- Werner Villinger
Werner Villinger (1887-1961) was a Nazi German
psychiatrist ,neurologist , eugenicist and the leading physician at the Bethel Institution ("Anstalt Bethel"). Villinger's specialities included juvenile delinquency, child guidance and group therapy. He was a Professor of Psychiatry at thePhilipps University of Marburg and a leading member of the World Federation for Mental Health (WFMH).Under the Germany's Nazi regime of the 1930s and '40s, Villinger acted as an expert in the government's
T-4 Euthanasia Program .On
Social Welfare Education Day 1934, Villinger gave a speech on sterilization and described the reaction, fears and resistance of the boys involved.He was involved in medical experiments on human beings and ordered thousands to their deaths during the
Third Reich but supported Rev.Friedrich von Bodelschwingh 's attempt to resist extermination of the mentally ill.Fact|date=February 2007After
World War II , Villinger continued his career in the Federal Republic of Germany and co-founded theFederal Ministry of Family, Youth and Health . He was honored by the German government.Fact|date=February 2007Villinger attended the U.S.
White House Conference on Children and Youth . In 1951, he became co-chairman of the WFMHHealth and Human Relations Conference at Hiddesen-near-Detmold . In 1952 he was a member of a WFMH group onEducating the Public whose Annual Conference met inBrussels . In 1952 he was elected president of theGerman Association for Child and Youth Psychiatry and in 1954 became the head of the medical department ofPhilipps University of Marburg .In 1961 the German Federal Authorities announced their intent to try Villinger for his actions under the Nazi regime, but before he was brought to trial Villinger threw himself to his death off a mountain top near
Innsbruck .See also
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Ernst Rüdin
*Euthanasia
*Nazi eugenics References
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=gqLDEKVk2nMC&pg=PA128&dq=%22Werner+Villinger%22&as_brr=0&sig=Fknl9sBNGjx81wY9pSd2-yTfGf4 The Origins of Nazi Genocide ]
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=ZwVttu0EtbgC&pg=PA50&dq=%22Werner+Villinger%22&lr=&as_brr=0&sig=MsrwrKfSZ0n_PDe3wJfchEE56H4 In the Name of the People]
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=khqk1g0TN7oC&pg=RA1-PA7&dq=%22Werner+Villinger%22&as_brr=0&sig=NMMvlNpV_9e0whQHl0pr_PiG8ro Medical and Psychological Effects of Concentration Camps on Holocaust Survivors]
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