Eduard Bloch

Eduard Bloch was an Austrian doctor practicing in Linz . Until 1907 Bloch was the physician of Adolf Hitlers family. Hitler later awarded Bloch special protection after the Nazi union of Austria and Germany.

Bloch was born in Frauenberg , studied medicine in Prague and then served as a medical officer in the Austrian army. In 1899 he was stationed in Linz and opened a private doctors practice after his discharge in 1901 in the baroque house atLandstrasse, where he also lived with his family his wife, Emilie and their daughter Trude, born in 1903. According to Linzs future mayor Ernst Koref, Bloch was held in high regard, particularly among the lower and indigent social classes. It was generally known that at any time at night he was willing to call on patients. He used to go on visits in his hansom, wearing a conspicuous broad brimmed hat. Like most Jews in Linz at the time, the Bloch family were assimilated.

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