Friedrich Meinertz

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Friedrich Meinertz (born January 6, 1919 in Worms , † January 23, 1964 in Munich ) was a German medical doctor and curative educator .

Live and act

His parents were medical doctors at the city. Hospital of Worms, the father as director and chief physician of internal medicine, the mother worked in anatomy . After graduating from high school , the musically gifted young man enrolled in medicine at the University of Munich, although he had also enjoyed studying music. At the age of 23 he married the 18-year-old Elisabeth Stützel. The marriage resulted in a daughter who died at the age of 18.

During the war Meinertz was used as a troop doctor. After he was immediately released from captivity, he worked a. a. as a volunteer assistant at the University Psychiatric Clinic in Munich. In addition, he completed training as a psychoanalyst and training analyst. In 1956 he was appointed medical director of the renowned Heckscher Clinic . The area of ​​responsibility of the clinic extended “from the diagnosis and therapy of organic damage to the field of psychotic or prepsychotic adolescents to the more natural or environmental abnormal development of the mind and thus includes bed-wetting, defecation, pavor nocturnus, childlike lying and stealing, running away , psychogenic anorexia and obesity, school failure, puberty crises, moods, psychoses, ... cerebral processes ..., seizure disorders of any origin, psychogenic or organic language disorders, etc. ”.

An important concern for Meinertz was the further education and training of curative teachers. As a result, he founded a curative education training and research institute in 1963 , which was attached to the Heckscher Clinic . After the death of the founder, the institution was renamed the Friedrich Meinertz Institute . In addition to his diverse tasks, Meinertz was also active as a journalist. His book Heilpädagogik , published in 1962 , became the standard work of curative education. This emerged from lectures that the author had given in various training centers for social / curative education professions. In it Meinertz defined curative education as “the doctrine of curative education; Curative education is the upbringing of those children for whom the common, natural upbringing is insufficient ”.

The curative education institute founded by Meinertz was converted in 1975 into a technical school for curative education , later into a specialist academy for curative education , and taken over by the city of Munich in 1980.

Works

  • Curative education, Bad Heilbrunn 1962
  • Punishment, healing and education, in: sheets of the Pestalozzi-Froebel Association 1959 / H. 10, pp. 74-76

literature

  • Manfred Berger : Friedrich Meinertz - His life and work, in: heilpaedagogik.de 2005 / H. 4, pp. 26-29
  • Renate Jutz: The Heckscher Clinic from 1929-1989. History - people - destinies. 60 years of child and adolescent psychiatry in Bavaria, Munich undated (private print)
  • Christian A. Rexroth (Ed.): The clinical child and adolescent psychiatry in Bavaria. Developments - Present - Perspectives, Göttingen 2011, p. 72

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.heckscher-klinik.de
  2. ↑ Berger 2005, p. 27
  3. ↑ Meinertz 1962, p. 9
  4. ↑ http://www.sozpaedfs.musin.de/sites/faskhp/fakhp_aktuelles.html  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.sozpaedfs.musin.de  
personal data
SURNAME Meinertz, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German human medicine and curative educator
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Worms
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 1964
Place of death Munich