Carl cutter (* 19 December 1891 in Gembitz in the district Mogilno, floats; "† 11 December 1946 by Suizid in remand in Frankfurt/Main) was a German psychiatrist.

Carl cutter is notorious because of its entangling into the killing of spirit patients during the time of the national socialism.

Career/development

Carl cutter was the only child of a former minister, who led a small Privatschule and which family left before first day at school of its son, in order to go as moving musicians into the USA. Thus the nut/mother was forced to pull to relatives after Pegau with Leipzig. Here cutter showed so good achievements that he could go as a scholarship holder on the Saxonian prince school Grimma, where he made 1911 the Abitur. After doing its military time in peppering castle it took up there 1912 its medicine study, which it could lock despite its employment in the war 1919.

Afterwards it worked on the university mental hospital in Leipzig, where it also married 1920, before it accepted 1922 then in close proximity to Dresden an official place at the Saxonian hospital in Arnsdorf/Saxonia. It left time for a rich, the psychological analysis of psychological disturbances deepening scientific work to it, to which the citizen of Berlin psychiatrist Arthur Kronfeld it could energize, whose publication row resumed small writings to the soul research cutter 1928 also briefly.

With Paul Nit, who it worked later director/conductor of the action T4 1930 at the organization of of the international one hygiene exhibition and also, to which socialhygenic concepts were formulated for the first time, the national socialists put Dresden then into practice. In the same year it applied successfully for the place of the leading physician of the Bodelschwingh institutes Bethel in Bielefeld. Here it stepped at the 1. May 1932 as a member number 1.112.586 into the NSDAP.

Activity in the third realm

1933 received the chair for psychiatry of the university in Heidelberg to cutter. At the psychiatric university clinic, which he led then until 1945, it introduced the work therapy in the consequence as "“basic stick"” of all therapeutic doing in the psychiatry, demanded the integration of the psychiatric institutes into the alive social production life, which preventing by Unfruchtbarmachung and measures to the euthanasia, with which murders should be made on psychologically patients the component of the psychiatric rule supply. In the Second World War cutter of advisory psychiatrists became with the 6. Army, worked starting from 20 April 1940 as T4-Gutachter and was involved in the consultation over the draft of an euthanasia law. Also to the discussions for the planning of the cinematic propaganda it was consulted, with which the murder should be near-brought psychologically incurably patients to the population and positively arranged. And finally the investigation of brains began more ermorderter "“idiots and Epileptiker"” by coworkers in December 1942 in a research department of its hospital, who could continue their careers after the war unangehindert.

Works

• 1926 psychology and psychiatry. Arch.Psychiat.Nervenkr. 78, 522-571
• 1930 the psychology of the Schizophrenen and their meaning for the hospital of the schizophrenia. Thieme, Leipzig
• 1939 treatment and preventing of the spirit patients. Springer, Berlin
• 1942 the Schizophrenen of symptom federations. Springer, Berlin

Literature

Plate, Christine: Carl cutter. To the biography of a German scientist. History and society 16 (1990) 464-478

Related links

• '' The victims of the National Socialist "“Eutanasie action T4"” '' (S.A.)
• Heidelberger working group '' psychiatry in the national socialism ''

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