Gerhart Scheunert

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Gerhart Scheunert (born January 11, 1906 in Leipzig ; † September 3, 1994 in Hamburg ) was a German psychoanalyst and university professor.

Life

Gerhart Scheunert was the son of the businessman Arno Scheunert and his wife Camilla, née Dietrich. He finished his school career in his hometown in 1925 with the Abitur. He then studied medicine at the Universities of Leipzig , Vienna and Berlin and received his doctorate in 1930 in Leipzig. med. In addition to his specialist training at the University Neurological Clinic in Leipzig, which he graduated in 1935, he completed further training as a psychoanalyst by 1934. As part of this training, he did a training analysis with Therese Benedek while still studying .

In the course of the transfer of power to the National Socialists , Scheunert became a member of the NSDAP in 1933 . He also worked as a political leader and cell leader . From 1936 he worked in Erfurt as a resident neurologist and psychoanalyst. The head of the German Institute for Psychological Research and Psychotherapy , Matthias Heinrich Göring , planned in 1939 to appoint Scheunert as the director of his institute. Scheunert, however, was employed as a medical officer in the Wehrmacht at the beginning of the Second World War in 1939 and headed a neurological department there from 1943.

After the end of the war, he returned to his practice in Erfurt from 1946 to 1949, which he now shared with the psychologist Ehrig Wartegg. In 1949 Scheunert moved to West Berlin and in June 1950 co-founded the German Psychoanalytical Association (DPV) and was its chairman from 1956 to 1964. He later became an honorary member of the DPV. From 1956 to 1959 he was head of the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute . Then he was a lecturer at the Medical Faculty of the University of Hamburg , where he taught after being appointed professor in 1972 until his retirement in 1976. He was also a lecturer at the Hamburg Psychoanalytic Institute (now the Michael Balint Institute ). Scheunert co-edited the magazine “ Paths to People / Psyche ” and was editor of the yearbook for psychoanalysis from 1960 to 1973 .

Scheunert was married twice; from his first marriage he had two children.

Writings and contributions (selection)

  • The morphology of experimental congestive icterus. Naumburg / Saale 1931 In: Contributions z. pathol. Anatomy and general pathology. Vol. 86, H. 3. 1931. (also medical dissertation at the University of Leipzig)
  • Development and advancement of the libido theory. 1960.
  • About acting as a theoretical and practical problem in psychoanalysis. 1973.

literature

  • Werner Bohleber: Gerhart Scheunert's psychoanalytic work in the 1950s. In: Luzifer-Amor 62 (2018), pp. 93-116.
  • Michael Geyer: A normal German - Gerhart Scheunert's life stations in Leipzig, Erfurt and Berlin between 1933 and 1950. In: Luzifer-Amor 62 (2018), pp. 67-92.
  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich: Who was what before and after 1945. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
  • Martin Klüners: Born in 1906: Gerhart Scheunert as a member of the war youth generation . Divergent paths to psychoanalysis and party membership. In: Luzifer-Amor 62 (2018), pp. 38-66.
  • Juliane Lepsius: That's how you reported it. Jewish and non-Jewish fates during the Nazi era and afterwards. Constance 2014.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Who is who? Volume 33, Schmidt-Römhild, 1994, p. 1162.
  2. ^ A b c Michael Geyer (Ed.): Psychotherapy in East Germany: History and Stories 1945-1995. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2011, p. 53.
  3. ↑ a b c d Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 533.
personal data
SURNAME Scheunert, Gerhart
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychoanalyst and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH 3rd September 1994
Place of death Hamburg