Hermann Gutzmann Jr.

Hermann Gutzmann Jr. (* January 20, 1892 in Berlin ; † June 28, 1972 there ) was a German doctor and founder of the first speech therapist training institute in Germany. As a phoniatrist he continued the legacy of his father Hermann Gutzmann sen. in Berlin.

Life

Hermann Gutzmann's grave

He attended the humanistic high school in Berlin-Zehlendorf , where he graduated from high school in 1913 and began studying medicine in the summer semester. After being drafted for military service in 1914, he was deployed on the Western Front, most recently as a company commander of a machine gun company. He received the EK II and later the Iron Cross . He continued his interrupted medical studies in 1919 and completed his physics course in the same year. He lost two semesters because of a sepsis that he contracted during a section. When his father died in 1922, he had not finished studying medicine and did not receive his license to practice medicine until 1923 . The doctorate on the subject of diagnosis and therapy of chronic periosophageo-medistinal fistulas was completed in February 1923. He immediately took over the management of his father's private sanatorium and first had to acquire additional specialist knowledge. To this end, he sat in with his father's students in Munich, Vienna and Freiburg, among others.

Worked at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin (1924–1950)

The provisional management of the outpatient clinic for voice and language disorders at the Charité was incumbent on Harold Zumsteeg, who handed it over to Hermann Gutzmann in 1924 under Carl Otto von Eicken , successor to Gustav Killian as head of the ENT clinic. Through the merger of the two ear clinics in Berlin in 1926, Theodor Simon Flatau (1860–1937), the older one, became the overall director of the language clinic until his retirement in 1933. In 1931 Gutzmann applied for a habilitation for diseases of voice and language (subject: About some relationships speech medicine to neurology and psychiatry ), as a speaker v. Eicken and the internist Gustav von Bergmann appointed as co-referee . He failed at the trial lecture in May 1932, as he noted in a letter to Max Nadolezcny , the lecture was rejected by the faculty. His habilitation was only recognized on a second attempt in July.

Hermann Gutzmann received no wages as an employee until 1937, probably a small scholarship until 1933 on the advice of Eickens at the Prussian Minister for Science, Art and Education. For economic reasons, Gutzmann had to give up the sanatorium and residential building in Zehlendorf at the beginning of the 1930s, and he moved to Berlin-Charlottenburg with his wife and three children . It was only with the incorporation of the polyclinic in 1937 into the budget of the ENT clinic that Gutzmann was able to receive a salary. In 1938 he was appointed adjunct professor. In the course of the reorganization of the universities by the National Socialists, this was renamed in 1939 as a "New Order Professorship".

For political reasons, this fact led to a resignation by the Berlin magistrate in 1945, but this was withdrawn at Gutzmann's objection. A termination by v. Eicken in 1948 and the appointment of a successor was withdrawn by the university administration after Gutzmann's objection. The background to this termination was the fact that Gutzmann had maintained a private practice (in his Charlottenburg apartment), unchanged since the prewar period, which was necessary from Gutzmann's point of view in view of the difficult economic situation at that time. In 1949 he set up a self-financed central office for the speech impaired in the bunker of the former headquarters of the Reich Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop in Berlin-Dahlem .

Worked at the Free University of Berlin (1950–1970)

The reasons for his own resignation from the Charité in August 1950 are not known, but Gutzmann was quickly re-qualified at the newly founded FU Berlin .

In 1951, the Charlottenburg district took over the central office as a municipal facility, which was affiliated with the Westend Hospital, the FU University Hospital. In 1958 it was taken over by the FU as the University Polyclinic for People with Voice and Language Disorders (PSSK).

Foundation of the speech therapist school

In addition to his teaching and research activities to Gutzmann devoted his whole life intensely the training of speech therapists, particularly of medical speech therapist (as distinct from speech therapy educators founded Gutzmann with significant participation by Ursula) After long negotiations with the Berlin Senate again and his senior physician Gisela Boers 1961 first speech therapist training institute in Germany. At this point in time, he had not worked as head of the polyclinic for a year because he had reached the age limit. However, he kept the management of the educational institution, which was officially opened on July 15, 1962, until 1970.

Hermann Gutzmann died in Berlin in 1972 at the age of 80. His grave is in the Zehlendorf cemetery .

student

• Gottfried E. Arnold (1914–1989)
• Hans Bauer (* 1926)
• Helmut Loebell (1894–1964)

swell

• Heinz Zehmisch: Lecture on the occasion of a ceremony of the Berlin Charité in memory of Hermann Gutzmann sen. on January 29, 2005 (PDF, 2.55 MB)
• Manfred Gross: 30 years of speech therapy in Germany . Renate Gross Verlag, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-926468-07-6 .
• Thomas Brauer, Anne Aumüller, Jennifer Schwarz: Speech therapy: who is who? Schulz-Kirchner Verlag, Idstein 2004, ISBN 3-8248-0469-7 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 674.