Alfred Brauchle

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Alfred Karl Brauchle (born March 22, 1898 in Schopfheim in southern Baden ; † November 21, 1964 in Schönenberg / Post , Schönau in the Black Forest ) was a German physician, naturopath and member of the NSDAP ( member no. 3,407,189).

Alfred Brauchle passed his Abitur in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1916 and then took part in the First World War in an alpine hunter regiment until 1918. After studying medicine and graduating in 1924 as Dr. med. he was from 1923 to 1925 assistant at the municipal hospital and maternity home in Lörrach / Baden and from 1925 to 1929 assistant at the 4th Medical University Clinic in Berlin. In 1929 he specialized as a specialist in internal medicine and, as chief physician, took over the management of the Prießnitz hospital in Mahlow , which was operated by the German Natural Healing Association. From 1934 to 1943 he was chief physician at the clinic for naturopathy in the Rudolf-Heß-Hospital in Dresden and taught as a lecturer at the local medical academy for further medical training. With his work at the Dresden Clinic, Brauchle served to adapt naturopathy to the Nazi dictatorship until the clinic was dissolved in 1943. Brauchle was a co-founder of the Reich Working Group for a New German Medicine and defined its goals on May 25, 1935 in Nuremberg. For the first time, " orthodox doctors " and naturopaths worked together, both in diagnosis and in therapy. The results of the naturopathic treatments under his direction were scientifically accompanied by the school doctor Louis Ruyter Radcliffe Grote .

In 1939 he completed his habilitation and became a private lecturer in internal medicine in Berlin. In 1943 Adolf Hitler awarded him the title of professor. From 1943 to 1946 he worked as chief physician at the Glotterbad sanatorium (“ Black Forest Clinic ”) near Freiburg / Br., After which he was a farmer and pony breeder until 1949.

He was denazified in 1949 and classified as a "fellow traveler" without punitive measures. From 1949 to 1960 he was chief physician of the park sanatorium in Schönau in the Black Forest . He was considered one of the most famous representatives of naturopathy in Germany. In 1951 he became chairman of the Central Association of Doctors for Naturopathic Treatment and received its Hufeland Medal in 1958 .

Publications

  • Outline of normal histology and microscopic anatomy. 1925
  • Chronically cold feet as a cause of illness. 1926
  • Cooked or raw? 1926
  • Natural way of life. 1926
  • Lexicon of naturopathy. 1927
  • Hypnosis and autosuggestion . 1927
  • Psychoanalysis and Individual Psychology. 1928
  • Of the power of the unconscious. 1929
  • Little healing of the soul. 1927-31
  • New forms of life. 1927-31
  • Handbook of Naturopathy. 1933
  • Louis Ruyter Radcliffe Grote / Alfred Brauchle: Conversations about conventional medicine and naturopathy. With a foreword from Reichsärzteführer Gerhard Wagner . 1935
  • Diet with raw and vegetarian food. 1936
  • Naturopathy in pictures of life. Leipzig 1937
  • The history of naturopathy in life pictures. Reclam, Stuttgart 1951 (2nd, expanded edition of Große Naturärzte. Reclam, Leipzig 1944).
  • Conversations about conventional medicine and naturopathy. (with Louis Ruyter Radcliffe Grote ) 1934
  • Results of the joint work between naturopathy and conventional medicine. (also with LR Grote) 3 vols., 1938/40
  • Naturopathy of the general practitioner. 2 vol., 1939, 1953
  • Great love for small horses. 1949
  • The great book of naturopathy. 1957

literature

  • Marina Lienert: Dresden, Center for New German Medicine . Doctors and medicine under National Socialism . Ärzteblatt Sachsen 4/2005. (PDF; 143 kB)
  • Helmut Heiber : files of the party chancellery of the NSDAP. Reconstruction of a lost inventory. Collection of the correspondence handed down in other provenances, minutes of meetings, etc. with the deputy of the Führer and his staff or the party chancellery, their offices, reports and subdivisions as well as with Hess and the like. Bormann personally . Part 1, register. Oldenbourg, Munich 1983, p. 588 No. 12122
  • Gundula Ursula Plum: Alfred Brauchle. (1898–1964) Life and work of a doctor and naturalist . Diss. Bonn 1993
  • Susanne Zimmermann: The Medical Faculty of the University of Jena during the time of National Socialism . Berlin 2000 (Institute for the History of Medicine, Natural Science and Technology (Jena). Ernst Haeckel House Studies)
  • Klaus-Dietmar Henke: Deadly Medicine in National Socialism. From racial hygiene to mass murder . Böhlau, Cologne 2008 (publications of the German Hygiene Museum Dresden, vol. 7)

swell

  1. ↑ Jörg Melzer: Whole food nutrition. Dietetics, Naturopathy, National Socialism, Social Demands , Steiner, Stuttgart 2003, p. 440 (Diss. UdT: Melzer, Jörg: Whole Foods Nutrition Between Dietetics, National Socialism and Social Demands , Frankfurt (Main) 2002).
  2. ↑ See results from the joint work of naturopathy and conventional medicine . Edited by Alfred Brauchle a. LR Grote, Reclam, Leipzig 1938 (publications from the joint work at the Rudolf-Heß-Hospital Dresden (later Gerhard Wagner Hospital ))
  3. ↑ Honored Men of Science honored by the Führer, Berlin, January 31 , Völkischer Beobachter , February 1, 1943: "On the occasion of the ten-year return of the day of the assumption of power, the Führer has a number of men of science who are particularly deserving of solving war tasks Professor awarded; these are: ... the head physician of the clinic for naturopathy at the Gerhard Wagner Hospital in Dresden, Dr. med. Habil. Alfred Brauchle ... "
  4. ↑ Bartlin Brauchle: Baden State Commissariat for Political Cleansing Freiburg ; AZ B3 B / 314 from January 25, 1949.
personal data
SURNAME Brauchle, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brauchle, Alfred Karl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Schopfheim
DATE OF DEATH November 21, 1964
Place of death Schönenberg (Black Forest)