Ernst Schultze (doctor)

Ernst Schultze (born March 22, 1865 in Moers , † September 3, 1938 in Göttingen ) was a German psychiatrist . He became known again posthumously when his interrogation of serial killer Fritz Haarmann was portrayed in the documentary film Der Totmacher (1995).

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Ernst Schultze studied medicine at the universities of Berlin and Bonn and obtained his doctorate with a study on nutritional physiology . However, he then specialized in the field of psychiatry by initially working as an assistant and soon as a senior physician at the sanatoriums and nursing homes in Düsseldorf, Andernach and Bonn .

Schultze completed his habilitation in 1895 at the University of Psychiatry in Bonn and in 1904 was appointed to the University of Greifswald . There he also demonstrated his organizational skills by building and setting up a new clinic under his direction. He was able to contribute his practical experience in institutional work and in the organizational area after he went to Göttingen in 1912 and held a double position there: as professor for psychiatry and neurology and as director of the hospital. Another focus of his work, as his publications show, was forensic medicine . After his retirement in 1933, a street near his place of work was named after him.

Schultze was appointed psychiatric expert in the case of serial killer Fritz Haarmann in 1924 . His six-week conversations with the perpetrator were recorded and in 1995 served as the basis for the film Der Totmacher , in which Jürgen Hentsch played Schultze .

Fonts (selection)

• The most important provisions of the BGB and the amendment to the Civil Process Regulation for judicial psychiatry. Halle / Saale: Marhold 1899
• Stirner's ideas in a paranoid delusional system. In: Archive for Psychiatry and Nervous Diseases, Volume 36, Issue 3, 1903, pp. 793–818
• The juvenile criminals in present and future criminal law. Wiesbaden: Bergmann 1910
• The wrong right. In: Handbuch der Psychiatrie. Edited by G. Aschaffenburg. General part, 5th section. Leipzig and Vienna: Franz Deutische, 1912, pages 191–304
• Psychiatry and criminal law reform. Berlin: Julius Springer 1922
• The Haarmann Protocols. Posthumous ed. by Christine Pozsár and Michael Farin, Reinbek: Rowohlt 1995

Web links

• Literature by and about Ernst Schultze in the catalog of the German National Library