German society for combating Kurpfuschertums

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German Society for Combating Kurpfuschertums
(DGBK)
purpose Consumer protection against Kurpfuschertum
Chair: Carl Alexander (founder)
Establishment date: 1903
Dissolution date: 1934
Number of members: 30,000 (1928)

The German Society for Combating Kurpfuschertums (DGBK) was a private association founded in 1903, which was directed against the freedom of couriers , which was valid in Germany from 1869/1872 until the adoption of the Heilpraktikergesetz in 1939. The association was based on the model of the German Society for Combating Venereal Diseases (DGBG) and is considered one of the forerunner organizations of the Society for the Scientific Investigation of Parasciences (GWUP).

history

About Kurpfurschertum and its combat (1929), a book published by the DGBK.

In the umbrella organization of the medical associations, the Medical Association , there was a permanent quack commission from 1899 . After the first annual conference on January 14, 1904, the DGBK founded by Carl Alexander carried out educational work and participated in legislative measures. Various commissions were formed for this purpose. Laypeople and experts were taught with pamphlets and lectures. There was lobbying against naturopathy , anti- vaccination campaigns and doctors who practiced homeopathy . In particular, they wanted to warn the people against unapproved lay healers. In 1911, the DGBK and the DGBG took part in the international hygiene exhibition organized by Odol manufacturer Karl August Lingner in Dresden, to which other organizations were demonstratively not invited. There was a counter-event to this in the summer of 1911 under the title "Congress for Naturopathy and People's Welfare". The association succeeded in bundling left and conservative forces alike and organizing traveling exhibitions. In 1927, 53,000 paying visitors came to an exhibition in Ludwigshafen.

In 1929, the DGBK suggested the creation of a quackery paragraph in order to u. a. to criminalize commercial healing services and obstetrics without a license to practice medicine.

After the seizure of power by the Nazis in 1933, the magazine was health teacher in 1934 set loosed the DGBK.

Publications

  • Health teacher: magazine against abuses in healing for doctors and authorities. Organ of the German Society for Combating Kurpfuschertums. (until 1934)
  • Heinrich Kantor: Free path for the quackery? Springer-Verlag, Berlin and Heidelberg 1917. ISBN 9783662424667 .
  • About Kurpfuschertum and its fight. Second series of lectures in 1927. Asklepios-Verlag, Berlin 1929.
  • Prohibition of quacking in Germany as well: A draft for a section of the criminal code intended for the 21st Reichstag Committee (Reich Penal Code). Asklepios-Verlag, Berlin 1929.

literature

  • Jens-Uwe Teichler: "The charlatan does not strive for truth, he only demands money": On the conflict between scientific medicine and lay medicine in the German Empire using the example of hypnotism and healing magnetism. Franz Steiner Verlag, 2002. ISBN 9783515079761 . P. 171f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Inge Hüsgen, Amardeo Sarma: skeptic organizations . GWUP website. December 13, 2010. Retrieved April 7, 2016.
  2. ^ Was the GWUP the first German skeptic organization entry on the GWUP website.
  3. ↑ a b c Jens-Uwe Teichler: "The Charlatan does not strive for truth, it only demands money": On the conflict between scientific medicine and lay medicine in the German Empire using the example of hypnotism and healing magnetism. Franz Steiner Verlag, 2002. ISBN 9783515079761 . P. 171f.
  4. ^ A b Lutz Sauerteig: Illness, Sexuality, Society: Venereal Diseases and Health Policy in Germany in the 19th and Early 20th Century. Franz Steiner Verlag, 1999. ISBN 9783515073936 . P. 427
  5. ↑ Sybilla Nikolow: The statistical view of illness and health. ›Curved landscapes‹ in health exhibitions at the beginning of the 20th century in Germany. In: Ute Gerhard, Jürgen Link and Ernst Schulte-Holtey (eds.): Infographics, media, normalization: On the cartography of political-social landscapes. Synchron, research publ. of the authors, Heidelberg 2001 (Discursivities; Vol. 1), pages 223–241.
  6. ↑ Cornelia Regin: Naturopathic Movement. In: Martin Dinges (ed.): Movements critical of medicine in the German Reich (approx. 1870-approx. 1933). Franz Steiner Verlag, 1996. ISBN 9783515068352 . P. 57
  7. ^ Franz Schäfer: Law to combat sexually transmitted diseases of February 18, 1927: detailed commentary. Springer-Verlag, 2013. ISBN 9783642944956 . P. 107
  8. ^ Werner Appel: 100 years of city statistics in Ludwigshafen am Rhein. In: City of Ludwigshafen am Rhein (Ed.): Urban development 2014. Issue 3/2014. P. 27
  9. ↑ Werner Schubert: Sources for the reform of criminal and criminal procedure law: Weimar Republic (1918-1932). Minutes of the criminal law committees of the Reichstag. Meetings from October 1929 to June 1930 (conclusion of deliberations in first reading and §§ 86ff. In second reading, draft law for the protection of the republic and for the satisfaction of political life). Walter de Gruyter, 1997. ISBN 9783110155006 . P. 267