The first 25 years of the Department Psychiatry II of Ulm University/Bezirkskrankenhaus Günzburg (Era Lungershausen and Schüttler)

The Bezirkskrankenhaus (BKH) Günzburg was founded in 1915 as a state hospital for psychiatry in Bavaria/Germany. The psychiatric state hospitals were typically situated in rural areas outside big cities. In the 1970s a movement of country wide psychiatry reform was going on involving the state hospitals with their large numbers of severely ill psychiatric patients in reform and research projects. By 1977 the Bezirkskrankenhaus Günzburg represented a center for nervous system disorders involving psychiatry, neurosurgery and neurology departments. The first 25 years of the new Günzburg psychiatry university department were embedded in a general development in Germany.