Fritz Kweller
Exlibris: "Ex Libris Dr. med. Fritz Kweller"
Exlibris: "Ex-Libris Dr. Fritz Kweller"
Stamp: "Dr. Fritz Kweller prakt. Arzt Vinetaplatz 7"
Fritz Kweller was born on 18 August 1877 in Charlottenburg, the eldest son of the merchant Anselm Kweller (1845–1900) and his wife Goldine Kweller, née Sorauer (1837–1913). Fritz Kweller had two younger brothers, both of whom were born in Berlin. Ignatz Robert Kweller was born on 16 February 1879 and died just a few months later on 25 June of the same year. The youngest brother, Rudolf Kweller, was born on 18 May 1880.
Fritz Kweller studied medicine and became a general practitioner; he obtained his doctorate in Leipzig and received his licence to practise in 1901. In 1902, he opened his own practice at Vinetaplatz 7 in Berlin-Wedding; his flat was just around the corner at Swinemünder Straße 98. Dr Fritz Kweller remained bachelor and had no children.
In Nazi Germany, he was persecuted as Jewish. In 1938, his license was revoked and his practice was forcibly closed. Also in 1938, he became a subtenant in a rented room at Prenzlauer Allee 226. From 1941, Fritz Kweller worked as a volunteer at the Jewish Hospital in Berlin. Beginning in February 1943, he served as an unpaid medic at the Große Hamburger Straße collection point. On 17 May 1943, Fritz Kweller was deported from Berlin to the Theresienstadt concentration camp, where he was murdered later that same year.
Rudolf Kweller became a bank clerk. In 1907, he married Erna Borchardt, who was born in Berlin on 19 June 1881. He survived the Holocaust and continued to live in Berlin after the end of the war. Erna Borchardt died in Berlin on 30 November 1945. In 1960, Rudolf Kweller was married a second time, to Käthe Fleischmann, who had been born in Berlin on 16 June 1893. Rudolf Kweller died in Berlin on 13 February 1965; he is buried at the Weissensee Cemetery. Käthe Kweller (née Fleischmann) died in Berlin on 4 March 1969.
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