German Naturheilbund
The German Naturheilbund e. V. was founded in 1889 as the umbrella organization of German naturopathic associations. The 50 independent naturopathic associations affiliated with it represent around 10,000 members. The headquarters of the federal office of the German Naturheilbund is in Bauschlott Castle in Neulingen .
history
In the first half of the 19th century societies emerged, the supernatural folk understandable informed Healing. They were encouraged to do this by the medicinal farmer Vinzenz Prießnitz (1799-1851), who prescribed the healing power of water in combination with nutrition, exercise, light and air as a successful stimulus and regulation therapy . He treated around 40,000 patients in his Graefenberg sanatorium in Austria-Silesia. Vinzenz Prießnitz designed the foundation of classical naturopathy , which was cultivated in many regional Prießnitz associations and "associations for people-understandable medicine".
In 1889 the "German Federation of Associations for Health Care and Drug-Free Healing" was founded. In 1900 it changed its name to the "German Federation of Associations for Natural Living and Healing". In 1912 this umbrella organization united 899 local associations with almost 150,000 members. The association owned a publishing house that published the journal Der Naturarzt under the editorial management of Paul Schirrmeister and later Franz Schönenberger .
Since 1927, the association had the first teaching hospital for naturopathy, the Prießnitz hospital in Berlin-Mahlow , which was attached to a chair for naturopathy at the Charité . The National Socialist Alfred Brauchle was the head of the Preißnitz Hospital from 1929 to 1934.
In 1999, on the occasion of his 200th birthday, Vinzenz Prießnitz was recognized by UNESCO in the cultural heritage calendar for his services to natural medicine. In 2014, the German Naturheilbund organized a two-day anniversary congress in Pforzheim to mark its 125th anniversary. A detailed commemorative publication was published about this.
tasks
The German Natural Healing Association (DNB for short) is recognized as a non-profit, politically and denominationally neutral. He finances his work from membership fees and donations. Together with the associations, it makes an essential contribution to public health promotion in accordance with the statutes. The DNB has an impact on health policy and health education and demands that naturopathy become a complementary component in medical education and training. The accompanying publication is the member's body "Naturarzt", which has appeared since 1863.
An annual "Naturopathy Day" (entered in the BZgA calendar on the 2nd weekend in October) informs the population about active prevention and the variety of therapies in alternating key topics. From 2008 the topics were: Hydrology, Exercise Therapy, The Healing Power of Nutrition, Herbal Medicine, Life Balance and Environmental Influences, Trusting Nature and Life. From the beginning the German Naturheilbund promoted the naturopathic lay education; this task was resumed in 2012 with an apprenticeship as a “Naturopathic Consultant DNB”. The course imparts basic naturopathic knowledge for everyday life and healing practice and covers the spectrum of modern naturopathy.
societies
50 independent, non-profit recognized naturopathic associations are affiliated to the umbrella organization. In open events they provide information about classic and modern therapies from regulatory medicine and naturopathy. They are supported by the umbrella organization through training and information. In particular, they organize the annual “Naturopathy Day” together.
Publications of the DNB
Naturopathy protects and heals a 6-part series of advice on the topics:
- nutrition
- Move
- Hydrotherapy
- Herbal medicine
- Life balance
- Environmental influences
Self-published by the German Natural Healing Association
swell
- Deutscher Naturheilbund (Hrsg.): Sources of naturopathy. 110 years of the German Naturheilbund (Prießnitz-Bund) eV; for the 200th birthday of Vinzent Prießnitz. Crailsheim 1999, DNB 956291368
- Jürgen Helfricht : Vincenz Prießnitz (1799–1851) and the reception of his hydrotherapy until 1918: a contribution to the history of the naturopathic movement. Matthiesen, Husum 2006, ISBN 978-3-7868-4105-0 (At the same time dissertation at the Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci 2004 under the title: The pioneer of the natural healing movement Vincenz Prießnitz (1799-1851) and the reception of his hydrotherapy in German-speaking countries until 1918 ).
- Philo vom Walde: Vinzenz Priessnitz; his life and his work. Berlin 1898, OCLC 14801703 .
- Festschrift for the 125th anniversary of the German Natural Healing Association with an anniversary congress in 2014 in Pforzheim. Publisher: Deutscher Naturheilbund eV.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Arnd Krüger : History of movement therapy, in: Preventive medicine . Springer, Heidelberg Loseblatt Collection 1999, 07.06, pp. 1–22.
- ^ Wolfgang R. Krabbe: Naturopathic Movement. In: Diethart Kerbs, Jürgen Reulecke (Ed.): Handbook of German Reform Movements 1880-1933. Hammer, Wuppertal 1998, p. 77 ff. ISBN 3-87294-787-7 .
- ↑ Naturopathy in Berlin. In: Berliner Ärzteblatt. 1999.