, b John Zamet, German and Austrian refugee dentists. The response of the Britisch authorities 1933-1945, Ph.D. thesis Oxford Brookes University, 2007, p. 273.
  3. ^ Berliner Adreßbuch für das Jahr 1929 (retrieved via Digitale Landesbibliothek Berlin).
  4. ^ Zarnet, German and Austrian refugee dentists, p. 280; 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.
  5. ^ Bernd Lindenthal, 'Fritz Pfeffer war der Zimmergenosse von Anne Frank: zur Erinnerung an den Zahnarzt aus Gießen', in: Mitteilungen des Oberhessischen Geschichtsvereins Gießen, NF 85, 2000, p. 100-102.
  6. ^ National Archives, London, Home Office, PRO/HO396/67/439, ‘Regional Advisory Committee’: Advies 13 oktober 1943.
  7. ^ Anne Frank Stichting, Anne Frank Collectie, reg. code A_Pfeffer_III_002.
  8. ^ "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch, Ernst Elias Pfeffer; Burial, Leicester, Leicester Unitary Authority, Leicestershire, England, Gilroes Cemetery and Crematorium; citing record ID 168123291.

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Fritz Pfeffer, met zijn broers Ernst Pfeffer (links) en Hans Pfeffer (rechts), Gießen, rond 1905

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