Julius Raecke

Julius Raecke (born July 17, 1872 in London , † March 10, 1930 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German psychiatrist . His main focus was on forensic and social psychiatry .

Life

From 1890 Raecke studied medicine in Heidelberg , Würzburg , Gießen and Freiburg im Breisgau . During his time in Heidelberg he joined the Corps Rhenania . In 1895 he received his doctorate in Freiburg on primary melanocarcinoma of the rectum . He then worked at the Berlin Charité under Friedrich Jolly and then went to the Eberswalde insane asylum as assistant to Friedrich Karl August Zinn . In 1898 he moved to the insane asylum in Frankfurt am Main under Emil Sioli and in 1899 to the mental hospital in Tübingen under Ernst Siemerling . When Siemerling took over the new psychiatric and nervous clinic in Kiel in 1901 . followed him Raecke, around 1903 in Kiel with the transitory disturbances of consciousness of epileptics to habilitation . In the same year Sioli brought him back to Frankfurt as senior physician and successor to Alois Alzheimer . A year later, however, Raecke accepted an offer from Siemerling to return to Kiel. In 1904 he was appointed professor. In 1910 he traveled to the United States to find out about juvenile prisons and juvenile courts .

In 1911 Raecke was brought back to Frankfurt by Sioli with the promise to become his successor at the Frankfurt University , which was soon to be founded . However, this promise was not kept after the First World War . Instead, in 1914, Raecke initially received an extraordinary position at the University of Frankfurt and in 1918 was made an extraordinary professor . Raecke took part in the war as a medical officer and chief physician of a medical company. He was wounded once and was awarded the Iron Cross, First and Second Class. In 1915 he fell seriously ill with dysentery . In July 1918 he was called back home for half a year, where he saw the end of the war.

In 1919 Raecke took over the management of the Frankfurt clinic for nine months from the resigned Sioli. When Karl Kleist took office in 1920, Raecke became head of the “Municipal Welfare Office for the Mentally Ill and Nervous in Frankfurt” and the associated psychiatric outpatient clinic in Stiftsstrasse. He also took over the newly established marriage counseling center for the city of Frankfurt. He died surprisingly of heart failure.

Act

Raecke published around 200 scientific papers. In addition to the topics of his qualification theses, he mainly devoted himself to judicial and social psychiatry and was a busy court expert . His Outline of Psychiatric Diagnostics (1908) was published several times . He wrote a textbook on forensic medicine (1919) and a monograph on querulant delusions (1926). He paid particular attention to his outpatient clinic and the associated welfare office, which he had organized according to his own ideas.

Fonts

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• On primary melanocarcinoma of the rectum. Book printer Ernst Kuttruff, Freiburg i. B. 1895 (dissertation).
• The transitory disorders of consciousness of epileptics , Marhold, Halle 1903 (habilitation)
• On the forensic significance of multiple sclerosis. Berlin 1907.
• Outline of the psychiatric diagnosis together with an appendix containing the most important legal provisions for the psychiatrist and an overview of the most common sleeping pills. Hirschwald, Berlin
  • 1st edition 1908
  • 2nd edition 1910
  • 11th edition 1937, ed. by HW Gruhle under the title 'Outline of Psychiatry'
• Treating Nervous School Children. Lecture given at the 12th official district teachers' conference of the city of Kiel on March 15, 1910. Beyer, Langensalza 1910.
• The observation team for young people at the municipal insane asylum in Frankfurt a. M. Marhold, Halle a. P. 1912.
• On antisocial acts of epileptic children. Hirschwald, Berlin 1912, ca.1912.
• The early symptoms of arteriosclerotic brain disease. Hirschwald, Berlin 1913.
• Concise textbook on forensic psychiatry for medical professionals and lawyers. Bergmann, Wiesbaden 1919.
• The troublemaker madness. A contribution to social psychiatry. Bergmann, Munich 1926.

literature

• German Biographical Encyclopedia . 2nd edition. Vol. 8, Saur, Munich 2007, p. 153.
• Stefan von Finckenstein: I will never see his own. Biographical notes on Julius Raecke and his work. In: Julius Raecke: Der Querulantenwahn. A contribution to social psychiatry. The 1926 edition has been republished and expanded with a foreword by Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger , a scientific introduction by Henning Saß and biographical notes on Julius Raecke. Finckenstein & Salmuth, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-934882-26-3 , pp. 85-110.
• Matthias Lammel: troubled and troubled madness. Comments from a forensic-psychiatric point of view on: J. Raecke “Der Querulantenwahn. A Contribution to Social Psychiatry ”(1926). In: Matthias Lammel et al. (Ed.): Delusion and schizophrenia. Psychopathology and Forensic Relevance. MWV, Berlin 2011, pp. 233–248.
• Max Wassermeyer: Julius Raecke †. In: Archives for Psychiatry and Nervous Diseases . 92: 479-484 (1930).