Werner Villinger

Dr Werner Villinger had, after the war become a world-famous psychiatrist. His specialities included juvenile delinquency, child guidance and group therapy. He was also Professor of Psychiatry at Marburg and a very important member of the WFMH. He sat on the US White House Conference on Children and Youth. In the conference of the WFMH on Health and Human Relations which took place in Hiddesen-near-Detmold in 1951, he was co-chairman together with Rees. In 1952 he was a member of a WFMH group on Educating the Public which met during the Annual Conference in Brussels. Doris Odlum, late member of the Eugenics Society and Miss Appleby, already mentioned were Chairman and Secretary respectively of the group.

In 1961 German Federal Authorities caught up with Villinger and after three preliminary sessions prior to the Limburg trial, as we have seen already, he threw himself off a mountain top near Innsbruck to his death. His apologist and author of his obituary Dr. Ehrhardt, was also an active member of the WFMH.

Werner Villinger, who with Rees ran a series of WFMH sessions in 1951 in Sussex. Villinger also sat on the White House Conference on Children and Youth in the United States in the 1950s and became a world-famous psychiatrist during the same decade. But he was arrested in 1961 for Nuremberg crimes-- specifically, euthanasia-- by the authorities of the Federal Republic of Germany. Rather than stand trial, Villinger threw himself off a mountaintop near Innsbruck, thus depriving the WFMH of one of its most effective propagandists.