Hans W. Maier

Hans W. Maier, 1914

Hans Wolfgang Maier (born July 26, 1882 in Frankfurt am Main , † March 25, 1945 in Zurich ) was a German - Swiss psychiatrist .

Life

Maier completed his Matura in Zurich and studied medicine at the Universities of Zurich , Vienna and Strasbourg . He received his doctorate in Zurich in 1905 and has since worked as an assistant and secondary doctor at the Burghölzli psychiatric clinic . In 1912 he received his habilitation in psychiatry and in 1916 he was given a titular professorship . He founded and directed the psychiatric outpatient clinic and the children's psychiatric department in Stephansburg. In 1927 Maier succeeded Eugen Bleuler as director of Burghölzli and full professor of psychiatry at the University of Zurich. In June 1941 Maier resigned from his offices after an anonymous campaign accused him of having entered into a relationship with a patient and of having had an illegitimate child with her.

Like his two predecessors, Maier represented eugenic ideas. Together with Alfred Glaus and Hans Binder, he standardized the “Zurich practice of prohibition of marriage , abortion regulations , sterilization and castration ”, which had already been established by his predecessors and which had an effect far beyond the Burghölzli.

Maier was naturalized in Zurich in 1900.

literature

Christian Arnold: The psychiatrist Hans Wolfgang Maier (1882–1945) (= Zurich medical history treatises. New series, No. 239). Juris, Dietikon 1992 (with bibliography).

Web links

Vera Koelbing-Waldis: Maier, Hans Wolfgang. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Uwe Zeller: Psychotherapy in the Weimar period: The establishment of the "General Medical Society for Psychotherapy" (AÄGP). MVK, Tübingen 2001, ISBN 3-932694-98-8 , p. 387.
^ Vera Koelbing-Waldis: Maier, Hans Wolfgang. In: Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz ., February 27, 2008, accessed on February 5, 2016.
↑ Thomas Huonker : Diagnostics and “Eugenics”: On the diagnoses “schizophrenia” and “moral idiocy” and how they were shaped by Eugen Bleuler and Hans Wolfgang Maier. Presentation on the day of remembrance of the victims of National Socialism in the Reichenau Psychiatry Center, January 27, 2004.

personal data
SURNAME	Maier, Hans W.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Maier, Hans Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German-Swiss psychiatrist
DATE OF BIRTH	July 26, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH	Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH	March 25, 1945
Place of death	Zurich

[UZ-1] Uwe Zeller: Psychotherapy in the Weimar period: The establishment of the "General Medical Society for Psychotherapy" (AÄGP). MVK, Tübingen 2001, ISBN 3-932694-98-8 , p. 387.

[2] Vera Koelbing-Waldis: Maier, Hans Wolfgang. In: Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz ., February 27, 2008, accessed on February 5, 2016.

[3] Thomas Huonker : Diagnostics and “Eugenics”: On the diagnoses “schizophrenia” and “moral idiocy” and how they were shaped by Eugen Bleuler and Hans Wolfgang Maier. Presentation on the day of remembrance of the victims of National Socialism in the Reichenau Psychiatry Center, January 27, 2004.