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Adolf G. Woltmann, seventy-one, distinguished clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst, and former president of the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis, was born January 12, 1904, in Hanover, Germany, and died July 18, 1975, in Tanzania.
He enjoyed a national and international reputation. As early as 1936 his seminal papers and research in puppetry, play therapy, and projective techniques played a pioneering role in the psychoanalytic and psychiatric treatment of emotionally disturbed children. His research and his more than twenty-five articles, some written in collaboration with Loretta Bender, have appeared in prominent journals, encyclopedias, and books. He made a decisive contribution that has been translated into many languages.
He served in the military as a psychologist, both at home and abroad during the war and the reconstruction, receiving citations and awards for his unusual contributions.
In 1946 he began his private practice, pioneering in the right of nonmedical professionals to engage in psychoanalytic and psychological treatment as independent professionals. Psychoanalysis was still defined as part of medical practice, and psychology had not yet been certified as a profession.
His paper on the problems of training psychologists as nonmedical psychotherapists, which appeared in the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry in January 1949, was immensely useful. Shortly afterward Gus, as we all called him, joined that small group of nonmedical