Peters U H
Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie der Universität zu Köln.
Fortschr Neurol Psychiatr. 1996 Sep;64(9):327-43. doi: 10.1055/s-2007-996402.
The study of work and life of the Swiss-German psychiatrist Ernst Rüdin, honoured up to our time as "father of psychiatric genealogy", lead to different views. Rüdin early in his life became a racial fanatic, and as a propagandist for the purity of the "Germanic people" he constantly demanded preventive coercive measures against the reproduction of the mentally ill and other, in the racist's view, undesirable persons. With this objective in mind he started his psychiatric research. The results of Rüdin's monograph about the genetics of dementia precox do not withstand scientific criticism but confirmed his preexisting opinions. They served however as scientific reasoning for the forced sterilisation by the Nazis, for which Rüdin's comments were obligatory. The next step, to the holocaust of the mentally ill and the undesirable, was not only tacitly agreed with by Rüdin. Max Weber, Karl Jaspers and others realised at an early time the dangers arising from racial hygienics and voiced their warnings in a plain language. The surviving victims are still waiting for compensation.
对瑞士裔德国精神病学家恩斯特·吕丁的工作与生活的研究引发了不同观点，直至今日他仍被誉为“精神病史学之父”。吕丁早年成为了一名种族狂热分子，作为“日耳曼民族”纯洁性的鼓吹者，他不断要求针对精神病患者及在种族主义者看来其他不受欢迎的人采取预防性强制绝育措施。出于这一目的，他开展了精神病学研究。吕丁关于早发性痴呆遗传学的专著结果经不起科学批评，却证实了他先前的观点。然而，这些结果却成为纳粹强制绝育的科学依据，而吕丁的意见在其中起到了关键作用。下一步，针对精神病患者及不受欢迎者的大屠杀，吕丁不仅是默许。马克斯·韦伯、卡尔·雅斯贝尔斯等人很早就意识到种族卫生学带来的危险，并直言不讳地发出了警告。幸存的受害者仍在等待赔偿。
