Günter Dörner

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Gerd Günter Dörner (born July 13, 1929 in Hindenburg / Silesia ; † March 30, 2018 ) was a German physician and professor of endocrinology .

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After graduating from high school in Halberstadt , Dörner studied medicine at the Humboldt University in Berlin from 1948 to 1953 . After the state examination and doctorate in 1953, he became an assistant in internal medicine at the Charité in 1954, and from 1954 to 1956 he was an assistant in gynecology and obstetrics in Fürstenberg / Oder . He then received an assistant position for pathology in Berlin-Buch .

From 1957 he worked at the Institute for Experimental Endocrinology at the Humboldt University in Berlin, where he qualified as a professor in 1960 and became a full professor of endocrinology in 1964 . From 1962 he headed the Institute for Experimental Endocrinology, initially on a temporary basis and then until 1997 as Director. During this time he succeeded in giving the institute a national and international profile, including being the president of numerous international symposia.

His research focus was on developmental biology , functional teratology and neuroendocrine immune prophylaxis . The scientific field of functional teratology , which deals with self-organization processes of the neuroendocrine system during human development, was redeveloped through his work.

In the early 1980s, Dörner founded the research project “Biopsychosocial Human Unity” together with Günter Tembrock , Karl-Friedrich Wessel and Hans-Dieter Schmidt . Together they developed a theoretical model and a critical approach for interdisciplinary research in the human sciences , thereby establishing a new discipline, human ontogenetics .

After German reunification, Dörner was a member of a group of experts on the Science Council for the restructuring of East German universities. He was also a member of structural and appointment committees at the Charité.

From 1975 to 1992 he was the editor-in-chief of the Journal for Experimental and Clinical Endocrinology . He has published over 400 original works in renowned specialist journals as well as over 50 book chapters and three monographs. Dörner was a member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina (since 1974) and the International Academy for Sexual Research as well as a founding member of several international societies for neuroendocrinology, psychoneuroendocrinology, pre- and perinatal psychology and medicine, developmental biology and gynecological endocrinology. He was also an honorary member of numerous international specialist societies. In 1965 he received the national prize. In 1988 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Teikyō University in Tokyo . On October 4th, 2002 Günter Dörner was awarded the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany by Federal President Johannes Rau .

Controversial research and publications on homosexuality

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During his research work in the GDR, Dörner announced that he had found evidence that homosexuality could have endocrinological causes, and therefore demanded that homosexuality be recognized as a natural variation of sexual behavior, which was in line with the social and legal stance of the GDR.

Dörner's research results were based, among other things, on blood samples that he had also received from West German psychiatric university clinics whose employees were scientifically interested but had not informed their patients about this use. Presumably because of this, the West German Society for Social Science Sexual Research assumed that he wanted to prevent homosexuality on an endocrinological basis.

On March 9, 1989, on Dörner's initiative and on the basis of his research results, the International Congress of the International Society of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Medicine in Jerusalem recommended to the World Health Organization that it should no longer regard homosexuality as a disease. In 1991 the WHO deleted homosexuality from the International Classification of Diseases (ICD).

The Magnus Hirschfeld Society protested against being awarded the Federal Cross of Merit because it had doubts about Dörner's scientific approach to the subject of homosexuality .

Publications (selection)

  • About the dependence of the effect of estradiol benzoate on the somatotropic and gonadotropic pituitary function on the duration of treatment and the change in dose. Dissertation. Berlin 1953.
  • Animal experiments and clinical studies on the mechanism of action of diethylstilbestrol diphosphate in prostate carcinoma. Habilitation. Berlin 1960.
  • Endocrinology. Lectures from an advanced training course in 1966 at the German Academy for Advanced Medical Education. Verlag Volk und Gesundheit VEB, Berlin 1968.
  • Sex hormone dependent brain differentiation and sexuality. VEB Fischer Verlag, Jena 1972; Springer, Vienna / New York 1972, ISBN 3-211-81036-6 .
  • (Ed.) Endocrinology of sex. Differentiation and neuroendocrine regulation in the hypothalamo-hypophysical-gonadal-system. Proceedings of the symposium, with international participation, Berlin, GDR, 20. – 23. 9th 1972. Barth, Leipzig 1974.
  • with SM McCann & L. Martini (eds.): Systemic hormones, neurotransmitters and brain development. Karger, Basel [a. a.] 1986, ISBN 3-8055-4287-9 .
  • The nature of man. The importance of hormone-dependent brain development for ontogenesis. Urania Presidium, Berlin 1988
  • with Karl-Friedrich Wessel, Kurt S. Zänker, Günter Tembrock and Friedrich Vogel: Genome and Environment. Kleine, Bielefeld 2001, ISBN 3-89370-350-0 .
  • with Klaus-Diethart Hüllemann, Günter Tembrock, Karl-Friedrich Wessel and Kurt S. Zänker: Images of Man in Medicine. Medicine in the images of man. Kleine, Bielefeld 2001, ISBN 3-89370-318-7 .

literature

  • Martin Dannecker , Gunter Schmidt , Eberhard Schorsch and Volkmar Sigusch : Statement on the research of the endocrinologist Prof. Dr. Günter Dörner on the subject of homosexuality. In: Sexual Medicine. 1981, no. 10, p. 110 f.
  • Gerhard Bettendorf (Ed.): On the history of endocrinology and reproductive medicine. Berlin, Heidelberg a. a. 1995, p. 113 f.
  • People and hormones - East Berlin researcher Günter Dörner nominated for an alternative Nobel Prize. In: Junge Welt . July 16, 1999.
  • Honorary symposium for Prof. Dr. med. Dr. hc Günter Dörner. In: Journal of Human Genetics. 3rd year Kleine-Verlag, 2000.
  • Great Cross of Merit for Günter Dörner. High distinction for Charité emeritus. In: Medicine for the media. No. 42, Berlin 2002.
  • Wolfgang Rohde: 50 years of the Institute of Experimental Endocrinology of the Charité (Humboldt University, Berlin). The way from Aschheim's Laboratory of the 2nd Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology to a research institute. In: Experimental and clinical endocrinology & diabetes. 110 (4), Thieme-Verlag, June 2002, pp. 153-160.
  • Big Federal Cross of Merit for "splashing away" homosexuality. Controversial hormone researcher Günter Dörner receives state medals. In: Analysis + Criticism . No. 469, January 17, 2003.
  • Rolf Lindner: Günter Dörner. Environment - genes - brain. Sexuality, nutrition, learning, behavior, health, society. SchwedenBuch-Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 3-9809452-3-5 .

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Footnotes

  1. ^ Günter Dörner. In: Der Tagesspiegel. April 8, 2018, accessed April 14, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Member entry of Günter Dörner (with picture) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 4, 2016.
  3. ^ Günter Dörner: Proposal for Changing the Status of Homosexuality Under the WHO's Classification of Diseases ( Memento of February 18, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) In: Neuroendocrinology Letters. Vol. 22 No. December 6, 2001
  4. ↑ Up until this point it was just not considered a mental illness.
  5. ^ Magnus Hirschfeld Society: Protest letter from Dr. Günter Grau . 4th December 2002
personal data
SURNAME Dörner, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Hindenburg (today Zabrze )
DATE OF DEATH March 30, 2018