Hans Szewczyk

Hans Szewczyk (born November 12, 1923 , † November 28, 1994 in Berlin ) was a German forensic psychiatrist and psychologist who pioneered the field of forensic psychiatry and medical psychology .

Life

Hans Szewczyk studied medicine and psychology at the Humboldt University in Berlin and worked there until his second doctorate as assistant to Kurt Gottschaldt at the Institute for Psychology. He completed his habilitation with Karl Leonhard at the Psychiatric Clinic of the Charité , whose department for forensic psychiatry and psychology he headed from 1961. As an expert he was also involved in the revision of the GDR Criminal Code from 1968.

At the beginning of the 1970s - for the first time in Germany - he used profiling methods in the case of the Eberswalde child murders . Other areas of interest Szewczyk were alcoholism and the problem of intoxication . Together with Hans-Dieter Rösler , he wrote a nationally and internationally recognized textbook on medical psychology that was widely used in medical training.

In 1974 he was appointed to the chair of Forensic Psychiatry at the Humboldt University and headed the Department of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology and the Department of Medical Psychology. He was also chairman of the section on clinical psychology (later psychology in medicine ), the Society for Medical Psychotherapy of the GDR.

Hans Szewczyk retired in 1988 .

Publications (selection)

Szewczyk wrote 21 monographs, six textbooks and over 250 original works.

• with H. Burghardt: sexuality, facts, norms, social responsibility. Berlin 1978.
• Sexuality and partnership. Berlin 1982.
• as ed. with Lykke Aresin , Helga Hörz , Hannes Hüttner and Hans Szewczyk: Lexikon der Humansexuologie. Verlag Volk und Gesundheit, Berlin 1990.
• as ed. with Karl Seidel , HAF Schulze and Gerhard Göllnitz : Neurology and psychiatry including child neuropsychiatry and judicial psychiatry. Student textbook. Berlin 1977; 4th edition, ibid. 1988.
• with HD Rösler and K. Wildgrube: Medical Psychology. Heidelberg: Spectrum Academic Publishing House, Heidelberg 1996. ISBN 978-3-86025-2-376 .

literature

• Christoph Lorke: From the biography and knowledge history to the analysis of social inequalities: John Lekschas, Hans Szewczyk and the pathologization of the social in the GDR . In: Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft , Vol. 68, 2020, Issue 5, pp. 437–457.

Web links

• Stefan Orlob: Was the German forensic psychiatrist Hans Szewczyk the first modern profiler?
• Obituary of the DGMP