Hans Bürger-Prinz

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Hans Bürger-Prinz (1967)

Hans Bürger-Prinz (born November 16, 1897 in Weinheim as Hans Bürger ; † January 29, 1976 in Hamburg ) was a German psychiatrist and university professor .

Life

Hans Bürger-Prinz was born as Hans Bürger and was later adopted ; that's how he got the double name. One of his ancestors was the poet Gottfried August Bürger . He attended the Kreuzgasse grammar school in Cologne , but did not graduate until after the First World War . During the war he became a lieutenant in the infantry and received the Iron Cross 1st class .

After graduating from high school, he studied medicine at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and the University of Cologne . In 1924 he passed the state examination in Cologne. He did his doctorate with Kurt Schneider on a psychopathological topic for Dr. med. During his training as a psychiatrist and neurologist - his teachers were Gustav Aschaffenburg , Karl Wilmanns , Kurt Schneider, Wilhelm Mayer-Gross , Joseph Babinski , Georges Charles Guillain and others - he worked as an assistant doctor at Heidelberg University Hospital from 1925 to 1929 and in the meantime in Paris . In 1930 he completed his habilitation under Gustav Aschaffenburg in Cologne. He was a senior physician with him and from 1931 at the Leipzig University Hospital .

In 1936 he came to Hamburg and became - initially on a temporary basis as the successor to Ernst Rittershaus , who was also on a temporary basis, head of the psychiatric and neurological clinic of the Friedrichsberg State Hospital , which he also led after the transfer to the Eppendorf University Hospital in 1942 . Since 1937 he was full professor of psychiatry and neurology. Interrupted in the post-war period from 1945 to 1947, he remained in office for over 28 years. In 1965 he retired .

As a researcher, he has greatly influenced the development of psychiatry. In addition to his work in psychiatry, he promoted research in this field in biochemistry , neuropathology , human genetics and neuropsychology , especially child and adolescent psychiatry, which "would have been more difficult to gain general recognition without the citizen prince". He also had a strong influence on the reforms of the sexual criminal law and on forensic psychiatry , which he "helped to achieve standards of high quality".

time of the nationalsocialism

Bürger-Prinz joined the NSDAP and the SA in 1933 and was also a member of the NS Teachers 'Association , NS Doctors' Association and the NS Lecturer Association, as well as a member of a commission of the Reich Office for the Promotion of German Literature . In his role as honorary judge at the Hereditary Health Court , he decided on the compulsory sterilization of people who were classified as hereditary diseases. He was involved in the establishment of a research center for human genetic and constitutional biology , which was headed from 1949 by Bernhard Duis, former senior physician at the Institute for Racial Biology in Königsberg.

The non-fiction author Peter-Ferdinand Koch writes about the work of German psychiatrists during the Nazi years: “One of the dark men of honor listened to the name Hans Bürger-Prinz. He did not see himself as a criminal, he saw his heroic deeds as 'help'. "Koch quotes an employee of the Bürger-Prinz as saying:" The spirit in which he acted is the same that inspired those who drove Germany into decline led. ”Koch is of the opinion that“ pure career addiction ”made Bürger-Prinz what he became.

From October 1940 on, Bürger-Prinz sat in the senate of the colonial medical academy of the NSDAP . During the Second World War he was a senior field doctor and advisory military psychiatrist in the military district X in Hamburg. In 1941 he became head of the psychiatric department at the University Clinic in Hamburg-Eppendorf. "Here he developed Nazi activities without ceasing, made a selection 'even from the human material of the big city', which meant those bomb-damaged people who suffered from depression."

post war period

In the post-war period he was suspended by the British military government until 1947 . During his absence he was mainly represented by Hans Büssow . The German Society for Sexual Research elected him president in 1950.

Bürger-Prinz impressed in lectures and lectures with his ingenuity and free speech. An obituary said: "He was one of the last greats in our field ... because his time ... still allowed ... the strength and charisma of personalities to grow that enriched their world."

Publications (selection)

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Hans-J. Bochnik : Hans Bürger-Prinz 1897 - 1976 in: Hamburger Ärzteblatt March 1976
  2. ↑ Hans Bürger-Prinz in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
  3. ↑ a b uke.de: history of the clinic. From the Middle Ages to the first insane asylum in Hamburg ( Memento from November 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ Herbert E. Meister : European legal theory. Preliminary studies to a positive realism . Pro Business, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-86460-266-5 , Vol. 2, p. 364.
  5. ↑ Ute Felbor: Racial Biology and Hereditary Science in the Medical Faculty of the University of Würzburg 1937–1945. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1995 (= Würzburg medical historical research. Supplement 3; also dissertation Würzburg 1995), ISBN 3-88479-932-0 , p. 110 f.
  6. ↑ Peter-Ferdinand Koch: Human experiments. The deadly experiments of German doctors. Piper, Munich / Zurich 1996, ISBN 3-492-03671-6 , p. 69 f.
  7. ↑ Peter-Ferdinand Koch: Human experiments. The deadly experiments of German doctors. Piper, Munich / Zurich 1996, ISBN 3-492-03671-6 , p. 71.
personal data
SURNAME Citizen Prince, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychiatrist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Weinheim , Baden
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 1976
Place of death Hamburg