Matthias M. Weber (medical doctor, 1960)

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Matthias Maximilian Weber (born July 6, 1960 ) is a German psychiatrist .

Career

Matthias Weber studied human medicine at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich from 1979 to 1985. He did his doctorate on a forensic-psychiatric topic. From 1987 (internship) to 2017 he was employed at the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry in Munich as a doctor and research assistant. He has been a specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy since 1994. From 1991 he was appointed head of the historical archive of the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry. In this capacity, Florian Holsboer , under the direction of the director of the institute and today's managing director of Holsboer Maschmeyer-NeuroChemie (HMNC) GmbH, was responsible for and organized the archive operation, including the archival recording of the holdings, user support and the provision of scientific information on the history of psychiatry and the institute. From 2004 he was a qualified research assistant and headed the historical archive and the "History of Medicine" working group at the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry. In the institute's clinic, he was the managing senior physician and head of the central expert opinion center for forensic-psychiatric assessments, particularly in the area of ​​civil, social and administrative law.

An inspection of the historical archive by an independent commission of experts appointed by the Max Planck Society in February 2016 revealed that the archive was in a barely usable condition, as well as numerous irregularities. These mainly concerned the finding of numerous euthanasia brain specimens, which had been officially buried in the Munich forest cemetery since 1990 . Weber is accused of having made the historians' work more difficult as archive manager, whereby one of the authors of the presidential report of the Max Planck Society , Wolfgang U. Eckart, refuted this accusation. According to Weber's report and statements, Weber was the one who pointed out questionable objects in the archive in emails, which ultimately led to the on-site inspection. Weber also relies on archival and data protection regulations that would not have allowed him to research the researchers as they would have liked. As a result, Weber was initially released from managing the archive and finally ended his work at the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry in 2017. In a report in Kontrovers - Das Politikmagazin on March 15, 2017 on BR TV , the former chairman of the board of trustees of the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry, Paul U. Innschuld , speaks of the institute's contemptuous accusations against Weber, which led him to resign Office saw prompted.

In 2006 Weber was appointed adjunct professor at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

Publications

Matthias M. Weber is the editor of Edition Emil Kraepelin . As an author he published, among other things, a controversial biography of the psychiatrist and “ racial hygienist ” Ernst Rüdin in 1993 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sven Grünewald: Max Planck Society: When in doubt, the director is right . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed March 31, 2019]).
  2. ↑ HMNC Brain Health | Innovative therapy methods and personalized therapy. Accessed March 31, 2019 .
  3. ^ AG M. Weber: History of Psychiatry. March 16, 2013, accessed April 6, 2019 .
  4. ↑ "What I saw exceeded my fears" . In: sueddeutsche.de . 2017, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed April 6, 2019]).
  5. ↑ Conny Neumann: Brains in the junk room, mirror edition 10/2017
  6. ↑ MAX PLANCK Research: Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry. March 14, 2018, accessed April 10, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Weber, Matthias M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weber, Matthias Maximilian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychiatrist
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1960