Adalbert Gregor

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Adalbert Aloys Gregor (born April 23, 1878 in Chernivtsi , † 1971 ) was a German psychiatrist .

Life

Gregor studied medicine in Innsbruck and Vienna . From 1905 as an assistant doctor at the mental hospital of the University of Leipzig, he dealt with experimental psychological examinations. He completed his habilitation in 1908 with a thesis on the psychopathology of memory. In 1913 he went as a senior physician to the sanatorium and nursing home in Dosen near Leipzig and soon worked in the observation facility of the neighboring children's home in Kleinmeusdorf. After 1918 he founded several parent advice centers, including in Leipzig, Karlsruhe , Pforzheim , Offenburg and Bruchsal . In 1922 he was appointed head of the Baden Welfare Educational Institution at Schloss Flehingen . As such, he was responsible for providing psychiatric advice to the state and charitable educational institutions in the state of Baden.

In the 1920s he championed eugenic positions in welfare education. He said that neglect was "predominantly endogenous ", that is, inherited, and spoke of "the hereditary transmission of the inferior character." He recommended sterilization for "morally indifferent" pupils . In his opinion, “persons unable to raise children” should be withdrawn from welfare education and be sent to custody in order to avoid “harming the national body ”. In 1926 he suffered serious injuries when a former pupil was assassinated.

In 1930 he was elected to the board of the General Welfare Education Day. In 1932 he became a medical advisor for youth welfare at the Baden Ministry of Justice, where he worked, among other things, as a psychiatric advisor to the state and charitable educational institutions of the state of Baden , but he lost his office in 1933 for political reasons. In 1934 he became a doctor of the Karlsruhe prisons as a result of organizational changes in the Ministry and from then on mainly dealt with forensic biology research. From 1938 he headed the forensic biological investigation center (observation station) of the Heilbronn youth prison . After the Second World War, he was director of the Wiesloch sanatorium until his retirement in 1948 . In 1961 he was recognized in the magazine Our Youth as “a pioneer in youth psychiatry”.

Fonts (selection)

  • Guide to experimental psychopathology: Lectures given at the University of Leipzig. Karger, Berlin 1910.
  • Textbook of psychiatric diagnostics. Karger, Berlin 1914.
  • Racial hygiene and child care. In: Archives for Racial and Social Biology . 13th volume. (1921) pp. 37-55.
  • Johann Christian Reil , 1759-1813. , and Johann Christian August Heinroth , 1773-1843. in: German insane doctors. Individual images of their life and work. Springer, Berlin 1921.
  • (with Else Voigtländer): Character study of neglected children and adolescents. Barth, Leipzig 1922.
  • revised: Ludwig Scholz: Anomalous children. Karger, Berlin 1922 (3rd revised edition)
  • Participation of psychiatry in welfare education. In: Journal for Child Research. Vol. 28 (1923) pp. 273-279.
  • Problems and responsibilities in caring education. In: Journal for Child Research. 29th vol. (1924) pp. 404-415.
  • Guide to Caring Education. With contributions from Dr. Else Voigtländer. Karger, Berlin 1924.
  • Psychology and social pedagogy of difficult-to-educate welfare children. In: Journal for Child Research. Volume 30 (1925) pp. 315-350.
  • On the question of the escape of prison inmates. In: Zentralblatt für Jugendrecht und Jugendwohlfahrt, 20th year (1928) pp. 315–319.
  • Recidivist prisoners. In: Zentralblatt für Jugendrecht und Jugendwohlfahrt, 20th year (1928) pp. 320–322.
  • About the sterilization of inferior caring children. In: Rüdin, Ernst (Hrsg.): Hereditary teaching and racial hygiene in the national state. Munich 1934. pp. 175-183.
  • Results of the examination of foster children for sterilization. In: Journal of Mental Hygiene. 7th volume. (1934) H. 2, pp. 33-40.
  • Continuous arithmetic according to Kraepelin . Urban u. Schwarzenberg, Berlin 1935.
  • Neglect and inheritance. In: Handbook of human genetic biology. Part two: hereditary psychiatry. Springer, Berlin 1939.
  • (with Albert Zink): Social integration and prognosis of those released from juvenile prison. In: Blätter für Prisonkunde, Volume 72 (1941/42), pp. 241–290.
  • Psychiatry and Childcare. In: Our youth. 13th vol. (1961) pp. 115-119.

literature

  • Hugo Schaubert: Adalbert Gregor on his eightieth birthday. In: Our youth, 10th year (1958) issue 5, pp. 222-223.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matthias Willing: The Preservation Law (1918-1967). Mohr Siebeck, 2003. p. 73.
  2. ↑ Susanne Apelt-Riel: The correspondence between Ludwig Binswanger and Eugen Bleuler from 1907-1939 in the field of tension between psychoanalysis and psychiatry in the first half of the 20th century. (Diss.), Tübingen 2009. p. 184.
personal data
SURNAME Gregor, Adalbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gregor, Adalbert Aloys (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychiatrist
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Chernivtsi
DATE OF DEATH 1971