Otto Fleischmann

Otto Fleischmann ( born January 24, 1896 in Mór, Austria - Hungary, † January 8, 1963 in New York City ) was an Austrian- American psychoanalyst.

Life

Fleischmann grew up in Vienna. He studied law, doctorate and worked as a lawyer. He was analyzed by August Aichhorn. He was a student of Sigmund Freud in Vienna, where he met other psychoanalysts such as Anna Freud. After the Anschluss he fled as a Jew to Hungary, where he owned vineyards in Mór. For inclusion in the Hungarian Psychoanalytical Association, however, he had to improve his knowledge of Hungarian.

After the occupation of Hungary in April 1944, he was asked in the autumn of 1944 in Budapest by Raoul Wallenberg under the diplomatic protection of the Swedish Foreign Ministry. He supported the work of Wallenberg and the Hungarian Károly Szabó motivated to participate in the rescue of Wallenberg. Szabó's " trim with leather jacket as a secret policeman " was probably his idea. In the estate of Otto Fleischmann is a report that the first successful action in December 1944 by Károly Szabó was a " secret police " saving the life of Otto Fleischmann and Hegedus Pál.

After the war, Fleischmann went back to Vienna, where he again worked with the psychoanalyst Aichhorn and member of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society was. Raoul Schindler and Hedda Eppel were among those who made a training analysis with him.

Fleischmann immigrated to the U.S. and began working as the sanatorium Menninger in Topeka with Karl Menninger. Fleischmann was there since 1956, Director and Head of the Psychoanalytic Institute. 1962 visited him Anna Freud.

Writings (selection )

• Post: Paul springs, Heinrich Meng (eds.): The Psychoanalytic chapbook: psychology, hygiene, disease studies, culture customer. Bern: Huber, 1939