Matthias Göring

Matthias Heinrich Göring ( born April 5, 1879 in Dusseldorf, † 24 or July 25, 1945 in Poznań ) was a German physician, psychotherapist and Nazi official. Matthias Heinrich Göring, a cousin of Hermann Göring, was chairman of the "German General Medical Society for Psychotherapy ", founded in 1936 and director of the German Institute for Psychological Research and Psychotherapy.

Life

Goering in 1900 received his doctorate in law, but saddled to the study of mental illness in order and completed in 1907 as a PhD Dr. med at. Various travels took him to Palestine, Ceylon and India. After an internship in Bonn with Professor Westphal he took 1909-1910 to a volunteer position with Kraepelin. During this time, the focus of his work was in forensic psychiatry. For ' Specialist nervous and mental disorders ', he was in 1922. During this time he began to be interested in psychotherapy. Opened in 1923, Goering a neurological practice in Wuppertal- Elberfeld. In 1927 he first took part in a congress of the General Medical Society for Psychotherapy and the following year was a member of the society. After a adlerianisch oriented training analysis with Leonhard Seif Goering founded in Munich in 1929, the first child guidance in Wuppertal. He also called for a Wuppertal Study Group Psychotherapy in life.

After the " seizure of power" by the Nazis in March 1933 he was a member of the NSDAP and also joined the SA and the Nazi Medical Association at. In conjunction with the power of his family name, he was following the proposal Had Berg, chairman of the newly established general medical society for psychotherapy (founding of the new company September 15, 1933 ). He belonged since 1933 to the Office of Public Health of the NSDAP. 1936 moved Goring to Berlin to found the German Institute for Psychological Research and Psychotherapy to conduct an integrative figure the various psychotherapeutic directions opposite and to act as a ' steward ' of the government. " Starting in 1936, he was with CG Jung co-editor the Zentralblatt für Psychotherapie and their border areas.

" Of his name got Goering now an important position to which he had grown neither of his personality produces its scientific achievements accordingly. "

Goering represented the Institute, gave interviews (eg, the People's Observer ), was as a consultant, for example, in proceedings before the Hereditary Health Court in Gera, where it was held on forced sterilizations, active, used to connect to his cousin at the annual held family banquets, was also an official in the Ministry of Aviation and represented the General Medical Society for Psychotherapy in carefully planned by the Nazis in international congresses.

1939 the Institute was taken over by the German Labour Front. " The most important members of the Institute had top salaries Goering was 1500, - RM (compared to a realm manager got 1200 - RM, a Gauleiter 1500 - RM ). . "

Goering died shortly after the end of World War II at a dysentery in a Soviet camp hospital in Poznan.

Secondary literature

• Cocks, G. ( 1985), Psychotherapy in the Third Reich: The Göring Institute, New York: Oxford University Press. Revised edition, New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers 1997.
• Regine Lockot, remembering and working through: the history of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in Nazi Germany, Frankfurt am Main: Fischer -Taschenbuch -Verlag, 1985