Michael von Cranach

Michael von Cranach (born August 4, 1941 in Berlin ) is a German physician, psychiatrist and author .

Life

After finishing school in Madrid , he studied medicine in Bonn . He then completed further training as a psychiatrist at the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry in Munich and was a British Council fellow at Maudsley Hospital in London.

From 1980 to 2006 he was the senior medical director of the Kaufbeuren district hospital , which under his leadership began to work on his own involvement in " Aktion T4 " during the National Socialist era. The Lindau Remembrance Foundation honored him for this in 2006 with the Marion Samuel Prize .

In 1999 he created the exhibition In Memoriam in memory of the victims of Nazi “euthanasia” on behalf of the German Society for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Psychosomatics and Neurology (DGPPN), which was shown for the first time in Hamburg at the 11th World Congress of Psychiatry and has since then is a traveling exhibition.

Cranach has been running a practice in Munich since 2006, he is also a professor at the Munich University of Applied Sciences in the Faculty of Applied Social Sciences and was committed to dealing with Nazi "euthanasia" in the Munich Nazi Documentation Center .

Michael von Cranach essential for the work-up of Psychiatry at the time of National Socialism made. An important consequence of this was the form of psychiatry, with the move away from large central institutions to smaller units, as well as the integration of people with disabilities into the work process. He was a scientific advisor for the first feature film - Nebel im August - about the fate of a “euthanasia” victim.

In 2019 von Cranach was honored by the DGPPN with the Wilhelm Griesinger Medal , the highest award of the professional society, “for his lifelong and tireless commitment in memory of all mentally ill people who fell victim to National Socialism” .

Publications (selection)

• On the question of late x-ray damage to the human brain: a histochemical examination , university thesis Medical Faculty, Bonn 1969.
• Social psychiatric texts: mental illness as a social process, psychiatric epidemiology , Springer-Verlag, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-540-05970-9 .
• with G. Strauss (translator): John K. Wing, John E. Cooper, Norman Sartorius: The recording and classification of psychiatric symptoms: Description and glossary of the PSE (Present State Examination) - a method for collecting psychopathological findings , Beltz-Verlag , Weinheim 1982, ISBN 3-407-86004-8 .
• Psychiatry in the time of National Socialism , Schwabenakademie, Irsee 1990.
• with Michael Frensch : Euthanasia: Are All People Persons? , Lecture collection: Kinsauer Sommerakademie 1990, Novalis-Verlag, Schaffhausen 1992, ISBN 3-7214-0640-0 .
• with Hans-Ludwig Siemen (ed.): Psychiatry in National Socialism. The Bavarian sanatoriums and nursing homes between 1933 and 1945 , R. Oldenbourg, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-486-56371-8 .
• with Frank Schneider : In Memoriam: Remembrance and Responsibility Exhibition catalog. Expanded and updated version of the 1999 catalog. 2011, ISBN 3-642-17398-5 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Michael von Cranach in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Press release on the awarding of the Marion-Samuel-Preis  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ http://www.arzt-auskunft.de/arzt/Muenchen/Nervenheilkunde-Psychiatrie-und-Psychotherapie/Dr.-Michael-von-Cranach/3420557
3. ↑ http://sw.hm.edu/die_fakultaet/lösungen/professoren/cranach/index.de.html
4. ↑ Peter Wagner: A gentle champion for sick souls. In: welt.de . April 22, 2001, Retrieved October 7, 2018 . 
5. ^ Wilhelm Griesinger Medal - press release 2019. In: dgppn.de. DGPPN, November 27, 2019, accessed November 30, 2019 .