Siegfried Joseph Thannhauser (1885 - 1962)

Born 28 Jun 1885 in Munich, Germany

Ancestors

Husband of Franziska Reiner — married 16 Feb 1918 in Munich, Germany

Descendants

Died 18 Dec 1962 at age 77 in Boston, MA

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Biography

Dr. Thannhauser was a brilliant medical doctor, teacher, researcher, and diagnostician. Born and raised in Munich, Bavaria he moved to Brookline in Boston in 1935 becoming a professor at Tufts Medical School. He left Germany because he was jewish. He never returned even though he was invited many times after the war. A street was named for him in Frieburg and a biochemistry prize.

Love at first sight was how he and Fanny Reiner felt about each other when they met at the 1909 Automobile Club Ball. WW I and the difference in their backgrounds combined to make it a long wait before they married.

More about him in the biography of his life mentioned on these web pages:

• In the German Wikipedia ^[1]

• on the Munson Thannhauser family history site

• his photos from WWI

Also his grandaughter Kitty has blogged about him many times, most recently quoting from a recently found letter to his German colleagues in 1946:

• My Grandfather's Letter

• Celebrating the birthday of the country that took us in

• Ashkenazi DNA: we are all descended from 350 people in medieval times

Sources

1. ↑ http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegfried_Thannhauser

* Alan F. Hofmann and Nepomuk Zöllner. "Siegfried Thannhauser (1885-1962) Physician and Scientist in Turbulant Times." 2006. Falk Foundation e.V., Leinenweberstr. 5, Postfach 6529, 79041 Freiburg, E-Mail: literaturservice@falkfoundation.de

• Source: S136 Title: Stasi Dunau, Silver Springs, MD

• Source: S202 Title: as told by Trudi Beyer

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Kitty Munson for creating WikiTree profile Thannhauser-18 through the import of kitty10by2gen.ged on Jun 28, 2013. Click to the Changes page for the details of edits by Kitty and others.