Obituary Notices

C. A. Meier was born on 19 April 1905 in Schaffhausen, Switzerland. As Emma Rauschenbach's family was also from the same area, Meier had already as a young boy met Jung. Freddy, as he was called by friends and family, was extremely gifted in school, excelling in science, music and languages, especially Greek and Latin. His interests focused on becoming a doctor, and he graduated from medical school in Switzerland in the late 1920s, and following his psychiatry training began in 1936 a private practice as an analyst, which was to continue until shortly before his death.

Aware of Meier's intellectual and psychological potential, Jung soon singled him out to be his second in command. During the 1930s, when Jung became the President of the International Medical Psychotherapy Association, he appointed Meier to be his Honorary Secretary. This seven-year period in Jung's life has stirred considerable controversy, because Jung had to deal with and at times accommodate the Nazis in his role as President of the International Association. Professor Meier, witness to this situation, never discussed Jung's action at the time beyond refutation of all rumour that Jung was anti-Semitic. He appears to have thought what Jung was doing was necessary to run an international organization under difficult circumstances.

After World War II, Meier was firmly established as the crown prince to Jung. He had taken over the professorship at the Eidgenössiche Technische Hochschule upon Jung's retirement in 1949, a post he was to hold until his own retirement in 1974. He was also the co-founder of the Jung Institute in Zurich, whose presidency he assumed from its foundation in 1947 until 1957. He was also instrumental in founding the International Association for Analytical Psychology, recommending to Jung in 1955 that it was time for there to be an international professional organization. Prior to the formation of the IAAP, there had been only Analytical Psychology Clubs in