Heilpraktiker

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Heilpraktiker ("healing practitioner") is a

naturopathic profession in Germany. It is recognized as an alternative and complementary health care
profession by German law.

Profession in Germany

Heilpraktiker, or non-medical healing practitioner, is recognized as an

Ayurvedic medicine, to reflexology or acupuncture
. A heilpraktiker is a person who is allowed to practice as a non-medical practitioner using any unconventional therapy.

History

The profession of heilpraktiker is based on healing therapies beginning in the Middle Ages.[2] The lîbarzet Jörg Radendorfer from Vienna received around 1496[3] rights in Frankfurt that were otherwise restricted to academic physicians, which were withdrawn in 1499 after protests of doctors and pharmacists, and the death of a patient. He then worked in Nuremberg from 1500 to around 1503.[4]

After the First World War, the heilpraktiker began to organise. They formed an association "Verband der Heilkundigen Deutschlands" in

Reichsministerium des Innern appointed the heilpraktiker Ernst Heinrich as commissioner of the profession. Per the Gleichschaltung, all associations were combined in a central Heilpraktikerbund Deutschland, with enforced rules for membership and education. The organisation published the magazine Der Heilpraktiker first in August 1933.[2]

The

Nazis promoted heilpraktiker as a counter within alternative medicine to the "occult" practices of anthroposophy.[5][6] Alternative medicine researcher Edzard Ernst have written about the links between heilpraktiker and Nazism,[7] and described it as "a relic from the Nazis that endangers public health" in a series of blog posts,[8] also arguing against extension of the practice.[9] Heilpraktiker have been identified as involved with fake cancer cures.[10] A law regarding the profession of heilpraktiker was issued on 18 February 1939, named "Erste Durchführungsverordnung zum Gesetz über die berufsmäßige Ausübung der Heilkunde ohne Bestallung" (First regulation implementing the law on the professional practice of medicine without bestowal), or short: Heilpraktikergesetz.[1]

Organisation

According to the

Statistisches Bundesamt, 45,000 heilpraktiker were accredited in Germany in 2017.[11]
They are organised in several associations which represent the interests of the profession and offer education and services. Several associations run schools.

  • Allgemeiner Deutscher Heilpraktikerverband (ADHV)
  • Arbeitsgemeinschaft Anthroposophischer Heilpraktiker-Berufsverband (AGAHP)
  • Berufsverband Deutsche Naturheilkunde (BDN)
  • Bund Deutscher Heilpraktiker (BDH)
  • Bund Deutscher Heilpraktiker und Naturheilkundiger (BDHN)
  • Fachverband Deutscher Heilpraktiker (FDH)
  • Freie Heilpraktiker (FH)
  • Freier Verband Deutscher Heilpraktiker (FVDH)
  • Union Deutscher Heilpraktiker (UDH)
  • Verband Deutscher Heilpraktiker (VDH)
  • Verband Heilpraktiker Deutschland (VHD)
  • Verband Unabhängiger Heilpraktiker (VUH)
  • Vereinigung Christlicher Heilpraktiker (VCHP)

They collaborate in the organisation Die Deutschen Heilpraktikerverbände (The German Heilpraktiker Associations). Beginning in 2011, five associations have collaborated in the umbrella organisation Dachverband Deutscher Heilpraktikerverbände (DDH).[12] The central organisation has published a magazine Volksheilkunde.[2]

Education

While there is no regulated curriculum to become heilpraktiker, several schools offer classes.

References

  1. ^ a b c Erste Durchführungsverordnung zum Gesetz über die berufsmäßige Ausübung der Heilkunde ohne Bestallung (Heilpraktikergesetz) (in German). 18 February 1939.
  2. ^ a b c Krüger, Arne (1999). "Ein dreifaches Jubiläum" (in German) (5). Retrieved 1 August 2020. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. ISBN 3-11-015714-4
    , pp 1211
  4. ^ Gundolf Keil, Marianne Halbleib: Radendorfer (Rattendorfer, Rottendorfer), Jörg. In: Verfasserlexikon. 2nd ed. vol. 8, 966–968.
  5. ISBN 978-90-04-27015-2
    .
  6. ISSN 0040-781X
    . Retrieved 2019-12-09.
  7. ^ MAR 2005, The Pharmaceutical Journal19. "Complementary medicine in Germany". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  8. ^ "The German 'HEILPRAKTIKER' is a relic from the Nazis that endangers public health". edzardernst.com. 2016-08-19. Retrieved 2019-12-09.
  9. PMID 9454441
    .
  10. ^ "The deadly false hope of German alternative cancer clinics". sciencebasedmedicine.org. 26 March 2018. Retrieved 2019-12-09.
  11. Sterrn
    : "Gefährliche Heilpraktiker", 20 April 2017
  12. ^ "Selbstdarstellung". Fachverband Deutscher Heilpraktiker. Retrieved 2013-12-05.

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