Horst-Eberhard Richter

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Horst-Eberhard Richter (2007)

Horst-Eberhard Richter (born April 28, 1923 in Berlin ; † December 19, 2011 in Gießen ) was a German psychoanalyst , psychosomaticist and social philosopher . The author of numerous books was also considered by many to be the "big old man" of the West German peace movement .

Life

After his school leaving examination in 1941, Horst-Eberhard Richter was drafted into the Wehrmacht . He served in 1942 as gunner in an artillery regiment on the Eastern Front . In 1943 he was able to transfer to the medical service . In 1945 he was deployed to Italy , where shortly before the end of the war he deserted and hid in a refuge in the Alps . There, it felt French on occupation soldiers, the one submerged in it Nazi - irregulars , a so-called " Werewolf " and suspected him four months in an old Innsbruck clung prison until he a French military court released her. After returning to Germany, he learned that his parents had been murdered by Soviet soldiers months after the end of the war.

Richter wrote in the apartment of a bombed apartment building in Berlin-Halensee his dissertation on the topic The philosophical dimension of pain with which he 1949. Dr. phil. received his doctorate. With a paper that he wrote in the course of his further medical training, he obtained his doctorate in medicine in 1957 .

From 1952 to 1962 Richter headed a counseling and research center for mentally disturbed children and young people in Berlin. He also trained as a psychoanalyst and specialist in neurology and psychiatry. From 1959 to 1962 he headed the Berlin Psychoanalytical Institute . In 1962 he was appointed to the newly established chair for psychosomatics in Giessen , where he built a tripartite interdisciplinary center with a psychosomatic clinic and departments for medical psychology and medical sociology, of which he became director. He also founded a local psychoanalytic institute. From 1964 to 1968 Richter was chairman of the German Psychoanalytic Association . In 1971 he advocated the socialist patient collective founded by Wolfgang Huber as a reviewer . His retirement took place in 1991. In 2004 he was a visiting professor at the University of Vienna , donated by Peter Ustinov . From 1992 to 2002 he headed the Sigmund Freud Institute in Frankfurt am Main .

Gravestone in the cemetery Heerstraße in Berlin-Westend with a quote from Max Scheler

He died on December 19, 2011 after a short, serious illness in Giessen. The burial took place on December 23, 2011 in the state-owned cemetery Heerstraße in Berlin-Westend (burial location: 16-C-57). The wife Bergrun Richter b. Luckow (* 1923) was buried at his side in August 2019. The gravestone is a boulder with a quote from Max Scheler , which was already to be read in a simplified form in the family's obituary: "Before a person is a thinking and a willing being, a loving being."

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Horst-Eberhard Richter (2010)

Richter first became internationally known as one of the pioneers of psychoanalytic family research and family therapy . In addition to Freud's analysis of the child-parent relationship , he also examined the pathogenic effects of disturbed parents on their children. In joint research with Dieter Beckmann , he wrote a textbook on cardiac neurosis and developed the Giessen test together with Elmar Brähler . Richter "discovered the emancipatory potential of the group, both in psychotherapeutic and in political terms."

After critical analyzes of the social reform movement of the 1970s, his cultural-philosophical work Der Gotteskomplex was published : Man wants to replace the loss of security of faith with a will to rule based on natural science - "To be God instead of having God". In the waver between fear of powerlessness and madness of omnipotence, the scientific-technical revolution threatens to lose its ethical control.

In 1981 Richter became one of the leading figures of the peace movement with his book Everyone spoke of peace and in 1982 he co-founded the West German section of doctors for the prevention of nuclear war , which received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985 for their commitment . In 1987 Richter helped initiate the International Foundation for the Survival and the Development of Humanity, which Mikhail Gorbachev is in charge of . There he conducted a comparative study aimed at better understanding between German and Russian students. From 1991 to 2001 Richter moderated the “East-West Symposium on Political Self-Reflection” with leaders from politics, science, literature and the church from the old and new federal states. During the two Iraq wars he was one of the most highly regarded intellectuals in the peace movement. Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker's so-called “mental illness of peacetime” in the West has been the main topic for Richter since 2007 in his cultural psychological analyzes in speeches and writings.

“There is a circular correlation between making and knowing. If you don't do what you have recognized as necessary, even if it is fraught with personal inconvenience, then at some point you can no longer recognize what needs to be done. Anyone who tactically gives in to constraints to adapt, knowing full well that he could and should withstand them with a reasonable risk, will gradually no longer perceive the unreasonableness of demands for adaptation, i. In other words, no longer seeing through one's own compliance as an escape reaction. Everything seems normal: the circumstances to which he surrenders and the renunciation of resistance, which he no longer experiences. "

- Horst-Eberhard Richter : Psychoanalysis and Politics , foreword

Richter drafted a Frankfurt Declaration which should enable doctors to publicly acknowledge by signing that they “refuse any military medical training and further education.” Since 2001, that is, from the beginning, he has been involved in the “movement critical of globalization Attac ".

"In his opening speech at the founding congress of the German organization in 2001 in Berlin, he emphatically pleaded for a closer connection between social, economic and ecological reform initiatives and the peace movement."

- NN : Süddeutsche Zeitung

Horst Eberhard Richter Institute

In September 2017 the Psychoanalytic Institute Gießen was renamed the Horst-Eberhard-Richter-Institute for Psychoanalysis and Pyschotherapy . Richter was a founding member of this institute in the early 1960s. The laudation at the ceremony for the renaming was given by Hans-Jürgen Wirth . Stephan Scholz reported on Richter's honor in the Gießener Anzeiger and called him a "thinker who dominated the bestseller lists for years and whose humanity is still highly praised today."

honors and awards

The Order of Merit has refused judge three times on the grounds that "too many former Nazis it had received".

Fonts

1960-1969

  • Parent, child and neurosis. The role of the child in the family / psychoanalysis of the child's role . 1962. Rowohlt reprinted, ISBN 3-499-16082-X .
  • with Dieter Beckmann : cardiac neurosis . Thieme, 1969. New edition Psychosozial-Verlag 1998, ISBN 3-89806-226-0 .

1970-1979

1980-1989

  • Everyone was talking about peace. Attempt at a paradoxical intervention . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1984, ISBN 3-499-17846-X .
  • On the psychology of peace . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1984, ISBN 3-499-17869-9 .
  • The chance of conscience. Memories and associations . 1986. New edition Psychosozial-Verlag 2002, ISBN 3-89806-177-9 .
  • The fine art of corruption. Insights from a policy advisor . 1989, Heyne-Sachbuch 158 ISBN 3-453-05104-1 .

1990-1999

  • Dealing with fear . 1992. New edition Econ 2000, ISBN 3-612-26683-7 .
  • If you don't want to suffer, you have to hate. On the epidemic of violence . 1993. New edition Psychosozial-Verlag 2004, ISBN 3-89806-277-5 .
  • Concerns about adaptation. Psychoanalysis and politics . 1995. Newly published in 2003 under the title Psychoanalysis and Politics . Psychosozial-Verlag, ISBN 3-89806-243-0 .
  • Memory work and the image of man in psychotherapy . 1995. Lindau texts on the Lindau Psychotherapy Weeks, pp. 121–135 Springer-Verlag 1996 (PDF)
  • Try to understand the history of the RAF. The example of Birgit Hogefeld . Psychosozial-Verlag, 1996, ISBN 3-930096-87-0 .
  • When Einstein didn't know what to do next . 1997. New edition Econ 2000, ISBN 3-548-75015-X .

2000-2009

  • Wanderer between the fronts. Thoughts and memories. (Autobiography) Kiepenheuer and Witsch, 2000. Ullstein, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-548-36287-7 .
  • Culture of peace . Psychosozial-Verlag, Giessen 2001, ISBN 3-89806-068-3 .
  • The end of egomania. The crisis of the western consciousness . 2002, ISBN 3-462-03087-6 (as paperback: Knaur 77655, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-426-77655-3 ).
  • with Bernard Cassen and Susan George : Another world is possible! [Documentation of the Attac Congress from October 19-21, 2001 in Berlin]. VSA, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-87975-845-X .
  • with Frank Uhe: standing up for humanity . Psychosozial-Verlag, Giessen 2003, ISBN 3-89806-283-X .
  • Is another world possible? For globalization based on solidarity. Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 2003 ISBN 3-462-03253-4 (KiWi 774, unchanged new edition: Psychosozial-Verlag, Gießen 2005, ISBN 3-89806-346-1 ).
  • The crisis of masculinity in adult society . Psychosozial-Verlag, Giessen 2006, ISBN 978-3-89806-570-2 .
  • The mental illness peacelessness is curable Psychosozial-Verlag, Giessen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89806-836-9 .

2010-2011

Other publications

  • Foreword to: Christiane F .: We children from Bahnhof Zoo . Written down from tape protocols by Kai Hermann and Horst Rieck. Gruner & Jahr, Hamburg 1978
  • Defeat of the intellect . In: Friday. The east-west weekly newspaper . No. 31 of July 23, 2004 ( online )

Movie

  • Horst-Eberhard Richter, psychoanalyst. Documentary, Germany, 2007, 43:30 min., Written and directed: Wolfgang Schoen and Torsten Halsey, production: tvschoenfilm, SWR , arte , first broadcast: March 3rd, 2008 on arte.

Web links

Commons : Horst-Eberhard Richter  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Interviews

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dpa: Honorary citizen of Giessen: Psychoanalyst Horst-Eberhard Richter died. In: Gießener Anzeiger. December 20, 2011, archived from the original on December 21, 2011 ; Retrieved December 21, 2011 .
  2. ↑ Contemporary witness TV on YouTube .
  3. ^ DPV obituary notice, Tagesspiegel of December 24, 2011, p. 12.
  4. ↑ Psychoanalyst Horst-Eberhard Richter has died. In: Die Zeit , December 20, 2011.
  5. ↑ The family's obituary in the Tagesspiegel from December 22, 2011 (with the wrong year of death 2012). Retrieved on December 4, 2019. Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin Burial Sites . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 . P. 493.
  6. ↑ Obituary notice for Bergrun Richter in Tagesspiegel from August 18, 2019. Accessed December 4, 2019.
  7. ↑ Hans-Jürgen Wirth: Horst-Eberhard Richter - a life as a psychoanalytic enlightener. Obituary. Published by the German Society for Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy, Psychosomatics and Depth Psychology (DGPT) e. V.
  8. ↑ Erich Böhme, Rolf S. Müller: "We live in the collective paranoia" . In: Der Spiegel . No. 44 , 1981 ( online ).
  9. ↑ http://www.taz.de/!5104934
  10. ↑ a b Horst-Eberhard Richter is dead. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . December 20, 2011, accessed October 18, 2017 .
  11. ↑ A critical voice that is missing. Psychosozial-Verlag, 2017, accessed on October 18, 2017 .
  12. ↑ Stephan Scholz: Psychoanalytic Institute Gießen named after Horst-Eberhard Richter. In: Gießener Anzeiger . September 10, 2017. Retrieved October 18, 2017 .
  13. ↑ Laudation by Dorothee Sölle on fairness-stiftung.de.
  14. ↑ After the bourgeois majority in the Giessen city parliament refused honorary citizenship of the judge in 2003, among other things with reference to his pacifist attitudes and his criticism of the Iraq war , the city parliament voted on September 20, 2007 by a majority to the application of the magistrate to be conferred honorary citizenship .
  15. ↑ Award for social commitment . In: Oberhessische Presse Marburg , April 20, 2010, p. 3.
  16. ↑ leading figure of the peace movement. The pacifist who had to kill . In: Spiegel Online, April 28, 2008, accessed December 20, 2011.
  17. ↑ Cover text of the book
personal data
SURNAME Richter, Horst-Eberhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychoanalyst, social philosopher and author
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 19, 2011
Place of death to water