Maximilian Jahrmärker

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Maximilian Jahrmärker (born March 31, 1872 in Hessisch Lichtenau , † May 11, 1943 in Marburg ) was a German psychiatrist and university professor in Marburg.

Life

Jahrmärker studied medicine at the Georg-August University in Göttingen and at the Friedrichs University in Halle . In Halle he became active in the Corps Normannia-Halle in 1889 and distinguished himself twice as sub- senior and four times as senior . In 1894, with a thesis on " Case studies of testicular cancer " in Halle , he was awarded a Dr. med. PhD.

After completing his studies, he assisted for a good two years at the Staßfurt Municipal Hospital before moving to the Haina State Hospital in 1897 and thus to psychiatry . As early as 1898, he moved from there to an assistant position at the Marburg State Hospital . Here he was promoted by Franz Tuczek and completed his habilitation under him in 1902. A year later, in 1903, he became senior physician in Marburg and thus deputy head of the institution.

On October 1, 1914, he was initially interim director of the state hospital from April 1, 1915 as a regular director. The Philipps University of Marburg appointed him in 1921 as associate professor . Although he was not a member of the NSDAP , he considered the law for the prevention of genetically ill offspring to be an “excellent cultural act”. In November 1933 he signed the professors' declaration of Adolf Hitler at German universities and colleges . Forced sterilizations were carried out in Marburg from 1934 onwards. Jahrmärker was a regional chief medical officer and judge at the hereditary health court . In 1937 he retired .

In 1907 he became a corps bow bearer of the Hasso-Nassovia . He received the ribbon on July 15, 1919.

literature

  • Ernst Klee : Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 282.
  • Andrea Mazumdar: Prof. Dr. Maximilian Jahrmärker: Life and work of a psychiatrist against the background of the separation of institutional and university psychiatry in Marburg , 2006.
  • Philipp Rauh, Sascha Topp: Concept stories : On Marburg psychiatry in the 19th and 20th centuries , Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2019, esp. Pp. 66–87

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. see Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg (HStAMR), Best. 915 No. 5764, p. 418 ( digitized version ).
  2. ^ A b Klaus Vassel: Corps history of Hasso-Nassovia in Marburg 1839–1954. A retelling , Vol. 1, Marburg 1979, p. 346.
  3. Kösener Korpslisten 1910, 102 , 197; 161 , 819.