Although children have been admitted as psychiatric patients to the Universitatsnervenklinik Marburg (University Hospital for Psychiatry Marburg) in 1920, the history of the child and adolescent psychiatry of the Philipps-Universitat Marburg began in the year 1946, when Werner Villinger was appointed to Marburg and brought his fellow Hermann Stutte along, who later became the first professor ordinarius for child and adolescent psychiatry in Germany. The author also considers the fact that the two founders Villinger and Stutte were involved in the national socialism during their time in Tubingen. After the war they were able to re-establish contact with the European and international child and adolescent psychiatry and to influence the young medical subject significantly. Remschmidt describes the development of the child and adolescent psychiatry in Marburg until the year 2017, especially regarding new programmes in care, psychotherapy, research, qualification of young scientists and the maintenance of international relations.