Walter Betzendahl

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Walter Betzendahl (born July 4, 1896 in Barmen ; † June 8, 1980 in Kiel ) was a German psychiatrist , neurologist and university professor .

Life

Betzendahl studied medicine and philology at the universities of Tübingen, Berlin and Freiburg. Since 1919 he was a member of the Corps Franconia Tübingen . After completing his studies, he was promoted to Dr. med. and in 1925 Dr. phil. PhD . He then completed his residency training as a psychiatrist and neurologist at the University Psychiatric Clinic of the Berlin Charité , where he became senior physician under Karl Bonhoeffer in 1939 . After his habilitation he worked there from 1936 as a private lecturer and from 1941 as an adjunct professor.

He joined the NSDAP after it came to power in 1933. During the Second World War , after the beginning of the German-Soviet War , he was an advisory military psychiatrist in the 9th Army from 1942 and then from April 1944 in the Army Group South Ukraine , most recently with the rank of senior field doctor.

After the end of the war he was an American prisoner of war and interned in Tyrol. After his release, a possible appointment to Berlin as Bonhoeffer's successor was thwarted. From 1949 he held a teaching position for psychopathology at the University of Kiel and from 1950 he ran a private neurological practice in Kiel. He was the author of numerous publications.

Since May 1949 he was married to the future psychiatrist Herta, née Gohr (* July 12, 1922 - February 11, 2016). The couple had a daughter.

Walter Betzendahl's estate is in the Psychology History Research Archive (PGFA) of the Distance University in Hagen.

Fonts

  • The concept of the thing and its perfection in the essential concepts of substances according to the logical treatment of Christoph v. Sigwart , University of Berlin, PhD thesis, 1925.
  • Personality development and delusion: a sub. about d. Sense d. Experience and meaning d. Behavior at d. pathological changes in the ego , Karger, Berlin 1932.
  • The expressions of madness: To theory d. endogenous psychoses , Karger, Berlin 1935.
  • The picture of the brain injured after the first examination of the damage , Barth, Leipzig 1949.
  • The tetanus in surgical and neurological assessment: From d. surgical clinic of the University of Kiel , Marhold, Halle (Saale) 1953. (together with his wife)
  • The human character in evaluation and research , Schöningh, Paderborn 1956.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 39 , 779.
  2. ↑ a b Reinhold Busch (ed.), Elsi Eichenberger (author): As a Red Cross nurse in hospitals on the Eastern Front: Swiss medical missions in World War II , part 3: Smolensk, war winter 1941/42, an experience report , Wünsche, Frank, 2004, p 53
  3. ↑ Who is who? : the German Who's Who , Volume 16, Arani, 1970, p. 84
  4. ^ Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 , Frankfurt am Main 2005, p. 46
  5. ↑ Herta Betzendahl (ed.): Longing for healing , 2008, p. 36
  6. ↑ Personal collections
personal data
SURNAME Betzendahl, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychiatrist, neurologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Barmen
DATE OF DEATH June 8, 1980
Place of death Kiel