The physician, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and book author was considered the “doyen of German-language psyhotherapy for the elderly.” He died at 86.
Hartmut Radebold’s subject was the transgenerational psychological and psychosocial consequences of fatherless childhoods during World War II. He himself was 10 when his father fell. At an advanced age, he faced not only his past, but also the consequences for his own two children.
Hartmut Radebold passed away on September 17, 2021, two days after his wife Hildegard, to whom he had been married for 57 years.
For West German Radio (WDR), Hartmut Radebold told me his life story. And for South West Radio (SWR), his wife Hildegard and their children Sabine and Tobias also recalled how they had experienced him as a husband and father.