Adolf Friedrich (psychologist)

Adolf Moritz Friedrich (born March 2, 1892 in Mainz , † March 3, 1963 in Baden-Baden ) was a German psychologist and university professor .

Life

After studying in Braunschweig, which he graduated as a graduate engineer in 1914, Friedrich worked from 1920 to 1922 as a senior engineer and head of the psychotechnical department he set up at Friedrich Krupp AG in Essen . In 1922 he became a private lecturer for applied psychotechnology at the Technical University of Hanover , received his doctorate in Berlin in 1922 and in 1924 became professor of psychology at the Technical University of Karlsruhe and head of the Institute for Social Psychology . Friedrich became a member of the NSDAP in 1933 and received a call from the Clausthal mining academy to the "professorship for leadership ". At the beginning of the Second World War (1939) he went to Berlin to become head of the vocational training and performance enhancement department in the Reich Chamber of Commerce.

After his release from the British Detention Camp in Sandbostel , where he was detained from 1945 to 1947, Friedrich worked primarily as a freelance management consultant and publicist .

Fonts (selection)

• The value-creating methods of industrial psychotechnology. Essen, Hanover, 1922.
• Guidelines for the activities of the chief master, master, runner-up and other technical employees. Karlsruhe, 1927.
• Combating sources of loss in the company. Wiesbaden, 1950.
• Personality and community in the company. Düsseldorf, 1954.
• Life fulfillment also in work. A crucial operational task. Guide. Heidelberg, 1962.

literature

• Paul Trommsdorff: The faculty of the Technical University of Hanover 1831-1931. Hanover, 1931, p. 133.
• Peter Mantel: Business Administration and National Socialism: A Study of Institutional and Personal History . Wiesbaden: Gabler, 2010, ISBN 978-3-8349-8515-6 , p. 695