Heinrich Lahmann

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Heinrich Lahmann 1860–1905
Heinrich Lahmann 1860–1905
Portrait in Dresden-Weißer Hirsch am Stechgrund
Lahmann's grave in the family mausoleum at the Weißer Hirsch forest cemetery

Johann Heinrich Lahmann (born March 30, 1860 in Bremen ; † June 1, 1905 in Friedrichstal near Radeberg ) was a German doctor and natural healer. He was close to the idea of life reform .

Life

Heinrich Lahmann was born in 1860 as the son of the independent Reepschläger and member of the Bremen citizenship Albert Lahmann and his wife Elisabeth Lahmann, born Erichs was born in Bremen. His older brother was the lawyer and art collector Johann Friedrich Lahmann (1858–1937). After graduating from high school, he only studied technology in Hanover for two years . In 1880 he became a member of the Corps Hannovera . He then studied medicine in Greifswald , Munich , Leipzig and Heidelberg , where he received his doctorate. First he settled in Stuttgart as a general practitioner, where he published his first work with the title Critique of Prof. Dr. Jäger's wool clothing theory, soul theory and healing theory . In it he criticized the views of the medical doctor Gustav Jäger , who propagated reform clothing made of wool as the only healthy clothing and also had it manufactured. Lahmann, on the other hand, advocated cotton , primarily as underwear, and later also had cotton under the name Dr. Lahmann from the Heinzelmann factory in Reutlingen . In 1922 he founded the Lahmann Company AG (Lahco) in Baden AG, Switzerland, with the right to manufacture the underwear he developed. The company went bankrupt in 2017.

In 1886 Johann von Zimmermann offered him the management of his naturopathic institute in Chemnitz . But they apparently fell out within a short time, because as early as 1887 the doctor moved to Dresden and opened his own sanatorium in the Dresden suburb (today district) Weißer Hirsch on January 1, 1888 under the name "Physiatrisches Sanatorium" in the "Frida-Bad", a health resort closed in 1883. Initially only ten employees worked there, but in the first year he treated 385 spa guests. In the same year Lahmann married Pauline Haase (1867–1910); the marriage resulted in six children.

Family coat of arms on Lahmanns Gut Friedrichstal Radeberg

In 1894 Lahmann bought the Radeberger Gut Friedrichstal from the previous owner Alfred Pilz. Lahmann continued to run it as a farm, around which a manor settlement developed. Lahmann used the estate as his home and, above all, as "Dr. Lahmann's sanatorium. Weisser Hirsch bei Dresden ”, he identified the estate as“ Vorwerk Friedrichsthal ”. Lahmann had a large orchard planted here to supply his sanatorium on the White Deer . On the façade of the manor house facing the main entrance to Friedrichstal, Lahmann had the coat of arms carved in stone of the family originally from Bremen attached.

Lahmann died in 1905 in his Gut Friedrichstal at the age of 45 of an inflammation of the heart muscle as a result of the flu . He was buried in the Weißer Hirsch forest cemetery.

Services

Lahmann had already dealt with naturopathy during his studies , including the methods of Vincenz Prießnitz and Johann Schroth . He turned completely away from classical medicine and aimed at the creation of a unified alternative healing system, which should primarily include hydrotherapy , Swedish therapeutic gymnastics , air baths and healthy eating. He refused medication on principle. In 1891 he published his book entitled The Dietary Blood Segregation as the Root Cause of All Diseases . In it he developed the theory that all illnesses are ultimately caused by improper nutrition and therefore can also be prevented by eating right.

He assumed that the usual diet was too acidic and contained too few basic minerals , which he called "nutritional salts". He was probably the first to recognize the importance of minerals; the vitamins had not yet been discovered at that time. In 1895 he set up a laboratory to conduct studies on human metabolism that were intended to confirm his theories. His nutritional theory on “blood segregation” and the recommendation of a “base-rich diet” is controversial today among nutritionists and medical professionals, but is still considered correct in alternative medicine .

Lahmann recommended a predominantly vegetarian diet, which should consist primarily of lettuce, vegetables, fruit and nuts, supplemented by milk and dairy products and whole grain bread . Meat and luxury foods should be restricted to Sundays. In the course of time he developed five different diets for his patients: "normal diet", purely vegetarian diet, diet for overweight, light diet and diet for diabetics . The nutritionist Maximilian Bircher-Benner stayed with Lahmann for an informational visit before opening his own sanatorium in Zurich .

In addition to nutrition, Lahmann's cure concept was based on water applications, so-called air baths and exercise in the great outdoors, i.e. principles of hardening . Some patients were housed in “air huts”, and he also prescribed outdoor cures. Every morning the patients met lightly dressed for gymnastics in the park, the women in "air bathing shirts", the men in shorts, even in winter. For a change, they also went bowling in these clothes, and men were encouraged to saw wood and shovel sand.

The sanatorium developed into a well-known, internationally frequented facility. In 1893 there were over 1,000 patients for the first time in a year; in 1905, the year Lahmann died, there were almost 4,000. Well-known spa guests in later years included Heinrich George , Heinz Rühmann and Johannes Heesters .

After Lahmann's death, the family continued to run the house. From 1920 to 1924, Johannes Heinrich Schultz , who developed autogenic training , was chief physician and scientific director of the sanatorium. In the Second World War it served as a hospital.

From 1946 to 1992 Lahmann's sanatorium was used by the Soviet Army and the building fabric was extremely neglected. When it was returned, individual buildings were in a ruinous condition. Since the withdrawal of the Red Army, the listed Lahmann Sanatorium has been empty and has continued to deteriorate. At the beginning of 2011 it was sold to Baywobau , which renovated it and provided it with luxurious condominiums. A prominent resident of the as Dr. Lahmann Park has been the former Prime Minister of Saxony Stanislaw Tillich since April 2015 .

Publications

  • The most important chapters of the natural (physical-dietetic) healing method. 3rd edition of the "Physiatrische Blätter". Stuttgart 1897.
  • The reform of clothing . A. Zimmer's Verlag, 1898
  • The air bath as a healing and hardening agent . Otto Reichl Verlag, 1986 (new edition of the Stuttgart 1898 edition) ISBN 3876671086
  • Dietary blood segregation as the root cause of diseases. A contribution to the doctrine of the disposition of diseases and disease prevention . Otto Reichl Verlag, 1987 (reprint of the 15th edition, Leipzig 1905) ISBN 3876670861
  • Carbon dioxide build-up in our body - the most important general cause of illness. A contribution to understanding the nature of internal illnesses . Otto Reichl Verlag, 1986 (reprint of the 3rd edition, Stuttgart 1905) ISBN 3876671094

literature

Web links

Commons : Heinrich Lahmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rudolf Wilhelm: Lahmann, Heinrich. In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (see literature)
    Only the Technical University of Hanover at the time can be meant ; It remains unclear in which of the five "departments" Lahmann studied at the time - there was no "Technology" course.
  2. ↑ 1866–1966, Corps Hannovera at the Technical University of Hanover , 1966, p. 91
  3. ^ Holdings: Y 052 - H. Heinzelmann GmbH & Co , Economic Archives Baden-Württemberg
  4. ↑ Susanne Wagner: Retro swimwear with high-tech fabrics In: Handelszeitung from May 20, 2008, online , accessed on November 24, 2018, the Lahco AG website is offline on November 24, 2018 and cannot be viewed due to password protection
  5. ^ SLUB Dresden: Address book Radeberg 1896, p. 129
  6. ^ Henry Berndt: Tillich buys a penthouse in Dresden. In: sächsische.de . April 4, 2015, accessed November 23, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Lahmann, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lahmann, Johann Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and naturopath
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH June 1, 1905
Place of death Friedrichstal near Radeberg