[Rudolf Lemke's contribution to the development of child neuropsychiatry in Jena, Germany].

Child and adolescent psychiatry has a long tradition in Jena, Germany, and goes back to the psychiatrists Theodor Ziehen and Wilhelm Strohmayer. It seems that Rudolf Lemke (1906-1957) eminently promoted the development of child and adolescent psychiatry after World War II. A versatile scientist, Lemke had many publications in psychiatric and neurologic fields. His significance to the development of the specialty of child and adolescent psychiatry is reflected not only by his publications but also by his work as a clinician and liaison psychiatrist in the Johannes Trueper School in Jena. He founded an independent psychiatric unit for the treatment of children which allowed treatment separated from adults.