Hugo Bondy (psychiatrist)

Hugo Bondy (born August 20, 1897 in Chlumetz an der Cidlina , Austria-Hungary ; † April 19, 1939 in Prague ) was a Czech psychiatrist and sexologist of Jewish origin, who (together with the lawyer František Čeřovský ) already in the early 1920s Active for years as an advocate of equal rights for homosexuals and the abolition of the criminal liability of homosexuality.

Life

Hugo Bondy attended a grammar school in Prague and then studied medicine at Charles University . He soon chose to specialize in areas of psychiatry that deal with sexuality. On June 16, 1923 he received his doctorate from the medical faculty of the university. He then undertook study visits to Magnus Hirschfeld's Institute for Sexology in Berlin, at the Psychiatric University Clinic in Zurich under Eugen Bleuler in Zurich a. a. In addition, Bondy was interested in alcoholism problems, paralytic dementia due to malaria , schizophrenia and the like. a.

After Bondy's attempt to get a job at the University Clinic in Prague failed, he worked in a private sanatorium owned by Leopold Kramer in Prague, where he soon became head physician. Later he took over the sanatorium, which was converted into "Sanatorium Bondy-Kramer "(Bondy worked in the sanatorium from 1923 to 1939). As in the 1920s, he was also active as a journalist in the 1930s and was committed to the decriminalization of homosexuality and prostitution. He wanted to replace religious education with a general secular civic education , on the sidelines he also propagated gender equality.

As a member of the prestigious society Česká lékařská společnost Jana Evangelisty Purkyně , he came up with the demand for a reformulation of the penal code, according to which homosexual relationships should no longer be punishable, and later also worked with corresponding commissions of the Ministry of Justice. In the 1930s he was active in the World League for Sexual Reform and was involved in founding the Czechoslovak sub-organization of the World League, the Světová liga pro sexuální reformu .

After the National Socialist occupation of the country in March 1939, he did not decide to flee, but instead officially applied to leave the country , also for fear of rising anti-Semitism . Although he was given a passport for himself (not his family), he decided to commit suicide in a Prague hotel. His wife Therese (also: Resa, Réza, Terezie) Bondy [ová], psychoanalyst and member of the Prague Psychoanalytic Association, was arrested, to the Auschwitz concentration camp deported and probably killed in 1941 along with their children.

Remarks

↑ Information from a police report on Bondy's suicide, quoted in based on: Jan Seidl: Homosexualita v praxi ... , online at: is.cuni.cz / ... , s. Individual documents, p. 133, note 350, where the date of April 18, 1939, handed down by a contemporary witness, appears; In some sources there is an apparently inconsistent reference that he was murdered in Auschwitz together with his wife Therese Bondy [ová] and son Richard
↑ The information given in the source .psychoanalytikerinnen.de / ... can only be checked to a limited extent.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c January Seidl: Homosexualita v praxi a diskurzu trestního práva, medicíny a občanské společnosti od vydání trestního zákona z roku 1852 do přijetí trestního zákona z roku 1961 , Faculty of Human Studies, Charles University Prague, online at: is.cuni.cz / ... , p. 133ff.
↑ ^a ^b Ruth Jochanan Weiniger, Jan Seidl: Židovští lékaři, kteří usilovali o odtrestnění homosexuality , in: Maskil December 2014 / January 2015, p. 4ff., Magazine of the Jewish community “Bejt Simcha”, Prague, online at: maskil.cz / ...
↑ 75 let od tragického úmrtí dr. Huga Bondyho , short report of the company SPQP - Společnost pro queer paměť on the 75th anniversary of death, online at: queerpamet.cz / ...
↑ Jan Seidl: "Kde budeme velkou rodinou". Homosexuální spolky v občanské společnosti první republiky , in: Dějiny a současnost 12/2007, a cultural-historical review, online at: dejinyasoucasnost.cz / ...
↑ Psychoanalysts in Poland and Czechoslovakia , in: Psychoanalytikerinnen. Biographical Lexicon , ed. by Brigitte Nölleke, online at: .psychoanalytikerinnen.de / ...

personal data
SURNAME	Bondy, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Czech psychiatrist and sexologist
DATE OF BIRTH	August 20, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH	Chlumec nad Cidlinou
DATE OF DEATH	April 19, 1939
Place of death	Prague

[1] Information from a police report on Bondy's suicide, quoted in based on: Jan Seidl: Homosexualita v praxi ... , online at: is.cuni.cz / ... , s. Individual documents, p. 133, note 350, where the date of April 18, 1939, handed down by a contemporary witness, appears; In some sources there is an apparently inconsistent reference that he was murdered in Auschwitz together with his wife Therese Bondy [ová] and son Richard

[7] The information given in the source .psychoanalytikerinnen.de / ... can only be checked to a limited extent.

[cuni-2] January Seidl: Homosexualita v praxi a diskurzu trestního práva, medicíny a občanské společnosti od vydání trestního zákona z roku 1852 do přijetí trestního zákona z roku 1961 , Faculty of Human Studies, Charles University Prague, online at: is.cuni.cz / ... , p. 133ff.

[maskil-3] Ruth Jochanan Weiniger, Jan Seidl: Židovští lékaři, kteří usilovali o odtrestnění homosexuality , in: Maskil December 2014 / January 2015, p. 4ff., Magazine of the Jewish community “Bejt Simcha”, Prague, online at: maskil.cz / ...

[spqp-4] 75 let od tragického úmrtí dr. Huga Bondyho , short report of the company SPQP - Společnost pro queer paměť on the 75th anniversary of death, online at: queerpamet.cz / ...

[dejinyasoucasnost-5] Jan Seidl: "Kde budeme velkou rodinou". Homosexuální spolky v občanské společnosti první republiky , in: Dějiny a současnost 12/2007, a cultural-historical review, online at: dejinyasoucasnost.cz / ...

[psychoanalytikerinnen-6] Psychoanalysts in Poland and Czechoslovakia , in: Psychoanalytikerinnen. Biographical Lexicon , ed. by Brigitte Nölleke, online at: .psychoanalytikerinnen.de / ...