German psychiatrists

Johann Gottfried Langermann (August 8, 1768 – September 5, 1832) was a German psychiatrist and administrator born in Maxen, near Dresden.

Leopold Hermann Oskar Panizza (12 November 1853 – 28 September 1921) was a German psychiatrist and avant-garde author, playwright, novelist, poet, essayist, publisher and literary journal editor.

Albert Moll (German: [mɔl]; 4 May 1862, Lissa – 23 September 1939, Berlin) was a German psychiatrist and, together with Iwan Bloch and Magnus Hirschfeld, the founder of modern sexology.

Wolfgang Wodarg (born March 2, 1947) is a German physician and politician for SPD.

James Lewin (28 October 1887 in Berlin - 31 December 1937 in Chelyabinsk, USSR) was a German-Jewish psychiatrist and physician.

Klaus-Peter Lesch is a clinical psychiatrist who has been investigating the neurobiological foundation of personality traits.

Ewald Hecker (20 October 1843, Halle – 1909) was a German psychiatrist who was an important figure in the early days of modern psychiatry.

Rudolf Leubuscher (12 December 1822 – 23 October 1861) was a German physician and psychiatrist who was a native of Breslau.

Heinrich Laehr (10 March 1820 – 18 August 1905) was a German psychiatrist born in Sagan, Silesia.

Hubert von Grashey (30 October 1839 – 24 August 1914) was a German psychiatrist born in Grönenbach.

Karl Fürstner (June 7, 1848 - April 25, 1906) was a German neurologist and psychiatrist born in Strasburg, Uckermark.

Dr. Oskar Felix Kohnstamm (13 April 1871 in Pfungstadt – 6 November 1917 in Frankfurt am Main) was a German neurologist and psychiatrist.

Christian Friedrich Wilhelm Roller (11 January 1802 – 3 January 1878) was a German psychiatrist born in Pforzheim.

Arnold Kutzinski (August 17, 1879 in Berlin – December 26, 1956 in Jerusalem) was a Jewish German psychiatrist and neurologist, known as an outspoken critic of psychoanalysis.

Matthias Heinrich Göring (5 April 1879, Düsseldorf – 24/25 July 1945, Posen) was a German psychiatrist, born in Düsseldorf.

Rudolf Gottfried Arndt (31 March 1835 – 29 January 1900) was a German psychiatrist from Bialken, district of Marienwerder.

Werner Villinger (9 October 1887 in Besigheim – 8 August 1961 near Innsbruck) was a Nazi German psychiatrist, neurologist, eugenicist and the leading physician at the Bethel Institution ("Anstalt Bethel").

Ludwig Merzbacher (9 February 1875 – 30 October 1942) was a German-Argentine neuropathologist and psychiatrist born in Florence, Italy.

Hans Heinze, sometimes referred to as Euthanasie-Heinze ("Euthanasia Heinze"; 18 October 1895 – 4 February 1983) was a Nazi German psychiatrist and eugenicist.

Johannes Kornhuber (born September 11, 1959) is a German psychiatrist and psychotherapist.

Gustav Aschaffenburg (May 23, 1866 – September 2, 1944) was a German psychiatrist born in Zweibrücken.

Friedrich Albrecht Erlenmeyer (9 March 1849 - 7 July 1926) was a German physician and psychiatrist born in Bendorf bei Koblenz.

Konrad Rieger (28 March 1855 in Calw – 21 March 1939 in Würzburg) was a German psychiatrist.

Holger Bertrand Flöttmann is a German neurologist, psychiatrist and a doctor for psychosomatic medicine.

Bernhard van Treeck MD (born February 5, 1964, Kempen, Niederrhein) is a German psychiatrist and has led a clinic specialised in addictions and drug-dependency.

Edwin Maria Katzen-Ellenbogen was a Nazi physician in the concentration camp of Buchenwald.

Ernst Rüdin (April 19, 1874 in St. Gallen – October 22, 1952) was a Swiss-born German psychiatrist, geneticist, eugenicist and Nazi.

Ulla Mitzdorf (March 15, 1944 – July 19, 2013) was a German scientist.

Carl Schneider (December 19, 1891 in Gembitz, Kreis Mogilno, Province of Posen – December 11, 1946 in Frankfurt am Main), professor at Heidelberg University, (1933–1945) chairman of its department of Psychiatry, director of its clinic, was a senior researcher for the Action T4 euthanasia program.

Andreas Heinz (born February 4, 1960 in Stuttgart) is a German psychiatrist and psychotherapist.

Professor Johannes Thome, M.

Karl Kleist (born 31 January 1879 in Mulhouse, Alsace, died 26 December 1960) was a German neurologist and psychiatrist who made notable advances in descriptive psychopathology and neuropsychology.

Friedrich Panse (born December 31, 1899 in Essen – died 6 December 1973 in Bochum) was a German psychiatrist who was involved with the Nazi T-4 Euthanasia Program.

Klaus Conrad (June 19, 1905 in Reichenberg – 5 May 1961 in Göttingen) was a German neurologist and psychiatrist with important contributions to neuropsychology and psychopathology.

Dieter Duhm, sociologist, psychoanalyst, art historian and author, is one of the co-founders of Tamera, a peace research center in southwestern Portugal.

Wolfgang Luthe (1922-1985) was a German physician and psychotherapist, who brought autogenic training to the attention of the English-speaking world.

Erich Lindemann (born 2 May 1900 in Witten, Germany) was a German-American author and psychiatrist, specializing in bereavement.

Felix Plaut (1877–1940) was a German psychiatrist who was director of the Department of Serology at the Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Psychiatrie in Munich.

Frieda Fromm-Reichmann was born on October 23, 1889 in Karlsruhe, Germany and died of a heart attack on April 28, 1957 at age 67 in Rockville, Maryland.

Johann Michael Leupoldt (November 11, 1794 – August 21, 1874) was a German psychiatrist born in Wießenstadt, Bavaria.

Carl-Heinz Rodenberg, sometimes known as Karl-Heinz Rodenberg (19 November 1904 in Heide – 1995) was a German neurologist and psychiatrist.

Franz Karl Heinrich Wilmanns (27 July 1873 – 23 August 1945) was a German psychiatrist who founded the Heidelberg school of psychopathology.

William Guglielmo Niederland (29 August 1904 – 30 July 1993) was a German-American psychoanalyst and a pioneer in the scholarly field of psychogeography.

Anton Ludwig Ernst Horn (August 24, 1774 – September 27, 1848) was a German physician who was a native of Braunschweig.

Julius Ludwig August Koch (/ˈkɔːx/; German: [ˈkɔχ]; 4 December 1841, Laichingen, Württemberg – 25 June 1908, Zwiefalten) was a German psychiatrist whose work influenced later concepts of personality disorders.

Adolph Albrecht Erlenmeyer (11 July 1822 – 9 August 1877) was a German physician and psychiatrist born in Wiesbaden.

Detlev Ploog (29 November 1920 – 7 December 2005) was a German clinical psychiatrist, primate behavior researcher and anthropologist.

Eberhard Schorsch (30 December 1935 – 14 November 1991) was a German physician, psychotherapist, psychiatrist, author and sexologist.

Karl Heilbronner (21 November 1869 Nürnberg – 8 September 1914 Utrecht) was a German psychiatrist.

Friedrich Salomon Rothschild (December 17, 1899, Giessen – March 6, 1995, Israel) was a Jewish psychiatrist and semiotician.

Sigbert Josef Maria Ganser (24 January 1853, Rhaunen, Rhine Province – 4 January 1931, Dresden, Saxony) was a German psychiatrist born in Rhaunen.

Johann Baptist August Cramer (10 November 1860 – 5 September 1912) was a Swiss-German neuropathologist and psychiatrist who was a native of the canton St.

Eugen Kahn (born 20 May 1887 in Stuttgart, Germany - died January 1973 in Houston, Texas.) was a German psychiatrist.

Peter Emil Becker (23 November 1908 – 7 October 2000) was a German neurologist, psychiatrist and geneticist.

Robert Eugen Gaupp (3 October 1870 – 30 August 1953) was a German psychiatrist and neurologist who was a native of Neuenbürg, Württemberg.

Andreas Spengler (born 10 Juni 1947 in Goslar) is a German psychiatrist and researcher who conducted through 1974 and 1975 a well-known sociological study on sadomasochism in men at the Institute for Sexual Research in the University Hospital Eppendorf in Hamburg, Germany.

Kai von Klitzing (born 23 November 1954 in Aachen) is a German child and adolescent psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and professor at the University Hospital Leipzig.

Professor Helmut Beckmann (May 22, 1940 – September 3, 2006) was a German psychiatrist.

Max Hamilton (9 February 1912 – 6 August 1988) was born at Offenbach am Main, Germany.

Hermann Paul Nitsche (November 25, 1876 – March 25, 1948) was a German psychiatrist known for his expert endorsement of the Third Reich's euthanasia authorization and who later headed the Medical Office of the T-4 Euthanasia Program.

Arnold Aaron Hutschnecker (13 May 1898 - 28 December 2000) was an Austrian-American medical doctor with a specialisation in psychiatry.

Carl Reinhold August Wunderlich (4 August 1815, Sulz am Neckar – 25 September 1877, Leipzig) was a German physician, pioneer psychiatrist, and medical professor.

Robert Sommer (December 19, 1864 – February 2, 1937) was a German psychiatrist and genealogist born in Grottkau.

Hugo Karl Liepmann (April 9, 1863 - May 6, 1925) was a German neurologist and psychiatrist born in Berlin.

Carl Franz Moeli (10 May 1849 – 4 November 1919) was a German neurologist and psychiatrist born in Kassel.

Kurt Lingens, M.D.

Friedrich Groos (23 April 1768 – 15 June 1852) was a German physician and philosopher born in Karlsruhe.

Paula Heimann (née Klatzko, 2 February 1899 – 22 October 1982) was a German psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, who established the phenomenon of countertransference as an important tool of psychoanalytic treatment.

Friedrich Wilhelm Seiffer (April 18, 1872 - November 30, 1917) was a German neurologist and psychiatrist born in Stuttgart.

Friedrich Robert Mauz (1 May 1900 Esslingen – 7 July 1979 Münster) was a German psychiatrist who was involved with the Nazi T-4 Euthanasia Program.

Christian Friedrich Nasse (18 April 1778 – 18 April 1851) was a German physician and psychiatrist born in Bielefeld.

Friedrich Meggendorfer (June 7, 1880 – February 12, 1953) was a German psychiatrist and neurologist.

Carl Friedrich Flemming (27 December 1799 – 27 January 1880) was a German psychiatrist born in Jüterbog.

Caspar Maximilian Brosius (12 June 1825 – 17 February 1910) was a German physician and psychiatrist born in Burgsteinfurt, Westphalia.

Fredric Wertham (March 20, 1895 – November 18, 1981) was a German-educated American psychiatrist and crusading author who protested the purportedly harmful effects of violent imagery in mass media and comic books on the development of children.

Emanuel Mendel (October 28, 1839 – June 23, 1907) was a German neurologist and psychiatrist who was a university professor (from 1884 an associate professor) and director of a polyclinic in Berlin.

Alexander Carl Otto Westphal (18 May 1863, Berlin – 9 January 1941, Bonn) was a German neurologist and psychiatrist.