Lotte Koehler

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Lotte Köhler (born August 19, 1925 in Darmstadt ) is a German entrepreneur , psychoanalyst and patron .

Life

Köhler was born in 1925 as the daughter of the entrepreneur Wilhelm Köhler and his wife Irma. After graduating from the Viktoriaschule (Darmstadt) , she studied medicine at the University of Frankfurt am Main and the University of Heidelberg from 1943 to 1949 , graduating with a Dr. med. from. From 1950 she studied chemistry at the Technical University of Darmstadt . At the age of 26, after the failed first marriage, she became the general representative of the shareholders' meeting of a packaging printing company with 120 employees. This company had the same group of shareholders as Goebel AG, the majority of which was held by its father.

Lotte Köhler's first marriage to Valentin Hottmann and her second marriage to Fritz Mühleis. After two failed marriages, she moved to Munich at the end of 1957 in a "poor people's apartment". When Paul Matussek she worked from 1957 at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry . In 1960 she met Hans Kilian , with whom she remained connected until his death.

After the death of her father Wilhelm Köhler in January 1962, she took on managerial positions at Maschinenfabrik Goebel GmbH in Darmstadt, which she held until 1986. She later referred to life for the factory as " Fron ". At the same time she began a psychoanalytic training in 1962 and became a follower of the so-called self-psychology according to Heinz Kohut . Time can be described as a “balancing act between factory and psychology”. From 1962 to 1969 she was a member of Fritz Riemann's Institute for Psychological Research and Psychotherapy in Munich . After an affair about the cover-up of Toni Schelkopf's complicity in the Nazi regime , Lotte Köhler left the institute and began a second training course in Zurich. In 1974 she was accepted into the Swiss Society for Psychoanalysis .

Köhler became known scientifically in particular through research into the memory of young children and through work on attachment theory.

In 1986, the year after the death of her mother Irma, Lotte Köhler ended her management role in the shareholders' meeting and on the supervisory board of Goebel GmbH and sold her shares. According to her own statement, her real life only began at the age of 61 .

literature

  • Josef Schmid: Freedom and social responsibility. The entrepreneur Wilhelm Köhler from 1897-1962, Göttingen 2016.
  • Lotte Köhler (Ed.): From pen to merchant and other autobiographical texts by Dr. med. Wilhelm Köhler (1897-1962) , Darmstadt 2009.
  • Lotte Köhler (ed.), Michael Ernst (edit.), Face of a foundation. 12 years Köhler Foundation 1989-2000 , Neufarn b. Munich (self-published by the Köhler Foundation).

Köhler Foundation

In 1986 Lotte Köhler announced her decision to the co-shareholders to set up a foundation. Approval by the Köhler Foundation then took place the following year. This is affiliated with the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft. The foundation's share capital consisted of shares in your company property. The foundation promotes "human science". The first cash flows arose in 1989. Initially, a Goebel Prize of 5,000 DM was awarded in cooperation with the TU Darmstadt . Since 2011, a "Hans Kilian Prize" worth € 80,000 has been awarded every two years. From 2011 to 2015 the foundation also sponsored a “Lotte Köhler Study Prize” at the TU Darmstadt, which honored two excellent theses in the humanities and social sciences every year.

Honors

  • Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
  • Honorary membership in the Sigmund Freud Institute
  • Honorary member of the Ulm Psychoanalytic Working Group
  • Honorary Life Membership of the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society

Works

  • On some aspects of the treatment of narcissistic personality disorders in the light of the historical development of psychoanalytic theory . In: Psyche 32, 1978, pp. 1001-1058.
  • American psychoanalysis between ego psychology and self psychology . In. Psyche 36, 1982, pp. 344-354.
  • Recent results from infant research. Its importance for adult psychoanalysis . In: Forum der Psychoanalyse 6, 1991, pp. 32-51.
  • Forms and consequences of early attachment experiences . In: Forum Psychoanal 8, 1992, pp. 263-280.
  • Self psychology . In: W. Mertens (ed.): Key terms of psychoanalysis . Stuttgart 1993, pp. 115-120.
  • Application of attachment theory in psychoanalytic practice. Limiting reservations, benefits, case studies . In: Psyche 52, 1998, pp. 369-397.
  • The self in infancy and toddler age . In: P. Hartmann, W. Milch (Ed.): The self in the life cycle . Frankfurt / M. 1998.
  • Introduction to the Origin of Memory . In: M. Koukkou-Lehmann, et al. (Ed.): Memories of Realities. Psychoanalysis and neuroscience in dialogue . Stuttgart 1998.
  • What does psychoanalysis expect from attachment theory? . In: B. Strauss, et al. (Ed.): Clinical attachment research. Theories, methods, results . Stuttgart 2002, pp. 3-8.
  • Relationship Formation: Attachment Theory . In: T. von Uexküll, et al. (Ed.): Psychosomatic Medicine . Munich 2002 (6), pp. 233-244.
  • Early disturbances from the perspective of increasing mentalization . In: Forum Psychoanal 20, 2004, pp. 158-174.
  • On the origin of the autobiographical self and the autobiographical memory. Implicit and explicit aspects . In: Self Psychology 7, 2006, pp 96-114.
  • Psychoanalysis and Human Development . In: M. Ermann (Ed.): What Freud Didn't Know Yet. News about psychoanalysis . Frankfurt / M. 2006, pp. 39-52.
  • (et al.): Cultural evolution and change in consciousness. Hans Kilian's historical psychology and integrative anthropology . Giessen 2011.
  • Face of a foundation, 12 years of the Köhler Foundation 1989 - 2000 . Munich 2000.
  • Hans Kilian, Lotte Köhler: From self-preservation to self-respect. Giessen 2013.
  • The reform pedagogue Adolph Diesterweg. Psychoanalytic reflections on his biography. Published by Horst F. Rupp. Giessen 2016.
  • Klaus Goebel (ed.), Dieß writes to you from loving hearts. Letters from Sabine Diesterweg and her family , Göttingen 2016, follow-up remarks from the great-great-granddaughter, pp. 309–313.

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personal data
SURNAME Koehler, Lotte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychoanalyst and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt