Gustav Richard Heyer was a Jungian psychologist, "the first significant person in Germany to be attracted to Jung"s psychology".
Career
Heyer was a Munich medical doctor. He was Jung"s deputy for a year when Jung controversially assumed the presidency of the General Medical Society for Psychotherapy, and Jung wrote an introduction for Heyer"s The Organism of the Mind. In 1936, however, he and Jung argued at the annual meeting of the society.
After the war Jung denounced Heyer for his Nazi past, and refused ever to meet with him again.
Heyer moved to practice and write in rural Bavaria until his death. Heyer"s daughter burned all of her father"s papers.
Politics
Lucie Grote divorced Heyer in the mid-1930s, partly because of his political leanings: he joined the Nazi party in 1937, and in 1939 went to Berlin to teach and see patients at the Goering Institute. In 1944, reviewing the German edition of Jung"s writings, Heyer criticised Jung "s "western-democratic audience" and his attack upon totalitarianism.
Membership
Though apparently not personally anti-Semitic - in September 1938, for example, he wrote a warm letter of recommendation for the Jew Max Zeller, who had been in analysis with him that year before being interned in a camp - Heyer was remained a member of the Nazi party until 1944.