Johannes Lange (doctor)

Johannes Lange (born May 25, 1891 in Wismar , † August 11, 1938 in Breslau ) was a German psychiatrist, neurologist, university professor and researcher in the field of criminal biology .

Life

Johannes Lange received his doctorate in 1917 after studying medicine at the universities of Leipzig, Kiel, Strasbourg and Munich. med. with Emil Kraepelin in Munich, whose assistant he became. In 1921, he completed his habilitation in psychiatry and neurology at Kraepelin in Munich with a thesis on catatonic phenomena in the context of manic diseases. From 1922 he was the chief physician in psychiatry at the Munich-Schwabing Municipal Hospital and was appointed associate professor in 1926. Under Kraepelin's successor Walther Spielmeyer , Lange worked as a senior physician at the Munich-Schwabing Municipal Hospital from 1927 and became head of the clinical department of the German Research Institute for Psychiatry (DFA) in Munich. From 1930 until his death in 1938, Lange was Robert Wollenberg's successor full professor and director of the Wroclaw University Neurological Clinic. He was also a judge at the Hereditary Health Court . From 1928 to 1931 he was a scientific member and from 1931 until his death in 1938 he was an external scientific member of the DFA and thus of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society .

In 1936 he was elected to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (Section Psychiatry, Medical Psychology and Neurology).

Act

With Theodor Viernstein undertook Long forensic biological research with the aim of the scientific evidence that crime and even Wohnsitzlosigkeit is genetic. He also worked on the Nazi sterilization laws , which later earned him criticism.

August Bostroem and Lange established the progress made in neurology, psychiatry and their border areas in 1929 .

For a long time he was co-editor of the 9th edition of Kraepelin's textbook on psychiatry, which he edited alone after his death. After his death, he was also the co-editor of the 5th edition of the National Socialist standard work Grundriß der Menschen Erblichkeitslehre und Rassenhygiene by Baur-Fischer-Lenz. He was the founder and co-editor of the journal progress in neurology and psychiatry as well as 1936 and 1937 of the monthly for criminal psychology and criminal law reform (1937 monthly for criminal biology and criminal law reform ).

Private

Grave of Johannes Lange in the Inner Neustädter Friedhof in Dresden

Long was married to the Pasing doctor Katharina (Käthe) Silbersohn (1891–1937). She was Jewish and committed 1937 suicide . Katharina Lange came from an East Prussian Jewish merchant family and studied medicine in Heidelberg, Berlin, Königsberg, Kiel and Munich. After her license to practice medicine in 1915, she practiced military representation in the country, received her doctorate in 1917 and opened her own medical practice in Pasing during the war in January 1918. The marriage had two children. The daughter Ursula (U. Merck 1922–2003) was born in Pasing. After Kraepelin's death in October 1926, Lange moved in 1927 to Kraepelin's former apartment, Bavariaring 46, today's Maria-Theresia-Hospital . James Loeb made this building available to the DFA free of charge. The second child Ernst Lange (1927–1974), later professor of practical theology, senior church councilor and church reformer, who committed suicide in 1974, was born here in the same year . Katharina Lange filed for divorce in 1934.

In 1936, Lange married Herta Lange-Cosack (1907-2005) for the second time . Langes grave and that of his second wife are in the Inner Neustädter Friedhof in Dresden.

The zoologist and geneticist Günther Just belonged to Lange's circle of friends .

Works

Crime than fate. Studies on Criminal Twins . Leipzig 1929
The consequences of emasculating adults. Presented on the basis of war experiences . 1934

literature

Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2005, p. 356.
Uwe Henrik Peters: Lexicon of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, Medical Psychology. With an English-German dictionary attached . 6th, completely revised and expanded edition. Urban & Fischer, Elsevier 2007, ISBN 3-437-15061-8 , p. 316 ( scan from GoogleBooks).
Ulrike Steiner: Bavarian State Association for Hiking Service . In: Place and Memory - National Socialism in Munich . Salzburg-Munich, pp. 2206, 85.
Ilse Macek: Ernst Rüdin and the German Research Institute for Psychiatry (Kaiser Wilhelm Institute) in Kraepelinstrasse. In: excluded-disenfranchised-deported, Schwabing and Schwabinger fates 1933-1945 . Munich 2008, p. 440, footnote 8.
Benedikt Weyerer: The patron James Loeb . In: excluded-disenfranchised-deported, Schwabing and Schwabinger fates 1933-1945 . Munich 2008, p. 457.
Gudrun Azar: The first doctor in Pasing Dr. med. Käthe Silbersohn . In: Moved into the light. Jewish life in the west of Munich . Munich 2008, pp. 121–122.
Alma Kreuter: German-speaking neurologists and psychiatrists: a biographical-bibliographical lexicon from the forerunners to the middle of the 20th century. 3 volumes. KG Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-11196-7 , Vol. 1, p. 820.

Web links

Literature by and about Johannes Lange in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

^ Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd updated edition. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 356.
^ Member entry by Johannes Lange at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on April 5, 2015.
↑ Registration register, City Archives Munich
↑ Festschrift of the 75th anniversary of the Maria Theresa Clinic, Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy of St. Vinzenz von Paul, Munich 2005, p. 5.
↑ Gudrun Azar: The first doctor in Pasing Dr. med. Käthe Silbersohn , p. 122 s. u.
↑ See on the death of Herta Lange-Cosack on berliner aerzte.de (PDF; 167 kB)
↑ Ute Felbor: Racial Biology and Hereditary Science in the Medical Faculty of the University of Würzburg 1937–1945 (= Würzburg medical historical research. Supplement 3). Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1995, ISBN 3-88479-932-0 (also: Dissertation Würzburg 1995), p. 155.

personal data
SURNAME	Lange, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German psychiatrist, neurologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	May 25, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wismar
DATE OF DEATH	August 11, 1938
Place of death	Wroclaw

[Klee356-1] Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd updated edition. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 356.

[2] Member entry by Johannes Lange at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on April 5, 2015.

[3] Registration register, City Archives Munich

[4] Festschrift of the 75th anniversary of the Maria Theresa Clinic, Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy of St. Vinzenz von Paul, Munich 2005, p. 5.

[5] Gudrun Azar: The first doctor in Pasing Dr. med. Käthe Silbersohn , p. 122 s. u.

[6] See on the death of Herta Lange-Cosack on berliner aerzte.de (PDF; 167 kB)

[7] Ute Felbor: Racial Biology and Hereditary Science in the Medical Faculty of the University of Würzburg 1937–1945 (= Würzburg medical historical research. Supplement 3). Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1995, ISBN 3-88479-932-0 (also: Dissertation Würzburg 1995), p. 155.