Alfred Hauptmann (August 29, 1881, in Gleiwitz, Upper Silesia – April 5, 1948, in Boston, Massachusetts) was a German-Jewish psychiatrist and neurologist.
[2] Hauptmann's professional career was primarily determined by his time with the well-known neurologist Max Nonne in Hamburg.
After serving in World War I, Hauptmann resumed his work at the University of Freiburg, where he received an extraordinary professorship in 1918 and was senior physician at the mental hospital there, before taking over the chair in Halle in 1926 .
The path to emigration, ultimately triggered by the temporary imprisonment in the Dachau concentration camp, led via Switzerland and England to the USA.
He obtained a position at the Joseph H. Pratt Diagnostic Clinic in Boston, part of the Tufts University School of Medicine.