Ryke Geerd Hamer

Ryke Geerd Hamer

Ryke Geerd Hamer (born 1935) is a physician barred from practicing medicine in Germany. In 1981 he started a controversial, pseudoscientific alternative medicine that he first called New Medicine and later Germanic New Medicine (a registered trademark).

Hamer has been prosecuted in several European countries for the illegal practice of medicine. He lives now (2008) in Norway. In an interview given in September 2007 he said that he fled from Spain to Norway in order to escape an arrest warrant from Germany for incitement of hatred against a minority of the population (article 130 of the German criminal code). Hamer has made many public statements in open letters and on webpages against Jews and accused an international Jewish conspiracy (in particular the New York based B’nai B’rith) of having killed two billion people by hiding the truth about the New Medicine. His lawyer Koch wrote in a fax that the fax number +47 33 464950, which belongs to a person in southern Norway (Sandefjord), is Hamer's. In may 2008, Hamer said in an open letter that his address in norway would be his publishing company address in Sandefjord, Germanische Neue Medizin Forlag Dr. Hamer in Sandkollveien 11, N-3229 Sandefjord.

Biography

The internet lists many different biografies of Hamer showing evident differences between them. This article refers only to data that was extracted from different sentences of the Hamer-trials and lawsuits, articles published in newspapers, radio and tv-transmissions and some statements of people working formely with Hamer. Hamer made himself statements that differ a lot from court records.

Ryke Geerd Hamer was born May 17, 1935 in Mettmann (Germany) beeing the third-oldest out of four brothers. Hamer states however to have five brothers or sisters. His mother was of italian origin. He grew up in the north-western part of Germany called Ostfriesland where he lived in the house of his grandfather until the age of 7. The name of his father is perhaps Heinrich Hamer, who was a protestant pastor in Meschede from 1945 to 1969. In his own book Einer gegen Alle (one against all) Hamer said that his father's name would be Heinz. Hamer terminated school in Krefeld and studied theology and medicine in Tübingen and Erlangen (Germany). Hamer said that he studied 8 semester theology and became magister theol. He also studied medicine and finished his studies the day 10th of april 1962, after 12 normal semesters, and therefore could not work as physician earlier than that date. (see court files) In 1963 he was granted a professional license as a doctor of medicine at age 28, his doctoral thesis deals about an ophthalmological theme that has nothing to do with his future inventions and ideas. The publication date of his doctoral thesis can be retrieved at the Deutsche Bibliothek, where the thesis is stored. Hamer and some of his followers state that he was allegedly Germany's youngest physician. Hamer allegedly attended also some lectures in physics, but he never finished any study in physics and can not be considered therefore to be a physicist or to have a good knowledge in physics. In Tübingen he met Sigrid Oldenburg, a medical student who later became his wife in 1956 and who became also physician. In february 1972, after 10 long years (usually only 5 years are needed in Germany) Hamer completed his specialization in internal medicine. He was never a head physician or head of a clinic department as Hamer states without any proof. He was not a psychiatrist, gynecologist, radiologist or onclogist as some people state on different web pages in the internet or publish it in several books. He was never a lecturer or professor. His attempts to become a professor failed because the university of Tübingen did not accept his lecture qualification Das Dirk-Hamer-Syndrom und die eiserne Regel des Krebses in 1982 for quality reasons, after having examined it. Hamer worked then in several private practices together with his wife from 1964 to 1986 and opened at least three private clinics leaded by himself to experiment his new medicine on cancer patients. In 1972 Hamer moves to Hamburg where he tried to conclude a real-estate affair that failed however. Details about that are reported in an article of the newspaper Stern:...between 1967 and 1976 he [Hamer] and his wife Sigrid, beeing also a physician, are working in the area of Heidelberg, with the exception of a short period in Hamburg...in 1972 Hamer moved to Hamburg-Blankenese. From now on he called himself Hamer von Fumetti and wanted to build up some apartments in an old Villa. But there was not enough money and and a court forbid him to use the name von Fumetti. The former Sir von Fumetti returned to Heidelberg with a lot of debts and he opened another practice... In 1976 Hamer was forced to return his accreditation for payments by the kassenärztliche Vereinigung Nordbaden as there were financial irregularities. During the same years he moves to Weiterstadt where he gets a credit of 70.000 DM (35.000 Euro) from the community of Weiterstadt to arrange his practice. But Hamer will never open that practice and according to the newspaper Stern he will not pay back the credit, and moved instead to Italy. In 1978 his wife also returned her KÄV-accreditation. During that period Hamer patented several inventions. Hamer invented an electric scalpel (Hamer-scalpel), an electrically powered chain-saw for bones, a particular couch for patients and an injection technique. His inventions had no economic success, on the contrary: they created new financial problems. The german company Kienzle tried to market his Hamer-scalpel but it was discovered later that this instrument did cause severe tissue-damage when used in curves. Kienzle and Hamers debtees asked to return back money payed in advance and they demanded a declaration of bankruptcy. Hamer left Germany therefore in 1978 and moved to Rome (via Cassia 1280 and via Margutta). According to the sentence of the court OVG Koblenz in 1990, Hamer had filed 39 entries in the public list of german debtors.

The Dirk Hamer incident

Dirk Hamer in hospital with sister Birgit

Cavallo island

Vittorio Emanuele

According to rumors, his son Dirk was expelled from Italy because of resitance to authority. This son Dirk was shot in his leg the day 17 of august 1978, while sleeping under deck on a yacht near Corsika island (Cavallo island France). Dirk Hamer was not the real target, according to witnesses, the target was in fact the roman play-boy doctor Nicky Pende (son of the doctor of the shooting person who became later friend of Hamer's daughter Birgit, a well known film actress). The bullet traveled across an ancored boat and finally perforated the external hull of a second motor-yacht where Dirk Hamer was sleeping. The M1-rifle bullet was shot in the night by the italian aristocrat Vittorio Emanuele (son of Italy's last king Umberto II) who was drunken. He was upset because someone used his inflatable tender boat without asking him first. It was the son of his private physician who used this tender boat to return to his boat after a visit in a local restaurant. In the same restaurant Vittorio Emanuele had also his dinner, sitting at a neighbouring table. Dirk Hamer was hospitalized very late first into a small corsican clinic, and later into a clinic in Marseille where one leg was amputated. After a protracted medical course in Marseille and Heidelberg, Dirk Hamer died on December 7, 1978 in Heidelberg. His father Hamer displaced him from Marseille to a clinic in Heidelberg against the expressed wish of the competent french surgeons in Marseille. On august 18 1991 the Paris Assize Court did not find Vittorio Emanuele guilty of homicide, he was only convicted of the illegal possession of a rifle and sentenced to a six month penalty. When he was incarcerated in June 2006 (many years later) on charges of corruption, Vittorio Emanuele voice was recorded by a hidden bug in his cellar. In the recording Emanuele was admitting in reference to the death of Dirk Hamer that "..I was in the wrong, [...] but I must say I fooled them [the French judges]..". After the death of his son, Hamer declared in newspaper articles that Vittorio Emanuele had allegedly offered him 2 million DM (1 million Euro, about 1,5 million USD) to avoid any further lawsuit. Later he declared even that 10 millions of DM have been offered to him. But in reality, the two families decide a payment of only 500000 FF (french francs - which is much less) and Vittorio Emanuele payed only 200000 DM (100000 Euro) and argued that the intervention of the father to hospitalize his severely injured son in Germany was the real cause of his death. The wife of Emanuele, princess Marina Doria, said in an article of the newspaper Stern that in the case of a payment of 2 millions DM, Hamer had asked his daughter Birgit (who was present in Corsica as a witness) to make a legal statement in favor of Vittorio Emanuele during the prosecution. In 2006, Hamer will make a very strange statement in relation to the death of his son: now his son had been killed in 1978 because of his own invention of the new medicine (but that occurred three years later) and he considered his son to be an innocent victim of a complott against his pseudomedical doctrine.

Hamer's testicular cancer

Two months after his son's death, Hamer self detected a testicular cancer, which could be cured conventionally by a surgical intervention in the surgical clinic in Tübingen. According to Hamer, the shock of the death of his son caused him to develop his testicular cancer within only two month after the event and to cause also breast cancer in his wife Sigrid. His wife was cured by Hamer using his new medicine and was his first patient as he says in one of his books. She died however in 1985 after having refused any conventional cure by modern medicine, the new medicine could not help her.

Invention of the New Medicine and first years of his experiments with cancer patients

Hamer-clinic Sanatorium Rosenhof in Bad Krozingen

The loss of his son Dirk led Hamer to invent his "New Medicine" in autumn 1981, after his return to Germany. He presents his invention in the german and italian television in October 1981. His killed son Dirk is still playing now an important role as he receives spiritually-transmitted messages of his son in his dreams. His son confirmed his findings says Hamer in one of his books later and urged him to continue to research the new medicine and to publish it. Later he considered his killed son to be the real inventor of new medicine. During the same month of october 1981 Hamer presents a written habilitation lecture with the titel Das Dirk-Hamer-Syndrom und die eiserne regel des Krebses (the Dirk-Hamer syndrome and iron rule of cancer) to the university of Tübingen. This lecture was then scrutinized by two professors. The day 4 of may 1982 his habilitation lecture was unanimoumsly rejected by a board of professors (0 votes in favor to 150 against) because of mangelnder Wissenschaftlichkeit und fehlenden Belege (lack of scientific quality and lack of references/proofs). According to the university of Tübingen, the work of Hamer was not objective but influenced by personal moments. The work presented no references to former published work and had qualities of a pseudoscience. His work was not presented in a way to be validated later says the judgement of the university of Tübingen.

In 1982 Hamer returns definitively to Germany and opens a private clinic in Bad Krozingen. The clinics name is Sanatorium Rosenhof and Hamer was the only physician present. He cannot wait longer to experiment his new medicine on cancer patients. But the new medicine cure of the cancer patients was a desaster: after the clinic had been closed, two journalists could identify fifty former cancer patients of the Sanatorium Rosenhof and found out that only 7 of them survived and they published a report in a critic newspaper article .

In 1983 Hamer opens an illegale private clinic called Haus Dammersmoor in Gyhum near Bremen (lower Saxonia) in Dammersmoorerweg 17 where he was the only physician. This clinic will be closed later by the authorities. Hamer declares years later that some of his patients died in his clinic because of critic newspaper articles about him and his clinic.

The day 12th of april 1985 dies his wife Sigrid. She had breast cancer. The same year 1985 Hamer tells a nurse in a chat in one of his clinics (Katzenelnbogen) that his wife did not believe in his methods and that she died because of her scepticism (see: Testimonies_of_former_associates_of_Hamer). In one of his own books he talks about the deadly disease of his wife saying something very different: ...by the way, the first patient that i could cure after finding the IRON RULE OF CANCER was my wife who had a node in her left breast, but we knew the conflict, namely to be kicked off the appartment in via Margutta [Rome], the appartment belonged to the cousine of the murderer [Vittorio Emanuele]. But we knew also the therapy. My wife is the most intelligent person i ever saw. She understood, and she recovered. The conflict was resolved. The node regressed... A french website making propaganda for the new medicine is talking about five consecutive cured cancer diseases of Hamer's wife.

Hamer-clinic in Katzenelnbogen

In august 1985 Hamer opens another private and illegal cancer clinic as a boarding house in the town of Katzenelnbogen near Koblenz (county of Rhein-Lahn-Kreis). Hamer was not authorized to treat patients in this clinic. The name of the clinic was Freunde von Dirk (friend of Dirk). This clinic was also forced to close after 5 month and after the outrageous situation in that clinic was discovered by the autorities and after two external physicians made a complaint. Neighbours of the clinic were alarmed by screaming or crying people they could see at the windows and offered food for the patients (unconfirmed information from witnesses in an internet forum). Hamer was again the only physician in that clinic and he left the patients often alone for days not telling how to reach him by phone or telling a replacing physician. He went several times to France in order to get money donations from a french sponsor (Antoine D' Oncieu de la Batie / ASAC). In this clinic many patients from european countries and Germany died or were sent home or sent in other hospitals just a short time prior to die. One patient died even during the transport to another clinic. Surrounding clinics refused then to accept further dying patients from Katzenelnbogen. According to three women who worked there in 1985 and who were interviewed in 2007 (see: Testimonies_of_former_associates_of_Hamer), no patient was cured there and almost every patient died. During this period of time, Hamer presents in the media pictures of X-rays from patients to proof the effectiveness of his new medicine. However: some of these patients did not survive the treatment according to his new medicine. In the TV-transmission Panorama (ARD) and in an article of the newspaper Spiegel were shown pictures of the graves instead.

Revocation of Hamer's licence to practice medicine

old castle Burgau (Austria)

At the end of 1985 Hamer was sued by two physicians because of the scandalous situation in his Freunde-von-Dirk-Hamer-clinic in Katzenelnbogen and the criminal police confiscated material during a house-search of that clinic that was then closed by force. Hamer moved to Köln (Cologne) in march 1986 and the district court of Cologne revoced his medical licence the day april 8 of 1986 . The district court of Cologne sentence was based on article 5 of the german Bundesärzteordnung and on two psychiatric expertises of professor B. Pflug (university of Frankfurt) dated november 27, 1985 and february 2, 1986. Under German law the right to practice medicine can be withdrawn if the doctor has diminished mental abilities. In a appeal court sentence of the district court sentence of Koblenz, that has been made public, reasons can be seen in german language: . The court court judgment in 1986 was reconfirmed in 2003. From that date on he continued to treat patients without having a medical license or any Heilpraktiker-license (license of a german naturopat).

In 1990 he moved to Austria and opened a consultation center in the small town of Burgau in the old castle of Burgau without having a medical license in Germany or Austria. He was helped by the mayor of Burgau, Wallner, as he helped his wife to perform a new-medicine conflictolisis. But it was known later that despite this intervention the mayors-wife died because of cancer. Officially, this consulting-center was declared to be an austrian branch of his own publishing house Amici di Dirk who sells its books. Hamer received many money donations on his bank account at that time. The consultation-center in Burgau was finally closed again by the austrian authorities and documents were confiscated by the police.

From 1997 to 1998 Hamer was in prison in Cologne. Later, in 2000 he left Germany to hide in Spain, in the village of Alhaurin el Grande near Malaga. In september 2004 he was arrested in Spain and the police handed him over to the french authorities, as there was an international arrest warrant. He left his frenche prison in february 2006 and returned back to spain where he continued to treat visiting patients or giving them advices by phone. Hamer and witnesses say that he had alwasy the feeling to be chased by people following him everywhere. Hamer left finally spain in march 2007 to hide in Norway. In two interviews he told his friends that he would prefer to hide in Norway because Norway was not part of the European community. According to Hamer, the public prosecutor of the town of Cottbus (Germany), Robinek, was accusing him now.

Criminal story

Hamer's exile in spain

the arrest of Hamer in Spain as seen from his suporters

Hamer was violating several times german, french and austrian laws and was convicted several times in different countries, and he had to serve two times a prison-time for at least 3 years.

• 1986 Hamer is sentenced to pay 3000 DM (1500 Euro) because he treated patients without having a license. Case file number: 34 Js 85/86 district court of Cologne.
• The day january 22, 1992 he was sentenced in Cologne to a 6 month suspended prison-time because he treated again patients without a license. In appeal, the day 12 of february 1993 his punishment was reduced to 4 month (case 105-99/92). He tried to cure a young man with bone-cancer simply with a cast and the leg had to be amputated later. (case file numbers: 613 Ls 152/91 and 34 Js 232/89 StA Köln)
• The day july 27, 1993 Hamer was sentenced in Austria for defamation to a suspended 6 month prison-time. (district court of Graz).
• The parents of Olivia Pilhar were sentenced to a 8 month suspended prison-time. Hamer could not be prosecuted in the Olivia Pilhar case because he fled out of Austria in the meantime.
• In 1997 Hamer was arrested in Cologne and was sentenced the day september 9, 1997 by the district court of Cologne to a 19 month prison-time. He served 12 month time in jail in Cologne. Hamer was convicted because he treated again cancer patients without having a license. Several parents of patients who died after a new-medicine cure sued him. Case file number: 34 Js 178/95 Amtsgericht Köln, and a psychiatric finding attested him a ..psycopathic personality.. with ..delusional persuasions.., as recorded by the witness Leuzinger of the trial.
• In the year 2001 he was sentenced in absence in France to three years of prison after beeing sued by french parents of cancer patients who died after beeing treated by the new medicine in France. An international arrest warrant was issued and Hamer was arrested in september 2004 in Spain and handed over to the french authorities. He served the prison time in France and the day february 16, 2006 he could leave the french prison and return to Spain.
• Currently (2007) he is accused of by the prosecutor Robinek in Cottbus for incitement of hatred against a minority of the population (article 130 of german criminal laws) as Hamer made many public statements in open letters and webpages againts jews and did accuse an international Jewish conspiracy. Case file number: 1653 Js 2797 / 06.
• There is also a private court case pending against him for a large sum of money because he advised a patient against having chemotherapy.

The Olivia Pilhar case

Olivia P. in hospital

Olivia years after treatment

Hamer became known in Austria and Germany mainly through the Olivia Pilhar cancer case in 1995. Olivia, then aged six, suffered from Wilms' tumor. The parents withheld effective conventional medical therapy from their child Olivia and found Hamer to be a trustworthy alternative. The Austrian authorities had to remove their rights of care and control, and the parents fled from Austria over Munich to Malaga (Spain) with the child. There, Hamer unsuccessfully treated the child using his method. The tumor continued to grow. After negotiations including the intervention of the Austrian president, the parents were persuaded to return to Austria. By then, Olivia's tumor weighed several kilograms. The child was finally given an effective medical treatment after a court order against the parents' wishes and is still alive in 2007. Her parents received an eight-month suspended jail sentence in Austria. The parents still support Hamer's method and have their own web site which explains the matter from their perspective. See details about this and other cases here: Victims of New Medicine.

Antisemitism

Hamer was often accused of using anti-semitic terminology and claiming that a genocidal Zionistic conspiracy wants him silenced. According to Hamer, Jews cure themselves with the Germanic New Medicine and prevent non-Jews from using it. Hamer goes on to allege that his ideas are well known to Jewish scientists but that they deliberately withhold this information from the rest of the world. He says the doctors of official medicine are guilty of the "most hideous crime in the whole history of mankind". The Jews have killed two billion people with morphine, chemotherapy and radiation treatment according Hamer.

See also: Iwan Götz

Political activities

Hamer has been accused many times to publish anti-semitic and ant-jewish statements in his public letters and on his webpages, including to deny the existence of holocaust. At the moment (2008) he is accused of incitement of hatred against a minority of the population (article 130 of german criminal laws) from the public prosecutor of Cottbus (Germany). Hamer's picture of himself as a misunderstood genius and victim of a monstrous international Jewish-Masonic-Catholic plot resonates well within the extreme right. Not surprisingly, he has found some fans there and been invited to lecture by a number of far-right groups. The far-right German paper Junge Freiheit has praised him, as has the extremist Swiss website Recht und Freiheit. Others to open their doors to Hamer include the right-wing and antisemitic Christian sect, the Bruderschaft Salem, which is known for its collaboration with the convicted German nazi lawyer Jürgen Rieger. Hamer's sect could be described as a "supersect". Widi its message that all disease can be healed, spiced up with antisemitic paranoia, he can gain the acceptance of a range of other cranks. According to an article of the austrian newspaper Der Standard in 1995, Hamer denied the existence of holocaust in a conversation with a female cancer patient. What Hamer did not knew: his patient was jewish herself and was horrified and told the event to the newspaper. Hamer's own word can be seen here: . A Hamer-interview published in italian language in 2006 documents again a denial of the holocaust . His antisemitic statements and copies of his public letters can be seen on many webpages in the internet. In 2006 he declared that he wants to become the Reichspräsident of a future Deutsches Reich.

Conspiracy theories

According to Hamer, AIDS is not caused by the HI-Virus. He thinks that no one ever died of AIDS without having previously been told that they are HIV positive or believe that they are. The implication is that just as with cancer, it is the negative perception associated with AIDS that causes its devastating effect. Hamer also believes that man was never on the moon and the twin towers in New York have not been attacked by Al Kaida.

Alleged assassination attempts

According to Hamer, he survived at least 8 assassination attempts.

Works

• Hamer, Dr Ryke Geerd Summary of the New Medicine (2000, Amici di Dirk) ISBN 84-930091-9-9
• Hamer, Dr Ryke Geerd Einer gegen alle ( 2005, Amici di Dirk) ISBN 84-96127-15-X
• Hamer, Dr.Ryke Geerd 'Krebs und alle sog. Krankheiten' (2004, Amici di Dirk) ISBN 84-96127-12-5

External links

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryke_Geerd_Hamer

Literature

• Doctoral thesis of Hamer: Untersuchungen über den Einfluss des Adaptinols (Heleniens) auf die Dunkeladaptation des gesunden Auges, with pictures. Tübingen 1963 decmber 20.