Manfred Koch-Hillebrecht

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Manfred Koch-Hillebrecht (* 1928 ; † March 14, 2020 ) was a German political psychologist .

Life and work

Koch-Hillebrecht did his doctorate in Tübingen under the psychiatrist Ernst Kretschmer and qualified as a professor at the University of Bonn in psychology. After working as an opinion researcher in Munich , in the “Sonderkreis” of Federal Chancellor Ludwig Erhard and as an advisor in the Federal Press Office , he worked in the election campaign for Kurt Georg Kiesinger and Willy Brandt .

On the subject of national prejudices , Koch-Hillebrecht published the book The Stuff, From Which Stupidity Is Made In 1978 .

He also wrote two psychological portraits of Hitler . In Homo Hitler (1999) he goes a. a. asked whether Hitler had an eidetic memory and analyzed his acting skills. In Hitler: a son of the war (2003), he defines the primary catastrophe in Hitler's life as a post-traumatic stress disorder , which he suffered in World War I and from which his fatal worldview and its destructive character developed. In this context, Koch-Hillebrecht also refers to a shock therapy with which the military psychiatrist Edmund Forster treated Hitler in 1918 in the Pasewalk reserve hospital after psychogenic blindness. This therapy not only made Hitler an operational soldier again, but also equipped him with the demagogic method that later made him so influential as a politician. Since there are no historical documents to prove this treatment, Koch-Hillebrecht was later accused of an uncritical reception of statements based on hearsay, and his presentation was massively questioned.

Manfred Koch-Hillebrecht was emeritus at the University of Koblenz .

Publications (selection)

  • The German image. Present, history, psychology (1977)
  • The stuff stupidity is made of. Psychology of Prejudice (1978)
  • Little Personality Psychology (1982)
  • Homo Hitler. Psychogram of the German dictator (1999)
  • Hitler: a son of war. Front experience and world view (2003)
  • The Germans Are Terrible: History of a European Enemy (2008)
  • The Bohemian private. German Chancellor with a migration background. Character sketch of a mentally disturbed person (2020)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jan Armbruster: The treatment of Adolf Hitler in the Lazarett Pasewalk 1918: Historical myth formation through one-sided or speculative pathography (PDF; 790 kB) , in: Journal for Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, 2009, Volume 10 (4), p. 18– 22nd
personal data
SURNAME Koch-Hillebrecht, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political psychologist and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1928
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 2020