Edwin Tietjens (20 March 1894,

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- 22 May 1944) was a psychiatrist in

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in the 1920s and 1930s and resistance fighter against the Nazis.

Life

Tietjens had a doctorate in philosophy. In 1926 he became the fourth husband of Luigina von Fabrice. 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

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

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.Israel Gutman & Sara Bender, ''Lexikon der Gerechten unter den Völkern: Deutsche und Österreicher'', Wallstein Verlag, 2005, Vol. I, p.272
Edwin Tietjens
– his activity to save Jews' lives during the

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, at

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website

Works

* ''Desuggestion; ihre Bedeutung und Auswertung: Gesundheit, Erfolg, Glück'', Berlin: O. Elsner, 1929. **Translated by Eden and

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as ''Desuggestion for the attainment of health, happiness, and success'', London: Allen & Unwin, 931

References

1894 births 1944 deaths German psychiatrists German Righteous Among the Nations Emigrants from the Russian Empire to Germany {{Psychiatrist-stub