Fritz Donner

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Fritz Donner (born July 3, 1896 in Stuttgart ; † May 8, 1979 in Berlin ) was a German internist and homeopath .

Live and act

Fritz Donner was born in Stuttgart in 1896 as the son of the homeopathic doctor Hans Donner. After high school at Eberhard-Ludwigs-Gymnasium Stuttgart studied it medicine at the universities of Tuebingen , Freiburg , Rostock , Halle and Greifswald . In 1924 he was in Rostock Dr. med. PhD . After completing his studies, he worked as an assistant doctor from 1917 to 1918. He learned homeopathy a. a. with Hans Wapler in Leipzig and Alfons Stiegele in Stuttgart. From 1928 to 1930 he worked as a senior physician at the homeopathic auxiliary hospital in Stuttgart . In 1931 Donner went to Berlin , where he worked at the Homeopathic University Clinic under Ernst Bastanier. From 1932 to 1944 he worked for the Allgemeine Homöopathische Zeitung . During the time of National Socialism he lectured from 1934 to 1945 as a lecturer in homeopathy at the Berlin Academy for advanced medical training . In 1936 he was appointed head of the homeopathic department of the Rudolf Virchow Hospital in Berlin, which he headed until 1945.

After the end of the Second World War , he worked at the Wannsee Hospital from 1945 . In 1948 he became chief physician at the municipal Behring hospital in Berlin-Zehlendorf , where Donner headed the internal medicine and infection department and was the medical director. He worked here until his retirement in 1960. He no longer did any homeopathic treatment there.

Fritz Donner died in Berlin in 1979 at the age of 82.

Homeopathic criticism

Fritz Donner was a representative of scientific-critical homeopathy. Even while he was working in Stuttgart, Fritz Donner and some of his colleagues suspected that drug proving could have produced placebo symptoms. In 1927 Otto E. Guttentag , a friend of Donner, found in the original writings of Samuel Hahnemann that there were reports of no fewer than 716 symptoms that Hahnemann had received by rubbing people with magnets.

From 1936 to 1939 Donner was involved in reviews of homeopathic medicines that had been ordered by the then Reich Health Office . However, the expected effectiveness could not be demonstrated. In 1966 he wrote his “Comments on the Review of Homeopathy by the Reich Health Office from 1936 to 1939” for the Robert Bosch Foundation . In 1969, the report was a "Observation faites lors of vérifications relative aux méthodes de l'homéopathie." Published. It was only published in German in 1995 in continuations in Perfusion . In it he mentions dubious practices of the examiners during the examinations and quotes Hanns Rabe , the then 1st chairman of the German Central Association of Homeopathic Doctors (DZV), with the words: "We can't do what we say!"

Fonts (selection)

  • Fritz Donner: Introduction to homeopathic medicine, based on Dr. Lectures held by Richard Hughes: Taken from the "Manual of Pharmacodynamics" and with some changes, abbreviations and additions. Madaus , Radebeul / Dresden 1932
  • Fritz Donner: List of sources for the medicinal tests of 800 of the most important homeopathic remedies. Haug, Berlin 1937
  • Fritz Donner: Treatment of diseases of the respiratory tract. Hippokrates-Verlag, Stuttgart 1937
  • Fritz Donner: The homeopathic treatment of ear, nose and throat diseases: Therapeutic notes. Schwabe, Leipzig 1938
  • Fritz Donner: Homeopathy and Eye Diseases: Therapeutic Notes. Schwabe, Leipzig 1938
  • Fritz Donner: Twelve lectures on homeopathy: held at the Berlin Academy for Advanced Medical Education 1939 - 1945. Haug, Berlin 1948
  • Fritz Donner: Comments on the review of homeopathy by the Reich Health Office from 1936 to 1939. Homeopathy archive of the Institute for the History of Medicine of the Robert Bosch Foundation 1966

literature

  • Fritz D. Schroers: Lexicon of German-speaking homeopaths . Georg Thieme Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-8304-7254-4 ( full text in the Google book search).
  • Christian Lucae: Homeopathy at German-speaking Universities: The Efforts to Institutionalize It from 1812 to 1945 . Georg Thieme Verlag, 1998, ISBN 3-7760-1689-2 ( full text in the Google book search).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fritz Donner in the Rostock matriculation portal : first matriculation (intermediate semester 1920, No. 69) and second matriculation (winter semester 1922/1923, No. 10)
  2. ↑ Samuel Hahnemann : Pure drug theory. Part 2. 1st ed. 1816, 171–231
  3. ^ A b Fritz Donner: Comments on the review of homeopathy by the Reich Health Office 1936 to 1939. 1966, published in: Perfusion 1995, online
  4. ↑ Fritz Donner: Comments on the review of homeopathy by the Reich Health Office 1936 to 1939. Homeopathy archive of the Institute for the History of Medicine of the Robert Bosch Foundation, Straussweg 17, 70184 Stuttgart
  5. ↑ Fritz Donner: Observation faites lors des verifications relatives aux méthodes de l'homéopathie. Les Cahiers de Biotherapy 21 (1969), 5-26
  6. ↑ Fritz Donner: Comments on the review of homeopathy by the Reich Health Office 1936 to 1939. Perfusion 8 (1995), Klaus Pia Verlagsgesellschaft mbH Nuremberg
  7. ↑ Jan Willem Nienhuys: The Donner report and Letters. April 29, 2009, online
personal data
SURNAME Donner, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German internist and homeopath
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH May 8, 1979
Place of death Berlin