Albrecht Wetzel
Albrecht Ludwig Wetzel (born July 17, 1880 in Tübingen , † November 7, 1947 in Stuttgart ) was a German psychiatrist .
Life
Wetzel was a son of the lawyer Karl Gottlob Wetzel (* 1851) and Marie Luise Elisabeth Volz (* 1859). From 1899 he studied medicine in Tübingen and Munich . In 1904 he passed the state examination in Tübingen and was awarded a Dr. med. PhD . In 1905 he became an assistant at the Marienhospital in Stuttgart and then worked in the private insane asylum in Kennenburg near Esslingen. At times around 1906 he also worked as a ship's doctor at North German Lloyd .
From 1908 Wetzel was an assistant at the Heidelberg University Insane Clinic . From 1914 to 1918 he took part in the First World War. From February 1919 to September 1924 he was a senior physician at the Psychiatric Clinic in Heidelberg. In February 1919 he completed his habilitation in Heidelberg with a forensic-psychiatric study on mass murderers . In 1922 he was appointed associate professor in Heidelberg, where he taught for the next two and a half years. He was then appointed director of the community hospital in Stuttgart in October 1924 as the successor to August Fauser and held this position for almost twenty years.
According to Mildenberger, it is unclear to what extent Wetzel was involved in the " euthanasia campaign " started in 1941 to kill mentally ill patients during the Nazi era .
In the spring of 1944, Wetzel, who suffered from Parkinson's disease , was retired for health reasons. However, he remained as an employee under private law at the Bürgerhospital until autumn 1945. His estate burned together with his scientific work in a bomb attack on Stuttgart in 1944. His official files have been preserved from the University of Heidelberg and the City of Stuttgart.
Publications
- A contribution to the question of toxic protein breakdown in carcinoma. F. Pietzcker, Tübingen 1904, dissertation.
- with Karl Wilmanns : Beloved murderer (= criminal types, book 1). Springer, Berlin 1913.
- About mass murderers. A contribution to the personal causes of crime and the methods of their research (= treatises from the entire field of criminal psychology, volume 3). Springer, Berlin 1920.
- Hospital and the welfare of the discharged persons as an organizational unit (a report on the welfare work at the Bürgerhospital Stuttgart in the years 1925 to 1928). In: Zeitschrift psychische Hygiene (special supplement to the Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Psychiatrie). Volume 91, Issue 2, 1929, pp. 129-140.
- The social meaning. In: Handbook of Mental Illnesses. Volume 9, Part 5, 1932, pp. 612-667.
literature
- Dagmar Drüll: Heidelberg scholars lexicon . 1803-1932. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York / Tokyo 2013, ISBN 978-3-658-26396-6 , p. 296.
- Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar . 1935, column 1527
- Wolfgang Burgmair, Eric J. Engstrom, Matthias M. Weber (eds.): Emil Kraepelin in Munich II (1914–1921) (= Edition Emil Kraepelin, Volume VII). Belleville, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-933510-96-9 , p. 317.
- Florian Mildenberger : Albrecht Wetzel (1880-1947). In: Michael Farin , Florian Mildenberger (Eds.): Albrecht Wetzel. About mass murderers (1920) completed by the casuistry of mass murder, part 1 (1914) together with an introductory essay and a biographical sketch. Belleville, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-936298-34-5 , pp. 7-17.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mildenberger, p. 171
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wetzel, Albrecht |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wetzel, Albrecht Ludwig (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German psychiatrist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 17, 1880 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tübingen |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 7, 1947 |
| Place of death | Stuttgart |