Harro Wendt

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Harro Otfrid Karl Wendt (born September 7, 1918 in Arnswalde , West Prussia , † January 19, 2006 ) was a German psychiatrist and music therapist .

Life

Wendt was the youngest of three children from the family of a book printer and newspaper publisher. After graduating from high school in 1937 and completing labor service, he joined the medical corps in 1939 . During the Second World War he served as a medical sergeant in Italy and Vienna. After the war he returned to Leipzig and initially worked as a prisoner of war in military hospitals .

In 1949 he passed his state examination. Wendt received his doctorate at the University Children's Hospital in Leipzig and his habilitation in 1960 at the Neurological Clinic of the University of Leipzig . In 1961 he became the medical director of the Uchtspringe specialist hospital and later also worked as chairman of the dynamic individual psychotherapy section in the Society for Medical Psychotherapy in the GDR. Together with Karl Leonhardt (Berlin Charité), Wendt is considered the only psychotherapist in the GDR who devoted himself intensively to individual treatment.

Harro-Wendt-Platz in Stendal is named after him.

His marriage to a doctor in 1943 resulted in two sons (* 1945, 1946) and a daughter (* 1948).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Volkmar Lischka: In memory of Harro Wendt. In: Uchtspringer writings on psychiatry / neurology, sleep medicine, psychology and psychoanalysis , vol. 4 page 117
  2. ↑ Sonja Süss : Politically Abused ?: Psychiatry and State Security in the GDR. Ch. Links Verlag, 2010, p. 325. ISBN 9783862840328
  3. ↑ Suess, op.cit., P. 99.
personal data
SURNAME Wendt, Harro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wendt, Harro Otfrid Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychiatrist and music therapist
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Arnswalde , West Prussia
DATE OF DEATH January 19, 2006