Hans Martin Sutermeister

Hans Martin Sutermeister (September 29, 1907 - May 5, 1977) was a Swiss physician and medical writer. He is chiefly known for his writings on miscarriages of justice, particularly the Pierre Jaccoud case.

Life

Sutermeister was born in Feuerthalen, Switzerland on September 29, 1907.

During World War II, he worked with the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, providing aid to refugees at the Swiss borders. Later he was a lecturer of psychophysiology at the Volkshochschule (Folk high school) in Bern.

He joined the Ring of Independents political party, and served as a member (Ring of Independents) of the municipal parliament from 1967 to 1971, as well as serving as the school director of Bern. [Bähler et al. 2003: 153, picture 114: "Ausflug auf dem Wohlensee"] During that time, he was a fierce critic of the "The Little Red Schoolbook", which advocated the questioning of societal norms by the young people of the time. []

In the 1960s he became interested in forensic pathology, and became deeply involved in the case of Pierre Jacoud, a Swiss lawyer. Intending to prove that Jaccoud had been wrongly condemned for the murder of Charles Zumbach, he carried out his own research into the matter. His main arguments were that Pierre Hegg, the criminologist who had worked on the initial evidence, had misidentified as human blood what was really animal blood. [] Despite his efforts, the case was never reopened. Hegg and other involved parties later filed charges against Sutermeister. []

In 1976 Sutermeister published his main work on cases of miscarriage of justice, "Summa Iniuria".

He died on May 5, 1977, in the city of Basel, Switzerland.

Publications

*Sutermeister, Hans Martin (1976). "Grundbegriffe der Psychologie von heute" Basel: Elfenau Verlag (526 pages)
*Sutermeister, Hans Martin (1976). "Summa Iniuria - Ein Pitaval der Justizirrtuemer": fuenfhundert Faelle menschlichen Versagens im Bereich der Rechtsprechung in kriminal- und sozialpsychologischer Sicht" Basel: Elfenau Verlag (812 pages)
*Sutermeister, Hans Martin (1959). "Das Rätsel um Robert Schumanns Krankheit". Praxis, 51.
*Sutermeister, Hans Martin (1956). "Der Arzt", with Ulrich Frey, Bern: Paul Haupt Verlag (54 pages) ASIN|B0000BI85K
*Sutermeister, Hans Martin (1955). "Schiller als Arzt: ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der psychosomatischen Forschung", Berner Beiträge zur Geschichte der Medizin und der Naturwissenschaften, Nr. 13., Paul Haupt Verlag (68 pages). ASIN|B0000BOF4H ASIN|B000JVFCBW ASIN|B000SVKNQM
*Sutermeister, Hans Martin (1949). "Zum heutigen Stand der Traumforschung". Grenzgebiete der Medizin, 2, 485-492
*Sutermeister, Hans Martin (1944). "Psychologie und Weltanschauung". Bern: Hans Huber Verlag ASIN|B000SFI7NY ASIN|B000UD38CY
*Sutermeister, Hans Martin (1944). "Von Tanz, Musik und anderen schönen Dingen; Psychologische Plaudereien"; Bern: Hans Huber Verlag
*Sutermeister, Hans Martin (1942). "Zwischen zwei Welten", Novelle" von Hans Moehrlen (Pseudonym), an autobiography, Bern: Mettler&Salz AG
*Sutermeister,Hans Martin (1942). "Nomen atque omen. Die Fortschritte der psychologischen Forschung und ihre weltanschauliche Tragweite (mit besonderer Berücksichtigung des Neuroseproblems)". Bern: W. Friedli ASIN|B000M75I1W

Notes

References

*cite news |title=Ein gewisses Lächeln |url=http://wissen.spiegel.de/wissen/dokument/68/27/dokument.html?titel=Ein+gewisses+L%C3%A4cheln&id=43067286 |publisher=Der Spiegel 45/1960 |page=71 |date=November 2, 1960 |accessdate=2008-07-10 |language=german |ref=Spiegel1960
*cite news |first=Mauz |last=Gerhard |author=Mauz, Gerhard |title="Schuldig, weil wir keinen anderen haben": SPIEGEL-Reporter Gerhard Mauz über die Fehlurteilsjäger Hans Martin Sutermeister und Gustav Adolf Neumann |url=http://wissen.spiegel.de/wissen/dokument/dokument.html?id=46272426 |publisher=Der Spiegel 18/1965 |page=116 |date=April 28, 1965 |accessdate=2008-07-10 |language=german |ref=Spiegel1965
*cite news |title=Der SPIEGEL berichtete: Schïler-Lehrerbeziehung |url=http://wissen.spiegel.de/wissen/dokument/07/63/dokument.html?titel=Der+SPIEGEL+berichtete&id=44943670 |publisher=Der Spiegel 28/1970 |page=144 |date=July 6, 1970 |accessdate=2008-07-10 |language=german |ref=Spiegel1970
*cite book |last=Bähler |first=Anna |coauthors= Bühler, Susanna; Erne, Emil; Lüthi, Christian |editor=Barth, Robert |title=Bern - die Geschichte der Stadt im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert : Stadtentwicklung, Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft, Politik, Kultur |url=http://www.stub.unibe.ch/extern/hv/be19_20/index.html |accessdate=2008-07-10 |edition=2nd Edition |year=2003 |publisher=Stämpfli Verlag AG |location=Berne |language=german |isbn= 3-7272-1271-3 |pages=pages 109-148 |chapter=3:Stadtpolitik zwischen Patriziat und Frauenmehrheit |chapterurl=http://bme10a.arrocho.ch/downloads/bernim19und20jhpolitikimwandel2.pdf |ref=Bern2003

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Persondata
NAME=Sutermeister, Hans Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=Sutermeister, Hans
SHORT DESCRIPTION=Swiss physician, medical writer
DATE OF BIRTH=September 29, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH=Feuerthalen, Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH=May 5, 1977
PLACE OF DEATH=Basel, Switzerland