Karl Wilmanns
Franz Karl Heinrich Wilmann ( born July 26, 1873 in Durango, Mexico, † August 23 1945 in Wiesbaden ) was a German psychiatrist.
Life and work
Wilmann was born the son of the Hanseatic merchants and academic family Wilmann in Mexico, came to Germany at age six and grew up in Bremen. His father was a merchant and part-owner of various business houses in Durango, Torreón and Honolulu. His mother Ottilie Delius was also from one operating in Mexico and coming from the Westphalian Versmold dynasty of linen merchants.
Karl Wilmann studied in Bonn, Göttingen and Berlin and received his doctorate in 1897 with a pharmacological dissertation: The direct excitation of the Atmungscentra by the alcohol.
From 1898 to 1901 he was an assistant with Anton Delbrück - the Pseudologia phantastica described - in St. - Jürgen- asylum in Bremen and at Carl Wilhelm Pelman at the hospitals and nursing institution in Bonn. In 1902 he became assistant to Emil Kraepelin at the Grand Ducal Psychiatric University Hospital in Heidelberg, where he habilitated in 1906 his successor, Franz Nissl and 1912 Associate Professor was. As an " auxiliary doctor " - now a senior physician - by Nissl he promoted the medical student and volunteer assistant Karl Jaspers. In World War I he was a time as a medical officer.
In 1917, he was the successor of Leopold Easter shortly director of medical and nursing home Reichenau near Constance, 1918 Wilmann received a reputation as Nissl's successor as head of the Psychiatric University Hospital in Heidelberg.
In 1933 he was dismissed due to § 4 of the newly introduced " Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service" from the civil service, as he had expressed just before the seizure of power by the National Socialists disrespectful about Hitler and Goering. In a lecture he is said to have observed, " Hitler has had a hysterical reaction following his suffered in the field spillage ". About Goering he said, this was a " chronic morphine addict ". His successor was Carl Schneider, the supporters of the Nazis was and had placed himself at the service of euthanasia.
Family
Karl Wilmann was a brother of the chemist Gustav Wilmann. The lawyer and member of parliament Charles Wilmann, the historian Gustav Heinrich Wilmann and the German scholar Wilhelm Wilmann were his father Franz Rudolph Florence brothers.
Prinzhorn Collection
In the Psychiatric University Hospital in Heidelberg, Kraepelin and Wilmann drawings and watercolors had been collected from patients. This collection was in the years 1919 to 1922 by Hans Prinzhorn, the assistant to Wilmann comprising expanded on its behalf. The resulting " Prinzhorn Collection ," now comprises some 5,000 works by about 450 patients in psychiatric hospitals.