German New Medicine (GNM): Hamer House of Horrors

The notion that our emotional state plays an important role when it comes to developing or curing cancer is widespread, although scientific evidence does not support this.

A very scary perversion of this idea is the German New Medicine of de-licensed German physician Ryke Geerd Hamer. He claims that a sudden psychological conflict is the cause of all cancers, of which we can only be cured by solving the underlying conflict according to the principles of the “German New Medicine”.

Hamer rejects all conventional treatment including pain medication, as these will stand in the way of solving the emotional trauma. According to Hamer, cancer cannot metastasize; what conventional medicine calls metastases are new cancers, brought about by new emotional shocks, for example the shock of being diagnosed with cancer. Only if the emotional trauma has been solved, and only then, the patient is cured and the cancer will go away.

Biography of Hamer

Ryke Geerd Hamer was born on 17 May 1935 in Düsseldorf-Mettmann. He finished his medical studies in 1962. His specialization in internal medicine took him ten years to complete instead of the usual five.

Contrary to claims on numerous web sites, Hamer never was a psychologist, a gynaecologist, a radiologist or an oncologistm nor was he ever a head physician or head of a clinical department. Between 1967 and 1976 he worked as a doctor in Heidelberg and tried to sell apartments in Hamburg.

He also invented a number of medical instruments, one of which is the ‘Hamer scalpel,’ a surgical instrument that later turned out to cause serious tissue damage.

Dirk Hamer Syndrome

August 17, 1978 Hamer’s son Dirk was shot on a yacht near Corsica. Some months later he died at the hospital. The perpetrator – Vittorio Emanuele, the son of the Italian king Umberto II – was never convicted for the murder.

Hamer claims to have developed testis cancer within two months after the death of his son; apparently Hamer doesn’t know that cancer usually takes years to develop. It seems these events caused him to devise the theories forming the framework of the ‘Germanische Neue Medizin’ – the German New Medicine (GNM).

The GNM is based on the five “biological laws of nature,”  which Hamer claims to have discovered. The first and most important law states that cancer (or any other illness for that matter) is always caused by an sudden emotional shock. In the case of Hamer himself this was the death of his son Dirk. Therefore he calls this shock a “Dirk Hamer Syndrome” or “DHS”.

Downright absurd is the notion that traumatic events are always visible on a CT scan in the location of the brain that corresponds with the organ where the disease manifests itself. Hamer calls this pattern a ‘Hamer focus.’ It has since been confirmed that these patterns are artefacts that are sometimes visible on CT scans. In the early 80s these artefacts were much more frequent than today, due to technical imperfections of the equipment at the time.

According to Hamer, cancer cannot metastasize. Instead, metastases are new cancers, caused by new shocks, such as the shock of being diagnosed with cancer and the fear of the ensuing conventional treatments.

The only way to cure cancer is by solving the underlying traumatic conflict. Conventional medicine such as surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, but also pain medication, must never be used, because this will have a negative effect on the healing process.

Interesting though is that Hamer himself was cured of his testis cancer by conventional surgery at Tübingen hospital.

In 1981 Hamer presents his theories at University of Tübingen, in an attempt to become a professor. His presentation, which is titled ‘The Dirk Hamer Syndrome and the iron rule of Cancer,’ is demolished and dismissed as pseudo science.

Victims

Undaunted, in the following years Hamer opened various illegal clinics in Germany. He treated large groups of patients, including his own wife Birgit who suffered from breast cancer.

Birgit died in 1985. Hamer claimed this was because she was sceptical about his GNM. Later he would maintain that he ‘cured’ her of breast cancer no less than five times.

By the end of 1985 charges were brought against Hamer because of the scandalous goings on in his private clinic in Katzenelnbogen. Less than a year later his medical licence ws revoked. However, to this day this hasn’t stopped Hamer from continuing to ‘treat’ patients and the number of victims of the GNM has reached frightening proportions.

Olivia Pilhar

Hamer’s best-known victim by far is Olivia Pilhar. Olivia was six years old when she was diagnosed with a Wilms’ tumour. During Hamer’s treatment, Olivia’s situation declined dramatically.

Relatives of Olivia eventually called in the authorities, at which the parents fled to Spain, together with Hamer and their daughter. In the mean time the tumour had grown to such a size that Olivia developed life-threatening respiratory problems. After intervention of the Austrian president and the Spanish police Olivia was returned to Vienna, where she underwent surgery and chemotherapy. She has been in good health ever since. Because of these events the parents received a suspended prison sentence. They support Hamer’s treatment to this day.

Michaeala Jakubczyk

The wife of Brussels street artist Gilbert Jakubczyk was 36 years old when a small lump was found in her right breast. Michaela waited very long before visiting a doctor and when she did, the cancer had already advanced considerably, although it was still curable.

The oncologist advised chemotherapy to shrink the tumour, followed by surgery. When she was halfway her chemotherapy, Michaela was referred on the internet – in a chatbox – to Hamer’s GNM.

Together with her mother, a fervent Hamer-believer, she visited Hamer in Spain and he advised her to stop the chemotherapy and cancel the operation: she should concentrate on the cause of her conflict instead.

Not long after that, she left her husband and moved in with her mother. Hamer had told her that a tumour in the right breast indicates a conflict with the partner and Michaela was made to believe that leaving her husband was necessary in order to cure her.

Followers of Hamer looked after Michaela in het mother’s house, until she started to deteriorate too much. In the end a doctor was called in who ordered that she be taken to a hospice straight away.

She was suffering excruciating pain and died on the 13th of November 2005, four days after she was admitted to the hospice and two days before her birthday. The staff said they had never seen anyone in such pain and misery and so eaten up by cancer. Her suffering beggars all description.

Since then Gilbert Jakubczyk has been devoting the greater part of his life warning people against the GNM, to prevent more cancer patients trusting their lives with this dangerous charlatan.

Olivia and Michaela are by no means the only victims, as is also evident from the number of complaints filed about Hamer in the course of time. Until this day, people continue to suffer and die a cruel, needless death because of this horrible quackery.

Hamer served numerous prison sentences for illegally treating patients: in 1992 and from 1997 until 1998 in Cologne and from 2004 until 2006 in France.

After his release he set up business in Spain and when things got too hot for him there he went into hiding in Norway. The total number of victims runs into the hundreds, and no cured patients are known.

See also: Corinne Thos, Hamer victim, dies at 41.

International Jewish conspiracy

Hamer, who is obsessed with Judaism, has convinced himself that his GNM is suppressed by an international Jewish conspiracy.

He claims that Jewish scientists have stolen his GNM and are purposely hiding it from the rest of the world, which is evident from the fact that in Israel all Jews are treated with the GNM. (Believe me, they are not!) He says that in doing so the Jews have caused over 2 billion people to die needlessly from cancer.

He even wrote several letters to Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson to complain about this.

Hamer also claims that Rabbi Schneerson admitted to this ‘gross injustice’ perpetrated by the Jews and that he verified the GNM. Needless to say, the Rabbi did no such thing.

Hamer then made known that Germany’s ‘Chief Rabbi Dr. Esra Iwan Götz’ at a conference in Santegod, Norway, confessed to the genocide of the Jews on over two billion people by means of hiding the GNM from the world.

On the web site, we see the so called ‘Chief Rabbi’ in the process of placing his signature under this  shameful document.

But Germany has no Chief Rabbi, or no ordinary rabbi called Esra Iwan Götz either for that matter.

However, there does exist a man named Iwan Götz: a rabid anti-semite and convicted holocaust denier, as well as proud possessor of a number of other convictions and one of Hamer’s closest accomplices. This is the man in the photo on the website, posing as Germany’s ‘Chief Rabbi’ in the Santegod conference.

Followers

Sadly, in spite of his dangerous and frightening ideas, this deeply disturbed man has many followers. For unfathomable reasons though not all of his offspring received the master’s approval and consequently they too have been accused of ‘stealing’ his GNM, such as the Meta-medicine and the Biologie Totale.  (Not that this makes them any less dangerous though, being virtually exact copies of the GNM!)

The Canadian branch of the GNM however did receive Hamer’s personal seal of approval. Promoted by Caroline Markolin, they are actively trying to spread Hamer’s ideas in Canada, the USA and Europe.

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Sources:
The Death Sect
HaGalil
Vereniging tegen de Kwakzalverij

See also: Respectful Insolence on ‘Biologie Totale’