Hermann Pohlmeier

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Hermann Pohlmeier (born July 17, 1928 in Düsseldorf , † August 7, 1996 in Göttingen) was a German psychiatrist and psychoanalyst . He was professor of medical psychology at the University of Göttingen and devoted himself in particular to suicide research .

Life

Pohlmeier began studying medicine at the University of Cologne and after two semesters moved to the University of Bonn , where he began studying theology and was accepted into the Catholic seminary . He dropped out of theology studies after six semesters and turned back to medicine. In 1957 he was at the University of Munich with Scripture A simple flat interface method of chorioallantoic membrane as a diagnostic tool in microbiology for MD PhD .

Pohlmeier trained as a psychiatrist with Paul Matussek and Anton von Braunmühl and completed a training analysis with Fritz Riemann . From 1970 to 1975 he worked as a senior physician in Ulm, where he belonged to Helmut Enke's working group, in which medical psychology was established as a subject. From 1975 Hermann Pohlmeier worked as a professor for this subject at the University of Göttingen. His focus was depression - and above all suicide research. He was a co-founder and chairman of the German Society for Suicide Prevention for over eight years. After the then President of the German Society for Human Dying (DGHS), Hans Henning Atrott , was arrested for illegal trading in potassium cyanide and tax evasion, Pohlmeier took over the chairmanship of this society in May 1993.

Fonts (selection)

As an author:

  • Suicide and suicide prevention. Urban and Schwarzenberg, Munich 1978; 2nd edition 1983, ISBN 3-541-08582-7 .
  • Depression and suicide. Keil, Bonn 1980, ISBN 3-921591-11-2 ; 3rd edition: Parerga, Düsseldorf 1995, ISBN 3-930450-02-X .
  • Suicide between medicine and law. G. Fischer, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-437-11708-4 .
  • How free is suicide? - restriction of freely responsible action through illness? (= Berlin medical ethical writings. H. 7). Humanitas, Dortmund 1996, ISBN 3-928366-21-1 .

As editor:

  • Suicide prevention. Presumption or obligation. Keil, Bonn 1978; 2nd edition: Parerga, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-9803042-6-4 .
  • Uschi Essbach-Kreuzer: Medical psychology and clinic. Verlag für Angewandte Psychologie, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-87844-000-6 .
  • Suicidal behavior. Method problems and explanatory approaches. Roderer, Regensburg 1983, ISBN 3-89073-001-9 .
  • with Hans Henning Atrott : Euthanasia in the present. Roderer, Regensburg 1990, ISBN 3-89073-473-1 .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christel Hofmann: Always on the border. In: The time . No. 40, September 30, 1988.
  2. ↑ Hermann Pohlmeier (1928–1996) ( Memento of the original from September 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , German Society for Medical Psychology, October 1996. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dgmp-online.de
  3. ^ The cyanide shops . In: Der Spiegel . No. 11 , 1994 ( online ).
  4. ↑ Lonely Loyalty . In: Der Spiegel . No. 26 , 1993 ( online ).
  5. ↑ Georg Bönisch, Hans Leyendecker: Provision for day X. Professors Hermann Pohlmeier and Klaus Dörner on euthanasia and euthanasia . In: Der Spiegel . No. 11 , 1994 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Pohlmeier, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychiatrist and psychoanalyst
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH August 7, 1996
Place of death Goettingen