Albrecht Langelüddeke
Albrecht Langelüddeke (born October 26, 1889 in Heinade , Duchy of Braunschweig , † January 18, 1977 in Hofheim am Taunus ) was a German psychiatrist and pioneer of forensic psychiatry .
Life
Langelüddeke received his doctorate in Greifswald in 1914 and completed his habilitation in Hamburg in 1930 . There he taught as a lecturer. In November 1933 he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler . From 1935 to 1937 he was director of the Haina state hospital in the district of Kurhessen and from 1937 director of the Marburg state hospital . At the same time he taught from 1935 as an associate professor at the University of Marburg . He also worked at the Kassel Hereditary Health Court . In 1939 he published on the diagnosis of simulants in the military.
Dismissed in 1946 at the instigation of the US military government because of membership in the NSDAP , NSV , the NS-Dozentbund and NS-Ärztebund , he ran the institute as a senior doctor from 1949 to 1954. He then worked as a psychiatrist and court expert in Hamburg. In 1950 he wrote the textbook forensic psychiatry , which was authoritative until the 1980s after repeated editions. His investigation into the lower recidivism rate of castrated sex offenders, which was carried out in the context of Nazi coercive measures , caused a sensation in the 1960s and influenced the debate on sex criminal law .
Fonts
- Forensic psychiatry. De Gruyter, Berlin 1950; 4th edition (with Paul H. Bresser) 1976.
- The emasculation of moral criminals. De Gruyter, Berlin 1963.
literature
- Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2003, p. 357.
- Stefan Wulf: "Beat Hitlerism to a pulp." Political criminal matters, psychopathy and reduced sanity as reflected in the psychiatric reports by Albrecht Langelüddeke, 1937–1945. In: Medizinhistorisches Journal 55 (2020), pp. 47–74.
Web links
- Paths and goals of psychiatry in Marburg an der Lahn , texts on the exhibition in the Center for Social Psychiatry Mittlere Lahn (Paul Sandner, 2001)
- Spiegel from June 17, 1968: Free faster
Individual evidence
- ↑ Albrecht Langelüddeke in the Hamburg professors' catalog (accessed on August 6, 2017)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Langelüddeke, Albrecht |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German psychiatrist and pioneer of forensic psychiatry |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 26, 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Heinade |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 18, 1977 |
| Place of death | Hofheim am Taunus |