These new appointments arguably made him the most prominent psychiatrist in Germany .
On 1 April 1924 Bumke succeeded Emil Kraepelin as the chair of the psychiatry department at the University of Munich and as the director of the University Clinic that Kraepelin had founded in 1904 .
These new appointments arguably made Bumke the most prominent psychiatrist in Germany .
On 1 April 1924 Bumke succeeded Emil Kraepelin as the chair of the psychiatry department at the University of Munich and as the director of the University Clinic that Kraepelin had founded in 1904 .