Professor Joachim Stutzin, Berlin Jewish doctor who settled here several months ago, has been chosen vice-president of the local immigrant aid society.
In Germany Professor Stutzin, who is the inventor of the cinemascopy method of observing the internal organs of the human body, participated little in Jewish affars, having become a confirmed assimilationist despite a youthful interest in Zionism. Since coming here, however, he has become very active, notably in the affairs of the East European Jewish immigrants and in the Committee of German Jews of this city.
Dr. Stutzin’s conduct is considered the more noteworthy in view of the fact that there are a number of German Jews in Chile w### hide their identity. A case in po### occurred here several weeks ago when an old German Jewish settler, going to meet a relative arriving as a refugee from the land of Hitler, found it advisable to be accompanied by a priest who converted the immigrant before he set foot on Chilean soil.
Professor Stutzin was born in Lithuania, going to Germany at the age of six. After the World War he became director of the Kaiserin Augusta Victoria hospital in Berlin, which post he was forced to leave shortly after Hitler came into power. Following a triumphal tour of the universities of Madrid, Paris and Capetown the physician opened an office here.
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