Josef Lothar Entres

Josef Lothar Entres (also Joseph ; born June 22, 1883 in Würzburg , † after 1945) was a German psychiatrist .

Live and act

He studied medicine and received his doctorate in 1907 at the University of Würzburg . From 1908 to 1916 he worked at the sanatorium and nursing home in Werneck , then as a senior physician at the sanatorium and nursing home in Eglfing . In 1928 he was appointed director of the Werneck sanatorium. In 1933 Entres came into conflict with the NSDAP as an avowed Catholic . He was arrested and put on trial in Bamberg . In January 1935 he was forcibly transferred to the Kutzenberg sanatorium and nursing home as director , where he worked until it was closed in 1946.

Entres was a student of the eugenicist Ernst Rüdin . His specialty was Huntington's disease . Under his directorate, sterilizations and - against his will - collections for the murder of patients were carried out in Kutzenberg as part of the T4 campaign.

Fonts

• About the brain weight ratios in progressive paralysis. 1907 (dissertation, University of Würzburg, 1907).
• About the contents of the skull of the insane. In: Archives for Psychiatry and Nervous Diseases . Vol. 54, H. 3, July 1914, pp. 1015-1030, DOI: 10.1007 / BF02088317 .
• On the clinic and inheritance of Huntington's chorea (= monographs from the entire field of neurology and psychiatry. Vol. 27; = studies on the inheritance and development of mental disorders. Vol. 3). Springer, Berlin 1921 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
• Genealogical studies of the differential diagnosis between Wilson's disease and Huntington's chorea. In: Journal for the whole of neurology and psychiatry . Vol. 98, H. 1, December 1925, pp. 476-509, DOI: 10.1007 / BF02897640 .
• Heredity, germ damage. In: Oswald Bumke (Hrsg.): Handbuch der Geisteskrankheiten. Volume 1, Springer, Berlin 1928, pp. 50-307.
• A contribution to the history of the Lower Franconian district sanatorium and nursing home in Werneck. On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Werneck institution on June 29, 1930. In: General journal for psychiatry . Vol. 94, 1931, pp. 267-280.
• with Klaus Conrad , Ferdinand Adalbert Kehrer , Friedrich Meggendorfer , Kurt Pohlisch : The hereditary epilepsy. The Erbveitstanz (Huntington's Chorea). Heavy alcoholism (= Handbook of Hereditary Diseases. Ed. By Arthur Gütt . Vol. 3). Thieme, Leipzig 1940.
• Hereditary biological investigations into a psychosis diagnosed as schizophrenia. In: General journal for psychiatry. Vol. 115, 1940, pp. 238-256.

literature

• Norbert Aas : Relocated - then gassed, poisoned, starved. The sick at the Bayreuth sanatorium during the period of forced sterilization and "euthanasia". Boomerang, Bayreuth 2000, p. 206.
• Alfons Zenk: The Upper Franconian sanatorium and nursing home Kutzenberg. In: Michael von Cranach , Hans-Ludwig Siemen (ed.): Psychiatry in National Socialism. The Bavarian sanatoriums and nursing homes between 1933 and 1945. 2nd edition. Oldenbourg, Munich 2012, pp. 123–142.