Klaus Thomas

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Klaus Thomas

Klaus Thomas (born January 31, 1915 in Berlin ; † July 10, 1992 in Malsburg-Marzell ) was a German Protestant pastor, doctor and psychotherapist.

Life

Klaus Thomas studied Protestant theology , philosophy, modern philology, psychology, psychotherapy and medicine. During his studies he became a member of the Arndt Berlin Association (in the Sondershäuser Association ). In 1940 he was at the Philosophical Faculty of the Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Berlin to Dr. phil. and in 1947 at the Medical Faculty of the Philipps University of Marburg with Ernst Kretschmer as Dr. med. PhD. In 1964 he received the Doctor of Divinity (DD) in the USA , an honorary award for special theological merits.

He worked as a student pastor in Berlin and as a clinic pastor in Marburg, later as a doctor and psychotherapist in Berlin, as a senior lecturer at the Berlin Schadow-Gymnasium and as a lecturer at the Lessing University , at the Academy for Medical Training and from 1956 until the Wall was built August 13, 1961 at the Paulinum . Study and lecture tours have taken Klaus Thomas to over 100 countries.

He was also the pastor of the Order of St. Luke for Germany, an international ecumenical working group of pastors, doctors, psychologists and lay people. The aim of the order is the pastoral care of the sick through word and deed. In the Berlin register of associations , this order has been operating as the Lukas Community since 1956 (care for tired of life) and, after the split of the telephone counseling in Berlin, since 1961 as the Lukas order for sick care and care for tired of life - circle of friends .

Grave site of Klaus Thomas

Klaus Thomas found his final resting place in an inconspicuous grave in the Zehlendorf cemetery (field 006-359), only a few minutes' walk from his last residence. In 2012 and 2013, the Protestant Church and the Catholic Church , Telefonseelsorge Berlin , from the center of the SPD parliamentary group in the German Bundestag and several citizens suggested that this grave be recognized as an honorary burial site , which the Governing Mayor of Berlin Klaus Wowereit several times has refused.

Klaus Thomas was married twice and has four children. A son and a daughter from the first marriage and two daughters from the second marriage.

Act

Klaus Thomas was the main promoter of the autogenic training according to Johannes Heinrich Schultz and is considered its most important student. Since 1972 he has headed the IH Schultz Institute for Psychotherapy, Autogenic Training and Hypnosis in Berlin, which he founded and which no longer exists today.

Notice in Jebensstraße 1 about the new domicile of the telephone counseling in Berlin

As a prominent suicide researcher, he was committed to suicide prophylaxis and in 1956, together with Julius Wissinger, had the Lukas community (care for tired life) entered in the Berlin register of associations, which was renamed in 1960 as Telefonseelsorge Berlin (care for tired life) . Therefore, Klaus Thomas is considered the Spiritus Rector of telephone counseling in Germany . At the beginning of 1956 he tried to realize the idea of medical care for those tired of life that came from his pen . A concept that the by anonymity and secrecy primed offer of talks which constituent Telefonseelsorge was inconsistent. After the failure of the attempt to establish medical care for the tired of life in the telephone counseling , in which the traces of these unsuccessful efforts can still be proven, Thomas and eight companions founded the "Lukas Order for sick pastoral care and tired-life care - Circle of Friends" (founding meeting: April 19, 1961 ) for medical care tired of life , which only exists in the Berlin register of associations (VR3167B, as of March 20, 2012).

In the broad spectrum of mental illnesses, Thomas expanded and specified the ecclesiogenic neurosis . The term stands for ecclesiastically and religiously caused mental disorders (ekklesiogen = caused by the influence of church and religion ).

Thomas died at the age of 77 the day after the completion of the title Religious Dreams and Other Pictorial Experiences , the book was published posthumously. He could no longer complete the works Ecclesiogenic Neuroses and Textbook of Hypnosis , which had been in progress for a long time .

Klaus Thomas' life's work also includes the specialist journal entitled Ways to People (since 1954), formerly The Path to the Soul (1949 to 1953), published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht in Göttingen , as a podium for discussions between psychology and theology, medicine, Sociology and Pedagogy , of which he was the initiator and first editor.

Fonts (selection)

  • Handbook of Suicide Prevention . Enke, Stuttgart 1964.
  • Practice of self-hypnosis of autogenic training . Thieme, Stuttgart 1967.
  • Medical care for those tired of life . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1970.
Suicide Prevention 1964
  • The artificially controlled soul . Enke, Stuttgart 1970.
  • People before the abyss . Wegner, Hamburg 1970.
  • Sex education . Diesterweg, Frankfurt am Main 1970.
  • Self-analysis . Thieme, Stuttgart 1972.
  • Dreams - understand for yourself . Thieme, Stuttgart 1972.
  • Meditation . Steinkopf, Stuttgart 1973.
  • Concentration for intellectual work and lifestyle . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1976.
  • Help effectively - but how? Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1976.
  • Why continue to live? Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1977.
  • Thinking and remembering . Steinkopf, Stuttgart 1978.
  • Plan and organize . Steinkopf, Stuttgart 1978.
  • Outline of developmental psychology . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1979.
  • Why fear of dying? Experiences and answers of a doctor and pastor , Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1980.
  • Religious dreams and other pictorial experiences . Steinkopf, Stuttgart 1994.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Association of Alter SVer (VASV): Address book and Vademecum. Ludwigshafen am Rhein 1959, p. 123.
  2. ↑ Klaus Thomas: Das Deutschtum in Palestine . Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin: Philosophical Faculty, dissertation 1941.
  3. ^ Klaus Thomas: Community achievement in the constitution types . Philipps University of Marburg: Medical Faculty, dissertation 1949.
  4. ^ OV: Dr. med. Dr. phil. Klaus Thomas on his 75th birthday . In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt 87 (3) of January 18, 1990 (71): A-155.
  5. ^ Website Order of St. Luke
  6. ^ Register of associations at the Charlottenburg District Court in Berlin, VR 3167.
  7. ↑ Boris Buchholz: Neighborhood . In: Tagesspiegel people newsletter Steglitz-Zehlendorf from November 1, 2018
  8. ^ Kölner domradio: Klaus Thomas on the 100th birthday
  9. ↑ Franz-Josef Hücker: Suicide prevention as a life purpose and life's work. On the 100th birthday of Klaus Thomas. In: Sozial Extra 1 2015, 39th year (VS Verlag, Springer Fachmedien DE, Wiesbaden), p. 65.
  10. ↑ Johannes H. Schultz: Exercise book for autogenic training: concentrative self-relaxation. 19th edition. Thieme, Stuttgart / New York 1980.
  11. ^ OV: Dr. med. Dr. phil. Klaus Thomas died on July 10, 1992 in Berlin . In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt 89 (50) of December 11, 1992 (65): A1-4313; the in Dt. Doctor bl. specified place of death Berlin is wrong, Malsburg-Marzell is correct.
  12. ^ OV: Suicide. Warning from the computer . In: DER SPIEGEL 50/1968, pp. 188–190.
  13. ^ OV: Suicide. Sickness to death . In: DER SPIEGEL 5/1963, pp. 32–44.
  14. ^ Register of associations at the Charlottenburg District Court in Berlin (VR 2595 B).
  15. ↑ Franz-Josef Hücker: Before you commit suicide, call me! Crisis intervention through voluntary pastoral care, around the clock . In: Fachjournalist 1/2011, pp. 26–31.
  16. ^ Klaus Thomas: Medical care for exhausted life in Berlin. Work and conference report. Scientific Book Society, 2nd amended edition, Darmstadt 1970.
  17. ^ Franz-Josef Hücker: Landmarks in the history of telephone counseling. In memoriam Helene and Julius Wissinger. In: Suizidprophylaxe - Theory and Practice No. 173, Heft 2, 2018, 45th year (S. Roderer Verlag Regensburg), pp. 60–63.
  18. ^ OV: sick in faith . In: DER SPIEGEL 21/1964, pp. 94–97.
  19. ^ Günter Hole: Foreword . In: Klaus Thomas: Religious dreams and other pictorial experiences. Medical reports on religious utterances in visions, dreams, hypnosis and experiences in autogenic training . Steinkopf, Stuttgart 1994, no p.
  20. ↑ Ways to Man 1954
  21. ↑ The way to the soul 1949
  22. ^ Letter to Günther Ruprecht dated July 15, 1950
  23. ↑ Slightly abbreviated and revised, reprinted in: Peter Godzik (Ed.): Der Weg ins Licht. A reader on the last questions in life , Steinmann, Rosengarten bei Hamburg 2015, pp. 33–77.

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personal data
SURNAME Thomas, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant pastor, doctor and psychotherapist
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH July 10, 1992
Place of death Malsburg-Marzell