Andreas Kruse

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Andreas Kruse (born August 26, 1955 in Aachen ) is a German psychologist , gerontologist and demographer and author of the Bundestag reports on the elderly .

Career

Kruse grew up in a medical household in Aachen as the son of Herbert and Waltraut Kruse , was a member of the Regensburger Domspatzen and later studied psychology , philosophy and music . His interest in gerontology was awakened by the geriatric researcher and CDU family minister Ursula Lehr , who founded the Institute for Gerontology in Heidelberg in 1986 and employed him as the first employee.

In 1987 Kruse wrote the final report of the Stuttgart Future Congress , which dealt with the topic of " Aging as an opportunity and a challenge". Two years later, the newly appointed Health Minister Lehr appointed him to the commission for the first report on the elderly . In the 1990s, Kruse completed his habilitation with the thesis “ Competence in old age in relation to the objectively and subjectively assessed life situation” and was appointed to Greifswald to set up the newly founded Institute for Psychology at the university there. In 1997, he returned to Heidelberg University as the successor to his mentor Ursula Lehr, who retired in 1998.

Andreas Kruse's demographic research is about new roles and tasks for older people in European society. Two concrete outcomes from this are a model of teacher training for German nursing schools and a study with advice for old people's facilities . Kruse sees the most difficult task as the question of how political decision-makers can be reached in order to take or promote steps that have long been necessary to cope with the social and personal aging process. Kruse is co-editor of the journal for gerontology and geriatrics .

Kruse was a member of the interdisciplinary research consortium to investigate the sexual abuse of minors by Catholic priests, deacons and male religious in the area of ​​the German Bishops' Conference , which was initiated between 2014 and 2018 by the Association of Dioceses of Germany (VDD) ( MHG study ). On April 23, 2020, he was appointed to the German Ethics Council by the German Bundestag at the suggestion of the SPD .

He is Protestant and says: “I define myself by faith.” Kruse is a member of the Synod of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD).

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • Competence in old age in relation to the objective and subjective life situation. Steinkopff, Darmstadt 1994.
  • (with Eric Schmitt): We felt like Germans. Review of the life and situation of Jewish emigrants and camp inmates . Steinkopff, Darmstadt 2000, ISBN 3-7985-1035-0 .
  • (with Gereon Heuft and Hartmut Radebold ): Textbook of gerontopsychosomatics and geriatric psychotherapy. E. Reinhardt, Munich and Basel 2000; 2nd edition, UTB, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8252-8201-5 .
  • (with Elisabeth Gaber, Gereon Heuft and Peter Oster): Federal health reporting - health in old age. Robert Koch Institute, 2002, ISBN 3-89606-131-3 .
  • (with Mike Martin): Encyclopedia of Gerontology. Aging processes from a multidisciplinary perspective. Huber, Bern 2004, ISBN 3-456-83108-0 .
  • Biographical aspects of age (s). Life story and diachronicity . In: U. Staudinger and S.-H. Filipp (Hrsg.): Developmental Psychology of Middle and Higher Adulthood . (= Encyclopedia of Psychology, Volume 6). Hogrefe, Göttingen 2005, pp. 1–38.
  • (with Eric Schmitt): Adult education . In: J. Birren u. a. (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Aging . Elsevier, London 2006, ISBN 0-12-226860-1 , pp. 41-49.
  • The last year of life. On the physical, psychological and social situation of old people at the end of their life. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-17-018066-5 .
  • Age. What is true? The most important answers. Herder, Freiburg 2007, ISBN 3-451-05750-6 .
  • (with Thomas Rentsch , Harm-Peer Zimmermann (ed.)): Good life in old age. Understand aging in its development opportunities and development limits. Heidelberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-89838-667-8 .
  • The border crossings of Johann Sebastian Bach. Psychological insights . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8274-2578-2 . Online partial view
  • with Giovanni Maio , Jörg Althammer : Humanity in an aging society . Ferdinand Schöningh 2014, ISBN 978-3-506-77943-4 .
  • Life phase of old age. Vulnerability and maturity . Springer, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-662-50414-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sexual abuse of minors by Catholic priests, deacons and male religious in the area of ​​the German Bishops' Conference Project report of the research consortium 2018, PDF 4MB, DBK website, accessed on August 8, 2020.
  2. ↑ bundestag.de: Members of the German Ethics Council elected , accessed on April 24, 2020.
  3. ↑ Andreas Kruse: The threads of heaven. In: Chrismon special from October 31, 2014.
  4. ↑ Press release from Heidelberg University
  5. ↑ University of Osnabrück awards an honorary doctorate to age researcher Prof. Kruse . in: Informationsdienst Wissenschaft from July 9, 2010, accessed on August 3, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Kruse, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German gerontology and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen