Walter Ritter von Baeyer

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Walter Ritter von Baeyer (born May 28, 1904 in Munich , † June 26, 1987 in Heidelberg ) was a German psychiatrist and university professor.

In the post-war period, Baeyer provided important impulses for German psychiatry, in particular for social psychiatry . During his term of office, the dispute with the socialist patient collective Heidelberg also fell. Von Baeyer researched a. a. on psychiatry and victims of National Socialism and, in this context, assess Jewish Holocaust survivors who had developed psychiatric symptoms.

Life

family

Walter Ritter von Baeyer was the son of the orthopedist and university professor Hans Ritter von Baeyer and his wife Hildegard von Baeyer, née Merkel (1882-1958). His grandfather was Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf Ritter von Baeyer (1835–1917), who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1905.

Since 1936 he was married to Marie Wanda Baeyer, née von Katte (1911–1997), who u. a. Head of the legal committee of the Bavarian women's associations, lecturer in psychology. The couple had two sons and a daughter.

Studies and career entry

From 1922, Baeyer studied medicine at the universities of Munich, Berlin and Heidelberg, which he completed in 1927 with the state examination. He was promoted to Dr. med. graduated and received the year after the approval . He spent his medical internship at the university clinics in Munich, Berlin and Heidelberg. He then worked as an assistant doctor in the neurological department of the Wroclaw University Clinic and the Psychiatry Department of the Heidelberg University Clinic. In Heidelberg he was a student of the psychiatrist Karl Wilmanns from 1929 to 1933 .

Nazi era and World War II - medical officer

From January 1934 to March 1935 he worked as a research assistant in the genealogical department at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Psychiatry under Ernst Rüdin in Munich. From 1935 to 1945 he was a medical officer in the Wehrmacht and during the Second World War he was a consultant psychiatrist in the 16th Army on the Eastern Front , most recently with the rank of senior staff doctor . His duties as an advisory military psychiatrist also included the preparation of reports on so-called "war neurotics" in the context of trials before courts-martial . During the war he worked on psychopathy and in the end phase of the war also on typhus . A later habilitation was denied to him because of the objection of the Nazi lecturers in 1944 at the University of Munich .

Post-war period - university professor in Heidelberg

After the end of the war, between May and September 1945, he had a "period without office". Subsequently, from September 15, 1945 to October 31, 1955, he held the position of chief physician of the psychiatric and neurological department of the Nuremberg city ​​hospital and was appointed senior medical officer. In 1947 he made up for the previously denied habilitation in neurology and psychiatry from Friedrich Meggendorfer in Erlangen and became an associate professor there in March 1948. At the end of October 1955 he succeeded Kurt Schneider as professor and director of the Psychiatric-Neurological Clinic in Heidelberg . From August 1960 he was dean of the medical faculty of Heidelberg University for one year , where he worked until his retirement in March 1972.

From 1966 to 1971 he was Vice President of the World Association for Psychiatry . From 1964 he was a member of the board of the German Association for Public and Private Welfare . He was one of the founders of the Committee on Psychobiology (Disaster Medicine) of the Protection Commission at the Federal Ministry of the Interior . In 1975 he co-founded the Central Institute (ZI) for Mental Health in Mannheim . In 1977 he was a co-founder of the German Association against Political Abuse of Psychiatry (DVpMP), which has been renamed the Walter von Baeyer Society for Ethics in Psychiatry since 1999 . V. (GEP) carries. From 1950 to 1975 he was co-editor of the specialist journal Der Nervenarzt .

Awards

Fonts

  • On the genealogy of psychopathic swindlers and liars. G. Thieme, Leipzig 1935
  • with Reinhard Aschenbrenner : Epidemic typhus. A clinical introduction. Enke, Stuttgart 1944
  • The modern psychiatric shock treatment. Thieme, Stuttgart 1951
  • with Heinz Häfner and Karl Peter Kisker : Psychiatry of the persecuted. Psychopathological and expert experience on victims of National Socialist persecution and comparable extreme stresses. Springer, Berlin / Göttingen / Heidelberg 1964
  • with Richard M. Griffith (Ed.): Conditio humana. Erwin W. Straus on his 75th birthday. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 1966
  • with Wanda von Baeyer-Katte: fear. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 1971; ibid. 1973, ISBN 3-518-06618-8
  • Imagination and delusion. Selected essays. Enke, Stuttgart 1979, ISBN 3-432-90281-6
  • with Werner Binder: Endomorphic psychoses in persecuted people. Statistical-clinical studies on compensation reports. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 1982, ISBN 3-540-11673-7

literature

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b Helmut Kretz: History of medicine: Psychiatry in transition . In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt , December 2004 edition, p. 559 f.
  2. ↑ UniversitätsKlinikum Heidelberg: naming of the station named after Walter Ritter von Baeyer at http://www.klinikum.uni-heidelberg.de/
  3. ↑ a b c d The Nuremberg Doctor Trial 1946/47. Index tape for the microfiche edition . Walter de Gruyter, 2000. p. 76
  4. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 25
  5. ↑ a b Short biography on www.vonbaeyer.net
  6. ↑ a b Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . Vol. 1: Aachen - Braniß , Munich 2005, p. 334
  7. ^ Walter von Baeyer Society for Ethics in Psychiatry V .: About us
  8. ↑ Golden Kraepelin Medal ( Memento from August 1, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) at www.mpipsykl.mpg.de
personal data
SURNAME Baeyer, Walter Ritter von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychiatrist, university professor and Vice President of the World Association for Psychiatry
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH June 26, 1987
Place of death Heidelberg