Karl Strünckmann

Karl-Christoph Strünckmann , pseudonym Kurt van Emsen , (* 1872 ; † 1953 ) was a German psychiatrist and pioneer of alternative medicine .

Strünckmann received his doctorate in medicine from the University of Leipzig in 1897 . Before 1914 he was active in the German Buddhist scene around Karl Seidenstücker and briefly headed the German Pali Society in 1910 . He was also in the SPD and nevertheless joined the German Fatherland Party during the First World War . From June 11th to 14th, 1921, he organized the “Christian Revolutionary Conference” in Stuttgart, where all conceivable currents were among the more than 800 participants. An alternative to the parties of the Weimar Republic should be offered. For the Christian revolutionaries who sought a synthesis of Jesus and Marx , he published the magazine “Weltwende” (1918–1921).

The psychiatrist Strünckmann ran the sanatorium Ernseerberg near Gera and the private sanatorium “Am Burgberg” in Bad Harzburg . He also headed the first German Coué clinic, the natural healing sanatorium in Blankenburg (Harz) , which worked with autosuggestion . He actively supported the health food stores and organized seminars for training specialists (on the Blankenburg clinic grounds, in 1932, a technical school was founded under Hans Gregor ). He brought a völkisch -national element into the “crisis of medicine” evoked since the mid-1920s: “It is my belief that the German people are called to gradually develop a completely new, purely German healing art. This German healing art of the future will have become a fact when the healing knowledge of alternative practitioners and the healing knowledge of orthodox doctors have entered into a new synthesis. ”However, after the“ Third Reich ”he foresaw an even more valuable“ Fourth Reich ”(1932). He met with little response during the Nazi era , but more with his approaches to alternative medicine and naturopathy for the New German Medicine around the Reichsärzteführer . Every year he held biological weeks on various topics. Strünckmann also took part in the German Faith Movement , which he wanted to break away from Christianity entirely. In 1941 he worked with Friedrich Schöll at several conferences to prepare the foundation of a new church after the victory.

Fonts

• Contribution to the bacteriology of puerperal infection , [= dissertation 1897] Berlin 1898
• Why is the Academy for Free, Biological Healing so urgently needed? approx . 1900
• Naturopathy and its practical representatives in the present and future , Wolfenbüttel 1907
• Open letter to Walther Rathenau , Stuttgart 1918
• Turn of the world. Wake-up call from the Christian revolutionaries to everyone with the commitment of the last, those who are determined to break through, whatever camp they are in today . Editor: Karl Strünckmann. Vol. 3: Weltwende: Combat pamphlet of the Christian revolutionary , Soden 1920
• The idealists among the healers and Germany's future , 1927
• The German role in the world game. A guide for the quiet in the country , self-published in 1928
• Eat yourself healthy with fresh food, raw food and sun food: on the way to new food for the nerves , Pfullingen 1929
• alias Kurt van Emsen: Adolf Hitler and the Coming ones , 1932
• The final goal: One people! A belief! A church! Blankenburg 1935, 2nd edition 1936
• The holistic concept in nutrition. Lecture on d. Spring conference d. Natural doctors in Bad Harzburg, 1937
• The German health food store and its broadcast . Festive lecture on d. Anniversary conference d. Health food store owner in Würzburg, August 1939
• The holistic concept in the art of healing , 1940
• From departure to breakthrough (50 years of remembrance of a biological pioneer) , from: Festschrift zum 50 Years . Exist d. German Federal f. naturally. Life and Heilweise ( Prießnitz-Bund ) e. V. , Berlin 1939 ("Fifty years of work for public health")

literature

• Armin Mohler : The Conservative Revolution in Germany 1918–1932 , 3rd edition, Darmstadt 1989
• Ulrich Linse : Barefoot prophets. Redeemer of the 20s , Berlin 1983 (esp. Pp. 90–96)
• Florentine Fritzen: Living healthier: the life reform movement in the 20th century , Steiner, Stuttgart 2006
• Uwe Puschner (ed.): The ethnic-religious movement in National Socialism: A history of relationships and conflicts , Vandenhoeck, Göttingen 2012
• Bernd Wedemeyer : Ethnic physical culture in Lower Saxony in the Weimar Republic: The example of Dr. Karl Strünckmann , In: Langenfeld, Hans / Nielsen, S. (Ed.): Contributions to the history of sports in Lower Saxony, T. 2: Weimar Republic . Göttingen, 1998, pp. 175-184

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Quoted from Werner E. Gerabek (ed.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte , 2005, p. 47