Dr. Fritz Frensdorff born 1889
Escape to the death
12/02/1938
Lange Laube 18 (middle)
Biographical data
20th June 1889
Frensdorff Fritz was born in Hanover.
1906
Fritz attended the high school and graduate from school at the Lyceum II (Goethe
Gymnasium). He studied medicine in Freiburg and Munich.
1912
Fritz Frensdorff from Hannover is the medical state exam in Munich.
1913
He gets in Berlin, the approval (medical license).
1914-1918
During World War I, the 25th Frensdorff soldier. He initially worked in a hospital. As a battalion doctor in Reserve Infantry Regiment 60, he was awarded the Iron Cross
Second and First Class. After the war and dismissal from the Army, he practiced at the University Children's Clinic in Göttingen and at a children's hospital in Berlin.
1921
He received his doctorate at the University of Berlin and gets shifted so that the beginning of the war title of MD, with which he can make it easier independently.
August 1923
Dr. med Fritz Frensdorff opened in his parents' house, Short Street 4, as a specialist in children's diseases practice.
1934
Family and practice to move into the Lange Laube 10 (now 18). Meanwhile, the pediatrician has even started a family. With wife Anna, born Eichelbaum, he has two sons, Justus and Reinhold. Dr. Fritz Frensdorff is repeatedly attacked by Nazi thugs and severely abused.
12th February 1938
Dr. med Fritz Frensdorff kills himself in Berlin at the age of 48 years. He is buried in the Jewish cemetery on the Strangriede. His grave is preserved.
February 1939 widow Anna Frensdorff succeed with her two sons to leave Germany. They settle in
Palestine.

Biographical data for: Peter Schulze: names and fates of murdered Jewish doctors
(2008), here: p.14.
Notes
Dr. Fritz Frensdorff is not called in: commemorative book. Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny in Germany 1933-1945, Bundesarchiv,
Koblenz 2 Edition 2006.
Remembrance in Hanover with the name of Dr. Fritz Frensdorff: memorial at the
Opera House, built in 1994.
Another memorial in Hanover with the name and picture of Dr. Fritz Frensdorff:
Monument to the Jewish doctors chamber for 15 doctors who were victims of persecution and mass murder of their loved ones, location: medical center, lobby, inaugurated in 2008. See the brochure: remembrance and commemoration. Jewish doctors in Hanover. Working group "fate of Jewish doctors in Hanover," Medical
Association of Lower Saxony. Hanover in 2008, especially pp. 14
Document in the city archives: resident registration card.
Monument to the Jewish doctors of Hanover 28 a
Newsletter of the City Archives Hannover (PDF)
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