Albert von Schrenck-Notzing

Albert Freiherr von Schrenck-Notzing (born May 18, 1862 in Osternburg , now Oldenburg ; † February 12, 1929 in Munich ) was a German physician and a pioneer of psychotherapy and parapsychology .

origin

Albert von Schrenck-Notzing came from the old Munich patrician family of the Schrenck von Notzing . He was the son of Rittmeister Franz von Schrenck-Notzing (1824-1905) and his wife Meta Abbes (1842-1904). His brother Hermann (1863–1926) was a lieutenant colonel, his uncle Wilhelm von Schrenck-Notzing (1828–1892) was the mayor of Oldenburg.

Life

Hypnosis at Schrenck-Notzing , sketch by Albert von Keller , around 1885

He studied medicine in Munich and received his doctorate in 1888. The following year he established himself as a general practitioner in Munich. He devoted himself to medical psychology and was the first psychotherapist in southern Germany.

Schrenck-Notzing became known among other things through his experiments with hypnosis . In 1886, together with the philosopher Carl du Prel , he founded the Psychological Society in Munich , which dealt with topics that are now predominantly assigned to parapsychology. Are known as Thomas Mann reports on experiments with the medium Willi Schneider , which took place in the early twenties. Schrenck-Notzing was particularly interested in the therapeutic potential of hypnosis. As a psychotherapist, he developed new methods for treating sexual dysfunction and neurasthenia .

family

Schrenck-Notzing married Gabriele Siegle (1872–1953) in 1892 , a daughter of the industrialist Gustav von Siegle . With her he had two sons:

• Leopold (1894–1970), 1929–1945 member of the supervisory board of IG Farbenindustrie AG

⚭ 1918 (divorced in 1936) Countess Elisabeth von Arco-Zinneberg (1891–1938) (granddaughter of Maximilian von Arco-Zinneberg )

⚭ Vera Michaelis (* 1910)

• Gustav (1896–1943) Rittmeister, commander of the army racing stable ⚭ 1923 (divorced 1937) Marta Wedekind (* 1902) (parents of the journalist Caspar von Schrenck-Notzing )

Works

• A contribution to the therapeutic utilization of hypnotism , Vogel, Leipzig 1888 (dissertation; digitized version )
• The suggestion therapy for pathological manifestations of the sexual sense , Enke, Stuttgart 1892
• Hypnotism in the Munich hospital (left the Isar): a critical study on the dangers of suggestive treatment , Abel, Leipzig 1894, ( digitized version )
• A contribution to the etiology of contrary sexual sensation , Hölder, Vienna 1895
• About split personality , Vienna 1896
• Suggestion and falsification of memory in the Bertold Trial , Leipzig 1897
• Materialization phenomena , Reinhardt, Munich 1914
• Physical phenomena of mediumism , Reinhardt, Munich 1920
• Experiments on long-distance movement (telekinesis) in the psychological institute of the Munich University , Union, Stuttgart 1924
• The fraud of the medium Ladislaus Laszlo , Leipzig 1924
• Basic questions in parapsychology , 1929
• The Development of Occultism into Scientific Parapsychology in Germany , Leipzig 1932

literature

• Eberhard Bauer:  Schrenck von Notzing, Albert Philibert Franz Freiherr. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , pp. 544 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Manfred Dierks: Thomas Mann's ghost baron. Life and work of Baron Albert von Schrenck-Notzing. Psychosozial-Verlag, Giessen, 2012, ISBN 978-3-89806-811-6
• Andreas Fischer: In the darkroom of a media researcher. Albert von Schrenck-Notzing. In: Claudia Dichter, Hans Günter Golinski, Michael Krajewski, Susanne Zander (eds.): The Message. Art and occultism. Art and Occultism. With an essay by André Breton . Walther König, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-86560-342-5 , pp. 137–142 (exhibition catalog).
• Timon Kuff: Albert Freiherr von Schrenck-Notzing. In: Volkmar Sigusch , Günter Grau (Hrsg.): Personal Lexicon of Sexual Research. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt et al. 2009, ISBN 978-3-593-39049-9 , pp. 639–643.
• Timon L. Kuff: Occult Aesthetics. Desired figures of the unconscious in the work of Albert von Schrenck-Notzing . Psychosozial-Verlag, Giessen 2011, ISBN 978-3-8379-2136-6

Web links

Commons : Albert von Schrenck-Notzing  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Albert von Schrenck-Notzing in the catalog of the German National Library
• Schrenck-Notzing's experiments on "physical mediumism" ( Memento from November 30, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
• Thomas Mann observes a mediumistic session ( Memento from November 17, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
• The Message - The Medium as an Artist Exhibition with Albert von Schrenck-Notzing in the Museum Bochum 2008 ( Memento from February 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Elizabeth Countess von und zu Arco-Zinneberg on thepeerage.com , accessed on September 18, 2016.