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Fritz Eugen Flügel (born March 20, 1897 in Dresden , † April 23, 1973 in Erlangen ) was a German psychiatrist and neurologist . He taught at the universities of Leipzig , Halle and Erlangen .

Life

Fritz Flügel was born the son of an architect . Having trained at the Dreikönigsschule in Dresden , he was volunteered in the war on the Western Front in 1914, rose to lieutenant and returned in 1918. He had received the Iron Cross Second Class and the Albrecht Cross Second Class . He then studied in Leipzig, since 1919 Medical Freiburg , Breslau , Würzburg and Munich , was in 1922 his state exam and was at the latter University 1924 Doctor of Medicine doctorate .

After completing his doctorate, Flügel worked as an assistant in Munich, then from 1925 to 1927 at the Charcot Salpetriere Clinic in Paris , where he was also trained in neurology .

In 1927, he went to Leipzig University as an assistant. Later he was promoted to senior physician at the psychiatric clinic and completed his habilitation in 1932 on brain tumors . From 1936 he worked as a private lecturer at the University Neurological Clinic.

From 1933, Flügel was a member of the Sturmabteilung (SA) and from May 1, 1937 a member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP, membership number 4,301,376). He was also a member of the NS-Volkswohlfahrt (NSV) and the NS-Kraftfahrkorps (NSKK).

In 1938 he was appointed associate professor . In January 1939 he was also appointed director of the Chemnitz mental hospital. In September 1939, Flügel moved to the University of Halle , where he became director of the university neurological clinic.

During the Second World War , Flügel was initially an advisory military psychiatrist in the 6th Army, and from the beginning of 1943 he acted as an advisory psychiatrist for Military District VI. In 1944 he was a member of the scientific advisory board of the authorized representative for health care Karl Brandt . Wing received the War Merit Cross for both the 1st and 2nd class.

In December 1945, Flügel was suspected of killing with other mentally ill people. The allegations ultimately turned out to be untrue. Nevertheless, he had to give up his offices in Halle in January 1946 because he had been a member of the NSDAP. However, Flügel remained employed as a specialist. In 1946 he joined the Eastern CDU .

In 1949, Flügel fled to West Germany , where he initially found a job in Tübingen . In 1951 he was finally appointed full professor and director of the psychiatric nervous clinic at the University of Erlangen. In the following year he was elected to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . In 1960 he founded the German Working Group for Neuropsychopharmacology and was appointed its chairman. He held the positions at the university until his retirement in 1965, in 1973 he died at the age of 76 in Erlangen.

Merits

During his time at the Erlanger Nervenklinik, in the early 1950s, he and his colleagues contributed to the introduction of chlorpromazine in German psychiatric clinics.

Works

  • Between Metz u. the Vosges , Hanover 1914.
  • The Image of Melancholy in Intellectually Inferior Women , 1924. (Dissertation)
  • Encephalography as a neurological examination method , 1932. (Habilitation thesis)
  • French-German discussions on psychiatric therapy , Basel 1962.
  • Modalities of action and [action] qualities of the antidepressant effect , Aulendorf 1964.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 157
  2. ^ Bangen, Hans: History of the drug therapy of schizophrenia. Berlin 1992, pages 95-104 The introduction of "Megaphen" in the FRG ISBN 3-927408-82-4
personal data
SURNAME Wing, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wing, Fritz Eugen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychiatrist and neurologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 1973
Place of death gain