Hans-Werner Janz

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Hans-Werner Janz (born June 24, 1906 in Widminnen , Lötzen district , East Prussia ; † April 13, 2003 in Wedemark ) was a German neurologist and psychiatrist.

Life

In 1924 Janz graduated from high school in Lötzen with distinction. He began to study medicine at the Albertus University in Königsberg and was active in the Corps Littuania in 1925 . As an inactive , he moved to the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . On Littuania's instructions, in 1927, after one semester, he went to the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich to become active (against his will) in the befriended Corps Makaria Munich . As an excellent senior , he went to the University of Vienna after two semesters . In 1929 he returned to Königsberg i. Pr. Back, where he took the state examination in 1930. As a medical intern in the (old) Altona Hospital and in the AK Barmbek , he met Arthur Jores and Peter Bamm . In May 1933 he became a member of the National Socialist German Workers 'Party (NSDAP) by signing up on a list that was displayed in the doctors' mess of the AK Barmbek. Returned to Konigsberg, received his doctorate in 1934 he summa cum laude for Dr. med. In the same year he met his wife Antonia, whom he married in 1935 while doing basic military service in the Wehrmacht .

Leipzig

In 1937 the couple went to Leipzig . As a specialist in neurology , Janz completed his habilitation in 1939 at the University of Leipzig . In 1940 he became a private lecturer . In correspondence and personal encounters with Hans-Georg Gadamer , Theodor Litt , Max Planck , Werner Heisenberg , Hans von Hattingberg and Wladimir Lindenberg , he dealt with philosophical questions in medicine and the natural sciences .

Initially released from military service at the beginning of the Second World War , he was able to begin his lectureship as senior physician at the Leipzig University Clinic for Psychiatry . In 1940 he was drafted into a paramedic of the Air Force . At the same time he was traded as a candidate for the chairs in occupied Strasbourg and Krakow . From Krakow he followed the southern section of the Wehrmacht to the Dnepr . In spring 1942 he was transferred to the air force hospital for brain and spinal cord injuries in Berlin-Reinickendorf . There he dealt with the reversibility of aphasia through training. Soon released from the Wehrmacht, he was able to continue his service at the Leipzig clinic and give lectures in forensic psychiatry .

After the unconditional surrender of the Wehrmacht , Janz was briefly imprisoned because of his party membership . Denounced in the chaos of the clinic and the city , Janz was urged by the new Rector Gadamer to flee the Soviet occupation zone . To hunger edema suffering, he was in the Psychiatry Advisory Board of the German Central Administration for Health appointed to Berlin.

Hamburg

After completing his habilitation from the University of Leipzig to the University of Hamburg , Janz gave lectures at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf with Hans Bürger-Prinz . Friedrich Mauz placed him in the Langenhorn Psychiatric Hospital . Janz turned back to the psychoreactive manifestations of traumatic brain injury .

"Basically, I have always been more interested in the parts of a person who has become mentally ill that have remained healthy than the morbid itself, and this interest has also determined my endeavors to deal with seriously ill people as if they were healthy."

- Hans-Werner Janz

Hanover

On October 1, 1948, he became Medical Director of the Wahrendorff Institute , a "veritable snake pit". The gross salary of 1,000 RM had to be enough for the family, three relatives and three completely impoverished corps brothers. Despite the destruction of Hanover and its surroundings, despite famine , flight and expulsion of Germans from Central and Eastern Europe from 1945 to 1950 , epidemics and infectious diseases ( typhus , tuberculosis , poliomyelitis ), Janz turned the “huge custodian for insane” into a modern hospital. He was not only supported by private sponsors, but also by the Lower Saxony Ministry of Social Affairs. He set up new departments for brain injuries, radiology , laboratory medicine and - unique for a psychiatry - diabetics and got rid of the bunk beds . With several qualified senior physicians, the clinic became a “small university”; Janz operated under the name "Professor Dr.". It was also successful from an economic point of view: Despite the very large investment program , no loans had to be taken out. In 1967, Karl Peter Kisker arranged for Janz to be an honorary professor at the new Hannover Medical School . When Janz retired in 1976 at the age of 70, he was able to hand over a renovated and recognized clinic to his successor.

In 1961 he laid down the Makaren band . The Corps Albertina Hamburg awarded him the ribbon in 1980 .

meaning

Janz dealt more and more with the psychopathology of historical personalities, for example with Odysseus , Agamemnon and Adolf Hitler .

As a member of the Psychiatry Enquête , he was responsible for the reform proposals in the field of addiction syndromes . The fact that he achieved the recognition of alcoholism turned out to be one of the most important (albeit most expensive) advances in German health care.

"Sometimes I felt like a Don Quixote or a preacher in the desert when I called for moderate state dirigism for the task of effectively warding off the health and state-political emergency of alcohol dangers."

- Hans-Werner Janz, Memorabilia

Janz developed the work therapy already established by his predecessor for (psychiatric) occupational therapy . He initiated the professional association of state-approved occupational therapists and achieved international recognition. He used music and painting for therapy. With the use of revolutionary psychotropic drugs , he turned the “institutions” into specialist hospitals .

Works

Janz wrote 116 publications , the last 13 in retirement.

  • From my life and memory , 2 parts.
  • On the problem of hope in psychotherapy . Journal for Psychotherapy and Medical Psychology 18 (1968), p. 121 ff.
  • One hundred years of Ilten - one hundred years of psychiatry. In: Würzburger medical historical reports 2, 1984, pp. 147–203.
  • ... the spirit of loyalty as the actual intrinsic value , in: Kurt U. Bertrams: As a student in Königsberg. Memories of known corporates . Hilden 2006, pp. 128-146.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 85/845; 2/486.
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 112/708.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g Wolfgang Höpker: In memoriam Hans-Werner Janz . Corps newspaper of the Albertina 2005, pp. 116–127.
  4. ↑ Dissertation: Psychobiological Studies on Wives of Chronic Alcoholics .
  5. ↑ Habilitation thesis: Clinical and experimental studies on constitution and readiness for convulsions in epileptics .
  6. ^ [1] Manfred Marquardt: History of Ergotherapy 1954 to 2004 . Idstein 2004.
personal data
SURNAME Janz, Hans-Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German neurologist and psychiatrist
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Widminnen , Lötzen district , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH April 13, 2003
Place of death Wedemark