Dr. Alfred Bass

Alfred Bass was born in Linz as the legitimate son of Josef Bass, a teacher from Pilsen in Bohemia [today: Plzeň in the Czech Republic], and Katharina, née Fissler. His parents are of Jewish origin. He attends the k.k. He then studied medicine at the University of Vienna, graduating in 1892. He subsequently worked as a general practitioner in Mariaschein in northern Bohemia. From 1897 to 1899, he wrote articles on social issues. He campaigned for an improvement in the legal and material situation of panel doctors, as well as for their organization, for changes in health care and for state regulations in the area of health insurance. From 1899, he worked as a general practitioner in Vienna-Mariahilf. On 29 April 1900, he joined the masonic lodge Lessing - Zu den 3 Ringen of the Grand Lodge of Vienna [today: Grand Lodge of Austria of Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons].

1908 sees the publication of the Medizinische Handlexikon für praktische Ärzte, edited by Max Kahane, for which Alfred Bass writes several articles. On October 10, 1906, he is present for the first time at a lecture evening of Sigmund Freud's Wednesday Society, from which the Vienna Psychoanalytical Association (WPV) develops, which is formally founded as an association in 1908. On November 7, 1906, he listened to Alfred Adler's lecture on The Foundations of Neurosis. The minutes of the WPV show that Alfred Bass regularly attended the meetings in 1908 and 1909. He was also entrusted with literature research on sociological issues by Alfred Adler, who was still part of Sigmund Freud's circle at the time. On April 3, 1909, he himself gave a lecture at the WPV on the subject of Word and Thought, but left the association on November 3, 1909. On October 30, 1912, he was once again a guest at a lecture by Sigmund Freud. He marries Martha Weiss and has a son with her.

During the First World War, Alfred Bass works as a medical doctor. In the years after the I. In the years after the First World War, he also worked as a municipal school doctor for the City of Vienna, continued to be involved in social medicine and acted as Julius Tandler's contact person for psychoanalysis. He subsequently became chief physician at the City of Vienna's health care institution for civil servants. Alfred Bass is a member of the Society of the Grey Cross, an umbrella organization founded in 1934 to help refugees from National Socialist Germany.

When free and independent Austria collapses on 12 March 1938, the new rulers are already ready to forcibly dissolve the Austrian Masonic lodges. On the evening of the occupation of Austria, the Grand Lodge of Vienna was searched by SS men and all lodge property was confiscated. With the occupation of Austria, German legislation was adopted and with it the "Nuremberg Racial Laws", according to which Alfred Bass was considered a "full Jew".

In 1940, his wife died and on 4 May 1940, Alfred Bass moved to Vienna. Alfred Bass moved to Köstlergasse 10 in Vienna's 6th district on May 4, 1940 and was deported to the Litzmannstadt ghetto (Łódź) on October 28, 1941 at the age of 74. Nothing is known about his further fate; his trace is lost after his deportation. After the liberation of Austria in May 1945, he was declared dead by a court.

[Note: As Alfred Bass was certainly classified as "unfit for work" at the age of 74, it is assumed that he either starved to death in the ghetto or was murdered in the adjacent Kulmhof extermination camp]

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