The years after 1924 are known to be a period of ‘crisis of medicine’. Criticism on medicine caused patients increasingly to approache healers for treatment. Naturopathy and alternative medicine have been seeked for because of their individual approach to cases and their focus also on physical-mental disorders. The integration of alternative therapies into conventional medicine was a goal that has been worked upon. Lay societies contributed to this a lot. In 1930, 348 homeopathic organizations with 38 200 members had their influence to the ongoing development of health care. Still, homeopathy had not been granted equal rights to medicine.

The sum of homeopathic societies were integrated into one ‘Deutscher Volksgesundheitsbund’ ~ ‘German Health Association of the People’ during the years of National Socialism. The homeopathic lay movement disintegrated in this process. On the other hand, 13 homeopathic hospitals opened their gates. The most famous one is the Robert-Bosch-Krankenhaus (Hospital) in Stuttgart. From the beginning it was equipped with 320 beds and 30-40 doctors.

After World War II, homeopathy recovered only gradually. In Stuttgart, Otto Leeser started educating doctors in His courses, 600 students all in all. After Leeser quit as medical director of the Robert-Bosch-Krankenhaus, homeopathy there was on decline, and the homeopathic clinic finally was closed in 1973. The era of scientific-critical homeopathy came to an end.

Now ‘Classical Homeopathy’, which was related very close to Hahnemann’s teachings and the use of mainly high potencies, gained importance. In the fifties of the last century, Swiss homeopath Adolf Voegeli contributed immensely to this new direction of progress. The new ‘Zeitschrift für klassische Homoeopathie’ ~ ‘Journal of Classical Homeopathy’ has the slogan: „Back to Hahnemann”. Classical Homeopathy involves a counter movement against conventional medicine and against scientific critical homeopathy. The link to medicine is not wanted anymore. No, even more, the distance cant’t be far enough.

In the sixties, Kent and His method gained more importance in German homeopathy and from 1971 on, Swiss homeopath Jost Künzli teaches in Germany.

In the seventies, the ‘Homoeopathischer Zentralverein’ ~ ‘Homeopathic Central Association’ adopted the didactic concept of Austrian Mathias Dorsci for its courses.

Already earlier in this article, the importance of the pharmaceutical company of Willmar Schwabe has been mentioned. Schwabe and another company, Madaus & Co., united to make up a new company called DHU – Deutsche-Homoeopathie-Union (German-Homeopathy-Union), but Madaus left again in 1969, DHU remains brand leader.

Homeopathy in the German Democratic Republic (‘East Germany’) came out of sight. It was almost non-existent. After ‘The Wall’ was torn down, homeopathy easily regained popularity as a side effect of a worldwide upswing. The number of memberships of the Homeopathic Central Association raises again from 645 (1980) to around 4000 (2001).

Nowadays, homeopathy gains more and more friends among the German population. A higher developed ecologic conscience together with an increasing database on unwanted side effects of conventional treatment and drugs support the reputation of homeopathy. The education of homeopaths is enabled by a growing number of homeopathic schools. In medical schools, the number of homeopathic courses offered has increased in recent years as well. Still, there is no chair in a German university for homeopathy. It is in Munich’s ‘Dr. Von Haunerschen Kinderspital’ (children’s hospital) of the University of Munich, that homeopathy is widely integrated in the clinical process. The existence of several homeopathic schools/philosophies support some kind of divergence among the followers of homeopathy. This process is more recognizable since the 90′s of the last century. Some of the schools intertwine homeopathy together with other philosophies of different kinds. Considering the missing tolerance to the ‘other’ schools of homeopathy, homeopaths are not successful to develop a picture of homeopathy as an integrative art of healing. Here we can see one important issue which seriously has to be taken into consideration when talking about the future of homeopathy – not only in Germany.

In the ‘Deutscher Zentralverein homoeopathischer Ärzte’ ~ ‘German Central Association of Homeopathic Physicians’, one third of the members claim to work as classical homeopaths according to Hahnemann. An other third prescribes to a greater extend several remedies simultaneously using complex remedies and injection preparations without constitutional analysis of the cases. The last third cannot be classified within any of the two groups.