Benno Chajes

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Benno Chajes
Benno Chajes
Member of the town council of Schöneberg
In office
1915–1920
Member of the Prussian House of Representatives
In office
1928–1933
Personal details
Born(1880-11-14)14 November 1880
Danzig, West Prussia, German Empire (Gdańsk, Poland)
Died3 October 1938(1938-10-03) (aged 57)
Ascona, Switzerland
Political partySocial Democratic Party of Germany (SPD)
Spouse(s)Käte Schattner (1882–1925)
Flora Rosenbund (1898–1942)
RelationsEduard Bernstein (step-father of Käte Schattner)

Benno Chajes (14 November 1880 – 3 October 1938) was a German physician, professor for Social medicine and politician. He was a member of the Prussian parliament representing the Social Democratic Party of Germany.

Chajes was born in

Freiburg and started to practice as an assistant doctor in 1903 at the Charité in Berlin. From 1904 to 1907 he worked for Alfred Blaschko and in 1907 at the Hôpital Saint-Louis in Paris.[1]

He returned to Berlin in 1908 to work at Hans Goldschmidt's clinic and started his private practice specialising in

Berlin Schöneberg. From 1906 to 1921 he worked as public assistant doctor in Schöneberg, from 1915 to 1933 he was the physician of the Deutsches Theater (Berlin). Chajes joined the Association of socialist physicians (Verein sozialistischer Ärzte) in 1913 and became its deputy chairman in 1924.[1]

In

Regierungsbezirk Frankfurt (Oder).[2] Chajes was a delegate at the national congress of councils.[2]

In 1919 he started to lecture at the Technical University Charlottenburg on industrial hygiene. In 1922 he became a member of the Committee for industrial hygiene at the International Labour Office in Geneva. He was elected a member of the Prussian Parliament in 1928 and became his fraction's expert in public health services.[3] He followed Alfred Grotjahn at the University of Berlin and headed the Institute for social hygiene at the University of Berlin from 1931 on.[4]

Being Jewish, Chajes lost his positions according to the

Mandate Palestine, where he arrived in autumn 1933. In 1934 he started to practice as a physician in Tel Aviv.[1]

Chajes was engaged in constituting Healthcare in Israel, he co-founded the Assuta Medical Center and the Shiloah Insurance company, today part of the Harel Group.[5] In 1935 Chajes became the chairman of the Committee for industrial and social hygiene of the Histadrut Union.[1]

He died in 1938 while on vacation in Ascona, Switzerland.[1]

Family

Chajes was married to Käte Schattner (1882–1925), step-daughter of Eduard Bernstein, and in a second marriage to Flora Rosenbund (1898–1942).[6]

Publications

  • Die nervösen Störungen der Herztätigkeit (phd, 1903)
  • Grundriss der Berufskunde und Berufshygiene, 1919
  • Kompendium der sozialen Hygiene, 1921
  • Der Achtstundentag (mit Wachenheim u. Schweitzer), 1926[1]

References

  1. ^
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  3. ^ "biography" (in German). biosop. Archived from the original on 2020-04-02. Retrieved 2019-12-14.
  4. ISBN 978-3-00-031393-6
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  5. ^ "Harel to Merge Firms Shiloah, Sahar Zion". Haaretz. 11 October 2002.
  6. ^ "Ärztinnen im Kaiserreich: Flora Chajes, geb. Rosenbund" (in German). charite.de.
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