page_title: Siegmund Hadda
section_title: Jewish Hospital in Breslau
hierarchical_section_title: Siegmund Hadda / Career / Jewish Hospital in Breslau
caption_attribution_description: English: Dr Siegmund Hadda and staff nurses at the Jewish hospital, Breslau
context_page_description: Siegmund Hadda was a Jewish-German surgeon and chief physician at the Jewish Hospital in Breslau during the rise of the Nazi Regime.
  During the Nazi Regime, he and his family were in serious danger. In 1938/39 all his attempts to get a visa for a country of asylum failed in spite of his award during World War I, his good relationship with the church and foreign contacts. However, despite all the misfortune and their incarceration in the concentration camp Theresienstadt, he and his wife were among the few Jews who were redeemed at the last moment by Switzerland.
context_section_description: In 1906, Gottstein became head of the Surgical Department at the Jewish Hospital and hired Hadda. The hospital re-opened in 1903/04 in a new building spurred on by the Jewish fraternity Chevra kadisha. The Jewish fraternity helped fill in gaps of the Jewish social net that were removed by the Toleration Act of Emperor Franz Josef ll in 1781. During his tenure, Hadda published more than 40 scientific papers and witnessed surgeries that have gone down in history, such as the Foerster's operation (performed by Otfrid Foerster), a treatment for spastic paralysis by resection of spinal roots. He also worked with many notable doctors including Carl Fried, Ludwig Guttmann and Otfrid Foerster. During his holidays, Hadda visited different clinics abroad like Paris in 1909 and London in 1910. In 1912 he met, among others, Alexis Carrel, the founder of vascular surgery and later a Nobel Laureate, in the United States. He was also a guest at the Mayo Clinic.
  In the years following World War I, he had a stable working environment at the Jewish Hospital and became head of the surgical department. Hadda left the institution in 1943 when it was dissolved due to the Nazi Regime and the rise of anti-Semitism.
caption: Dr Siegmund Hadda and staff nurses at the Jewish hospital, Breslau
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