Horst Geyer

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Horst Geyer (born March 30, 1907 in Jena , † July 4, 1958 in Oldenburg (Oldb) ) was a German psychiatrist, neurologist, brain researcher and racial hygienist.

Life

Horst Geyer was the son of the doctor Fritz Geyer (1878–1940). He spent his childhood and youth in Oldenburg. After graduating from high school, he began to study medicine at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . In 1927 he was reciprocated in the Corps Hasso-Borussia Freiburg . When he was inactive , he moved to the local Friedrich Schiller University Jena , the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , the University of Vienna , the (not yet renamed) Friedrichs University Halle and the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . In 1932 he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD . After completing his specialist training as a psychiatrist and neurologist, he worked as an assistant at the University Psychiatric Clinic in Kiel until 1933/34. From November 1, 1934 to July 1, 1935, he took part in the first race hygiene course at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics (KWI-A). After that he was the only assistant to the racial hygienist Fritz Lenz at this institute . He joined the NSDAP in 1937. He was also a member of the SS , but according to Peter Emil Becker (lecture from 1999) he was allegedly excluded from this NS organization because of his Jewish grandfather. In 1939 he completed his habilitation in psychiatry and neurology at the University of Berlin. From 1937 to 1940, his research interests focused on the twin pathology of neurodegenerative diseases, Down's syndrome , epilepsy and “feeble-minded states” in children. In 1939 he switched to the mental hospital in Düsseldorf-Grafenberg as a senior physician. During the Second World War , Geyer was employed as a medical officer in France and the Soviet Union and most recently in a leading position in the neurological department at the Halle-Dölau air force hospital. From 1943 to 1945 Geyer headed the department for psychology, neurology and psychiatry at the Institute for Racial Biology and Racial Hygiene of the Medical Faculty of the University of Vienna under the professor of genetic and racial biology Lothar Loeffler . In 1945 he was appointed associate professor at the University of Vienna. After the end of the war, Geyer worked as a resident neurologist in Oldenburg from 1946. In addition, from 1948 he was chief physician at what was later to become the Karl Jaspers Clinic in Wehnen in Bad Zwischenahn. He was brought to a wider public through his book On Stupidity: Causes and Effects d. intellectual underperformance of humans known.

Fonts

  • The psychological trauma in the pathogenesis of Basedow's disease , Springer, Berlin 1933, In: Zeitschrift f. clin. Medicine. Volume 124 (also medical dissertation at the University of Kiel)
  • Breed grooming , Hillger, Berlin / Leipzig 1936
  • On the etiology of the mongoloid idiocy , from the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Inst. f. Anthropology, Berlin-Dahlem, Dept. f. Racial hygiene, G. Thieme, Leipzig 1939 (also medical habitat at the University of Berlin)
  • About the stupidity: causes u. Effects d. intellectual underperformance d. Menschen , Musterschmidt, Göttingen; Frankfurt; Berlin 1954.
  • Poets of Madness: An Inquiry into d. poetic representation of emotional states of emergency , Musterschmidt, Göttingen; Frankfurt; Berlin 1955 (published unchanged in 10th editions until 1965).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Oldenburger Jahrbuch , volumes 64–65, Isensee Verlag, 1965, p. 147
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 67 , 424
  3. ↑ a b c Horst Geyer at http://www.munzinger.de
  4. ↑ Dissertation: Psychological trauma in the pathogenesis of Graves' disease
  5. ↑ Hans-Walter Schmuhl: Crossing borders. The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics 1927–1945. History of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society under National Socialism, Volume 9. Wallstein, Göttingen 2005, p. 215
  6. ↑ Hans-Walter Schmuhl: Crossing borders. The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics 1927–1945. History of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society under National Socialism, Volume 9. Wallstein, Göttingen 2005, p. 245
  7. ↑ Eberhard Gabriel, Wolfgang Neugebauer (ed.): From forced sterilization to murder. On the history of Nazi euthanasia in Vienna. Part II, Vienna 2002, p. 268
  8. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 182
personal data
SURNAME Geyer, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychiatrist, neurologist and author
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Jena
DATE OF DEATH 4th July 1958
Place of death Oldenburg (Oldb)