Richard Frey
| Richard Frey | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Richard Stein February 11, 1920 Vienna, Austria |
| Died | November 16, 2004 (aged 84) Beijing, People's Republic of China |
| Known for | Jewish doctor from Austria who became a communist member in China. Chairman of the Information Institute and curator of the Medical Academy of Sciences of China. |
Richard Frey, Chinese 傅 莱 / Fu Lai, (born 11 February 1920 in Vienna – died 16 November 2004 in Beijing) was a Chinese doctor and politician originally from Austria. He fled due to the Second World War from Austria to China and spent his entire life in his adopted country. Because of his outstanding contributions to national independence, national liberation and to build China's land, he has gained a high reputation in China.
Richard Frey was born under the name of Richard Stein as the only child in a middle class Jewish family in Vienna. In 1930, he visited the Döblinger high school and wished later to become a doctor. With great support from his parents, he learned Radiography in the "Institute for radiology Holzknecht" and "Kaiser Franz Joseph-Ambulatorium und Jubiläumsspital" in his senior classes at the same time. At school, he was active in politics, joined the Scouting at the age of 14 and later the Communist Youth of Austria (KJV) and the Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ). As a result of the occupation and annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany (Anschluss), he was expelled shortly before his Matura from school. Because of the threat being arrested by the Gestapo, he aborted his medical studies in late 1938, escaped from Austria and finally arrived in China in early 1939. There he participated in the anti-Japanese War in 1941 and came to the front lines of the war in the "Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei border area", changing his name from "Stein" to "Frey" and joined the Eighth Route Army.
In 1942, he applied for a membership in the Communist Party of China (CPC) and was accepted in 1944. After the war, Frey was able to obtain citizenship, and remained in China until his death in 2004.
While performing as a doctor at the battlefront, he was training doctors and paramedics. Due to lack of medicines in the war 1943 he was successfully able to conquer an epidemic of malaria in the squad with the help of acupuncture and therefore received an award of Mao Zedong. In 1945 he succeeded in synthesizing penicillin for the first time in China despite harsh conditions in Yan'an – the political and military base of the Communist Party of China.
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