Hans Pollnow

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Hans Pollnow (born March 7, 1902 in Königsberg (Prussia) ; † October 21, 1943 in Mauthausen concentration camp , Mauthausen , Austria ) was a German psychiatrist . Together with Franz Kramer , he reported in 1932 in the much-noticed study about a hyperkinetic disease in childhood about a syndrome later named after them as Kramer-Pollnow syndrome, which is now classified as attention deficit / hyperactivity disorder .

Life

In 1920 Pollnow passed the Abitur at the Königsberger Friedrichs Kollegium . Then he began to study philosophy and medicine , first in Munich, then in Heidelberg. In 1921 he married Lucie Pollnow, nee Ney. First ended Pollnow his philosophy studies at the University of Königsberg and received his doctorate in 1925 with his thesis on the subject of contributions to the history and logic of expression interpretation Dr. phil. Pollnow passed the medical state examination in 1926, then moved to Berlin and devoted himself to studying medicine. Pollnow completed his practical year at the 2nd Medical Clinic of the Charité under Friedrich Kraus and at the 1st Medical Clinic under Wilhelm His . On December 10, 1927, he received his license to practice medicine and began working as a volunteer assistant at the psychiatric and mental hospital. After completing his neurological - psychiatric training and his medical doctorate in 1929 on the subject of psychotherapy for bronchial asthma , Pollnow stayed at the Bonhoeffer Clinic .

From about April 1930 Pollnow worked for a year as a ward doctor at the child observation station, he was intensively active in the field of psychopathology of children and adolescents. This activity led to a joint research project on “hyperkinetic conditions in childhood” with Franz Kramer . Together they worked on the study published in 1932 via a hyperkinetic disorder in childhood , the first time a symptom complex with hyperactivity , Un attention and impulse control disorder in the center as a separate illness in children demarcated. This later found its way into psychiatry as Kramer-Pollnow syndrome and is now considered to be an early "reference point for the scientific concept of [...] attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)".

Due to the political situation, Pollnow, like all other Jewish employees of the Charité, was dismissed on March 31, 1933. At the beginning of May 1933 , Pollnow emigrated to France . Pollnow fought in the French army against the German invasion in 1940 . In February 1943 he was arrested on a friendship visit in Pau . He was brought to Mauthausen, Austria, via various internment camps in France and Germany.

Pollnow was interned under the name Jean Pollnow with the prisoner number 34,598 on August 27, 1943 in Mauthausen concentration camp . At the age of 41 he was "shot while trying to escape" on October 21, 1943.

Publications

(Selection)

  • Contributions to the history and logic of expression interpretation . In: Yearbook of the Philosophical Faculty Königsberg Prussia 1924/25 . Königsberg 1926, pp. 127-129.
  • For psychotherapy of bronchial asthma. Critical review of the previously published case report. Springer, Berlin 1929.
  • With Franz Kramer : About a hyperkinetic disease in childhood . In: Monthly Journal for Psychiatry and Neurology , Volume 82, No. 1–2, 1932, pp. 1–40.
  • With Franz Kramer: Symptoms and course of a hyperkinetic disease in childhood . In: Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Psychiatrie , 96th vol., 1932, pp. 214-216.

literature

  • Alma Kreuter: German-speaking neurologists and psychiatrists. A biographical-bibliographical lexicon from the precursors to the middle of the 20th century. Volume 3. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-598-11196-7 , p. 1124.
  • Aribert Rothenberger , Klaus-Jürgen Neumärker: The history of science of ADHD - Kramer-Pollnow in the mirror of the times. Steinkopff, Darmstadt 2005, ISBN 3-7985-1552-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Aribert Rothenberger , Klaus-Jürgen Neumärker: The history of science of ADHD - Kramer-Pollnow in the mirror of time. Steinkopff, Darmstadt 2005, ISBN 3-7985-1552-2 . Here p. V (foreword).
  2. ↑ Hans Pollnow - GeDenkOrt. Charité . Retrieved January 15, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Pollnow, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pollnow, Jean (inmate name in concentration camp)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychiatrist
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Königsberg (Prussia)
DATE OF DEATH October 21, 1943
Place of death Mauthausen concentration camp , Mauthausen , Austria