Karl Landauer
Karl Landauer (born October 12, 1887 in Munich ; † January 27, 1945 in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp ) was a German psychoanalyst and co-founder of the first Frankfurt Psychoanalytic Institute .
Life
Landauer was born in Munich in 1887 into an established Jewish banking family. The father died when Landauer was 13 years old, and Landauer was the only son to take on the religious duties of the head of the family. After graduating from the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich in 1906, he studied medicine (including in Freiburg and Berlin) and trained as a specialist in neurology at the Munich University Clinic, headed by Emil Kraepelin . In 1912 he went to Vienna to complete an analytical training with Freud and to practice at the psychiatric clinic near Wagner-Jauregg . He mainly deals with psychoses and the questions of narcissism , but also makes essential contributions to the psychoanalysis of affect formation and becomes an important pioneer in psychoanalysis.
The experience of the First World War turns Landauer into a pacifist. In 1916 he fell seriously ill with typhus and was then transferred to a military prison in Heilbronn as a doctor. There he met Lins Kahn and married her. After the end of the war, he settled in Frankfurt am Main - also father of a daughter since 1917 - and from 1923 worked as a psychoanalyst in private practice. He analyzes Max Horkheimer and is on friendly terms with him. The Frankfurt Psychoanalytical Institute, co-founded by Landauer (today Sigmund Freud Institute ) cooperates with Horkheimer's Institute for Social Research , in whose rooms it has guest status. In 1933 both facilities are closed. Landauer managed to escape to Sweden, but then settled in the Netherlands, where he worked as a training analyst. He was banned from working in 1942 and was arrested in 1943 and taken to the Westerbork transit camp. On February 15, 1944, he was deported with his wife and eldest daughter to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where he died of starvation in January 1945. His wife and daughter Eva Landauer survived the concentration camp; two of Landauer's younger children were able to evade arrest by the Nazi henchmen.
On the occasion of the 100th birthday of Goethe University , a stumbling block was laid for him on October 17, 2014 at Savignystraße 76.
Publications
- Spontaneous healing of catatonia. Journal for medical psychoanalysis 2 (1914), 441–459
- Passive Technique: For the analysis of narcissistic diseases. Intern. Journal f Psychoanalyse 10 (1924), 415-422
- The affects and their development. Imago 22: 275-291 (1936)
- Theory of Affects and other writings on ego organization. Edited by HJ Rothe. Frankfurt / Main (Fischer) 1991
literature
- Elke Mühlleitner: Biographical Lexicon of Psychoanalysis . The members of the Psychological Wednesday Society and the Vienna Psychoanalytical Association 1902–1938. Tübingen 1992.
- HJ Rothe: An exemplary fate: Karl Landauer (1887–1945). In: Tomas Plänkers et al .: Psychoanalysis in Frankfurt am Main . Tübingen 1996, pp. 87-108.
Web links
- Literature by and about Karl Landauer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Stumbling blocks for: Landauer, Karl, Karoline, Eva, Suse and Paul
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Landauer, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German psychoanalyst |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 12, 1887 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 27, 1945 |
| Place of death | Bergen-Belsen concentration camp |