Eduard Grünewald

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Eduard Grünewald (born April 2, 1924 - May 17, 2012 in Innsbruck ) was an Austrian psychologist , psychoanalyst and resistance fighter .

Life

Eduard Grünewald attended the Humanist High School in Innsbruck , where Franz Mair was his English teacher. After graduating from high school in 1942, he studied psychology .

During the reign of National Socialism in Austria , Grünewald took part in resistance activities such as the distribution of leaflets, smear campaigns with anti-Nazi slogans and the transmission of information to the Allies via secret radio transmitters. He had contacts with the resistance group O5 and was active in the circle of resistance fighters around Franz Mair. In mid-April 1945 the Secret State Police were able to seize part of the Tyrolean resistance movement and on April 27, 1945 also arrested Grünewald. After interrogation, he was taken to the Reichenau internment camp. On May 2, 1945, resistance groups that had formed in the police associations were able to free the arrested persons from the camp. The next day, Grünewald helped to hoist a red-white-red flag under fire from the SS on the Stadtwerke high-rise in Innsbrucker Salurner Strasse, and in storming the Gauhaus . He wrote a message to the population about the liberation of Austria, which was distributed via posters and the radio.

In September 1945 Eduard Grünewald joined the underground ÖCV connection Alpinia Innsbruck .

From 1947 to 1949 he headed the psychotherapeutic outpatient clinic at Innsbruck University Clinic . In 1953 he founded the Innsbruck working group for depth psychology , which he also headed until 1984. From 1981 to 1987 Grünewald was associate professor at the Institute for Psychology at the University of Salzburg .

Eduard Grünewald was the father of Kurt Grünewald, Member of the National Council .

Awards

Publications

  • The personal projection: Introduction to the analysis of projective mental processes. Reinhardt, Munich 1962.

literature

  • Herbert Fritz, Peter Krause (Ed.): Wearing colors - Confessing colors, 1938–1945. Catholic Corporates in Resistance and Persecution (= Tradition and Future . Volume 15). Austrian Association for Student History, Vienna 2013, p. 317.

annotation

  1. Although the name Mair-Grünewald group became established after the war , according to the historian Horst Schreiber the collaboration between the two namesake was not continuous enough to speak of a Mair-Grünewald group in the narrower sense.

supporting documents

  1. ^ Horst Schreiber : Resistance and Remembrance in Tirol 1938–1998: Franz Mair. Teachers, free spirits, resistance fighters . StudienVerlag, Innsbruck 2015, ISBN 978-3-7065-5745-0 , p. 82 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. Full story. Innsbruck working group for psychoanalysis, accessed on May 8, 2019 .
  3. ^ Heinrich Schmidinger : Eduard Grünewald † May 17, 2012. In: Salzburger Nachrichten . May 2012, accessed May 8, 2019 .
  4. Eduard Grünewald passed away. In: Tyrolean daily newspaper . May 19, 2012, accessed May 8, 2019 .
  5. ^ National awards for resistance fighters and victims of Nazism. In:  The new reminder call. Journal for Freedom, Law and Democracy , issue 5/1975, p. 6 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / dnm.
  6. Honoring Austrian freedom fighters. In:  The new reminder call. Journal for Freedom, Law and Democracy , issue 11/1977, p. 2 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / dnm.