Dr. Lotte Heinemann - Pediatric practice

Lotte Heinemann was born in Lüneburg in 1892 as the fourth child of Selma and Robert Heinemann and studied medicine.

In the mid-1920s, Dr. Lotte Heinemann settled in Lüneburg as a paediatrician in her parents' house at Schießgrabenstraße 10. She also worked as an assistant to the Lüneburg district physician and looked after the children at the Wilschenbruch convalescent home, among other things.

The National Socialists in Lüneburg attacked Dr. Lotte Heinemann early on, during the Weimar Republic. In 1929, NSDAP district leader Otto Telschow declared it a scandal in his newspaper "Niedersachsenstürmer“ that a Jüdin Heinemann of all people was deemed worthy of being the district school doctor to monitor the health of our peasant boys and girls in the district of Lüneburg.Shortly after the beginning of the Nazi regime, National Socialist colleagues in Lüneburg made sure that her license to practise medicine was revoked.

Lotte Heinemann persevered in Lüneburg under difficult conditions until 1936, when she emigrated to the USA. Her brothers Kurt and Hans had been living there since the early 1920s. Lotte settled in New York in the Washington Heights district, which at the time was dominated by German-Jewish emigrants. She completed all her medical examinations and was eventually able to practice as a pediatrician again.

On 22 January 1972, she died in New York City, NY, USA at the age of 80