Felix Buttersack

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Felix Eberhard Buttersack (born October 14, 1865 in Ludwigsburg , † March 9, 1950 in Göttingen ) was a German military doctor and writer.

Life

Felix Buttersack studied medicine and received his doctorate in Berlin in 1887 with a thesis on osteoclasia (violent breaking of crooked bones). From 1890 to 1892 he worked in the Reich Ministry of Health, from 1896 to 1901 at the first medical clinic in Leiden . He later became a general practitioner in Göttingen. During the First World War he received military awards. In 1920 he was appointed chief medical officer and head of the main pension office in Münster and retired in 1924. He then lived as a writer and private scholar in Göttingen.

Buttersack remained unmarried.

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Buttersack initially worked in the field of physiology and internal medicine. In other works he dealt with historical research, practical social policy, psychological and occupational therapy and the importance of connective tissue in physiology and pathology. After his retirement, he devoted himself more and more to borderline questions in medicine and extrasensory phenomena.

His medical, ideological and occult writings attracted the attention of right-wing national circles in particular at the beginning of the 20th century and are permeated with racist ideas. In his inflammatory pamphlet Against Inferiority! From 1926, Buttersack demanded that the state should "humaneously [sic!] kill idiots, consumption addicts, cripples, constitutional criminals, the mentally ill, welfare children and auxiliary students". About the Scriptures Against Inferiority! said Stavros Zurukzoglu : “The present monograph deals with questions of eugenics with great skill. It is a shame that the author leaves the ground of objectivity and scientific criticism and puts his concept of inferiority all too much as a general practitioner! [...] The script is to be used as a weapon against indifference in matters of race hygiene, but not as a basis for any practical measures that may have to be taken. "

Before 1933 Buttersack supported a data collection operated by the Göttingen NSDAP under the code name “Archive for professional race statistics” to record all Jews, which later became the basis of the Aryan paragraph. Although Buttersack was an intellectual pioneer of Nazi euthanasia , he was never a member of the NSDAP. In a political assessment from October 1939, the party even described him as an “instinctless half-idiot”, but did nothing serious against him. Buttersack's volume, Invisible Powers , published after the war by Julius Hartmann from the estate, ranks among the popular esoteric non-fiction books of those years and largely excludes political ideas.

Works

  • About osteoclasia . Schade, Berlin 1887.
  • On the occurrence and assessment of pericardial noises in apparently healthy hearts. In: Festschrift for the 100th anniversary of the foundation celebration of the medical and surgical Friedrich Wilhelms Institute . Hirschwald, Berlin 1895.
  • Non-medicinal therapy for internal diseases. Hirschwald, Berlin 1901 (2nd edition 1903).
  • as Lasirifa: resorts and health resorts. Compiled according to their altitude . Hirschwald, Berlin 1909.
  • The elasticity, a basic function of life . Enke, Stuttgart 1910.
  • Latent diseases of the ground tissue, especially the serous skins . Enke, Stuttgart 1912.
  • Against inferiority! The precondition for Germany's recovery. Sketches on peoples pathology. Kabitzsch, Leipzig 1926.
  • Driving forces of life. Enke, Stuttgart 1929.
  • Rise and fall in the life of nations. Biological laws. Pan Verlag, Berlin 1933.
  • From cell theory to functional examination . Hippokrates-Verlag, Stuttgart and Leipzig 1933.
  • as editor: Medical wisdom. Faded voices made to resound . [Nordmark Werke], [Hamburg] 1935.
  • Disembodied life. Diapsychicum. Outlook for an expanded medical profession . Engelmann, Leipzig 1936.
  • Irradiation of stimuli, responsiveness and other secrets of life . Müller & Kiepenheuer, Potsdam and Berlin 1936.
  • Soul rays and resonance. Observations and conclusions . Engelmann, Leipzig 1937 (also Ratio-Verlage, Munich 1939).
  • Extra-sensory worlds . Kröner, Stuttgart 1939.
  • To the gates of the magical. Studies on the Limits of Exact Knowledge . Kröner, Stuttgart 1941.
  • Invisible Powers . Musterschmidt, Göttingen 1950.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Quoted from Philipp Osten: Hygiene exhibitions: Between popular instruction and amusement park . Deutsches Ärzteblatt 102, Edition 45 of November 11, 2005
  2. ↑ S. Zurukzoglu: Review of Against Inferiority !, in: Archive for Social Hygiene and Demography 2 (1926/27) 455.

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  • Isidor Fischer : Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of the last fifty years . Urban and Schwarzenberg, Berlin and Vienna 1936, Volume 1, p. 208
  • Isidor Fischer and Peter Voswinckel: Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of the last fifty years . Olms, Hildesheim [u. a.] 2002, Volume 3, p. 215, ISBN 3-487-11659-6
  • Horst E. Miers : Lexicon of secret knowledge . Bauer, Freiburg im Breisgau 1970, p. 86.

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personal data
SURNAME Butterbag, Felix
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Buttersack, Felix Eberhard; Lasirifa (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German military doctor and writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigsburg
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 1950
Place of death Goettingen