Antonio Vallejo-Nájera

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Antonio Vallejo-Nájera (born 1889 ; died February 25, 1960 in Madrid ) was a Spanish psychiatrist , racial theorist and eugenicist .

Early development

He studied medicine at the University of Valladolid and entered the medical service of the Spanish army in 1910. From 1912 to 1915 he took part in campaigns in Africa. During the First World War he was in Berlin with the military delegation of the Spanish embassy, ​​where he met German psychiatrists such as Hans Walter Gruhle and Emil Kraepelin and also had the opportunity to inspect numerous internment camps for prisoners of war, for which he was awarded by Belgium and France after the war. When the Spanish Civil War broke out in 1931, he was a lecturer in psychiatry at the Military Academy in Madrid. He was strongly influenced by the constitution typology of Ernst Kretschmer influenced and developed his own eugenics called Eugamia with which he wanted to bring the German eugenics with Catholic moral teaching in line and use biopsychological favored diagnoses before marriage. He believed he could achieve a slow and steady improvement in the national psychological genotype through premarital classification and orientation.

Civil war and repression

During the Spanish Civil War , Vallejo-Nájera was head of the psychiatric service in General Franco's army . In 1938 he founded the Gabinete de Investigaciones Psicológicas dela Inspección de Campos de Concentración de Prisioneros de Guerra based in Burgos at the Spanish concentration camp San Pedro de Cardeña . He researched the bio-psychic properties of humans and democratic-communist political fanaticism and thus provided Franquism with the scientific superstructure for the annihilation of political opponents. The descendants of the supposedly malicious and moronic Marxists were socially separated and housed in homes under Falangist or church leadership or with families close to the regime. After the civil war, he became professor of psychiatry at the University of Madrid .

Works

  • Psicopatología de la Conducta Antisocial. Acción Española 1936, 83, 169-194
  • Eugenesia de la Hispanidad y Regeneración de la Raza. Burgos: Editorial Española 1937.
  • Biopsiquismo del Fanatismo Marxista. Revista Española de Medicina y Cirugía de Guerra, 1938 4, 267-277.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Javier Bandrés, Rafael Llavona: Psychology in Franco's Concentration Camps . Psychology in Spain 1997. Vol 1. No. 1, p. 4.
  2. ↑ Javier Bandrés, Rafael Llavona, p. 5.
  3. ↑ Albrecht Buschmann: The up there and the stolen children . Die Zeit, April 10, 2019, accessed May 29, 2019.
  4. ↑ Javier Bandrés, Rafael Llavona, p. 9.
personal data
SURNAME Vallejo-Nájera, Antonio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vallejo-Nágera
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish psychiatrist and eugenicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1889
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 1960
Place of death Madrid