Ulrich Fleck

Ulrich Fleck (born November 15, 1890 in Greiz ; † January 27, 1990 in Erlangen ) was a German psychiatrist and neurologist .

Live and act

Ulrich Fleck was born in 1890 as the son of a medical councilor . He attended the humanistic grammar school in his hometown of Greiz, where he graduated from high school in 1909. In the same year he began studying medicine at the University of Erlangen and did his military service at the Erlangen garrison of the 19th Bavarian Infantry Regiment. He then studied for two semesters in Munich. In 1911 he passed the Physikum in Erlangen and became a medical intern at the Munich Psychiatric Clinic with Emil Kraepelin . After clinical studies in Leipzig and Munich, he passed the state medical examination in 1914 and obtained his license to practice medicine .

At the beginning of the First World War , Fleck was drafted and volunteered for service in the field with the infantry, where he worked as a junior physician, later senior physician and battalion physician on the Eastern and Western Fronts. After the war he worked again in Munich, first in a neurological hospital under Eugen von Malaise , then as a trainee doctor at the 1st Medical Clinic with Ernst von Romberg . In 1919 he moved to Hamburg and worked as an assistant doctor, first until the end of the year at the internal clinic under Carl Theodor Hegler (1878–1943) and Ludolf Brauer , then for two years at the neurological clinic with Max Nonne . With the dissertation experimental psychological investigations on the daily fluctuations of the manic-depressive , he received his doctorate on October 15, 1919.

From 1922 to 1925 Fleck worked again at the Munich Psychiatric Clinic, as an assistant doctor to Emil Kraepelin and his successor Oswald Bumke . He then went to Göttingen , where he worked in the sanatorium and nursing home with Friedrich Schultze and, in 1926, completed his habilitation in psychiatry and neurology at the University of Göttingen . Two years later he took over the position of senior physician at the university's mental hospital. On August 5, 1932, he became an associate professor .

In 1933, Fleck signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler . From 1935 to 1945 he was on the board of directors of the psychiatric clinic at the Nuremberg Municipal Hospital . During the Second World War he also worked as a senior staff doctor in the reserve in the Air Force. On January 27, 1940, he wrote to Karsten Jaspersen in Bethel : "It is the case that with some sick people who are innately stupid ... you keep thinking that it would be almost more human to end their lives." In 1947 he became Extraordinary professor in Erlangen despite resistance from Werner Leibbrand , who accused Fleck of his commitment to National Socialism .

From 1948 to 1955 Fleck worked as an appraiser for the medical services department and ran a private practice. From 1954 he held lectures again as a professor at the University of Erlangen, including on forensic psychiatry and drug addiction.

Fonts

• On the Malaria and Recurrent Treatment of Paralysis , 1925

literature

• Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945, Fischer Taschenbuch Frankfurt am Main, 2nd (revised) edition 2007, p. 155
• Ioanna Mamali: Muenster Psychiatric and Mental Hospital . Beginnings of university psychiatry in Westphalia at the time of National Socialism. 2011 (Dissertation, University of Münster, 2011, urn : nbn: de: hbz: 6-44499468524 ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Rainer Pittroff: Ulrich Fleck In: The teachers of medicine at the University of Erlangen 1843–1943 and their career. Diss., Erlangen 1964, retrieved from the German Biographical Archive, pp. 207–208.
2. ↑ Quoted from: Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 155