Berlin Society for Psychiatry and Neurology

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Berlin Society for Psychiatry and Neurology
(BGPN)
purpose Scientific Society for Psychiatry and Neurology
Chair: Andreas Hartmann
Establishment date: 1867
Number of members: over 400
Seat : Berlin
Website: www.bgpn.de

The Berlin Society for Psychiatry and Neurology (BGPN) is a scientific and medical society founded in 1867. The registered association with over 400 members. The aim of the BGPN is the scientific and practical exchange of experience in the entire field of psychiatry and neurology as well as the promotion of cooperation with other scientific associations.

Psychiatric, neurological, neurosurgical and related topics are presented and discussed in the Wednesday events that take place on a regular basis and the Society's spring and autumn meetings. The organ of communication is the specialist journal “Nervenheilkunde”, in which information from the BGPN appears on a monthly basis. Once a year, the BGPN doctoral prize is awarded to outstanding work in psychiatry and neurology. The Berlin Griesinger Medal, awarded once a year, honors scientists or clinicians who have made a special contribution to neurology.

history

founding

Griesinger's bust in front of the Charité Berlin Mitte mental hospital

In early 1867, the "Berliner medicinisch-psychologische Gesellschaft" (today's Berlin Society for Psychiatry and Neurology) was founded in Berlin by Wilhelm Griesinger and nine other founding members. Among them were Moritz Lazarus and Carl Westphal from the Charité . The same goes for the head of the "Schweizer Hof private insane asylum" in Berlin-Zehlendorf, Bernhard Heinrich Laehr , who soon became an intense critic of Wilhelm Griesinger's ideas of reforming psychiatry.

The first meeting of the society took place on January 29, 1867 with Griesinger as elected chairman and Carl Westphal as secretary. In the minutes of this meeting, under the goals of the society, it is stated that it will deal particularly with psychiatric questions and, in addition to scientific reports, also devote itself to practical problems, especially forensic ones. The statute of 1910 specifies the purpose of the association to promote psychiatry and neurology and their auxiliary sciences.

In the first few years, mainly psychiatric topics were presented at the meetings, as well as forensic and some psychological problems. From 1879 onwards, neurological topics predominated, with an increasing tendency in the last decade of the 19th century. At the 25th anniversary in 1892, Friedrich Jolly saw this as proof of the progress in research into nervous diseases, which was largely brought about by psychiatrists, in addition to the rise in anatomical and physiological knowledge. As early as 1879, the name was changed to "Berlin Society for Psychiatry and Nervous Diseases".

The BGPN in the early 20th century

The dominance of neurological topics from the last two decades of the 19th century to the end of the first third of the 20th century did not continue to this extent in the following periods. Karl Bonhoeffer (1868 - 1948; Chairman from 1933 to 1940) pointed out in 1927 that the accusation that psychiatry had been neglected in society in the previous periods was not true because the number of lectures was not the only decisive factor. There had been important contributions to the question of paranoia, obsessions and epileptic psychoses, and the knowledge of alcoholism, paralysis, epilepsy and psychopathic states had been enriched even in the time of the predominantly neurological attitude of society. In addition to the psychiatric and neurological lectures and demonstrations, neuroanatomical, neuropathological and general neuroscientific topics were covered. The first neurosurgical lecture was given in 1895.

The BGPN in National Socialism

In 1933 the name was changed again to "Berlin Society for Psychiatry and Neurology". From 1941 to 1944 the professor of neurology at the Charité Max de Crinis was chairman of the society, who, as the most influential National Socialist among psychiatrists, was a staunch advocate and pioneer of the National Socialist mass murders of the mentally ill and disabled. Among other things, he was involved in the preparation and implementation of the National Socialist T4 killing operation (belittlingly referred to as "euthanasia" ), although he did not hold any official office.

In the last two years of the Second World War there were no more meetings, and by the end of the war in 1945 the society had ceased to exist. By order of the Soviet military administration in Germany on May 21, 1947, the organization of medical-scientific society was re-approved. On December 8, 1947, the BGPN was re-established in the Charité in order to continue the old tradition with the first post-war meeting.

The BGPN in divided Berlin

As a result of the further political development in Berlin with the division of the city, colleagues living in the western part of the city who were predominantly members of the society founded the BGPN for the then "western sectors" of the city. In the founding minutes it was noted that the meetings will take place in the Psychiatric and Mental Clinic of the Free University of Berlin until reunification. Until the city was completely divided in 1961 by the construction of the Berlin Wall, members of the regional society in West Berlin also attended meetings at the Charité and vice versa.

The BGPN since 1989

Due to the new political possibilities, contacts between the chairmen of the regional companies in the former East and West Berlin immediately took place in 1989. On April 18 and 19, 1990, a first joint symposium was held by the two sub-societies, and on February 23, 1991, with the approval of the respective general assembly, the regional societies were again merged into a "Berlin Society for Psychiatry and Neurology".

The BGPN and the Charité

There has always been a special connection between the BGPN and the Charité Mental Hospital, and for more than 115 years the meetings have been held in the lecture hall opened by Chairman Friedrich Jolly on April 22, 1901 . In 1997 the 130th birthday of the society was celebrated - organized by the host in the mental hospital on Campus Mitte, Prof. Einhäupl . There will also be celebrations for the 150th birthday in the Charité Mitte.

Members

Members can be licensed doctors or persons with a university degree who are practically, clinically and scientifically active in the field. The board of directors decides on membership after the recommendation of the new member by two existing members. The number of members in the founding year 1867: 24, 1892: 120, 1927: 220 and in the 1980s approx. 400 members, a third of them in the then regional company in the former West Berlin. The number of members has been rising steadily since 2010 and is currently over 400 members (as of 2017).

Founding members

Board

The board currently consists of 12 members. These were presented in 2016 in the series 'The BGPN presents itself' in the specialist journal 'Nervenheilkunde' (Schattauer-Verlag).

Chairperson

  • Griesinger, Wilhelm (1817-1868) 1867-1868
  • Westphal, Carl (1833-1890) 1868-1889
  • Sander, Wilhelm (1838-1922) 1889-1891
  • Jolly, Friedrich (1844-1904) 1891-1903
  • Mendel, Emanuel (1839-1907) 1904-1906
  • Draw, Theodor (1862-1950) 1906-1906
  • Oppenheim, Hermann (1858-1919) 1907-1907
  • Bernhardt, Martin (1844-1915) 1908-1908
  • Draw, Theodor (1862-1950) 1909-1911
  • Moeli, Karl (1849-1919) 1911-1911
  • Liepmann, Hugo (1863-1925) 1912-1913
  • Bonhoeffer, Karl (1868-1948) 1913-1915
  • Liepmann, Hugo (1863-1925) 1915-1916
  • Bonhoeffer, Karl (1868-1948) 1916-1932
  • Kramer, Franz (1878-1969) 1932-1933
  • Bonhoeffer, Karl (1868-1948) 1933-1940
  • De Crinis, Max (1889-1945) 1941-1944
  • Roggenbaum, Christel Heinrich (1896-1970) 1947-1951
  • Regional company east
  • Thiele, Rudolf (1888-1969) 1951-1957
  • Leonard, Karl (1904-1988) 1957-1971
  • Schulze, Heinz AF (1922-2015) 1971-1991
  • Regional company west
  • Selbach, Helmut (1909-1987) 1953-1971
  • Voelkel, Arno (1920-1977) 1971-1977
  • Helmchen, Hanfried (* 1933) 1977-1985
  • Janz, Dieter 1920 1985 - 1990
  • Greve, Werner (1928-2011) 1990
  • After reunification
  • Greve, Werner (1928-2011) 1991-1993
  • Marx, Peter 1937: 1993-1996
  • Schmidt, Lutz G. 1951: 1996 - 2001
  • Vogel, Hans-Peter: 2001-2005
  • Gutzmann, Hans: 2005 - 2009
  • Koennecke, Hans-Christian: 2009 - 2013
  • Bschor, Tom: 2013 - 2017
  • Hartmann, Andreas: 2017 - 2019

Awards

Griesinger Medal of the BGPN

Every year the BGPN awards a prize to the most influential person in the fields of psychiatry and neurology for their life's work. Self-applications are excluded. The Freiburg psychiatrist M. Berger last received this award in 2018.

BGPN doctoral award

Every year the BGPN awards a prize to the best submitted doctorate in the fields of psychiatry and neurology. Doctoral candidates who complete their doctoral procedure by December 31st can apply. of the previous year at a Berlin institute.

Events

The BGPN regularly invites you to scientific events. In addition to the 'Wednesday event', which takes place an average of 10 times a year, there is a spring and an autumn conference as well as special events every year.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.bgpn.de/kontakt-2.php , §2 paragraph 1
  2. ↑ http://www.bgpn.de/geschichte-6.php , slightly changed, Prof. Dr. Manfred Wolter
  3. ↑ http://www.bgpn.de/kontakt-2.php , §3
  4. ↑ http://www.bgpn.de/weiter_vorstand.php
  5. ↑ http://www.bgpn.de/preise-10.php
  6. ↑ http://www.bgpn.de/aktuelles.php