Manfred Köhnlechner

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Manfred Köhnlechner (born December 1, 1925 in Krefeld ; † April 10, 2002 in Grünwald near Munich ) was a German publishing manager and alternative practitioner . In the media, he campaigned to make alternative medicine popular in Germany.

Life

Köhnlechner studied law and finance at the University of Würzburg and received his doctorate in 1953 from the University of Mainz with a thesis on insolvency law . From 1952 to 1954 he worked as the syndic of the German Pharmacists' Association , then briefly for the federal tax administration . After being admitted to the bar in 1955, he became in-house counsel for the Bertelsmann Group and was its general agent from 1957 to 1970 , making him one of the best-paid managers in Germany. In this position he was involved in the agreement on Bertelsmann's stake in the Gruner und Jahr publishing house .

After a riding accident in 1970, he was successfully treated by an alternative practitioner. Then he began to be interested in alternative healing methods. He canceled his contract with Bertelsmann, which ran until 1985, and sold his shares in the publisher for a million euros.

After leaving Bertelsmann, Köhnlechner started a new career as a naturopath. He passed the exam in 1972 and opened a naturopathic practice in the Grünwalder celebrity district Geiselgasteig . At first he specialized in acupuncture , which was largely unknown in Germany at the time. This changed with Köhnlechner's appearance on a television show with Dietmar Schönherr in 1974, in which he "treated" Trude Herr live . That was the beginning of his popularity. In 1974 40 percent of the German citizens surveyed knew him, in 1981 it was 98 percent. Köhnlechner also treated celebrities and founded the Manfred Köhnlechner Institute for Empirical Medicine in 1974 . Since then he has been running his practice only as a manager, the treatments have been carried out by other alternative practitioners. In 1985 he founded the Manfred Köhnlechner Foundation to promote biological and naturopathic procedures in the sense of empirical medicine .

Köhnlechner wrote a total of about 30 books. In several books he devoted himself to the topic of cancer and its prevention, especially through nutrition. He knew how to use the media to propagate his theories, not least the Bild newspaper . Among other things, he campaigned for neural therapy and ozone therapy and extolled the therapeutic benefits of bloodletting , taiga roots , garlic , vinegar and snake venom . Doctors often attacked Köhnlechner violently, calling him a charlatan who made a lot of money with nonsensical methods and false promises. But it was also controversial in naturopathic circles; he publicly demanded that natural medicine belong in the hands of academically trained doctors.

In 1989 he received the Scandinavian Prize for Natural Medicine; in Germany he was awarded the Hahnemann Medal by the Association of German Heilpraktiker .

At the age of 75, Köhnlechner allegedly swam 1,000 meters a day. In 1952 he married Marianne Lindner, who divorced in 1980. In 1992 he got his third marriage to a woman 33 years his junior.

Manfred Köhnlechner died of cancer. His grave is on the Grünwald forest cemetery .

Köhnlechner diet

The diet named after Köhnlechner was first published by Maria Lange-Ernst. It is a mixture of the food combining for Howard Hay and a low-carb -Diet like the Atkins diet . It is also claimed that humans are not “herbivores” and that they do not tolerate raw vegetables , especially fruit . It is recommended to drink vinegar water, which supposedly stimulates the burning of body fat ( fat burner ). This effect cannot be scientifically proven.

With this diet, carbohydrates are only consumed in the morning for breakfast in the form of dry bread or dry rolls . Otherwise, only lean meat, veal sausage , fish, tartare , offal and lean dairy products may be consumed, as well as steamed vegetables and salad . Grapefruits , gooseberries and honeydew melons are allowed as fruits . The calories are not counted. The majority of nutritionists reject this diet as completely unsuitable for weight loss.

Bibliography (selection)

  • Avoidable Operations. The Lost Chance (1975)
  • Healthy with Köhnlechner (1978)
  • Health, a utopia? The Path to the Responsible Patient (1979)
  • ALCOHOL Drug No. 1 (1982)
  • Medicine without measure. Plea for nonviolent therapies and against senseless animal experiments (1983)
  • Healthy Living is Fun (1986)
  • as publisher: Handbook of Naturopathy. 2 volumes (3rd edition Cologne 1986)
  • The seven pillars of health. Illness Is Not Fate (1987)
  • Successful methods against the diseases of our time. (1991)
  • Mother is the best doctor. Proven Home Remedies (1992)
  • Biological Medicine Today (1993)
  • Nature helps (1993)
  • Best Practices for the Diseases of Our Time (1993)
  • Help with Cancer (1998)
  • Cancer is not fate. Early detection and treatment options (1998)
  • Life force through garlic therapy (1998)
  • The healing powers of wine (2001)

Quotes

  • “ If he recommended a drug in the Bild newspaper in the morning, it was already sold out in the pharmacies in the afternoon. "(Wilfried Piper in an obituary in the Natur-Heilkunde-Journal , 5/2002)
  • “ Not all of his methods can be recommended, but the man disparaged as 'Münchhausen der Medizin' was a pioneer of natural medicine, whose boom in the eighties would be unthinkable without him. "(From the obituary of the newspaper Die Welt )
  • “ There is no doubt that, with his controversial healing methods, Köhnlechner discovered a niche in the market which conventional medicine had not considered and which led him to considerable economic success. "(From the FAZ )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Manfred Köhnlechner - Streiter for naturopathy is dead. In: Manager Magazin Online . April 11, 2002, accessed November 7, 2012 .
  2. ↑ The delimitation of the individual types of enforcement of the civil procedure code from one another. 1952 (dissertation, University of Mainz, January 9, 1953).
  3. ↑ a b c Sonja Kastilan: Naturopath herald: Manfred Köhnlechner made acupuncture, organic food and Co. socially acceptable . In: The world . April 13, 2002 ( online [accessed November 7, 2012]).
  4. ↑ Wilfried Pieper: Dr. jur. Manfred Köhnlechner passed away . In: Natur-Heilkunde Journal . No. 5 , 2002 ( online [accessed November 7, 2012]).
personal data
SURNAME Köhnlechner, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German media manager and alternative practitioner
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Krefeld
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 2002
Place of death Grünwald near Munich