Otfried K. Linde

Otfried Kurt Linde (born September 8, 1932 in Sandersleben ; † May 29, 2019 in Bad Bergzabern ) was a German pharmacist and economist. For many years he held the position of pharmaceutical director at the Palatinate Clinic Landeck , today the Palatinate Clinic for Psychiatry and Neurology , in the Palatinate community of Klingenmünster . As a lecturer at various German universities, he was the author or co-author or editor of numerous books and publications that deal mainly with the fields of pharmacopsychiatry and the history of psychiatry .

In retirement, he lived in Dirmstein for more than a decade and a half before moving to Bad Bergzabern in November 2012.

Life

Linde studied pharmacy and economics at the Technical University and the Free University of Berlin . In 1956 he passed the state examination. In 1961 his doctorate of natural sciences with studies of secondary reactions in the reaction of phenol oxidase in catechins at the Pharmaceutical Institute of the University of Berlin.

job

During his professional activity as pharmaceutical director of the Pfalzklinik Landeck, Linde was a lecturer at the universities of Saarbrücken , Karlsruhe and Jena in the subjects of medical and pharmaceutical terminology and onomatology . At the Institute for Philosophy at the University of Karlsruhe, he taught "The Philosophy of Games". In 1992, alongside Herbert Oelschläger, he was a member of the teaching staff of the Faculty of Biology and Pharmacy at the University of Jena, which was newly founded after German reunification.

Linde has produced more than a dozen books and 145 individual publications, most of them in specialist books and magazines. For eight years he published the periodical Psychothek , which was aimed primarily at doctors and clinics in the Federal Republic of Germany; each had a circulation of 42,500 copies. His main work on the history of drug therapy in psychiatry earned him recognition from specialist colleagues. The study book Physics, Radiation Science and Chemistry for members of the health professions, which Linde published together with Hans J. Knigge, reached nine editions between 1970 and 1996. His critical publication on the compulsory text in drug advertising attracted particular attention and discussions.

In 21 years, Linde has held more than 600 advanced training seminars for doctors and medical staff in the field of psychopharmacology and psychopharmacokinectics and has often given lectures at national and international congresses and specialist conferences on topics related to the history of psychiatry. As the first in the Federal Republic of Germany, Linde founded a training institute for pharmaceutical-technical assistants in cooperation with the Natural Science Technical Center in Landau (Palatinate) , which he headed for two years as a part-time job and where he taught economics and toxicology for eight years . Linde initiated medicine seminars for relatives of the mentally ill, which he organized in cooperation with the Federal Association of Relatives of Mentally Ill People over four years across Germany, and thus continued the drug consultations that had been practiced in the Pfalzklinik for years at a level of broader awareness and publicity.

Linde worked systematically on pharmacokinetic reactions of psychotropic drugs . His chemically-analytically evaluated results of self-experiments to obtain measurement data regarding the interactions of black tea and antidepressants should be emphasized . He also carried out investigations into the diagnostic and therapeutic significance of the so-called “anonymous preclinical medication”. This includes the administration of psychotropic medication prior to admission to a psychiatric hospital. This previous medication, if inadvertently not communicated to the clinician or even intentionally withheld, remains mostly undetected, although it can have a relevant influence on the psychological admission findings and thus the diagnosis on the statistical average. According to Linde's research results, laboratory tests showed in about 40% of the cases that psychotropic drugs had been given before hospital admission. He researched and gave lectures on this problem even after his retirement.

Other activities

Linde became known beyond specialist circles through a documentation from 1998 (see other books ) about crimes against psychiatric patients in the Third Reich , which he published together with two co-authors as part of an official assignment, which was also featured in the local history of his then place of residence Dirmstein  .

Since his retirement in 1994, Linde has been working on the documentation of historically relevant decisions and incidents in connection with the nationwide processing of the Nazi history of psychiatry. Are treated here z. B. the phenomenon of elite continuity in the context of the end of dictatorships and the numerous opposition to the project "Historiography of Nazi crimes in psychiatry". The work is carried out jointly by historians and historically minded psychiatrists.

In 1989 Linde happened to be in the Pfalzklinik when files on the victims of Nazi psychiatry in Klingenmünster were to be disposed of by burning on the instructions of superiors, and prevented their destruction. In the following years he worked systematically on the files , supported by the management of the Kaiserslautern Institute for Palatinate History and Folklore . The result was the documentation mentioned at the beginning of this paragraph.

On November 9, 1993, on the occasion of the first memorial hour for the victims of Nazi psychiatry in Klingenmünster, Linde gave a lecture for the first time on eugenics and "euthanasia" in the Nazi state - their roots and what was left of them . In Dirmstein he repeated the updated lecture on March 27, 2009 when laying stumbling blocks for victims of National Socialism.

In retirement, Linde also wrote fiction , namely essays , essays and time-critical poetry .

Works (selection)

Reference books

• Otfried K. Linde, Hans J. Knigge: 1000 questions about pharmacy . Govi Verlag, Eschborn 1970.
• Otfried K. Linde, Hans J. Knigge: Examination tasks for pharmacists . Govi Verlag, Eschborn 1973.
• Otfried K. Linde, Hans J. Knigge: Arithmetic book for health professions . Verlag Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1975.
• Otfried K. Linde (Ed.): Pharmacopsychiatry in the course of time . Tilia-Verlag Mensch und Medizin, Klingenmünster 1988.
• Otfried K. Linde: In the beginning there was alcohol . Tilia-Verlag Mensch und Medizin, Klingenmünster 1991.
• Otfried K. Linde: Short revision course on pharmacology using the example of triazolam . Tilia-Verlag Mensch und Medizin, Klingenmünster 1992.
• Otfried K. Linde: Pharmaceutical trademarks . Deutscher Apotheker-Verlag, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-7692-1584-2 .
• Otfried K. Linde, Hans J. Knigge: Physics, radiation and chemistry . 9th, revised and expanded edition. Verlag Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Berlin / Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-17-013805-7 (first edition: 1970).

Other books

• Karl Scherer, Otfried K. Linde, Roland Paul (eds.): The Klingenmünster sanatorium and nursing home 1933–1945. Psychiatry under National Socialism . Institute for Palatinate History and Folklore, Kaiserslautern 1998, ISBN 3-927754-34-X (two further editions).
• Otfried K. Linde: Treatise on wine and love . Sommer Verlag, Grünstadt 2007.
• Otfried K. Linde: Retrospective Notes . Self-published, Dirmstein 2011.
• Otfried K. Linde: Marginalia from the history of the Pfalzklinik Landeck . Experiences in the historiography of Nazi crimes against the mentally ill. Self-published, Bad Bergzabern 2016.
• Otfried K. Linde: Aging and old age . An essay. Self-published, Bad Bergzabern 2018.

Web links

• Literature by and about Otfried K. Linde in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Otfried Linde: Investigations into secondary reactions during the action of phenol oxidase on catechins . Ed .: Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, FU Berlin. Berlin December 9, 1961, OCLC 46796035 .
2. ↑ Website of the Federal Association of Relatives of Mentally Ill People e. V.
3. ↑ Michael Martin (ed.): Dirmstein - nobility, farmers and citizens. Chronicle of the Dirmstein community . Self-published by the Foundation for the Promotion of Palatinate Historical Research , Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 2005, ISBN 3-9808304-6-2 , p. 635 ff .
4. ^ ^{A b} Otfried K. Linde: Marginalia from the history of the Pfalzklinik Landeck . Experiences in the historiography of Nazi crimes against the mentally ill. 2016, p. 11 f .
5. ↑ Christian Oldekop: Fifth stage of remembering . In: Die Rheinpfalz , local edition Frankenthaler Zeitung . Ludwigshafen March 31, 2009 ( online ).
6. ↑ Report printed in: Gemeinde Dirmstein (ed.): “Dirmstein remembers” - days of remembrance of the victims of National Socialism . Editor: Albert H. Keil. Dirmstein 2009, p. 21–36 ( online [PDF; 333 kB ]).