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- The University Psychiatry Erlangen is reflecting on Friedrich Meggendorfer's role as a psychiatrist during the National Socialist regime for its 200th anniversary.
- A detailed review of new sources reveals that Meggendorfer's expertise in hereditary psychiatry played a key role in his appointment as a full professor in 1934, despite being suspended after the war.
- The study emphasizes the importance of ethical considerations in psychiatric training to prevent professionals from being manipulated by ideological pressures.
Article Abstract
Introduction: The 200th anniversary of the University Psychiatry Erlangen motivates a critical-historical analysis of the role of Friedrich Meggendorfer (1880-1953) as a psychiatrist under National Socialism.
Method: A current evaluation of previously unconsidered sources made it possible to classify Friedrich Meggendorfer's role as a Nazi university psychiatrist in a differentiated way.
Results: Meggendorfer's expertise in hereditary psychiatry and forensic eugenics could be the decisive reason for his appointment as full professor of psychiatry to Erlangen in 1934. On 19.11.1945 Meggendorfer was supended by the military government. Although Meggendorfer was classified by the court on 20.09.1946 as a "follower", he succeeded no reintegration into the faculty of the Friedrich-Alexander-University.
Discussion: Meggendorfer - among others through his explanations on the law for the prevention of hereditary diseases - allowed himself to be at least partially robbed of the freedom for independent intellectual creation as the core of academic self-understanding.
Conclusion: The increased inclusion of ethical reflections in the psychiatric/ psychosomatic specialist training can protect the "soul doctor" from being instrumentalized.
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