Kurt Kolle

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Kurt Kolle (born February 7, 1898 in Kimberley , South Africa ; † November 21, 1975 in Munich ) was a German psychiatrist and author of various textbooks and biographies.

Life

From 1926 to 1933, Kolle worked at the Psychiatric Clinic in Kiel as an assistant to Georg Stertz . His habilitation took place in 1928. In the time of National Socialism he had to leave Kiel after 1933 because of his political convictions, settled in Frankfurt as a neurologist and with difficulty was rehabilitated at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main , from 1935 he was ao. Professor. In 1937 he joined the NSDAP and in 1939 became an adjunct professor. In 1939 he published the textbook Psychiatry , the second edition of which appeared in 1943, the 6th edition in 1967. During the Second World War , he was an advisory military psychiatrist from 1942, including for the 11th Army . In September 1943 he took part in a course in Ensen to learn "rumen", a method of administering electric shocks by means of galvanic current , in order to make so-called war neurotics fit for defense again.

Kurt Kolle continued to work in Frankfurt after 1945. In 1952 he was appointed professor and head of the University Clinic for Psychiatry at the University of Munich, and in 1966 he retired.

He was the son of Wilhelm Kolle , brother of Helmut Kolle and father of Oswalt Kolle and Gert Kolle .

Publications (selection)

  • Kurt Kolle: Textbook of Psychiatry. Stuttgart: Thieme (6th edition 1967)
  • Kurt Kolle (Ed.): Great neurologists. 3 volumes. Stuttgart: Thieme 1956–1963; 2nd edition there 1970.
  • Kurt Kolle: crazy or normal? Psychiatry in science and practice. Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt 1968 and rororo-Taschenbuch, Reinbek b. Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1970
  • Kurt Kolle: Wanderer between nature and spirit: the life of a neurologist. Verlag Lehmann, Munich 1972 ISBN 3-469-00371-8

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ J.-E. Meyer: Kurt Kolle 1898 - 1975 in: Der Nervenarzt 1976
  2. ↑ a b c d Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, p. 329.
  3. ↑ Information according to DNB.
personal data
SURNAME Kolle, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychiatrist and author
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Kimberley (South Africa)
DATE OF DEATH November 21, 1975
Place of death Munich