Ernst Hartmann (doctor)

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Ernst Hartmann (born November 10, 1915 in Mannheim , † October 23, 1992 in Waldkatzenbach, district of Waldbrunn (Odenwald) ) was a German doctor , author and publicist .

Life

After graduating from high school, Ernst Hartmann studied medicine in Mannheim and Jena . During the Second World War he worked as a medical officer and was captured by the Americans. After his return from captivity, he opened a practice in Eberbach am Neckar, where he worked as a general practitioner for more than 40 years. In the 1960s he was involved in the German Peace Union , for which he ran unsuccessfully in the 1961 federal election on the Baden-Württemberg state list.

In addition to his work as a doctor, Ernst Hartmann worked with his brother Robert on geobiology and radiesthesia from 1948 onwards . He also dealt with homeopathy and later with building biology . The research group for geobiology (Dr. Hartmann eV) goes back to him.

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As a student, Hartmann wrote down information about patients and evaluated them. He observed that some hospital beds appeared to have a higher mortality rate than others. Hartmann was convinced that the cause was to be found in the location of the beds. Later, as a practicing doctor, he suspected that there was a connection between the disease and the patient's immediate surroundings in patients who had not responded to tried and tested treatment methods.

Hartmann, who had dealt intensively with so-called radiesthesia since 1948 , suspected a cause called earth rays . As a result, these assumptions also served Hartmann as a basis for treatments.

Together with his brother, he designed the model of a so-called global grid, which is formed from 'stimulus bands' in north-south and east-west directions ( Hartmann grid ).

Together with the pharmacist Derschum, Hartmann created the so-called Polyxan preparations in 1952 , which are used in naturopathy and alternative medicine as homeopathic remedies to intentionally influence the autonomic nervous system . The preparations are based on homeopathically processed grasses that are planted in suspected 'geopathological stimulus zones'.

In 1954 Hartmann introduced the term geopathy in geobiology and radiesthesia. Hartmann understood geopathic factors to be pathogenic factors that are supposed to emanate from so-called “geopathogenic zones” such as underground water veins or faults . He also coined the term “ change of location reaction” , which he used to describe a change in the patient's state of mind caused by a change of location. In addition, he calculated, for example, symptom relief in illnesses if the sleeping place was moved to another location.

In 1986, with the support of Veronica Carstens , Hartmann succeeded in having the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich commissioned by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research to conduct scientific research into the phenomenon of the divining rod . Hartmann and a team from his research group took part in the experiments as test subjects. See also section Assessment in the article dowsing rod.

Scientific criticism

Hartmann's work is mainly devoted to subject areas that are not recognized in the natural sciences and, insofar as they make scientific claims, are assigned to the para- and pseudosciences . Earth rays and their presumed effects could not be scientifically proven despite detailed investigations; the mechanism of action of the Polyxan preparations assumed by Hartmann is scientifically implausible.

Publications

  • (Ed.) Geopathy. Lectures at the 2nd meeting of the “Working Group for Geopathy” on September 26th and 27th, 1953 in Eberbach am Neckar (= magazine experience healing . Supplement 6). Haug, Ulm 1954.
    • therein: Ernst Hartmann, J. Wüst: About physical detection methods of the so-called earth rays. Pp. 31-46.
  • Foray into new biological territory. To solve the cancer problem. Haug, Ulm 1964; afterwards as illness as location problem ; last: 2 volumes. 5th edition. Haug, Heidelberg 1986, ISBN 3-7760-0653-6 , ISBN 3-7760-0911-X .
  • with Josef Angerer, Herbert L. König: Man, divining rod, illness. Environmental radiations. How they affect us. M & T, St. Gallen 1985, ISBN 3-7265-3020-7 .
  • Yin yang. About constitutions and reaction types. Research group for geobiology, Waldbrunn 1986.
  • Ernst Hoch: Radiation sensitivity. Handling the rod and pendulum. With contributions by Ernst Hartmann, Johannes Mayr. Veritas, Linz 1982; 3rd edition 1985, ISBN 3-85329-398-0 .

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ a b Archive link ( Memento of the original from July 23, 2011 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.geobiologie.de
  2. ↑ Ernst Hartmann: Zeitschrift Wetter-Boden-Mensch , Issue 5-2002, How it all began - The importance of pathogenic irritant strips in medical practice
  3. ↑ a b c Archive link ( Memento of the original from July 19, 2011 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. Wetter-Boden-Mensch magazine , issue 6-2001  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.geobiologie.de
  4. ↑ Hartmann / Wüst: About physical detection methods of so-called earth rays , 1954
  5. ↑ Ernst Hartmann: geopathy , Haug Verlag, Ulm / Donau., 1954
  6. ^ Ernst Hartmann: Illness as a location problem , Volume 1, Haug Verlag, Heidelberg, 5th edition 1986, ISBN 3-7760-0653-6 , page 43,161,420
  7. ^ I. Oepen, K. Federspiel, A. Sarma: Lexikon der Parawwissenschaften , Lit-Verlag, 1999, ISBN 3-8258-4277-0
  8. ^ William F. Williams (editor): Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience , Verlag Facts on File, 2000, ISBN 0-8160-3351-X
  9. ↑ K. Federspiel, V. Herbst: The other medicine , Stiftung Warentest , Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-937880-35-6
  10. ↑ W. Messerli: How does science approach the problem of 'earth rays'? , Journal of Social and Preventive Medicine, Verlag Birkhäuser Basel, ISSN  0303-8408 , Issue Volume 3, Number 1, December 1958, doi: 10.1007 / BF02031459

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personal data
SURNAME Hartmann, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German alternative doctor and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH October 23, 1992
Place of death Waldbrunn (Odenwald)