Life_under_Siege_The_Jews_of_Magdeburg_under_Nazi_Rule.pdf

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Approval as physician revoked.’ 106 Dr Jeruchem’s licence was revoked in October
1938. 107 Beyond the period after the November pogrom, a number of Jewish
physicians were reregistered to treat Jewish patients only, 108 by which time less
than half the Jewish physicians registered in 1933 were still in practice.
The Berufsbeamtengesetz appears not to have affected civil servants
immediately; including those professionals involved in education. It cannot be
established how many individuals were affected in the period between 1933 and
September 1935. Of those Jews employed in the civil service, a number would
have received exemptions from antisemitic laws, as occurred in all other areas of
employment. It was also not possible to determine how many members from the
Jewish community were in fact civil servants in education and in the city’s and
province’s governmental bureaucracy.
The first evidence of any significant change after 1933 was with the
promulgation of the Nuremberg Laws on 15 September 1935. The preliminary
stage of the dismissals and forced retirements of civil servants came from a
memorandum dated 30 September 1935 from the Reich and Prussian Minister for
the Interior. 109 This was received by the provincial government of Saxony in
Magdeburg on 1 October 1935. It detailed that in accordance with the application
106 Nachweisung der Veränderungen unter den Ärzten, Zahnärzten und Apothekern
des Kreises Magdeburg für den Monat September 1938, 10. Oktober 1938, Bestand
Rep. C 28 I g, Signatur Nr. 16, Band 5, LHASA MD, pp. 60–62. The cited quotation
is the author’s translation from the original German which reads: ‘Jude. Bestallung als
Arzt verloren.’
107 Nachweisung der Veränderungen unter den Ärzten, Zahnärzten und Apothekern
des Kreises Calbe, 1. November 1938, ibid., p. 63.
108 Nachweisung der Veränderungen unter den Ärzten, Zahnärzten und Apothekern
des Kreises Magdeburg für den Monat November 1938, 2. Dezember 1938;
Nachweisung der Veränderungen unter den Ärzten, Zahnärzten und Apothekern des
Kreises Magdeburg für den Monat März 1939, 1. April 1939, Bestand Rep. C 28 I g,
Signatur Nr. 34, LHASA MD, op. cit., pp. 81, 154.
109 Memorandum from the Reich and Prussian Minister for the Interior, 30 September
1935, Collection JM, File 10624, YVA, op. cit., p. 16.