Dr. Martin Mendelsohn

In the Berlin address book - 1928 edition, the following information can be found in the list of residents: Mendelsohn Martin, Professor, Dr.med, prakt. Physician, doctor for heart patients, W15, Kurfürstendamm No. 40,41 I. - Tel. Bism. 5306. 10-11, 4-5. 

Martin Mendelsohn was born on December 16, 1860 in Posen in Poznan. After studying medicine in Berlin and Leipzig and a one-year study trip to Paris, he completed his doctorate and state examination in 1885. In 1886 he became an assistant at the first university medical clinic under E. v. Leyden and senior physician at the Charité Hospital in Berlin. At the same time, he also set up as a doctor in Berlin. On February 1, 1895, Martin Mendelsohn habilitated at the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin on the subject of nursing and specific therapy and lectured on nursing in the following years. In 1898 he was appointed head of the nursing collection at the k. Charité and in 1899 he was appointed university professor. Martin Mendelsohn was a co-founder and from 1893-1894 the chairman of the Centralverein deutscher Staatsbürger jüdischen Glaubens.

Martin Mendelsohn was married to Johanna Bach. His son Peter Sebastian, born in 1896, studied law at the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin and at the same time singing with Egon Söhnlin and classical guitar with Carl Henze. From 1930 he took his mother's maiden name and performed as the lute singer Peter Sebastian Bach. From 1936 onwards, he spent his life in various concentration camps and was finally murdered on September 20, 1940 in the Hartheim torture institution near Linz. - Martin Mendelsohn died in Berlin on August 26, 1930.

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