Heinrich von Kogerer

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Heinrich Joseph Theodor von Kogerer (born May 18, 1887 in Grinzing , † August 20, 1958 in Vienna ) was an Austrian psychiatrist and neurologist .

Life

Heinrich von Kogerer completed a medical degree at the University of Vienna , where he received his doctorate in 1910. med. received his doctorate . He then worked as a ship's doctor at Österreichischer Lloyd . From 1911 to 1917 he worked as a prosector at the Rudolfstiftung Hospital in Vienna . From 1918 he worked as an assistant at the Vienna Psychiatric-Neurological University Clinic as an employee and student of Julius Wagner-Jauregg . He took over the management of the psychotherapeutic outpatient clinic, which was founded in 1922 and affiliated to the Psychiatric-Neurological University Clinic. He completed his habilitation in 1927 in Vienna for psychiatry and neurology. From 1931 he headed the neurological department at the Kaiserin-Elisabeth-Spital .

In the course of the annexation of Austria , he worked from March 1938 in the German Institute for Psychological Research and Psychotherapy , headed by Matthias Heinrich Göring , and in the same year was also entrusted with the management of a psychoanalytic working group in Vienna. Kogerer, who had written a work on psychotherapy for students and doctors in 1934, stated in 1938 that “[...] what the knowledgeable has long known can now be expressed: namely that Freud's psychoanalysis is specifically Jewish psychology and only partially applies. "

He was appointed adjunct professor in Vienna in 1939. From 1938 he was a member of the NSDAP , but was soon expelled from the party again because of his half-Jewish wife. In 1942 he was re-accepted into the party as a result of a “grace from the Führer”.

During the Second World War , from 1940 until the end of the war in 1945, he was employed as an advisory military psychiatrist in the Wehrmacht (Reserve Hospital Group A (1942), Army Group Northern Ukraine (September 1944), most recently Army Group A). Most recently he held the rank of senior field doctor , which he reached in January 1945.

After the end of the war he settled in Vienna as a neurologist.

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  1. Alma Kreuter: German-speaking neurologists and psychiatrists: A biographical-bibliographical lexicon from the forerunners to the middle of the 20th century. , Volume 1, Munich 1996, Volume 1, p. 749
  2. a b c Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 327f.
  3. quoted in H. Hirnsperger, G. Sonneck: Psychologie und Medizin. A historical sketch. In: Gerda Mehta (Ed.): The Practice of Psychology: A Career Planner , Springerverlag, Vienna 2004, p. 302
  4. Georg Berger: The advisory psychiatrists of the German army 1939 to 1945. Lang, Frankfurt 1998, ISBN 3-631-33296-3 , p. 273