Ernst Speer

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Ernst Berthold Christian Speer (born June 20, 1889 in Munich ; † March 28, 1964 in Lindau (Bodensee) ) was a German psychiatrist . Speer is one of the founders of psychotherapy and was the designated holder of the first psychotherapy chair in Germany.

family

Ernst Speer was born on June 20, 1889, the son of Ernst Albert Speer and Louise Therese Speer, née Fischer. He had two older sisters, Lisl and Martha, and a younger brother, Franz, who died in World War I. Speer's grandfather Berthold Ernst Albert Speer, born in Upper Silesia , came to Dortmund as a builder and contractor when he was around 25, where he owned the Victoria Brewery AG . The architect and Reich Minister for Armaments and Ammunition Albert Speer was his cousin.

Ernst Speer married Clara Helene Stolze, great-granddaughter of Christoph von Pfister, last president of the Lindau patrician society Zum Sünzen . Clara Speer-Stolze was the author of a book about the life story of her mother Anna von Pfister in Lindau. They had three adopted children, two of which were conceived out of wedlock by Ernst Speer and were adopted by the couple after their birth. The daughter Eva Speer married the IG Farben chemist Alfred Haag.

Life

Speer attended primary school in Munich-Schwabing , spent four years at the Latin school in Lindau and attended the humanistic Maximiliansgymnasium in Munich. Speer graduated from high school there in 1908. From 1908 to 1913 he studied medicine at the Universities of Würzburg and Freiburg . The study period was interrupted by the service at the weapon, which Speer performed from April 1, 1909 to September 30, 1909 as a one-year volunteer . Speer initially wanted to become a surgeon . During the First World War he was first used as a medical officer in France and Poland and was awarded the Iron Cross, first and second class. He was then transferred to the Asia Corps Pasha II and deployed in Turkey, Lebanon and Palestine. Speer received a Turkish war award, the Iron Crescent, for his service in the Asia Corps Pascha II .

Speer began working as a private surgical assistant for Erich Lexer in Jena in January 1919 . He was then introduced to psychotherapy by Johannes Heinrich Schultz, among others . In 1921 Speer settled in Lindau, where he had founded the first German sanatorium for psychotherapy and has also headed it since the institute was founded.

After the National Socialists came to power , Speer became a member of the NSDAP in 1937 . From May 1940 to October 1940 Speer was a troop doctor with the 488 Infantry Regiment in Lindau. After that he was indispensable until the end of the war. In 1941 Speer's brother-in-law, Captain Walter Stolze, fell . Walter Stolze was managing director of the Lindau "Bayerischen Hof Stolze-Spaeth KG". Speer helped the Stolze family by taking over the management of the Bayerischer Hof during the war. In 1942 Speer received his habilitation at the University of Jena . Shortly before the end of the war, he became the designated holder of the first psychotherapy chair in Germany.

In September 1945 Speer was dismissed as a university lecturer due to his active commitment to the goals of the NSDAP. In 1950 he founded the Lindau Psychotherapy Weeks . From 1953 until his retirement , Speer taught as an honorary professor at the University of Tübingen .

Ernst Speer lived in Lindau on Lake Constance until his death.

Awards

Fonts

  • The ability to love (contact psychology). Lehmann, Munich 1935; 4th edition 1953.
  • The essence of the neurosis and its manifestations. Thieme, Leipzig 1938; 2nd edition: Thieme, Stuttgart 1949.
  • The doctor's attitude in psychotherapy. An introduction to studying psychotherapy for medical students and doctors. Thieme, Stuttgart 1948.
  • The doctor as a personality. Basics, working methods, tasks of medical psychotherapy. A textbook of medical psychotherapy. Thieme, Stuttgart 1949.
  • ??The?? Man and woman becoming one. A book about the marriage experience. Reinhardt, Munich 1952.
  • The experience as a clinical task of medical psychotherapy. Lehmann, Munich 1956.

literature

  • Clara Speer-Stolze (Ed.): Eternal source. The life book of Anna Stolze von Pfister. Salzer, Heilbronn 1937.
  • Alfred Otto Stolze: The five to Lindau. The patriciate of a Swabian imperial city. Bernhard Zeller, Lindau / Konstanz 1956.
  • Jens Alexander Steinat: Ernst Speer (1889–1964). Life - work - effect. 2004 (dissertation, University of Tübingen, 2004; online ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Michael Geyer (Ed.): Psychotherapy in East Germany. History and stories 1945–1995. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-525-40177-4 , p. 30.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Jens Alexander Steinat: Ernst Speer (1889–1964). Life - work - effect. 2004 (dissertation, University of Tübingen, 2004; online ).
  3. ↑ a b Clara Speer-Stolze (Ed.): Ewige Quelle. The life book of Anna Stolze von Pfister. Salzer, Heilbronn 1937.
  4. ↑ Alfred Otto Stolze: The five to Lindau. The patriciate of a Swabian imperial city. Bernhard Zeller, Lindau / Konstanz 1956.
  5. ↑ Philipp Mettauer: "Forgetting and Remembering". The history of the conference based on sources and contemporary witnesses. Munich 2010 ( PDF; 72.8 kB )
personal data
SURNAME Speer, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Speer, Ernst Berthold Christian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychiatrist and psychotherapist
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 1964
Place of death Lindau