Josef Jörger

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Johann Josef Jörger (born October 21, 1860 in Vals , † August 31, 1933 in Chur ) was a Swiss doctor and psychiatrist and the first director of the Waldhaus Clinic in Chur.

Life

From 1880 Jörger studied medicine in Basel and Zurich and graduated from Basel in 1888 as Dr. med. In 1885 he was a landscape and spa doctor in Andeer , in 1886 a secondary doctor at the St. Pirminsberg psychiatric clinic in Pfäfers . 1892–1930 he was director of the Waldhaus psychiatric clinic in Chur, which opened in the same year. In 1905 he published his family tree research on Yenish families in Graubünden for the first time . Jörger helped found other clinics in Realta and Masans and was a member of numerous societies, including the non-profit society of the Canton of Graubünden and the Swiss Society for Psychiatry.

He also wrote stories and novels in the dialect of the Valsertal, a. a. Urchigi Lüt (1918). His novel Der hellig Garta from 1920 describes the downfall of the mountain village Zervreila (Gem. Vals).

Racial hygiene work

Josef Jörger, not to be confused with his son Johann Benedikt Jörger (1886–1957), also a psychiatrist in Graubünden, introduced the code of aliases for the individual Yenish families that remained in use for over 60 years and that also dated "Aid Organization Children of the Landstrasse" was used. His first relevant treatise appeared in the journal Archive for Race and Society Biology (Munich, 2nd year 1905, p. 404 ff.) Under the title "Die Familie Zero ". The choice of this code name is characteristic of Jörger's efforts to nullify his research objects and to dissolve the Yenish family associations. In his stories of the Zero and Markus families (published in 1918, together in 1919 as "Psychiatric Family Stories"), Jörger saw examples of the alleged degeneration through "ordinary inheritance" and blastophthoria (germ corruption according to Auguste Forel ). Jörger's psychiatric family research should provide evidence of the heredity of the following "aberrations from the ordinary family type" in the Yenish families: "Vagabundism, crime, immorality, mental weakness and mental disorder, pauperism."

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Huonker: BACKGROUND, ENVIRONMENT, IMPLEMENTATION AND IMPLICATIONS OF THE "AID WORK FOR THE CHILDREN OF THE LANDSTRASSE" Ulrich F. Grass, April 27, 1987, archived from the original on August 24, 2007 ; accessed on November 11, 2017 .
  2. ^ Stefan Schulz: Jörger, Johann Joseph. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  3. ^ Joerger: Psychiatric Family Stories . Julius Springer, Berlin 1919, p. 1
personal data
SURNAME Jörger, Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jörger, Johann Josef (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss doctor and psychiatrist
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Vals GR
DATE OF DEATH August 31, 1933
Place of death Chur GR