Gerhard Kienle

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Gerhard Kienle (born November 22, 1923 in Madrid , † June 2, 1983 in Herdecke ) was a German anthroposophical doctor , neurologist , health politician and scientific theorist . He was the main founder of the Herdecke community hospital and the Witten / Herdecke University .

Life

The son of a diplomatic family grew up in Madrid and moved to Berlin in 1940 . From 1945 to 1948 he studied medicine at the University of Tübingen and received his doctorate there. There he founded an anthroposophical student group and an anthroposophical student union and dormitory, the Fichte-Haus. In 1953 he became an assistant at the mental hospital of the University of Tübingen. From 1963 to 1968 he was a neurological senior physician under Duus at the Northwest Hospital in Frankfurt am Main . During this time he wrote a free habilitation on the non-Euclidean visual space of humans. In 1968 he was involved in laying the foundation stone of the Herdecke community hospital, which was inaugurated in 1969.

In the 1970s he campaigned for the legal anchoring and economic reimbursement of homeopathic , naturopathic and anthroposophic medicine in the German health system . He questioned the absolute claim of the controlled randomized study as proof of effectiveness and focused on the individual knowledge of the attending physician. In his role as a scientific expert on the Medicines Committee of the Bundestag, he was largely responsible for the method-pluralistic version of the Medicines Act of 1976 .

In 1982 he was a major co-founder of the University of Witten / Herdecke, the first private university in the Federal Republic of Germany. This was preceded by the establishment of a “Foundation for the Free European Academy of Sciences (FEAW)” in the summer of 1976, which brought together over 60 international university lecturers with anthroposophical-anthropological concerns. Including anthroposophically motivated university teachers such as Herbert Hensel , Gunther Hildebrandt , Wolfgang Blankenburg and Bernard Lievegoed as well as international scientists such as the computer specialist Joseph Weizenbaum and the physiologist Paul Weiss . In the invitation letter from the FEAW, Diether Lauenstein stated :

It [the FEAW] brings together scholars who are looking for the common conceptual basis of their sciences, who work against mere positivism and who not only subsequently combine their subject areas in an interdisciplinary manner.
The inviting people see Rudolf Steiner's anthroposophy as a fruitful interpretation of the world, but in the academy they would like to connect with all those scholars who philosophically pose the question of truth in their science.

The FEAW organized eleven conferences and symposia from 1976 to the end of 1996.

In his books, Gerhard Kienle criticized the prevailing belief in the transferability of results from animal experiments with drugs to humans by showing fundamental differences between humans and animals and trying to uncover inadmissible arguments in favor of animal experiments, although he was not against these experiments in principle.

Works

  • The Huntington -cases from 1900 to February 1947 the Department of nerves and mood disorders Eberhard-Karl University of Tübingen . Diss. 1948
  • Emergency therapy for neurological and psychiatric diseases . Thieme, Stuttgart 1964; 3rd ext. A. 1978
  • The optical perception disorders and the non-Euclidean structure of the visual space . Thieme, Stuttgart 1968
  • Drug Safety and Society. A critical investigation . Schattauer, Stuttgart / New York 1974
  • The approval of drugs and the revocation of approvals under the Medicines Act of 1976 (with Rainer Burkhardt). Urachhaus, Stuttgart 1982
  • Proof of effectiveness for drugs. Analysis of an illusion (with Rainer Burkhardt). Urachhaus, Stuttgart 1983
  • The unwritten philosophy of Jesus . Urachhaus, Stuttgart 1983
  • Christianity and Medicine . Four lectures. Urachhaus, Stuttgart 1986
  • Science and anthroposophy. Impulses for new ways of research (co-author). Urachhaus, Stuttgart 1989

literature

  • Philip Kovce : I-formation. Man as the creator of himself. Motifs of an unwritten philosophy by Gerhard Kienle . Ita Wegman Institute publishing house, Arlesheim 2017, ISBN 978-3-906947-04-4 .
  • Peter Selg : Gerhard Kienle - life and work (Volume 1: A biography ; Volume 2: Selected essays and lectures ). Verlag am Goetheanum, Dornach 2003, ISBN 3-7235-1165-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Matthiessen : Rudolf Steiner's university concept and the University of Witten / Herdecke . In: Heusser, Weinzirl (ed.): Rudolf Steiner - Its importance for science and life today . Schattauer, 2014, ISBN 978-3-7945-2947-6 , pp. 271 .
  2. ↑ a b Axel Föller-Mancini: Awakening to the problems of others . Interview with Rainer Burkhardt. In: info3 . March 2004 ( archive.org ).
  3. ↑ Judicia DE NOVIS LIBRIS . In: Acta Ophthalmologica . tape 47 , no. 1 , February 1969, p. 279-283 , doi : 10.1111 / j.1755-3768.1969.tb05632.x .
  4. ↑ Gerhard Kienle. In: Research Center for Culture Impulse - Biographies Documentation. Retrieved June 11, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Diether Lauenstein: invitation letter FEAW . Herdecke May 22, 1976 (quoted from Peter Selg, Gerhard Kienle. Life and work. Volume I: A biography).
  6. ↑ Antroposofie in de pers: Opkomst en ondergang. In: antroposofieindepers.blogspot.de. Retrieved June 11, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Kienle, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German anthroposophic doctor, university founder and scientific theorist
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Madrid
DATE OF DEATH June 2nd 1983
Place of death Herdecke