Günter Elsässer

Günter Elsässer (born April 24, 1907 in Halle (Saale) , † October 14, 1999 ) was a German psychiatrist and professor at the University of Bonn .

Life

Elsässer finished his school career in 1926 with the Abitur at the Latina in his hometown. He then completed a medical degree at the universities of Berlin , Göttingen , Vienna , Freiburg and Halle . After 1933 filed the medical state examination in Berlin in late July, followed by his Medizinalpraktikum at the Berlin mental hospital and promotion to Dr. med. From the beginning of June 1935 he was an assistant doctor at the Rhenish Provincial Healing and Nursing Institution. He was later taken on as a civil servant. He had completed his specialist training as a psychiatrist and neurologist at the beginning of October 1937. In addition to his employment at the Rhenish Provincial Healing and Nursing Institution, he conducted research at the Provincial Institute for psychiatric-neurological research at the University of Bonn under its medical director Friedrich Panse . He also acted as an assessor at the genetic health court in Bonn . In early April 1940 he was appointed Provincial Medical Council. In mid-December 1943 he completed his habilitation and from mid-June 1944 worked as a lecturer at the University of Bonn.

He joined the NSDAP on May 1, 1937 ( membership number 4,194,684). He belonged to the National Socialist German Medical Association (NSDÄB) since 1935 and to the National Socialist People's Welfare (NSV) and Hitler Youth (HJ) since 1936; in the Hitler Youth he reached the rank of Oberrottenführer in the medical service. Furthermore, from 1938 he was a member of the Reich Association of German Civil Servants and the Reich Air Protection Association (RLB). He was a member of the Association for German Cultural Relations Abroad (VDA) from 1938 to 1942.

After the beginning of the Second World War he was drafted into the Wehrmacht at the beginning of September 1939 and from January 1940 was deployed in the Ensen reserve hospital under Friedrich Panse, most recently in the rank of medical officer of the reserve. In the Ensen reserve hospital, Panse and Elsässer used high-dose galvanic electricity to treat war neurotics .

After the end of the war, Elsässer stated in May 1946 that he had "welcomed the hereditary efforts of National Socialism [...]", but that he was "aware that many details of the scientific basis still had to be worked out". From 1949 Elsässer was an adjunct professor of psychiatry and neurology in Bonn and as a state senior medical adviser at the state hospital in Bonn. He was a member of the Advisory Board of the Federal Ministry of Labor for issues relating to provisions for war victims. From 1958 to 1967 Elsässer was chairman of the "Institute for Analytical Psychotherapy in the Rhineland eV" (IPR). From 1964 to 1965 he was a member of the board of the German Society for Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy, Psychosomatics and Depth Psychology (DGPT). As late as 1961, Elsässer presented in the standard work Psychiatrie und Gegenwart , Volume III "Experiences with 1400 War Neuroses", electrosuggestive treatment as effective.

Fonts

• Failure of coitus as a cause of illness in medieval medicine , Ebering, Berlin 1934 (= Treatises on the history of medicine and natural sciences , 3) (also dissertation at the University of Bonn)
• Offspring of endogenously mentally ill parents: Contribution to the psychiatric inheritance and Disease theory: T. 1. The descendants of schizophrenic parents , Bonn 1943 (habilitation thesis)

literature

• Ralf Forsbach : The medical faculty of the University of Bonn in the "Third Reich" , Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 2006. ISBN 978-3-486-57989-5
• Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Günter Elsässer in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Ralf Forsbach: The Medical Faculty of the University of Bonn in the “Third Reich”, Munich 2006, p. 221
2. ↑ Ralf Forsbach: The Medical Faculty of the University of Bonn in the "Third Reich", Munich 2006, p. 224.
3. ^ ^{A b} Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 134.
4. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from October 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ http://dgpt.de/die-gesellschaft/geschichte-der-dgpt/vorstandsträger-2011–1945/  ( 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.