Wolfgang Huber (medical doctor, 1935)

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Wolfgang Huber (born 1935 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German doctor . In 1970 he founded the "patient collective", later the socialist patient collective ("SPK") in Rohrbacher Strasse in Heidelberg as an assistant doctor with colleagues, students and 52 patients . In 1971 he was sentenced to four and a half years' imprisonment for participating in a criminal organization (socialist patient collective).

Life

Huber graduated from high school in Stuttgart in 1955. He studied medicine and philosophy. On August 1, 1961, he joined the Psychiatric University Clinic in Heidelberg as a medical assistant . Its director was Walter Ritter von Baeyer . In 1962 Huber received his doctorate. On August 1, 1964, Huber became an assistant doctor at the Psychiatric University Clinic in Heidelberg, and from 1966 he worked at their polyclinic . The head of the polyclinic was Dieter walk , from October 1969 Helmut Kretz .

Huber criticized the science-oriented medicine , accommodation and electric shocks in psychiatry and offered conversational therapies . On February 12, 1970, a general patient assembly demonstrated in the Heidelberg Psychiatric Polyclinic against Huber's dismissal, which had been ordered for "inciting the patients". In February 1970, Huber founded the Socialist Patient Collective (“SPK”) with colleagues, students and 52 patients as a self-organization of psychiatric patients in which there was no longer any separation between patients and doctors. He saw illness as a consequence of capitalist relations of production, according to which illness is a form of protest. The mentally ill have revolutionary potential, so they should be viewed as political prisoners. The collective had up to 500 members and issued a total of 51 leaflets.

In the summer of 1971, Huber and the SPK expressed solidarity with the terrorist organization Red Army Fraction (RAF). Some members of the SPK joined the RAF. The SPK disbanded in July 1971, and Huber was arrested on July 19, 1971. Because participation in a criminal organization , explosives manufacture and falsification of documents he and his wife Ursel Huber were sentenced in December 1971, four and a half years in prison, the SPK-member Siegfried Hausner to three years in youth custody. In a cellar rented by Ursel Huber, materials for explosives and devices for forging passports were found. Huber lost his medical license. On November 6, 1975, Wolfgang and Ursel Huber started a hunger strike in the Stuttgart correctional facility . They were released on January 20 and 21, 1976, respectively.

Fonts

  • The term solitary confinement. 1974
  • About the beginning: to the history of the socialist patient collective (1970) and the patient front (1973): how the disease became a weapon: 20 years of the patient front. 1993
  • with other authors The communist manifesto for the third millennium. 2001

literature

  • Cornelia Brink :
    • Radical psychiatry criticism in the Federal Republic. The socialist patient collective in Heidelberg. In: Franz-Werner Kersting (Hrsg.): Psychiatry reform as social reform. The mortgage of National Socialism and the departure of the sixties. Paderborn 2003, pp. 165-180.
    • Psychiatry and Politics. To the socialist patient collective in Heidelberg. In: Klaus Weinhauer , Jörg Requate, Heinz-Gerhard Haupt (ed.): Terrorism in the Federal Republic. Media, State and Subcultures in the 1970s. Frankfurt am Main 2006, pp. 134–153.
  • Christian Pross , Sonja Schweitzer and Julia Wagner: "We wanted to run to ruin". The history of the socialist patient collective Heidelberg. Psychiatrie Verlag, Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3884146729 (summary in English (pdf) )

Web links

  • The beginnings of the RAF
  • Link to the dataset on Huber in the National Library with references to publications from 2006: http://d-nb.info/gnd/131337963

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Unsigned, undated curriculum vitae in tabular form, possibly from the website of the Heidelberg History Association , last accessed September 1, 2018
  2. ^ Benedikt Erenz: Heidelberger Mythen . In: The time . No. 42/1986 ( online ).
  3. ↑ Ulrike Baureithel: Illness and weapons. Tagesspiegel online, January 27, 2017 (accessed September 1, 2018)
  4. ↑ “Making a weapon out of illness!” Where psychiatric patients should become revolutionaries - the Socialist Patient Collective SPK (1970/71). Unsigned article from the Heidelberg student newspaper Ruprecht No. 35, May 16, 1995 (here on the website of the Math / Phys student body, last accessed September 1, 2018)
  5. ↑ Klaus Welzel: What remains of the socialist patient collective? (plus video). Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung online November 7, 2016 (accessed September 1, 2018)
  6. ↑ PROCESSES: Fateful turn . In: Der Spiegel . No. 46 , 1972 ( online - Nov. 6, 1972 ).
  7. ↑ http://d-nb.info/962385905
personal data
SURNAME Huber, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main