Kurt Gauger

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Kurt Gauger (born March 10, 1899 in Stettin ; † 1959) was a German writer and psychotherapist .

Life

Kurt Gauger was the fourth of six children of the school principal Albert Gauger. After his military service in the First World War , he initially worked as a private tutor, also studied philosophy and medicine in Greifswald, Leipzig, Berlin and Rostock and completed his studies in both subjects with a doctorate. In the 1920s he became known to the medical community through his contributions to psychosomatics . In 1933 Gauger joined the NSDAP and the SA . On June 26, 1934, he took over the management of the university department of the newly established Reichsstelle for educational film , in July 1936 he was appointed managing director of the Reichsstelle, and in 1941 he was promoted to director. In this role he operated a. a. the aryanization of the Jewish-owned "German Society for Scientific Films", one of the most important distributors of medical films.

Gauger recommended himself to the National Socialist regime through his comments on the sterilization law . His attitude towards mentally and physically disabled people largely corresponded to that of the National Socialists. “We have neither time nor space for such beings,” he explained in 1934. As deputy director of the Institute for Psychological Research and Psychotherapy , founded in 1936 and headed by Matthias Heinrich Göring , he worked on the development of an Aryan psychology and psychotherapy in which the findings of Sigmund Freud in favor of those z. B. C. G. Jung should be ousted. In addition, Gauger campaigned for the establishment of the "New German Medicine" . During the Second World War Gauger became a prisoner of war. After the war he worked until 1950 as head of the Fischerhof returnees clinic near Uelzen . He put the knowledge gained there into his work on dystrophy , which for the first time explained the social adjustment difficulties of war returnees as a disease as a result of the hunger suffered in the prisoner of war camps . After 1950 Gauger lived in Düsseldorf .

Fonts (selection)

  • The doctrine of the macrocosmic process by Eduard von Hartmann , Rostock [1922], DNB 570221781 (dissertation University of Rostock 1922, 2 sheets).
  • Gothic poems . The White Knight Publishing House, Berlin 1923.
  • On the influence of duodenal juice on sugar fermentation by Coli, [Berlin] 1932, DNB 570221773 (Medical dissertation University of Berlin [1932], 32 pages).
  • Political Medicine. Outline of a German psychotherapy . Hanseatische Verlags-Anstalt, Hamburg 1934. Was placed on the list of literature to be sorted out in the Soviet occupation zone after the end of the Second World War .
  • Christoph. Novel of a seafaring . Hohenstaufen Verlag, Stuttgart 1941.
  • Heart and anchor. Sailor stories . Hohenstaufen Verlag, Stuttgart 1943.
  • Dystrophy as a psychosomatic disease. Origin, manifestations, treatment, assessment, medical, sociological and legal late effects . Urban & Schwarzenberg, Munich 1952, DNB 451445104
  • Psychotherapy and current affairs. Treatises and lectures . Urban & Schwarzenberg, Munich / Berlin 1954.
  • with Jürgen Eick : Angina Temporis. Time pressure, the disease of our day. An economist and a doctor on the subject: No time! Droste, Düsseldorf 1956.
  • Demon city. An anthropological-medical contribution to current affairs . Droste, Düsseldorf 1957.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the entries for Kurt Gauger's first and second matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal .
  2. ↑ The sickness of the returnees . In: Der Spiegel . No. 41 , 1953, pp. 26-27 ( online ).
  3. ^ Letter G, List of literature to be discarded. Published by the German Administration for Public Education in the Soviet Occupation Zone. Preliminary edition as of April 1, 1946.
personal data
SURNAME Gauger, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and psychotherapist
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH 1959