Dr. Walter Hoppe

Dr Walter Hoppe, a colleague and friend of Reich’s, was  Born on 20 August 1900.  He studied medicine  in Berlin.  In Berlin, he later worked as a psychiatrist at the Psychiatric Institute of Berlin. In 1932 he completed his training as a psychiatrist and Neurologen. Fleeing Nazi Germany, he was already in Tel Aviv (Israel) in 1932 and opened up a psychoanalytic practice.  He was acquainted with Reich’s theories and used it in his Tel Aviv clinic.
 In 1943, he contact Dr. Wilhelm Reich and asked for instructions to build an Orgone accumulator. He then built his first Orgon accumulator, the first one with 20 layers.  Through his subsequent work with the Orgon accumulator Hoppe gained a profound knowledge and wrote many articles on this subject. 

 Since the first  Orgon Congress that took place in 1948, Hoppe spent every few months with Reich, when he visited him in the U.S., including 1950 and 1953.  Reich invited to him to stay in the U.S., but Hoppe wanted to stay in Israel. He practiced the Orgone therapy along with the psychiatric training.   He participated in seminars on cancer, lectures and demonstrations by Reich, and meetings of Wilhelm Reich society. 
 From 1949 to 1953 Hoppe wrote and edited  the International Journal of Orgonomy.  He was an active member and co-director of the Wilhelm Reich Foundation and the Orgone Institute.  Up to Reich's death in 1957 he remained in close correspondence and freindship with him . 
Hoppe was married and his wife Filicitas was an honorary member of the Wilhelm Reich Foundation.

 Hoppe worked in Israel with the Cloud Buster to the long drought to break.  In 1974 Hoppe moved to Munich, where he practiced his therapy and trained. 
 Hoppe died unexpectedly on 18  October 1981. 
 Wilhelm Reich on Walter Hoppe
 (Excerpt)

 "His great achievement was his independent establishment entirely of one of the most efficient foreign branches of the Orgone Institute Research Laboratories. His outstanding personal characteristic is his grasp of orgonomic structural functionalism ... ln most cases, before understanding of orgonomic functionalism can be absorbed, the fallacies of mechanistic and mystical thinking must be clearly comprehended. Walter Hoppe did not think mechanistically or mystically to begin with. He understood instantly what orgonomy was talking about. I was highly surprised and satisfied when I discovered this ability in him. Most probably out of this structural understanding of functionalism developed Hoppe's great work in medical experimentation with the orgone accumulator ... He widened the scope of the medical application of orgone energy far beyond the biopathy cancer, high blood pressure, wound healing, and anemia where I had first learned to use medically orgone energy ... He amazed us by his clarity and his daring in medical matters experimental ... We can expect much from his activities in the future. "