Citation

Hafner H. Nervenheilkd. 2018; 37(12): 901-909.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, Georg Thieme Verlag)

DOI

10.1055/s-0038-1677374

PMID

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Abstract

The aim of the present article is to supplement and broaden the critique penned by Christian Pross of SPK Komplex, a documentary directed by Gerd Kroske on the Sozialistisches Patientenkollektiv (SPK) (Socialist Patients' Collective) active at the University of Heidelberg in 1970-1971. The SPK was founded by Dr. W. Huber, an assistant doctor at the university's psychiatric department, as a revolutionary movement campaigning against psychiatry, against the professors of the university hospitals and against the capitalist system as a whole. The protests and campaigns staged by the SPK grew increasingly radical. SPK members occupied the office of the university hospitals' administrative director and several times the rector's office. They procured firearms, explosives and were planning to conduct shooting exercises. They installed a wiretap on the rector's phone and listening devices in the senate's conference room. As a disillusioned female student committed suicide, the SPK blamed their adversaries. A People's Court declared the state minister of education and cultural affairs, Prof. Hahn, the rector, Prof. Rendtorff, and the SPK's no. 1 adversary, H. Häfner, guilty of murder. After a bullet pierced the shoulder of a police officer during a nightly police inspection, Dr. Huber and 11 further SPK members were arrested. © 2018 Georg Thieme Verlag KG.

Language: de

Keywords

human; student; exercise; psychiatry; police; education; firearm; legal aspect; court; weapon; university hospital; explosive; Article; failed leftist revolution; sickness as a weapon; Socialist Patients' Collective; student revolt