Gerhard Schorsch
Johannes Julius Gerhard Schorsch (born October 15, 1900 in Sorau , Niederlausitz, † May 11, 1992 in Kassel ) was a German neurologist , psychiatrist and epileptologist .
Life
Gerhard Schorsch was the son of a master baker. He acquired in 1918 at the Gymnasium in Sorau the Notabitur and after that made military service. In 1921 he joined a volunteer corps and was involved in the fighting in Upper Silesia .
From 1919 he studied medicine and philosophy at the universities of Breslau , Würzburg , Munich and Leipzig . He belonged to the Arminia fraternity in Breslau . After the state examination , he received his doctorate in 1924 in Breslau with his thesis on the importance of the tonsils in tuberculosis with a special focus on pulmonary tuberculosis . He then worked as a medical intern at the university clinics in Breslau, Hamburg-Eppendorf with Max Nonne and Marburg with Ernst Kretschmer .
In 1928 he became assistant and in 1936 senior physician at the University Clinic in Leipzig with Paul Schröder and August Bostroem . After his habilitation in 1935 with the thesis "On the theory of hallucinations" he was a private lecturer in psychiatry and neurology and from 1941 to 1945 associate professor at the University of Leipzig. In 1946 he was appointed professor,
From the beginning of September 1940 to 1967, Schorsch was the successor to Werner Villinger chief physician of the Von Bodelschwinghschen Anstalten Bethel and from 1945 also chief physician of an initially small research department of the special hospital for epileptics in Bethel, before the "Gesellschaft für Epilepsy Research "took place.
At the time of National Socialism he worked as a HJ doctor from 1933 and joined the NSDAP in 1937 . Furthermore he belonged to the NSV and the NS-Ärztebund . As part of the T4 campaign , he classified patients in Bethel according to several performance categories such as “spiritually dead, vegetative end states or very good performance”. Schorsch is said to have tried to draw a line in order to save the majority of the patients.
Schorsch was u. a. 1957–59 first chairman of the newly founded German section of the International League Against Epilepsy (since 2004: German Society for Epileptology ). He also chaired the first two sessions in Bethel in 1958 and 1959.
He was married to the doctor Helene, née Lehmann. The couple had three children.
Honors
- 1967: Large Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1969: Michael Prize from the Michael Foundation
- 1979: Honorary member of the German section of the International League Against Epilepsy (since 2004: German Society for Epileptology )
literature
- 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
- Gerhard Schorsch in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig
Individual evidence
- ^ Dreyer R. Obituary for Prof. Dr. med. habil. Dr. med. Gerhard Schorsch. Epilepsy Leaflets 1992; 5: 95-96
- ^ A b c Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 558
- ↑ Thomas Küster: Sources on the history of institutional psychiatry in Westphalia 2. 1914 - 1955 , Schöningh, 2004, p. 635
- ^ Dreyer R. Obituary for Prof. Dr. med. habil. Dr. med. Gerhard Schorsch. Epilepsy Leaflets 1992; 5: 95-96
- ↑ Who is who? , Volume 13, Schmidt-Römhild, 1958, p. 1156
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schorsch, Gerhard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schorsch, Johannes Julius Gerhard (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German neurologist and psychiatrist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 15, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sorau , Lower Lusatia |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 11, 1992 |
| Place of death | kassel |