Eduard Reiss (psychiatrist)

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Eduard Reiss (* as Hermann Moritz Eduard Reiss on August 31, 1878 in Frankfurt am Main ; † May 5, 1957 in Mammern in the canton of Thurgau ) was a German - Swiss psychiatrist .

Life

Eduard Reiss was the son of the wealthy Frankfurt lawyer and patron of Justice Paul Reiss and his wife Ida Fanny née Goedecke. From 1896 he studied medicine at the University of Göttingen and obtained his doctorate. med. In Göttingen he became a member of the Corps Hannovera, like his father and later his brother Adolf Reiss .

After working as an assistant doctor in the pathological anatomy department of the University of Marburg , as well as in the psychiatry department of the University Clinics of Tübingen (including work on affective psychoses), Eduard Reiss completed his habilitation with Robert Gaupp and became an associate professor in Tübingen in 1917. In 1924 he was appointed as the successor to Sigbert Ganser as the medical director of the psychiatric departments of the Dresden-Johannstadt City Hospital . In the 1920s, Reiss also dealt with the time phenomenon of inflation saints .

In 1933 he emigrated to Zurich, Switzerland. Not because he was half-Jewish , but "because he recognized very early what he would be expected to do, namely sterilization [...] of people who were not supposed to have children" on the basis of the law on the prevention of genetically ill offspring of 14. July 1933. In Switzerland he began to increasingly publish articles in specialist journals in his field.

He had a daughter with his wife Gerta Hofmann from Stuttgart.

literature

  • Alma Kreuter: German-speaking neurologists and psychiatrists: a biographical-bibliographical lexicon from the forerunners to the middle of the 20th century. ISBN 3598111967 , p. 1166.
  • Heinrich F. Curschmann: Blue Book of the Corps Hannovera zu Göttingen, Volume 1: 1809-1899 Göttingen 2002, No. 837

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Registry office I (with Bornheim): Birth register (entries 2401–3000) July 24, 1878 - September 16, 1878, 1878 (ISG Frankfurt am Main Best. STA 10/123), entry no. 2862
  2. ↑ Heinz Schott, Rainer Tölle: History of Psychiatry: Illnesses, Irrwege, Forms of Treatment, p. 142.
  3. ↑ On formal personality change as a result of changed milieu conditions , in: Zschr. Fd Gesamt Neurologie und Psychiatrie 70 (1921), pp. 55–92; A prophet of chastity with sexually perverse activity , in: Zeitschrift für die Sexualwissenschaft 8 (1921), p. 113ff.
  4. ↑ Gisela Bock : Forced Sterilization under National Socialism. P. 293; quoted from Eckhard Heesch: National Socialist Forced Sterilization. [1]
personal data
SURNAME Reiss, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Swiss psychiatrist
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH May 5th 1957
Place of death Mammern , Canton of Thurgau