Max Schur

Max Schur, M.D. (1897 – 1969) was a doctor and friend of Sigmund Freud. He assisted Freud in committing suicide.

Schur was born in Stanislaw in what is now Ukraine. He fled the advancing Russian army and arrived in Vienna where he trained as a physician and later as a psychoanalyst. He contributed knowledge to both fields, founded two psychosomatic clinics, and explored the connection between psyche and soma in many of his 37 papers as well as in his book Freud Living and Dying.

Schur became a good friend of Freud and fled with him to London to escape the advancing Nazis. He made a promise to Freud not to let him suffer when the time came and gave Freud a lethal dose of morphine.

Max Schur