Werner Wagner (psychiatrist)

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Werner Wagner (born January 26, 1904 in Immenstadt , † January 24, 1956 in Munich ) was a German psychiatrist and university professor.

Life

After his matriculation examination, Wagner completed a medical degree at the universities of Munich , Oxford , Dorpat and Heidelberg , which he completed in 1929 with a state examination. In 1929 he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD . He then worked as a medical intern at the Hygiene Institute in Heidelberg and the Düsseldorf Medical Clinic. In 1931 he became an assistant at the Psychiatric University Clinic in Düsseldorf and in 1932 at the Hufeland Hospital in Berlin.

As an assistant doctor, he moved to the University Neurological Clinic in Breslau in 1933, where he worked as senior doctor under Johannes Lange in 1935 . In 1936 he completed his habilitation in neurology and psychiatry at the University of Breslau and then worked there as a private lecturer . After Lange's death in 1938 he took over the provisional management of the clinic and represented the vacant chair for psychiatry and neurology at the University of Breslau .

After Werner Villinger was appointed to the chair of neurology and psychiatry in Wroclaw in 1940, Wagner switched to the Leipzig University Psychiatric Clinic as senior physician and private lecturer under August Bostroem . After Bostroem's move to the University of Strasbourg, Wagner took over the provisional management of the Leipzig University Neurological Clinic in Leipzig in October 1942 and represented the vacant chair for psychiatry and neurology until March 1946.

During the Second World War , Wagner, who belonged to the NSDAP , was employed in Leipzig as a senior staff doctor and from August 1943 as an advisory military psychiatrist in military district IV. He also headed the Rodewisch reserve hospital, where war neurotics were treated with high-dose galvanic electricity.

After the end of the war, contrary to his expectations, Wagner was not appointed to the chair for psychiatry and neurology at Leipzig University. He went to Munich in 1946. He then devoted himself to philosophy for two years in the country. From March 1948 he worked as a senior physician at the Munich University Neurological Clinic and was re-qualified at the University of Munich. From 1948 to 1949 he worked as a full professor for psychiatry and neurology at the University of Munich . In 1949 Wagner turned down a call to the University of Cologne and instead took on the post of director at the Clinical Institute of the German Research Institute for Psychiatry, which was incorporated into the Max Planck Society in March 1954 as the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry has been. In July 1954 he became medical director of the Hecker's Pediatric Neurological Clinic. In particular, he researched clinical-psychological brain pathology and dealt with methodological and philosophical questions in psychiatry. Wagner died in January 1956 as a result of a heart attack.

Memberships

  • Scientific member of the Max Planck Society (1951)
  • Member of the Scientific Council of the Max Planck Society (1952)
  • Member of the academic senate of the University of Munich (1951–1955)

Fonts (selection)

  • Investigation of the bactericidal components of the Bac. Pyocyaneus , dissertation at Heidelberg University in 1929
  • Basic research through psychiatry , in: Yearbook 1954 of the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science, Max Planck Society, Göttingen 1955, pages 241-266.
  • Attempts at a humanities-based psychiatry , Berlin 1957

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Alma Kreuter: German-speaking neurologists and psychiatrists: A biographical-bibliographical lexicon from the forerunners to the middle of the 20th century. , Volume 1, Munich 1996, Vol. 1, pp. 1518f.
  2. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 651
  3. ^ Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie , Volume 10, Thies-Zykan, Munich 2008, p. 356
  4. ^ Obituary in Archive for Psychiatry and Nervous Diseases , 1956, Issue 195, Issue 2, pp. 113–116
personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychiatrist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Immenstadt
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 1956
Place of death Munich