Ernst Rehm

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Ernst Rehm 1901

Ernst Rehm (born January 15, 1860 ; † 1945 ) was a German psychiatrist .

Life

Sanatorium Neufriedenheim around 1900

Rehm studied medicine and then worked for Bernhard von Gudden , the head of the county insane asylum in Giesing . As a prince physician , he looked after the mentally ill Prince Otto , the younger brother of King Ludwig II (Bavaria), at Fürstenried Castle from 1883–1884 . In 1886, Rehm became the deputy head of the county insane asylum. When Bernhard von Gudden drowned shortly afterwards with Ludwig II in Lake Starnberg , Rehm took over the management of the county insane asylum at short notice. Then he worked under Gudden's successor Hubert Grashey as a senior physician. In 1892 he went as a senior doctor to the private sanatorium Neufriedenheim, which was then located just outside the city, in what is now the Munich district of Sendling-Westpark . A year later, Rehm was able to acquire the clinic at a very affordable price. He lived with his family in the director's villa of the Neufriedenheim sanatorium for the mentally ill of both sexes . The villa fell victim to the construction of the A96 motorway in the late 1960s.

The sanatorium was expanded to accommodate around 90 patients and it had an international reputation. As one of the first physicians in Munich Rehm put the psychoanalysis of Sigmund Freud as a cure for the mentally ill. He was also a medical officer and was committed to reforming the Bavarian insane system .

In 1933, at the age of 75, Rehm became a member of the NSDAP . As political leader of the NSDAP local group in Munich-Laim-West, he took over the office of doctors. Contrary to Nazi ideology, the otherwise staunch National Socialist tolerated the care of Jewish patients by his son-in-law Leonhard Baumüller until mid-1941.

At the end of 1941, under the influence of his second young wife, the now senile Rehm sold the clinic against the bitter resistance of his family from his first marriage to the National Socialist People's Welfare .

Honors

Ernst Rehm was appointed royal councilor (1910) and secret medical council (1924).

For his temporary progress in the treatment of the mentally ill Duke Siegfried in Bavaria , Rehm received from King Ludwig III. (Bavaria) in 1917 the Order of Saint Michael (Bavaria-Kurköln) .

In Neuried , Dr.-Rehm-Straße is named after him.

literature

  • Annette Jäger: A dazzling pioneer . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung from 1./2./3. October 2016, p. R10
  • Reinhard Lampe: Ernst Rehm and the Neufriedenheim sanatorium . In Luzifer-Amor Heft 57 2016, pp. 158-165
  • Alma Kreuter: German-speaking neurologists and psychiatrists. A biographical-bibliographical lexicon from the precursors to the middle of the 20th century. 3 volumes. KG Saur, Munich / New Providence / London / Paris 1996, Volume 3 ( Biographies: Paetz - Zwinger ), p. 1150.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Who was Ernst Rehm? in Süddeutsche Zeitung online from March 2, 2016
  2. ↑ Annette Jäger: A dazzling pioneer . Süddeutsche Zeitung online, September 30, 2016
  3. ^ Reinhard Lampe: Ernst Rehm and the Neufriedenheim health resort . Lucifer-Anor issue 57, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Rehm, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychiatrist
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1860
DATE OF DEATH 1945