Eugen M. Wolpert

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Eugen M. Wolpert (1980)

Eugen Manfred Wolpert (born February 22, 1938 in Stryków near Lodz ; † March 6, 2001 in Darmstadt ) was a German psychiatrist , psychoanalyst , behavioral therapist and graduate psychologist .

Live and act

Eugen Wolpert was born in Strykow near Lodz in 1938 as the son of the factory owner Reimund Wolpert and his wife Elisabeth, née Grams. He spent his high school in Burgsteinfurt and at the Kaiser-Karls-Gymnasium in Aachen . In 1959 he was accepted into the German National Academic Foundation and began studying human medicine and psychology in Erlangen , the first of which he completed in 1966 with an award-winning dissertation (“summa cum laude”) in Freiburg / Breisgau, for which he received the Byk-Gulden Research Prize. This was followed by specialist training at Jung and training as a psychoanalyst and behavioral therapist in Freiburg. From 1971 he was senior physician with Heinz Häfner in the social psychiatric clinic of the Heidelberg-Mannheim Clinic. In 1975 the clinic moved to the newly established Central Institute for Mental Health , a model facility for the treatment of mentally and psychosomatically ill of all age groups and its own research department. In 1979 Wolpert was entrusted with setting up a psychiatric department at the ev. Elisabethenstift in Darmstadt , this task being connected with the creation of a care sector for the whole city. At the same time, an accompanying scientific research took place. In this context, an inpatient area was created with initially 80 and finally 132 beds, two day clinics, a night clinic and a dormitory as well as 50 places in residential groups and a model workshop for the mentally disabled. To realize this, Wolpert founded its own sponsoring association. Implementing the German psychiatry survey of 1975, Wolpert built a closely interlinked network for the appropriate treatment and care of mentally ill Darmstadt residents.

From 1983 to 1991 Wolpert was chairman of the working group of leading doctors in psychiatric departments in Germany. In 1989 he was appointed head of the Standing Committee on Hospital Issues in Psychiatry. From 1993 to 1994 he was the first chief physician of a non-university psychiatric hospital department, President of the German Society for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Neurology ! During his term of office, steps were taken towards the practical implementation of the new specialist training regulations adopted by the German Medical Association in 1992, which provided for the integration of psychiatry and psychotherapy.

Another concern for him has always been to break down prejudices against German psychiatry with its disastrous past. He made contacts in the USA, South America and the Eastern European countries. In 1989 there was a German-Polish psychiatry congress in Krakow. The fact that the World Congress on Psychiatry took place in Hamburg for the first time in 1999 is largely thanks to him.

In 1981 he acquired the Stauferschloss Babenhausen , which he had extensively restored. He was chairman of the Hessian cultural association Schloss Babenhausen and organized numerous symposia, music events and art exhibitions in his castle.

He was married and had children.

Honors

Publications (selection)

  • Wolpert, EM (1971): The influence of the peripheral retinal stimulus field size on the speed response of the optokinetic nystagmus. Dissertation Freiburg i. Breisgau.
  • Lander, H., Wolpert, EM (1980): On the subject of the head. Darmstadt: E. Merck
  • Wolpert, EM (1984): On dealing with the mentally ill. Melsungen: Bibliomed. ISBN 3-921958-30-X .
  • Wolpert, EM (1991): The therapeutic work of psychiatric departments. Cologne: Rheinland Verl.
  • Wolpert, EM, Lolas, F. (1994): Reforms in Western European Psychiatry, with Special Reference to Germany, and in Countries of the "Third World", with Special Reference to Bolivia, Chile, and Peru: What Can They Learn from Each Other? In: Beigel, A., Lopez Ibor jr., JJ, Costa e Silva, JA (Ed.) (1994): Post, Present and Future of Psychiatry.IX. World Congress of Psychiatry. Vol. 1. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co., p. 1142-1144, ISBN 981-02-1930-X .
  • Wolpert, EM, Peters, UH (1994): The Programs of the German government from 1973 and 1981 for reforming German Psychiatry: What has happend in German Psychiatry since then? In: Beigel, A., Lopez Ibor jr., JJ, Costa e Silva, JA (Ed.) (1994): Post, Present and Future of Psychiatry.IX. World Congress of Psychiatry. Vol. 1. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co., p. 1213-1216. ISBN 981-02-1930-X .
  • Wolpert, EM, Kohler, GK (1994): The Situation of the German Psychiatry Before and After the German Reunion. In: Beigel, A., Lopez Ibor jr., JJ, Costa e Silva, JA (Ed.) (1994): Post, Present and Future of Psychiatry.IX. World Congress of Psychiatry. Vol. 1. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co., p. 1217-1220. ISBN 981-02-1930-X .
  • Wolpert, EM, Berger, M., Buchkremer, G. (1994): The New Post.Graduate Program in German Psychiatry: What is new on it? In: Beigel, A., Lopez Ibor jr., JJ, Costa e Silva, JA (Ed.) (1994): Post, Present and Future of Psychiatry.IX. World Congress of Psychiatry. Vol. 1. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co., p. 1307-1313. ISBN 981-02-1930-X .
  • Wolpert, EM, Gaebel, W. (1994): Quality Assurance in German Psychiatry. In: Beigel, A., Lopez Ibor jr., JJ, Costa e Silva, JA (Ed.) (1994): Post, Present and Future of Psychiatry.IX. World Congress of Psychiatry. Vol. 1. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co., pp. 1388-1393. ISBN 981-02-1930-X .
  • Wolpert, EM (2006): Images in psychiatry: German speaking countries Austria, Germany, Switzerland. Heidelberg: winter. ISBN 978-3-8253-1670-9

literature

personal data
SURNAME Wolpert, Eugen M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wolpert, Eugen Manfred (full name); Wolpert, Eugene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychiatrist and author
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Stryków
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 2001
Place of death Darmstadt