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Doctors Memorial

Hugo Lederer
1926

Description

Square stone column with on the top a statue of Asclepius, hero and god of medicine in ancient Greek religion and mythology. On the faces of the large base are two marble reliefs and two texts.
The monument was built in 1926 to commemorate the fallen German doctors in the First World War. In 1997 it was reconstructed on the occasion of the 100th German Medical Conference in Eisenach and now dedicated by the German Medical Association "to all doctors who were victims of war, terror and tyranny in the exercise of their profession".

Eisenach - Ärtztedenkmal
medical care for a fallen comrades

Inscription(s)

original dedication

dem in weltkrieg
gefallenen deutschen
aertzten gewidmet
von der deutschen
aerzteschaft

niemand hat
grossere liebe
denn die dass er
sein leben lasst
für seine brüder

new dedication of 1997

die
deutsche
ärzteschaft
gedenkt
anlässlich
des 100.
deutschen
ärztetages
1997
in eisenach
allen
ärztinnen
und ärzte
die in
ausübung
ihres berufes
opfer
von krieg
terror
und
gewalt
herrschaft
wurden

Sculptor

Hugo Lederer (Znaim 1871 - Berlin 1940), German sculptor (Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

Wikipedia, Ärtztedenkmal.
Eisenach, Die Wartburgstadt, Kultur & Leben Denkmale und Orte des Gedenkens.

Locatie (N 50°58'34" - E 10°19'32") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: deth081; Photograph: 10 October 2018
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