Alfred Storch

Alfred Storch (born April 4, 1888 in Hamburg , † February 2, 1962 in Münsingen , Switzerland) was a German psychiatrist .

Life

After studying medicine in Munich , Freiburg im Breisgau , Berlin , Bonn and Heidelberg , Storch was able to do his doctorate on December 13, 1912 with the psychiatrist and neurologist Franz Nissl , at whose clinic he a. a. Karl Jaspers and Arthur Kronfeld met.

From 1919 Storch was an assistant doctor at the University Psychiatric Clinic in Tübingen under Robert Gaupp , before moving to Robert Sommer in 1927 at the Psychiatric University Clinic in Giessen , where he was able to do his habilitation a year later. Of his many activities, it is worth mentioning that he organized interdisciplinary theological seminars with Martin Buber and Paul Tillich .

In 1933 he was immediately dismissed as a so-called full Jew . He was able to emigrate to Switzerland , where, with the careful support of its director Max Müller , he was able to work and live at the cantonal sanatorium and nursing home in Münsingen from 1934 to 1954 - but at the price of having to work as an assistant doctor again. In 1950 he succeeded in doing his habilitation at the University of Bern in philosophy for "Philosophical-psychopathological problems of human existence with special consideration of abnormal forms of existence".

After finishing his professional career, he received Swiss citizenship in 1955 . In 1958 he was awarded the title of honorary professor at the University of Giessen as a token of reparation .

literature

• Marion Grimm: Alfred Storch (1888–1962): Daseinsanalyse and anthropological psychiatry (= work on the history of medicine in Giessen. Vol. 36). Gießen 2004, urn : nbn: de: hebis: 26-opus-23041 (medical dissertation, University of Gießen, 2005).