You are bidding on one Handwritten, signed postcard of physician and tuberculosis researcher Hermann Beitzke (1875-1953).

DatedGraz, 21. Aug 1948.

addressed to his nephew Max Beitzke (at Pistor in Rhöndorf, Haus Eulenöpfchen).

Mentioned is his son Günther Beitzke (1909-2004), legal scholar and university lecturer at the University of Göttingen.

Transcription:"Dear Max! It was with great dismay that we received your card of 14.8. Thank you for notifying us immediately. We fear with you for your dear mother. May God help you! Günther is visiting us, he is just as interested as we are. He wants us on the 26th. leave again to on 4.9. to marry in Goettingen. We commemorate all of you! Your Uncle Herman."

Note: Günther Beitzke married Gertrude Oppermann in 1948. Two sons (1949 and 1952) were born of this marriage; one became a qualified engineer; the other graduate chemist.

With sender stamp "Prof. dr H. Beitzke // GRAZ // Alexander Rollett Weg 7:"

Format:10.5x14.8cm.

On pretty thin paper.

Condition:Paper stained and somewhat creased, with corner creases. BPlease also note the pictures!

Internal note: FM 211024

About Hermann Beitzke and his son Günther Beitzke (source: wikipedia):

Herman Beitzke (* 21. June 1875 in Tecklenburg (Westphalia); † 8th. June 1953 in Graz) was a physician and tuberculosis researcher at the University of Graz. He was twice the dean of the medical faculty and once the rector of the Karl Franzens University.

Studies and teaching: Beitzke studied medicine at the Universities of Lausanne, Bonn, Munich and Berlin before earning his doctorate in Kiel in 1899. From 1900 to 1901 he worked as an assistant at the Hygienic Institute in Halle an der Saale and then until 1902 at the Pathological Institute in Göttingen. He then moved to the Pathological Institute in Berlin until 1906. In 1905 he received his doctorate in Berlin for general pathology and pathological anatomy. In 1911 Beitzke became a professor in Lausanne before moving to the Medical Academy in Düsseldorf in 1916. He then taught at the University of Graz between 1922 and 1941. In his research, Beitzke focused primarily on the pathology of infectious diseases and was co-editor of the "Results of the entire tuberculosis research".

Family and private matters: Hermann Beitzke was married to Irma, b. Krönig, and the father of Günther Beitzke.

Since his studies he was a member of the Germania Bonn student association (then VC, later CC, today a gymnastics association in the Marburg Convent).

Gunther Heinrich Peter Georg Beitzke (* 26. April 1909 in Freiburg i. Br.; † 16 June 2004 in Bonn) was a German legal scholar and university lecturer. Since 1922 he also had Austrian citizenship.

Career: Beitzke, son of the pathologist Hermann Beitzke (1875–1953), studied law in Berlin, Munich and Kiel. In 1933 he received his doctorate with a dissertation supervised by Walther Schücking on the legal status of the Bank for International Settlements. The habilitation followed in 1937 in Gießen with a thesis on legal persons in international private law and aliens law, which was supervised by Rolf Dietz.

In 1939 Beitzke was appointed associate professor at the University of Jena. However, he lost this position again in 1941 when he refused to resign from the church. This was accompanied by the loss of exemption from military service, so that Beitzke took part in the Second World War from 1941 to 1945. After returning from being a prisoner of war, Beitzke resumed teaching at the University of Göttingen. In 1959 he accepted a professorship at the University of Bonn.

In addition to international private law, the focus of his academic work was family law. Here he was instrumental in the reform of family law and the introduction of the principle of disruption.

Beitzke is considered the founder of the so-called combination theory in international company law. According to this teaching, for a company to effectively transfer its registered office, the substantive law of both the country of departure and the country of arrival must permit this transfer.

Honors

1971: Honorary doctorate from Reykjavik University

1972: Honorary doctorate from the University of Bordeaux

1983: Grand Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

2001: Honorary doctorate from the University of Vienna