Guido Brecher

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Guido Brecher (also: Quido , born March 20, 1877 in Olmütz , Austria-Hungary ; died in a concentration camp in 1942 ) was an Austrian doctor.

Life

Guido Brecher came from a Jewish family and attended the state high school in Bohemian-Leipa . The illustrator Anny Engelmann , the architect Paul Engelmann and the graphic artist Peter Eng were children of his sister Ernestine Engelmann geb. Crusher. In 1901 he finished his medical studies at the University of Vienna and practiced in 1903 in Vienna's 9th district . In the next few years he practiced as a neurologist and internist in the "Haus Sponfeldner" in Bad Gastein in the summer and in the "Kurpension Erlenau" in the Burggrafenstrasse in Merano in the winter . It is not known whether he was still active in Merano after the occupation of South Tyrol by Italy . His activity as a spa doctor in Bad Gastein ended with the annexation of Austria and the associated professional ban for doctors who were accused of being of Jewish origin. On September 30, 1938, he had left Bad Gastein, was born on 24 October 1938 against him a residence ban from the district administration District St. Johann im Pongau district captain was the National Socialist, Karl Esser adopted. It is possible that he fled to Czechoslovakia , which was occupied in March 1939 .

On December 5, 1941, Brecher was deported from Brno to the Theresienstadt ghetto on the "Transport K" . There he was transported to the Zamość Ghetto ( Zamość ) in the General Government on April 28, 1942 , where he was murdered .

From 1904 to 1907, Brecher attended Sigmund Freud's lectures at the University of Vienna, was a participant in the Psychological Wednesday Society for the first time in March 1907 and became a member of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Association . Due to his professional activity in Merano, he was only a sporadic participant and only attended the meetings until 1912. Brecher took part in the 1st International Psychoanalytic Congress in Salzburg in 1908 and also in 1911 in the Weimar Congress of the International Psychoanalytic Association . After 1919 he was no longer included in the membership list of the Vienna Psychoanalytical Association. Apart from a few reviews, there are no known publications by Brecher.

literature

  • Elke Mühlleitner: Biographical Lexicon of Psychoanalysis. The members of the Psychological Wednesday Society and the Vienna Psychoanalytical Association 1902–1938 . Tübingen: Edition Diskord, 1992, ISBN 3-89295-557-3 , p. 53 f.
  • Guido (Quido) Brecher , in: Gert Kerschbaumer : Memorial Book of Jews and Converts from the City and State of Salzburg (not yet published)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ursula A. Schneider: News from Peter Engelmann (Ps. Peter Eng) and Anny Engelmann (Ps. Suska). Paul Engelmann's siblings, figures of a vanished European modernism , at the Brenner Archive
  2. ↑ On the Zamość Ghetto see the entry at deathcamps.org
personal data
SURNAME Crusher, Guido
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Breaker, Quido
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian doctor and psychoanalyst
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Olomouc , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH 1942
Place of death concentration camp