Friedrich Karl Walter
Friedrich Karl Walter (born February 20, 1881 in Grüssow , † October 14, 1935 in Bremen ) was a German neurologist , psychiatrist , anatomist and university professor .
Life
Friedrich Karl Walter was the son of pastor Karl Walter and his wife Elisabeth, née Klingenberg. After graduating from high school, he studied medicine at the Universities of Rostock and Leipzig from 1901 to 1906 . In 1908 he was awarded a Dr. med. PhD . He spent his internship at the Basel Psychiatric Clinic until 1910 . He then worked as an assistant doctor and prosector at the Anatomical Institute of the University of Rostock, where he completed his habilitation in anatomy in 1911 and then worked as a private lecturer . In 1912 he completed his habilitation in Rostock for the subjects of psychiatry and neurology and worked as a prison doctor and private lecturer at the psychiatric and mental hospital in Rostock-Gehlsdorf. From 1914 to 1916 he took part in the First World War. He then returned to the Psychiatric and Mental Clinic in Rostock-Gehlsdorf, where he worked as senior physician and extraordinary professor of psychiatry until 1927.
From 1927 Walter was director of the St. Jürgen Asylum in Bremen, which was later renamed the sanatorium and nursing home Ellen. In 1933 he gave a lecture entitled "What is worthless life from the point of view of the racial hygienist?" He advocated forced sterilization , but was not a party member . At the time of National Socialism , he was released from the director's office in May 1934 for political reasons.
His research focus was on "nerve regeneration, pathology and physiology of the pineal gland and familial idiocy".
Fonts
- On regeneration of peripheral nerves , 1911 (dissertation at the University of Rostock)
- About the histological structure of the pineal gland : [From the psychiatric clinic in Rostock]; Template Mitt.; Lecturer at the meeting on February 15, 1913, Warkentien, Rostock 1913 (from: Sitzungsber. u. Dep. d. Naturforsch. Gesellschaft zu Rostock. Vol. 5.)
- The blood-liquor barrier: a physiolog. u. clin. Study , G. Thieme, Leipzig 1929
literature
- Walter, Friedrich Karl . In: Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia. Volume 10: Thies - Zymalkowski , De Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 2008, ISBN 978-3-598-25040-8 , p. 392.
- Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Friedrich Karl Walter in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry on Friedrich Karl Walter in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium
Individual evidence
- ↑ See the entry of Friedrich Karl Walter's first matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal
- ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 654
- ^ Rudolf Vierhaus (ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia. Volume 10: Thies - Zymalkowski , Berlin a. a. 2008, p. 392
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Walter, Friedrich Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German psychiatrist, neurologist, anatomist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 20, 1881 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Grüssow (Fünfseen) |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 14, 1935 |
| Place of death | Bremen |