Georg Volk

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Georg Johann Volk (born March 23, 1898 in Steinheim am Main ; † June 16, 1986 in Offenbach am Main ) was a German doctor, homeopath and writer.

Georg Volk, Offenbach am Main 1933

Life

Georg Volk was the older brother of Bishop Hermann Cardinal Volk (1903–1988), with whom he had a lifelong friendship. Influenced by the Catholic youth and renewal movement Quickborn around Romano Guardini and the meeting at Rothenfels Castle on the Main, (the Volk brothers headed the Marburg Quickborn Group ), Georg Volk represented a holistic medicine that was permeated with Christian spirituality, close to nature, and his Writing for the Quickborn magazine Werkhefte Junge Katholiken, which was banned in 1933, and the follow-up magazine (until 1935) determined Gestalt and Time , as well as his monographs, which were always aimed at lay people and patients.

With Alf Riegel and Robert Steidle , Volk founded the Quickborn Doctors' Guild, which combined modern scientific knowledge of medicine with Christian content. The close circle of friends included Alfred Schüler, Ludwig Neundörfer , Heinrich Kahlefeld , Theo Gunkel , Walter Dirks , Ida Friederike Görres and Pax Christi co-founder Father Manfred Hörhammer . In Quickborn, Volk also met the Catholic Poelzig student and revolutionary architect Rudolf Schwarz , who built the Offenbach doctor's house and practice for Volk during his time in Frankfurt in 1934/35.

Georg Volk took part in the First World War as a medic from 1916 to 1918 . He then studied medicine and philosophy in Marburg (with Nicolai Hartmann and Heinz Heimsoeth ) and at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main , where he in 1921 with a thesis on giant cells in the thyroid doctorate was. After studying in Marburg with Fritz Stockebrand (1897–1970) and the subsequent time as an assistant, Volk came to homeopathy and became an assistant doctor to Otto Leeser (1888–1964; branch office from 1922) in Frankfurt am Main. Volk also received suggestions for homeopathy from August Bier (1861–1949) and Wilhelm Münch (1884–1970; branch office from 1911 in Frankfurt am Main). In 1926, after having worked in Fulda , Mülheim an der Ruhr and Breslau , Volk settled in Offenbach am Main as an internist and doctor specializing in homeopathy .

Hermann and Georg Volk, Mainz 1975

During the Second World War in 1939 he was initially employed as a medical officer at the Westwall. From 1940 to 1941 he was chief physician at the reserve hospital Heilig Geist Hospital in Frankfurt am Main , but was soon recalled from there due to a lack of National Socialist sentiments . Volk then headed field hospital 709 as a local hospital on the Cotentin peninsula (Normandy) in occupied France for three years , where he was responsible for the internal department. In 1944 with the rank of senior staff doctor, Volk became head doctor of the fortress hospital of Cherbourg in the course of the Allied landing in Normandy in June 1944 . After the city was surrendered, he was taken prisoner by the Western Allies and was eventually interned in the US prisoner of war camp McAlester in Oklahoma (USA), where he took over the management of the internal department of the prison hospital. In the prison camp, Volk was expelled from the officer corps because, as the highest-ranking officer, he had refused to celebrate Adolf Hitler's birthday in 1945. Volk returned home in 1946, resumed his work in Offenbach as an internist and homeopath and practiced until immediately before his death in 1986. Contemporaries describe him as a moral authority and a charismatic figure. People attitude towards his patients was the one marked by imperious, relentless austerity, on the other hand of kindness and responsibility of the suffering creatures over, as well as his deep Christian spirituality and the demands on themselves, ethical role model. Deep piety, asceticism as a principle of life, abstinence from consumption, vegetarians based on ethical convictions were the constants of his medical self-image, which in relation to the patient located the person as a unity of body, soul and spirit and stubbornly involved and encouraged participation in individual healing.
From 1958 to 1976 Volk was an attending physician, from 1969 to 1974 chief physician of the homeopathic department at the Ketteler Hospital in Offenbach am Main . Georg Volk practiced for more than six decades and from the eighties was the oldest practicing doctor in Offenbach and one of the last doctors in Hesse with his own pharmacy integrated into the practice.

Trivia

Georg Volk was married to Anna Stammer and the father of five children. One of his three sons was the Freiburg professor for neuropathology Benedikt Volk (1940–2011). Volks youngest daughter Emmanuele wrote her childhood memories with the children's book My Dog, My Brothers and I. Autobiographical sprinkles can be found with Georg Volk in the sentences of his meditation instructions.

Awards

Awarded the Federal Cross of Merit: Georg Volk in Offenbach on March 19, 1981
  • 1980 (August 25th) - Silver citizen medal of the city ​​of Offenbach
  • 1981 (March 19) - Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany on ribbon for lasting work and life's work as a holistic doctor and writer
  • 2016 (January 14th) - Since June 24th, 2004 (following the motion of the city council of January 17, 1989) Georg Volk has been on the list of city councilors to name streets in Offenbach am Main. In the “Waldheim-Süd” building area (northern part, B-Plan No. 618 B) of the city of Offenbach, one of the new access roads will be named Dr.-Georg-Volk-Weg.

Fonts

  • The heart, our destiny . Knecht, Frankfurt am Main 1974.
  • Relaxation, collection, meditation . Matthias-Grünewald, Mainz 1970.
  • Love and marriage, procreation and birth . Christophorus, Freiburg im Breisgau 1968.
  • Medicine for body and soul . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1959.
  • Healthy heart, healthy mind . Knecht, Frankfurt am Main 1957.
  • Neural - personal diagnostics. Instructions for the pathophysiognomic consideration of humans . Haug, Ulm / Danube 1955.
  • Your heart in healthy and in sick days . Knecht, Frankfurt am Main 1952.
  • From the doctor and the sick . Lecture given at the First Beuron University Week on September 15, 1948. Publication by the Beuron working group. Alber, Freiburg 1949.
  • Via giant cells in the thyroid. Excerpt from: Frankfurter med. Dissertations in excerpts. Volume 3, Med.Diss. Frankfurt am Main 1923.

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).
  • General homeopathic newspaper for scientific and practical homeopathy. (AHZ) 213, 1968, p. 410/411.
  • A. Kautzsch: Georg Volk 70 years. In: General Homeopathic Newspaper for Scientific and Practical Homeopathy. (AHZ) 228, 1983, p. 209 f.
  • H. Leers: Laudation on the 85th birthday of Georg Volk. In: General Homeopathic Newspaper for Scientific and Practical Homeopathy. (AHZ) 232, 1987, p. 70 f.
  • Th. Faltin: Homeopathy in the Clinic. The history of homeopathy at the Stuttgart Robert Bosch Hospital from 1940 to 1973. Haug, Stuttgart 2002, p. 21, p. 194.
  • Heinz Schoeler: Compendium of scientific and practical homeopathy. Continuation to: Clotar Müller, characteristics of the most important homeopathic remedies. Willmar Schwabe, Leipzig 1940, p. 155.
  • Meinulf Barbers: Franz Stock - impulses for a civilization of love. In: Quickborn-Arbeitskreis (Ed.): On the traces of the living source. Mosaic stones from 100 years of Quickborn. Rothenfels / Main 2009, pp. 76-81.
  • Johannes Binkowski: Youth as a trailblazer. The Quickborn from 1909 to 1945. Konrad Theiss, Stuttgart 1981, p. 249.
  • Emmanuele people: my dog, my brothers and me. Fredebeul and Koenen, Essen 1971.
  • Alfons Leitl: A doctor's house. In: Bauwelt. Volume 25, No. 52, 1934, pp. 1-8.
  • Ottmar Kerber: Today's single house. In: The shield comrades . Volume 14, No. 5, 1934/35, pp. 415ff.
  • Wolfgang Pehnt, Hilde Strohl: Rudolf Schwarz 1897–1961. Inhabited pictures - architect of a different modernism. Hatje, Ostfildern-Ruit 2000, pp. 93-95, p. 242.
  • Rudolf Schwarz's houses. In: Baukunst und Werkform. 2, 1948, pp. 68-72.

Web links

Commons : Georg Volk  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ H. Leers: Laudation on the 85th birthday of G. Volk. In: General Homeopathic Newspaper for Scientific and Practical Homeopathy. (AHZ) 232, 1987, p. 70.
  2. ^ Johannes Binkowski: Youth as a trailblazer. The Quickborn from 1909 to 1945. Konrad Theiss, Stuttgart 1981, p. 249.
  3. ^ Wolfgang Pehnt , Hilde Strohl: Rudolf Schwarz 1897–1961. Inhabited pictures - architect of a different modernism. Hatje, Ostfildern-Ruit 2000, pp. 93-95, p. 242.
  4. ^ Georg Tessin: Associations and troops of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS in World War II 1939 - 45. Osnabrück 1973 ff.
  5. ↑ Press release "Cross of Merit on Ribbon to Dr. Georg Volk ”of the city of Offenbach am Main on March 13, 1981.
  6. ↑ Cf. the biting criticism of people's untimely educational didactics : Martin Morlock: Ziesemann makes it possible. In: Der Spiegel. 26/1964. spiegel.de
  7. ↑ Georg Volk: Not only the doctor's help, the patient also needs his love. In: Offenbacher Post. December 17, 1958, p. 7.
  8. ↑ Emmanuele Volk: My dog, my brothers and me. Fredebeul and Koenen, Essen 1971.
  9. ↑ Georg Volk: Relaxation, Collection, Meditation. Matthias-Grünewald, Mainz 1970.
  10. ↑ Don't let people turn into a formula. Decoration with the Cross of Merit for Georg Volk. In: Offenbacher Post. March 20, 1981.
  11. ^ City of Offenbach DS I (A) 0695 ( Memento from January 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  12. ^ City of Offenbach DS I (A) 0829
  13. ↑ Deserved women in the letterhead. In: Frankfurter Rundschau. February 9, 2016. fr-online.de
personal data
SURNAME People, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Volk, Georg Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and homeopath
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Gross-Steinheim
DATE OF DEATH June 16, 1986
Place of death Offenbach am Main