Georg Stertz

Georg Stertz (born September 19, 1878 in Breslau , † March 19, 1959 in Munich ) was a German psychiatrist and neurologist.

Stertz studied medicine at the universities of Freiburg, Munich and Breslau, where he also received his doctorate, and completed his habilitation in 1911. In 1921 he received a chair for psychiatry at the University of Marburg , from where he was appointed to Kiel in 1926 to do the Successor to Ernst Siemerling as head of the mental hospital at Kiel University. Stertz held this position until 1937, when he was asked to submit an application for exemption due to his marriage to a Jewish woman, the daughter of the physician Alois Alzheimer . After he initially refused - his wife was not fully Jewish, he did retire in the summer of 1937. After the Second World War, Stertz was appointed acting head of the psychiatric clinic at the University of Munich in February 1946. He later also became a professor of psychiatry and neurology at the university.

Web links

• University of Kiel and National Socialism: Professor Dr. Georg Stertz
• Stertz, Georg. Hessian biography. (As of July 23, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).