Erich Friedlaender

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Erich Friedlaender (born December 6, 1883 in Berlin , † February 9, 1958 in Sydney ) was a German psychiatrist. In 1927 he became director of the Lippische Heil- und Pflegeanstalt Lindenhaus near Lemgo and during the Weimar Republic was involved in professional policy debates about possible savings in institutional psychiatry. As a baptized Jew , he was expelled from his post in 1933 and emigrated to Australia in 1939 .

Life

The only child of the doctor Julius Friedlaender (1851–1902) and his wife Fanny (1860–1940) attended the Königstädtisches Gymnasium Berlin and from 1901 to the Königliche Gymnasium Thorn , where he graduated from high school on March 16, 1903 . Erich Friedlaender then studied medicine in Berlin and Giessen . From March 1908 to March 1909 he worked as a medical intern in the internal department of the Wiesbaden Municipal Hospital . On April 1, 1909, he received his license to practice medicine and settled as a country doctor in Roßdorf . In 1912 he moved to Kemel .

In response to a job advertisement, Friedlaender applied to the Lippische Heil- und Pflegeanstalt Lindenhaus , where he was employed as a department doctor in June 1914. After the institution director Wilhelm Alter junior was given leave of absence from the war food office in 1917 , Friedlaender was postponed from military service to ensure medical care for Lindenhaus. Friedlaender received his doctorate in 1918 at the University of Giessen for the treatment and assessment of syphilogenic mental diseases as a doctor of medicine .

Friedlaender was initially only employed in Lindenhaus with a private contract. After Wilhelm Alter moved to Düsseldorf , the actual director post was saved. Friedländer received a third of the representation. He became a civil servant in 1922 and joined the SPD . When the director's position was to be re-filled in 1926, Friedlaender was given the position on the basis of a positive opinion from Hermann Simons . On July 1, 1927 he was officially director of the institution. In his capacity as director of the institution, he held the title of professor without having completed his habilitation .

After the National Socialist " seizure of power " Friedlaender, who had been baptized as a Protestant at the age of 16, was put into temporary retirement on March 27, 1933, before the law to restore the civil service was passed . His final retirement took place on August 15, 1933, with reduced pay. Friedlaender had already moved to Wiesbaden , where he practiced as a specialist in nervous and mental diseases from February 1935. When the license to practice medicine for Jewish doctors expired at the end of September 1938, he was no longer able to practice.

Friedlaender emigrated on June 10, 1939 via Rotterdam to Sydney in Australia . There he was admitted to practice as a doctor in 1941 after taking his medical exam and after he was forced to lose his German citizenship, he accepted British citizenship .

Act

In his scientific papers published during the Weimar Republic , Friedlaender dealt with psychopathological and neurological, occupational-political and supply-related issues in institutional psychiatry. He was active in the Reich Association of German Psychiatrists (RV), which was founded in 1921 , in which he played an important role. In particular, he was involved in the savings discussions in the wake of the global economic crisis . With his essay "A Danger for German Insane Care" in 1930 he criticized the attempts of various state administrations and the Reichsparkommissar , Friedrich Saemisch , to look for savings opportunities in institutional psychiatry with reports from administrative officials. Friedlaender endeavored to establish equality between psychiatry and other medical disciplines. In 1931 he won the second prize in the competition of the German Association for Psychiatry on the question "Can the care of the mentally ill be made cheaper and how?" In his contribution, he defended closed institutional welfare versus open welfare (external care) and communal models and spoke against himself an “emptying of the institutions”.

Fonts

  • For the treatment and evaluation of syphilogenic mental illnesses. In: Journal for the whole of neurology and psychiatry. 43: 369-419 (1918).
  • A danger to the German insane welfare. In: Allg. Journal of Psychiatry. 93 (1930), pp. 194-205.
  • Can the care of the mentally ill be made cheaper and how? In: Psychiatrically Neurological Weekly. 34, pp. 373-381 (1931).

literature

  • Jutta M. Bott: "That's where we come from, that's where we participated ...". Realities of life and dying in the Lippische Heil- und Pflegeanstalt Lindenhaus during the National Socialism. Landesverband Lippe, Institute for Lippe Regional Studies, Lemgo 2001, ISBN 3-9807758-9-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jutta M. Bott: "That's where we come from, that's where we participated ...". Realities of life and dying in the Lippische Heil- und Pflegeanstalt Lindenhaus during the National Socialism. Landesverband Lippe, Institute for Lippe Regional Studies, Lemgo 2001, ISBN 3-9807758-9-5 , p. 133.
personal data
SURNAME Friedlaender, Erich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Friedländer, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychiatrist
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 1958
Place of death Sydney