Dr Ryke Geerd Hamer, M.D a short biography
http://germannewmedicine.ca/documents/hamerbio.html
Dr. med. Mag. theol. Ryke Geerd Hamer, born in 1935 in Frisia (Germany),
studied medicine and theology at the University of Tübingen. At the age of 22,
he completed his master’s degree in theology and then, four years later,
received his professional license as a doctor of medicine. The following years
he practiced at different university clinics in Germany.
In 1972 Dr. Hamer completed his specialization in internal medicine and began to
work at the University clinic in Tübingen as an internist in charge of cancer
patients. At the same time, he ran a private practice with his wife Dr. Sigrid
Hamer, whom he had met during their studies in Tübingen. He also showed an
extraordinary talent for inventing medical devices.
Among others, he owns the patent for a non-traumatic scalpel (Hamer-Scalpel)
which cuts twenty times sharper than a razor blade, a special bone saw for
plastic surgery, and a massage table that automatically adjusts to the body’s
contours.
His inventions provided Dr. Hamer and his family with the financial means to
move to Italy, where he realized his plan to treat the sick in the slums of Rome
free of charge. On August 18th, 1978, while in Rome, the Hamers received the
shocking news that their son Dirk had been accidentally shot by the Italian
Prince Victor Emanuel of Savoy. On December 7th, 1978, Dirk succumbed to the
injuries and died in his father’s arms.
Shortly after Dirk’s death, Dr. Hamer was diagnosed with testicular cancer.
Since he had never been seriously ill, he postulated that the development of his
cancer could be directly related to the unexpected loss of his son. In fact, he
would eventually, in honor of Dirk, call this unexpected shock a DHS or “Dirk
Hamer Syndrome”.
Dirk’s death and his own experience with cancer set Dr. Hamer on an
extraordinary scientific journey.
At the time head internist of a cancer clinic at the University of Munich, he
began to investigate his cancer patients’ histories and soon learned that, like
him, they all had experienced an unexpected shock of one sort or another. But he
took his research even further. Pursuing the hypothesis that all bodily events
are controlled from the brain, he analyzed his patients’ brain scans and
compared them with the corresponding medical and psychological records. To his
amazement, he found a clear correlation between certain “conflict shocks”, how
these shocks manifest on the organ and how all these processes are connected to
the brain. Until then, no studies had examined the origin of disease in the
brain and the role of the brain as the mediator between the psyche and a
diseased organ.
Dr. Hamer discovered that every disease originates from a shock or trauma that
catches us completely by surprise. The moment the unexpected conflict occurs,
the shock strikes a specific area in the brain causing a lesion (later called
Hamer Focus (HH-Hamerscher Herd)), visible on a brain scan as a set of sharp
concentric rings. Before Dr. Hamer identified these ringed lesions in the brain,
radiologists considered them as artifacts created by a glitch in the machine.
But Siemens, a manufacturer of computer tomography equipment, certified that
these target lesions cannot be artifacts because even when the tomography is
repeated and taken from different angles, the same ring formation always appears
in the same location.
The brain cells that receive the conflict impact send a biochemical signal to
the corresponding body cells causing the growth of a tumor, a meltdown of tissue
or functional loss, depending on which brain layer receives the shock. The
reason specific conflicts are irrefutably tied to specific areas in the brain is
that, during our historical evolution, each brain area was programmed to respond
instantly to conflicts that could threaten our survival. While the brain stem
(the oldest part of the brain) is programmed with basic survival issues like
breathing, reproduction and food, the cerebrum (the youngest part of the brain)
is more concerned with social and territorial themes. Dr. Hamer also discovered
that every disease progresses through two phases: first, a conflict active
phase, characterized by emotional stress, cold extremities, a lack of appetite,
and sleeplessness, and then, provided we manage to resolve the conflict, a
healing phase. This is the period in which the psyche, the brain and the
corresponding organ undergo the phase of recovery, an often difficult process
marked by fatigue, fever, inflammation, infection, and pain.
Dr. Hamer called his findings “The Five Biological Laws of the New Medicine”,
since his research is in full accordance with the natural laws of embryology and
with evolutionary logic. Over the years, Dr. Hamer has been able to confirm his
discoveries with over 40,000 case studies. The result of his scientific work is
the creation of a “Psyche-Brain-Organ” chart that outlines the disease, the
content of the biological conflict that cause it, where the corresponding lesion
can be seen on a brain scan, how the disease manifests itself in the conflict
active phase, and what can be expected in the healing phase (publications).
Dr. Hamer’s research radically upsets the many existing theories of conventional
medicine. His explanation of disease as a meaningful interplay between the
psyche, the brain and the corresponding organ refutes the view that disease
occurs by chance or as a result of a mistake of nature. Based on sound
scientific criteria, German New Medicine shatters the myths of malignant cancer
cells or of destructive microbes and identifies "infectious diseases" as well as
cancerous tumors as natural biological emergency measures, in practice for
millions of years, designed to save the organism and not, as we have been
taught, to destroy it. Diseases such as cancer lose their frightening image and
are recognized as meaningful special biological survival programs every human
being is born with.
In October 1981, Dr. Hamer presented his research to the University of Tübingen
as a post-doctoral thesis. The objective was to have his findings tested on
equivalent cases so that German New Medicine could be taught to all medical
students and patients could benefit from the discoveries as soon as possible.
But to his great surprise, the University committee rejected his work and
refused to evaluate his thesis, an unprecedented case in the history of
universities. There was yet another surprise. Shortly after he had handed in his
thesis, Dr. Hamer was given the ultimatum to either deny his findings or his
contract would not be renewed. It was extremely difficult for him to understand
why he was being expelled from the clinic for presenting well-substantiated
scientific findings. After his dismissal, he retreated to his private practice
where he continued his research. Several attempts to open a private clinic
failed because of concerted efforts opposing it. Letters of Dr. Hamer’s patients
to health officials remained unanswered or were returned with the comment: “Not
applicable!”. The firm position of the authorities has not changed.
In 1985, after 29 years of marriage and the raising of four children, Sigrid
Hamer died. She had never really recovered from the grief over the death of her
son and the relentless intimidation by the Savoy family.
The harassment of Dr. Hamer culminated in 1986, when a court sentence stopped
him from practicing medicine. Despite the fact that his scientific work had
never been disproved, he lost, at the age of 51, his medical license on the
grounds that he refused to renounce his findings on the origin of cancer and to
conform to the principles of official medicine. Deprived of a medical license,
Dr. Hamer now relied on other doctors to obtain brain scans and patients’
records. But he was determined to continue his work. By 1987 Dr. Hamer had
already analyzed over 10,000 cases and was able to expand his discovery of the
Five Biological Laws of German New Medicine to practically all diseases known in
medicine. Meanwhile, the press and the medical establishment stopped at nothing
to attack him and his work. Tabloid journalists and medical “experts” portray
Dr. Hamer as a charlatan, a self acclaimed miracle healer, a cult leader, an
irrational outsider, or an insane criminal who denied cancer patients the
‘life-saving’ conventional treatments.
In 1997 Dr. Hamer was arrested and sentenced to 19 months in prison for having
given three people free medical information without a medical license. By
contrast, in 1991, thirteen years after he had killed Dirk Hamer, Victor Emanuel
of Savoy had been sentenced to a mere 6 months probation for the illegal
possession of a weapon. When Dr. Hamer was arrested, the police searched his
patient files. Subsequently, one public prosecutor was forced to admit during
the trial that, after MORE THAN five years, of 6,500 patients with mostly
‘terminal’ cancer, 6,000 were still alive. And so, ironically, it was his
opponents that provided the actual statistics attesting to German New Medicine’s
remarkable success rate. Yet, to this day (see document March 12, 2008), the
University of Tübingen refuses, despite court orders in 1986 and 1994, to test
Dr. Hamer’s scientific work. Similarly, official medicine refuses to approve
German New Medicine despite its numerous verifications by both physicians and
professorial associations.
On September 9th, 2004, Dr. Hamer was arrested at his home in Spain. Following a
European extradition order, Dr. Hamer was extradited to France, where he was
held in the French prison Fleury-Mérogis. Dr. Hamer was sentenced to three years
in prison without probation. The charges: “fraud and the complicity in the
illegal practice of medicine”. He has been charged and found responsible for the
deaths of French citizens due to the availability of his publications in
French. It should be mentioned that Dr. Hamer had never spoken to any of the
individuals in person. (Details in Letter to International PEN - see )
Dr. Hamer was released from his unjustified incarceration in February 2006. In
March 2007, he was forced to leave his Spanish exile. He now resides in
Sandefjord, Norway.