German Central Association of Homeopathic Doctors

The German Central Association of Homeopathic Doctors (DZVhÄ) is the professional association of homeopathic doctors. It was founded in Köthen in 1829 and is the oldest still existing German medical association . In 2000 it had about 4,000 members.

tasks

The association serves to represent and represent the professional interests of homeopathic doctors. Medical training in homeopathy is one of the other central areas of responsibility. After appropriate training, the medical associations responsible will award the additional title "Homeopathy". In addition, the DZVhÄ promotes homeopathy research and the establishment of homeopathy at universities.

structure

Based on the decentralized structure of medical self-administration, the members are organized in eleven regional associations. The merger of the state associations forms the umbrella of the DZVhÄ. The seat of the association is in Berlin .

The association is a member of the European Committee for Homeopathy (ECH), the European umbrella association of homeopathic medical societies, which looks after professional interests at European level. The DZVhÄ also plays a leading role in the world association of homeopathic medical associations, the Liga medicorum homoeopathica internationalis (LMHI).

The homeopathy foundation of the DZVhÄ aims to network the practice, research and documentation of homeopathy with one another and to provide financial support. Together with the European Institute for Homeopathy (InHom), the foundation is based in Köthen.

history

The German Central Association of Homeopathic Doctors was originally founded on August 10, 1829 in Koethen. The aim of the association was to establish a homeopathic healing and teaching hospital through donations and initially operated under the name of the Association for the Promotion and Education of Homeopathic Medicine . To promote the association's work on homeopathic healing, the association created the newspaper of natural law healing in 1829 . On August 10, 1832, the association was renamed the Central Homeopathic Association at the annual meeting in the Leipzig Hotel des Saxe. In the same year, the first edition of the “ Allgemeine Homöopathischen Zeitung ” (AHZ) appeared and on January 22, 1833, it became the first homeopathic hospital inaugurated in Leipzig. In 1925 the Liga medicorum homoeopathica internationalis (LMHI) - the world association of national homoeopathic medical societies - was established with German participation . In the 1940s, the additional designation "homeopathy" was introduced for doctors. In 1990, the European Committee for Homeopathy (ECH), based in Brussels, was founded as a European amalgamation of national medical associations .

criticism

The journalist Jens Lubbadeh accused the association of financing blogs and websites to defame critics of alternative medicine practices together with the German Homeopathy Union (DHU) and other companies.

In November 2017, Cornelia Bajic, the chairwoman of the DZVhÄ, received the negative award Goldenes Brett in front of the head on behalf of the association for the greatest pseudoscientific nonsense in the category “Lifetime Achievement”.

literature

• Florian G. Mildenberger: The German Central Association of Homeopathic Doctors in National Socialism - inventory, criticism, interpretation , Göttingen: Wallstein 2016, ISBN 978-3835318793 .

Web links

• Association website
• Josephina Maier and Jan Schweitzer: Conversation with Cornelia Bajic, the chairman of the homeopathic doctors - Interview in: Die Zeit from June 21, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ - ( Memento of the original from January 21, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ https://www.dzvhae.de/homoeopathie-homoeopathieportal-des-berufsverbands-der-deutschen-homoeopathischen-aerzte/impressum.html
3. ^ Homeopathy lobby online - Dirty methods of gentle medicine , article in the Süddeutsche Zeitung of June 30, 2012, accessed on January 21, 2017.
4. ↑ AuthorDZVhAE: Imprint - www.dzvhae.de. Retrieved December 5, 2017 . 
5. ^ STANDARD Verlagsgesellschaft mbH: Golden Board for the "King of Germany" . In: derStandard.at . ( derstandard.at [accessed on December 5, 2017]).