Matthias Heinrich Goering

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Matthias Heinrich Göring (born April 5, 1879 in Düsseldorf ; † July 24 or 25, 1945 in Posen ) was a German doctor, psychotherapist and National Socialist functionary. He was chairman of the German General Medical Society for Psychotherapy and head of the German Institute for Psychological Research and Psychotherapy founded in 1936 . Hermann Göring was his cousin.

Life

Goering received his doctorate in law in 1900, but saddled on the study of mental illness in order and closed in 1907, a Doctorate Doctor of Medicine at. Various trips took him to Palestine, Ceylon and India. After an internship at the University of Bonn with Alexander Westphal , he took a traineeship with Emil Kraepelin between 1909 and 1910 . During this time, the focus of his work was on forensic psychiatry . He became a 'specialist in nervous and mental disorders' in 1922. During this time, he also began to be interested in psychotherapy . In 1923 Göring opened a neurological practice in Wuppertal-Elberfeld. In 1927 he first took part in a congress of the General Medical Society for Psychotherapy and became a member of the society the following year. After an Adlerian- oriented training analysis with Leonhard Seif in Munich, Göring founded the first educational counseling center in Wuppertal in 1929 . At the same time he set up a Wuppertal study group for psychotherapy.

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , he became a member of the NSDAP in March 1933 and also joined the SA and the National Socialist Medical Association . In connection with the power of his family name, following Hattenberg's suggestion, he became chairman of the newly established general medical society for psychotherapy (the new society was founded on September 15, 1933). Since 1933 he was a member of the NSDAP's Public Health Office. In 1936 Göring moved to Berlin to found the German Institute for Psychological Research and Psychotherapy, to lead the various psychotherapeutic directions as an integrative figure and to be able to act as the government's “confidante”. From 1936 he was co-editor with CG Jung of the Zentralblatt for Psychotherapy and its Border Areas .

"By virtue of his name, Göring was given a prominent position that he was unable to match in terms of his personality or his scientific achievements."

Göring represented the institute, gave interviews (e.g. the Völkischer Beobachter ), was an expert on e.g. B. in proceedings at the Hereditary Health Court in Gera, in which a decision was made on compulsory sterilization , maintained the connection to his cousin at the annual family banquets, was at the same time a functionary in the Reich Ministry of Aviation and represented the General Medical Society for Psychotherapy in international carefully planned by the National Socialists Congresses.

In 1939 the institute was taken over by the German Labor Front . “The most important employees of the institute had top salaries. Göring received 1,500 RM (for comparison: a Reichsleiter got 1,200 RM, a Gauleiter 1,500 RM). "

Goering died shortly after the end of the Second World War of dysentery in a Soviet camp hospital in Poznan.

Secondary literature

  • Geoffrey Cocks: Psychotherapy in the Third Reich. The Goering Institute. Oxford University Press, New York 1985; Revised new edition: Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick 1997.
  • Regine Lockot: Remembering and working through. On the history of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy under National Socialism. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1985.
  • Andreas Peglau: Non-political science? Wilhelm Reich and Psychoanalysis in National Socialism. Psychosocial, Giessen 2013.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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. 190.
  2. ↑ Lockot 1985: 79-80
  3. ↑ Lockot 1985: 83.
  4. ↑ cf. Lockot 1985: 85
  5. ↑ cf. Lockot 1985: 286-294
  6. ↑ Lockot 1985: 194
  7. ↑ Ernst Klee: Personal Lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-596-16048-0 , p. 190.
personal data
SURNAME Goering, Matthias Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor, psychotherapist and Nazi functionary
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH July 24, 1945 or July 25, 1945
Place of death Poses