Theodor Hellbrügge

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Theodor Friedrich Hellbrügge (born October 23, 1919 in Dortmund ; † January 21, 2014 in Munich ) was a German pediatrician and founder and director of the Munich Children's Center .

Live and act

He completed his habilitation in 1954 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , where he was appointed adjunct professor in 1960. In the same year he founded the Research Center for Social Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, and in 1967 he held the first chair for Social Pediatrics. His achievements include the introduction of the child preventive examinations that are common today in Germany. With the establishment of the Children's Center in Munich, he established the first socio-pediatric facility for developmental rehabilitation, early detection and early therapy and social integration. There are now 200 such centers in Germany and abroad.

He was the founder in 1970 of the publication The pediatrician - Journal of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine and acted from the first edition to 1992 as editor .

Hellbrügge had been a member of the Catholic student association K.St.V. Saxonia Munich in the KV and also campaigned for the family network , a family-political, Christian-conservative interest group that campaigns against childcare outside the family.

Depth psychological examination of former Lebensborn children

The Munich pediatrician Theodor Hellbrügge met six Lebensborn children in 1946 . They looked "remarkably pretty" to him. At that time they were one and a half to two years old. “On closer inspection,” reported the pediatrician, “it turned out that none of these children could walk, some could barely sit. They couldn't speak, above all they couldn't laugh. ”In short: They revealed all too clearly that they came from home. Years later, T. Hellbrügge and the psychologist Rosemarie Brendel tried to find addresses of Lebensborn children. From 1962 to 1966 it was possible to locate 69 young people who owed their lives to National Socialist racial arrogance. 40 of them were thoroughly examined medically, psychologically and in depth psychologically. In addition, all available documents about these young people were studied. In the former Lebensborn children, psychological tests repeatedly showed signs of unrealistic attitudes, disturbances in environmental relationships, fear, lack of stability, lack of emotion, and inhibitions of contact. Several young people stuttered. Five wet and faeced when they were more than 17 years old. In many cases there were great educational difficulties. Twelve of the 69 teenagers had been in welfare education. As a result of anti-sociality and criminality - according to T. Hellbrügge - "a large number of them were noticed". The children with selected genes, who were to grow up in homes to become “Nordic splendid people”, developed completely differently than their spiritual fathers at their desk had imagined.

Fonts (selection)

As an author:

  • Congenital toxoplasmosis. Clinical, pathological-anatomical, serological and animal experimental observations. Banaschewski, Munich 1957.
  • Child development and social environment. Don Bosco, Munich 1962.
  • with Alphons Silbermann , Robert M. Liebermann, Heribert Heinrichs, Udo Undeutsch : Aggression and television. Does television endanger children? Katzmann, Thübingen 1974, ISBN 3-7805-0320-4 .
  • Parents should know that. About dealing with our children. Kindler, Munich 1975, ISBN 3-463-00615-4 .
  • Our Montessori model. Experiences with a new kindergarten and a new school. Kindler, Munich 1977, ISBN 3-463-00690-1 .

As editor:

  • Screening examinations in adolescents. Scientific contributions to the implementation of the investigations according to the Youth Labor Protection Act. Deutscher Ärzte Verlag, Cologne 1962.
  • with J. Hermann von Wimpffen: The first 365 days in a child's life. Knaur, Munich 1973, ISBN 3-426-07445-1 (translated into 14 languages).
  • with Karl Heinz Brisch : Attachment and trauma. Risks and protective factors for the development of children. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-608-94061-8 .

Awards

Theodor Hellbrügge have been awarded honorary doctorates by 16 different universities (including in 1981 by the Sophia University of Tokyo).

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Theodor Hellbrügge is dead , accessed on January 23, 2014
  2. ↑ Imprint "Pediatrician". In: kinder-undjugendarzt.de. Retrieved May 20, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Press text of the family network for the conference “What do small children need?”, 2007
  4. ↑ Lausch, E .: Don't laugh, don't cry, just scream. Episode III. Home children suffer from incurable behavioral disorders. Time online October 26, 1973
  5. ↑ Brisch, KH: Children without attachment. Deprivation, Adoption und Psychotherapie, Ed. Theodor Hellbrügge, Klett-Cotte Verlag, 3rd edition, Stuttgart 2006
  6. ↑ Hellbrügge, T .: Handbook of Pediatrics. Volume Soziale Pädiatrie, Springer, 1966 p. 391
  7. ↑ Paracelsus Medal for Prof. Dr. med. Dr. hc mult. Theodor Hellbrügge
personal data
SURNAME Hellbrugge, Theodor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hellbrügge, Theodor Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pediatrician
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 2014
Place of death Munich