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Herbert A. Wiggers was born in New York City on September 26, 1907. On June 22, in his forty-sixth year, he died of a sudden heart attack after an illness of only two days. His survivors are his widow, Mrs. Wilma K. Wiggers, his four-year-old son, Jonathan, his parents, Dr. and Mrs. A. F. Wiggers of Santa Barbara, a brother, Mr. Harold Wiggers of Santa Barbara, and a sister, Dr. Aimee L. Wiggers, of the staff of the Rockland State Hospital.
Dr. Wiggers graduated from the University of Michigan in 1929, receiving his medical degree in 1934 from McGill University, Montreal, Canada, where he also interned. Following this came several years of training and experience in psychiatry and psychoanalysis, first in New York, then at St. Elizabeths Hospital in the District of Columbia, then a research fellowship at the Institute of the Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia, another research appointment at Bellevue Hospital, New York, for work with the Committee for the Study of Suicide, after which he served on the psychiatric staff of the Mt. Sinai Hospital. During World War II he devoted long hours to Selective Service, compensating in this way for his sense of personal frustration over the fact that his rheumatic heart kept him out of military service. Subsequently, he also became a Civilian Consultant to the St. Albans Naval Hospital on Long Island. He taught in the Extension Institute of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, and served as Secretary of the New York Psychoanalytic Society and as Treasurer of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute. He was a member of the New York Academy of Medicine, the American Psychoanalytic Association, the New York Psychoanalytic Society, and the American Psychiatric Association.