Edwin Tietjens

Edwin Tietjens (20 March 1894, Saint Petersburg - 22 May 1944) was a psychiatrist in Berlin in the 1920s and 1930s.

Life

Tietjens had a doctorate in philosophy. In 1926 he became the fourth husband of Luigina von Fabrice.^[1] HIs 1929 book Desuggestion, translated into English, was widely reviewed. In 1943 Tietjens and his wife Gina hid a Jewish shoe worker, Ruth Heynemann, and her mother, finding them false papers and taking care of them in their Berlin house. After Tietjens died of a heart attack, his wife continued to look after the women until the Russian army arrived. For this they have been recognized as among the Righteous Among the Nations.^[2]

Works

• Desuggestion; ihre Bedeutung und Auswertung: Gesundheit, Erfolg, Glück, Berlin: O. Elsner, 1929.
  • Translated by Eden and Cedar Paul as Desuggestion for the attainment of health, happiness, and success, London: Allen & Unwin, [1931].

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