Ferdinand Adalbert Kehrer

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Ferdinand Adalbert Kehrer (born July 19, 1883 in Heidelberg ; † March 9, 1966 in Münster ) was a German physician and professor of neurology and psychiatry at the University of Münster .

Life

Ferdinand Kehrer was the son of the university professor , privy councilor and director of the gynecological clinic in Heidelberg Ferdinand Adolf Kehrer . After attending the humanistic grammar school , he began studying philosophy and medicine in Heidelberg, Berlin, Munich and Kiel in 1901 . In 1908 he began his assistantship with Alfred Hoche and did his doctorate with Oswald Bumke on the inheritance of muscle wasting. In 1914 he completed his habilitation in Kiel on the subject of word amnesia. During the First World War , Kehrer was withdrawn from the front as early as 1915 due to an injury and commissioned to set up a reserve hospital in the Black Forest for soldiers suffering from war neuroses in the area of ​​the 14th Army Corps.

In 1918 he was appointed senior physician at the Psychiatric and Mental Clinic in Breslau , where he also began teaching. This was followed in 1921 by being appointed associate professor . In 1925, he was appointed full professor of neurology and psychiatry at the University of Münster. During the development phase of the clinic, Ferdinand Kehrer held the chair and head of the psychiatric and mental health clinic at the University of Münster throughout the period of National Socialism and into the post-war period. He was a staunch supporter of the National Socialist health policy and for a time a medical assessor at the Hereditary Health Supreme Court (EGOG) in Hamm , but not a member of the NSDAP . From 1934 he was involved in compulsory sterilization (as an expert doctor at the EOG, as an applicant doctor according to Section 3 (2) GzVeN, and as an operator). There were no consequences in the course of denazification .

In October 1953, Kehrer retired . On his 75th birthday he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit. He was also awarded the Ernst von Bergmann plaque on his 80th birthday . On March 9, 1966, he died at the age of 83 in Münster.

The estate of Ferdinand Adalbert Kehrer was located in the Institute for Ethics, History and Theory of Medicine at the University of Münster until June 2013 and was then taken over by the University Archives of the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster .

Fonts

  • Causes and hereditary factors of chorea, myoclonia and athetosis: with 6 illustrations and 54 family trees, In: Monographs from the field of neurology and psychiatry, 50, Springer, Berlin 1928
  • The general phenomena of brain tumors, Thieme, Leipzig 1931
  • Insulin lipodystrophy, Stuttgart, Thieme 1949
  • On mental aging, Aschendorff, Münster 1950; 2., verb. and substantially exp. 1952 edition
  • Understanding and apprehension in psychiatry, Thieme, Stuttgart 1951
  • The change of generations; a biological-sociological study, F. Enke, Stuttgart 1959
  • History of the Münster University Mental Hospital, Münster 1962

Web links

literature

  • Kehrer, Ferdinand Adalbert. In: Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 1: A-K. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, DNB 453960286 , p. 899.
  • Werner Schuder (Hrsg.): Kürschner's German learned calendar . 10th edition. Berlin 1966, p. 1131 f.
  • Ioanna Mamali: Muenster Psychiatric and Mental Hospital . Beginnings of university psychiatry in Westphalia at the time of National Socialism. 2011 (Dissertation, University of Münster, 2011, urn : nbn: de: hbz: 6-44499468524 ).
  • Ioanna Mamali: Psychiatric and Nervous Clinic Münster 1925 to 1953. In: Thamer, Hans-Ulrich / Droste, Daniel / Happ, Sabine (eds.), The University of Münster in National Socialism. Continuities and breaks between 1920 and 1960 . (Publications of the University Archives Münster 5), Münster 2012, pp. 531–568.

Individual evidence

  1. Ferdinand Kehrer: On the question of the treatment of war neuroses. In: Journal of the Entire Neurology and Psychiatry. Volume 36, 1917, pp. 1-22.
  2. Ioanna Mamali: Psychiatric and Mental Hospital Münster. Beginnings of university psychiatry in Westphalia at the time of National Socialism, 2011 (dissertation, University of Münster, 2011; urn : nbn: de: hbz: 6-44499468524 ), p. 73 ff.
  3. Ioanna Mamali: Psychiatric and Mental Hospital Münster. Beginnings of university psychiatry in Westphalia at the time of National Socialism, 2011 (dissertation, University of Münster, 2011; urn : nbn: de: hbz: 6-44499468524 ), p. 4.
  4. ^ Jan Nikolas Dicke: Eugenics and racial hygiene in Münster between 1918 and 1939. Weißensee-Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89998-035-2 , p. 67.