Dietfried Müller-Hegemann

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Dietfried Müller-Hegemann (born May 5, 1910 in Laibach ; † July 28, 1989 in Essen ) was a German specialist in psychiatry and neurology , psychotherapist and psychoanalyst .

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After the father's death, the family moved to Dresden in 1917 . Müller-Hegemann was a member of the Communist Youth Association of Germany from 1927 to 1933 and joined the Communist Party of Germany in 1930 . From 1930 to 1935 he studied medicine at the universities of Munich , Vienna , Königsberg and Berlin . In 1935 he joined the National Socialist German Student Union (NSDStB), of which he was a member until 1939. During this time he belonged to a communist resistance group that was active within the NSDStB according to the tactics of the Trojan horse . From 1936 to 1943 worked as a training candidate at the German Institute for Psychological Research and Psychotherapy in Berlin with Harald Schultz-Hencke . There he dealt in particular with psychoanalytic psychotherapy for schizophrenic patients. In 1937 he moved to the Berlin Charité mental hospital as an assistant doctor . There he was in 1937 with a thesis on an "unusual symptom picture of a Commotionspsychose" doctorate .

From 1939 Dietfried Müller-Hegemann worked as a medical officer , from 1940 to 1941 as a troop doctor on the Eastern Front , then as a hospital doctor in Berlin. In 1944 he was taken prisoner by the Soviets , where he was head of an anti-fak committee . He was released from captivity in 1948 and returned to Berlin. There he was recognized as being persecuted by the Nazi regime .

Müller-Hegemann converted to Pavlov's teaching or sleep therapy and in 1950 became senior physician at the psychiatric and mental hospital in Leipzig . In 1951 he completed his habilitation at the Charité for psychiatry and neurology and was appointed private lecturer at the Clinic for Psychiatry and Neurology at the Medical Faculty of the University of Leipzig. From 1951 to 1953 he was the chief physician of the Leipzig / Dosen State Institute , where he founded the first Leipzig psychotherapy facility and psychotherapy station in 1953. From 1952 to 1957 he was also acting head of the Psychiatric and Mental Clinic in Leipzig. 1953-58 he was a member of the State Pavlov Commission at the Ministry of Health. In 1954 he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze. In 1955 he was appointed professor with a teaching position at Leipzig University and in 1957 he was appointed professor with a chair and appointed director of the Neurological-Psychiatric Clinic in Leipzig. From 1958 he fought against the separation of neurology and psychiatry. He headed the clinic until 1964. After a fatal incident, Müller-Hegemann resigned from his university posts on August 31, 1964. He was acquitted in the ensuing trial. In 1965 he returned to Berlin and until 1971 was the medical director of the psychiatric hospital "Wilhelm Griesinger" in Berlin. In 1966 he published the book "Neurology and Psychiatry: A Textbook for Students and Doctors".

In 1971 Müller-Hegemann moved to the Federal Republic of Germany , whereupon his recognition as a persecuted person under the Nazi regime in the GDR was withdrawn (escape from the republic). From 1972 to 1973 he was Visiting Professor at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia . He then headed the psychotherapeutic department of the Knappschaftskrankenhaus Essen-Steele as chief physician until 1975 . After reaching the age limit, he practiced as a neurologist in Essen until 1988 . It is now proven that the MfS (Stasi) monitored Müller-Hegemann, but in a largely unstructured form.

Dietfried Müller-Hegemann died in 1989 at the age of 79 in Essen.

Fonts (selection)

  • Unusual symptoms of a commotion psychosis. Dissertation . Humboldt University of Berlin , 1937.
  • Psychotherapy for schizophrenic processes, experiences and problems. Habilitation thesis . Humboldt University of Berlin , 1951.
  • On the psychology of the German fascist. Greifenverlag, Rudolstadt 1955.
  • Psychotherapy. A guide for doctors and students Verlag Volk und Gesundheit, Berlin 1957.
  • Neurology and psychiatry. Textbook for students and doctors. Verlag Volk und Gesundheit, Berlin 1966.
  • The Berlin Wall Disease. Nicolai Verlag, Herford 1973.
  • Basics of psychotherapy. Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart 1973, ISBN 3-437-00136-1 .
  • Medical psychotherapy. Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart 1976.
  • Autogenic psychotherapy. Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek near Hamburg 1981.

Memberships

  • State Pavlov Commission of the GDR
  • Association of Psychiatrists in the GDR

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Michael Grüttner : Students in the Third Reich. Schöningh, Paderborn 1995, ISBN 3-506-77492-1 , p. 452 ff.
  2. ^ The lax observation of an enemy of the state: The GDR and West German psychiatrist Dietfried Müller-Hegemann in the files of the Stasi, Holger Steinberg, progress of neurology and psychiatry, 2020; 889; 514-527
personal data
SURNAME Müller-Hegemann, Dietfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German neurologist, psychiatrist and psychotherapist
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Laibach
DATE OF DEATH July 28, 1989
Place of death eat