Gerhard Buchwald
Gerhard Buchwald (born February 15, 1920 in Eisenberg ; † July 19, 2009 ) was a German doctor and opponent of vaccinations .
Life
Gerhard Buchwald grew up in Eisenberg in Thuringia . After graduating from high school , he took part in the Second World War from 1939 to 1945 . He studied medicine in Königsberg , Gdansk and Jena and received his doctorate from the University of Hamburg .
On August 25, 1949, he received the state examination in Jena . In 1959 he started medical practice in the Sonnenfels sanatorium in Sülzhayn in the southern Harz region, where tuberculosis patients were treated. From 1953 he was chief physician at the tuberculosis hospital Ballenstedt am Harz , but fled from the German Democratic Republic to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1954 and initially practiced in the weevil sanatorium in Jesteburg near Hamburg.
He later worked in the Schwäbisch Gmünd Hospital , in the Trausnitz Clinic in Bad Reichenhall and, from 1959, in the Thorax Clinic in Ruppertshain im Taunus. From 1970 he headed the X-ray department in the Franken Clinic of the Federal Insurance Institute for Salaried Employees in Bad Steben , where he was promoted to senior physician and medical director. From 1982 to 1989 he was chief physician at the Klinik am Park in Bad Steben, which he left when he retired in 1990.
Although he was only a specialist in lung diseases , he worked in the field of immunology up to the old age of 85 as a “medical advisor” to the Association for the Protection of Vaccine Disorders and published several controversial books critical of vaccinations.
He was married to Barbara Kratzert since 1948.
Vaccination review
As a bitter opponent of vaccinations, Buchwald criticized vaccinations that correspond to the state of the art . In 1970 he claimed in the ARD program report that “the smallpox vaccination does not protect against epidemics, multiple vaccinations are predestined for an illness; vaccinating infected contacts is 'absolutely fatal' ". As part of his criticism, he went as far as claiming that vaccinations are not only ineffective, but exclusively harmful, and alleged, among other things, that violence and crime are a typical consequence of vaccinations, as they are supposed to lead to an alleged "loss of intelligence".
He justified his theses by saying that he could use the incidence rates of diseases in the Federal Republic of Germany and the date on which the vaccination was introduced to establish a missing link between vaccination and the decline in diseases, and relied on statistics from various state and federal offices. For example, Buchwald claimed that polio vaccination was ineffective because the number of people suffering from polio fluctuated slightly two years before the vaccine was introduced in 1962. He also used diagrams such as B. measles, not the infection rate, but incorrectly related to the deaths and concluded that vaccinations would have no contribution to preventing infection. In addition, he tried to explain low side effect rates of the vaccination programs in countries of the “ third world ” with crude theses and racist undertones. He postulated an alleged "underdevelopment of the nervous systems" in children there: " In the Third World, many things are certainly different from ours; Culture, civilization and prosperity. It is likely that not only are the countries there as a whole underdeveloped; the nervous systems of newborns and young children may also be. [...] In spite of the fact that our children's brains are still immature at first, they seem, in contrast to the brains of children of the Third World, to be highly developed in order to react appropriately to vaccinations. "
Buchwald also used arbitrary or outdated numbers in public lectures. His claims received no attention in the scientific discourse.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Walter Habel: Who is who ?: Das Deutsche who's who, Volume 42, 2003, p. 190 [1]
- ↑ Beate Lakotta: Medicine / Smallpox vaccination: Doubts about compulsion . In: Spiegel Online . tape 7/1970 , February 9, 1970 ( spiegel.de [accessed May 13, 2019]).
- ↑ Peter-Philipp Schmitt: Criticism of vaccinations: The swine flu conspiracy . Ed .: FAZ. August 20, 2009, ISSN 0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed May 13, 2019]).
- ↑ History of Poliomyelitis in Germany. Lower Saxony State Health Office, accessed on April 1, 2015 .
- ^ A b Wolfgang Maurer: Vaccine skeptics - vaccine opponents. From another reality on the internet . In: Pharmacy in our time . tape 37 , no. 1 , January 2008, p. 64-70 , doi : 10.1002 / pauz.200700252 .
- ↑ Beate Lakotta: Medicine: Hysteria in the sandpit . In: Spiegel Online . tape 34/2000 , August 21, 2000 ( spiegel.de [accessed May 13, 2019]).
Web links
- Literature by and about Gerhard Buchwald in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Buchwald, Gerhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German physician and vaccination critic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 15, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Eisenberg (Thuringia) |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 19, 2009 |