Eugen Hartmann was the son of the Jewish, Nyíregyháza-based master baker Alexander (Sándor) Hartmann and his wife Hanna (née Klein).
Hartmann studied medicine in Prague, Vienna, and Wroclaw.1 He graduated in February 1924 and received his doctorate in medicine from the Silesian Friedrich Wilhelms University in Wroclaw in July of the same year with an experimental thesis on thrombocytogenesis under Erich Frank (1884-1957).2
Hartmann remained in Breslau as a physician and researcher. His main scientific interest was in hematology. His first specialist publications appeared in 1925 as part of an appointment at the Medical Clinic of the University of Breslau, whose first director was Oskar Minkowski, who was then suceeded by Wilhelm Stepp in 1926.3 He published serveral research articles together with Frank. When the Frank was appointed chief physician of the municipal Wenzel-Hancke Hospital in 1928/29, Hartmann joined him to work as assistant physician in the medical department there. He settled as a specialist in internal medicine at 47 Gartenstrasse in Breslau in 1933.4
It is still unclear, when Hartmann left Wroclaw. It is noteworthy that he was still on the DGIM membership list until 1938, despite his Jewish origin. In the medical literature, annual publications, including a joint paper with the German-American pioneer of sports medicine Ernst Jokl (1907-1997), also from Breslau, testify to high research activity that ended in 1933.5
Emigration
Hartmann left Europe on the "S.S. Serpa Pinto" from Lisbon in 1940, having previously lived in Copenhagen. He reached New York on January 9, 1941 and accepted a position at Metropolitan Hospital, Welfare Island.6 He was awarded U.S. citizenship on July 23, 1946. He married Margot Prager (1915-1988) the following year. She was a nurse from Breslau who had emigrated to New York in 1938.7 Hartmann later settled with his own practice near Lefferts Boulevard in Kew Gardens, Queens. He also served as School Physician at the Archbishop Molloy High School in Briarwood from 1961 to 1967.8
After his death in 1985, Hartmann was buried in New Montefiore Jewish Cemetery in New York. His wife was also buried there.
