Abstract
The book consists of parallel Czech and German version, the pictures are included with bilingual description in the mid. This monograph describes the life story of Josef Hohlbaum, born in Oberlindewiese (Nothern Moravia), who has been studying medicine in Graz and after the graduation acting as surgeon on the University of Leipzig.
He became the chairman of the Surgical Clinic of the German Charles University in Prague in 1941, where he worked until the end of war. On the May 9th 1945 he was arrested by the Czech Revolutionary organs, and after short stay in prison was sent to the internation camp in Klecany close to Prague.
Here he was heavily injured on his left leg during field working (explosion of ammunition), for which he was hospitalised and treated on surgical department of the Vinohrady Hospital in Prague by doc. Polák.
From there he was transferred, on his own request, into the German military hospital Ženské domovy in Prague-Smíchov, and in October 1945 transported by military hospital train into Germany. After two following stays in hospitals in Thuringen (Bad Liebenstein and Waltershausen) he was finally hospitalised since the December 23rd in Hospital in Markkleeberg by Leipzig, where he died on the December 30th 1945.
The authors express the opinion, that Josef Hohlbaum belonged to the generation of important young German surgeon of the post-WW I era, and was also an outstanding university teacher. During the Nazi era he was not politically engaged, and remained fully concentrated on his favoured clilnical discipline, even during his stay in Prague, where he was very popular among the Czech patients.
It was also found out that professor Arnold Jirásek was not acting unethically as a physician to the injured Hohlbaum, whose treatment in the Vinohrady Hospital was performed lege artis. The book contains also two chapters, describing the situation in the German medicine after the year 1933...