Friedrich Specht (medical doctor)

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Göttingen city cemetery , Friedrich Specht grave (small panel on the right)

Friedrich Specht (born December 3, 1924 in Emden , † January 27, 2010 in Göttingen ) was a German psychiatrist and psychotherapist .

Life

After military service , American captivity and medical studies , he received his doctorate in 1950. In 1955, he received his habilitation . His research focused on autistic developmental disorders, disorders of social behavior in children and adolescents, student stress and school avoidance behavior, developmental crises in adolescence and depressive disorders in children and adolescents. From 1955 he took over the management of the children's ward in the child psychiatric outpatient clinic at the University Psychiatric Clinic in Göttingen , where he set up a department for child and adolescent psychiatry. In 1958, Specht co-founded an association to promote the psychagogical children's home at Schloss Rittmarshausen. From 1970 to 1994 he was professor of psychiatry at the University of Göttingen . Since 1995 he has been a lecturer at the University of Osnabrück . Since 1972 he has also been a specialist advisor to the Lower Saxony Ministry of Justice on matters relating to socio-therapeutic institutions in the penal system. For many years he has been involved in the Lower Saxony Psychiatry Committee for the care of children and adolescents with mental disorders. Specht was a member of the expert commission of the psychiatry enquête , the federal conference for educational counseling and the board of his professional society .

Another focus of his work was the promotion of social organizations such as the Christophorushaus Göttingen. He also acted as a consultant at the IGS Göttingen.

Friedrich Specht became known to a wider public when he was named and summoned by the defense as an expert witness in the criminal proceedings against Peter-Jürgen Boock before the Stuttgart Higher Regional Court . The court and the federal prosecutor's office treated him with hostility and suspected him of being a sympathizer of the defendant. In a written statement from the Federal Prosecutor's Office, he was referred to as “Professor Bad”. Gerhard Mauz spoke of an "unprecedented humiliation".

Honors

In 1985 Specht received the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon for his services to the care of mentally ill and handicapped children and adolescents as well as his efforts in social therapy .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Aribert Rothenberger . Friedrich Specht †. Champion for child and adolescent psychiatry. In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt . 107 (10), 2010, A 449 ( online )
  2. ↑ Gerhard Mauz: To prevent the formation of legends. In: Der Spiegel . No. 20, May 14, 1984, p. 78ff.

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personal data
SURNAME Specht, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychiatrist
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Emden
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 2010
Place of death Goettingen