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By the death, after a long illness of Dr. Müller-Braunschweig, German analysts have lost not only their last surviving member from the period before World War I, but also a figure of importance in their history, for Müller-Braunschweig was an Honorary Member of the German Psycho-Analytical Association, and after the Second World War founded the Berlin Psycho-Analytical Institute.
He began his career as a student of philosophy under several famous philosophers, being most attracted by the teachings of Kant. This preference he retained throughout his life, lecturing as late as 1953–54 in Berlin on 'Freud and Kant: Psycho-Analysis and a Philosophy of Morals'. After taking his Ph.D, he published in 1908 a paper on 'The Method of Pure Ethics, especially Kantian Ethics, presented in the form of an Analysis of the Concept of a "Practical Law".'
His first contact with Freudian psycho-analysis brought him in the following year, 1909, to a turning-point in his life. He had been about to take up his duties as a University Lecturer in Philosophy, but renounced this post in favour of the study of analysis, and in the interest of his studies he spent, at the age of 31, several terms as a medical student. His training analysts were Karl Abraham and Hanns Sachs. He later lectured at the Berlin Institute, founded in 1920 by Eitingon, and in 1921 published a paper: 'Zur Moral' (Imago7, 1921). He also wrote: 'Fragen der Metapsychologie, (z.B.Desexualisation und Identifikation), issued both in English (Psychoanalytic Review, 13, 1926) and in German (Imago, 12, 1926).
His main interest lay in the systematics of psycho-analysis and its relation to philosophy. He helped to formulate the training rules for stutents which are still in force to-day; and in 1933 became chairman of the Training Committee.
Satisfying as Müller-Braunschweig's earlier years had been (in 1935 he was elected a member of the Executive of the International Assocition), the years that followed under the Nazi