Andreas Miller

Andreas Miller (born May 26, 1923 in Warsaw as Andrzej Miller ; † July 24, 1999 in Zurich ) was a Swiss sociologist and temporary husband of Alice Miller .

Life

Miller was born in Poland in 1923 and studied sociology as well as law and economics at the so-called Secret University of Warsaw during the German occupation of Poland in World War II .

In 1947 he came to Switzerland with his future wife as a scholarship holder from the University of Basel . There he continued his studies (major subjects: sociology and economics, minor subjects: philosophy and ethnology). In 1948 he was appointed director of the Poland Museum in Rapperswil . At the same time he was working on his dissertation on structure and social function at the University of Basel , with which he received his doctorate in 1951 from Edgar Salin and Karl Jaspers . In 1959 he received his habilitation at the University of Zurich , with Wilhelm Bickel with a thesis on culture and human fertility .

From 1959 to 1965 he taught as a private lecturer in population theory and sociology at the University of Zurich, in 1964/65 and 1967/68 he was given a teaching position as a guest lecturer in sociology at the University of Basel. In 1965 he became associate professor for sociology at the University of St. Gallen , where he was promoted to full professor in 1967. His main interest was economic sociology .

During his 24-year professorship at the University of St. Gallen, he was temporarily director of the Swiss Central Office for Higher Education and Secretary General of the Swiss University Rectors' Conference .

His marriage to Alice Miller on April 14, 1949, from whom the two children Martin and Julika were born, later divorced. Badly affected by illness in the last years of his life, he died of sudden heart failure in 1999 at the age of 76.

Trivia

Martin Miller, the son of Alice and Andreas Miller, stated in a newspaper interview a few days after his mother's death in the spring of 2010 that he was beaten by his authoritarian father during his childhood - in the presence of his mother, who is known to have been the life of the had prescribed non-violent child rearing, "with [his] mother intervening".

Works

• Causes the vocal abstinence St. Gallen in the city , 1980
• The importance of the entry in the medicinal specialties register , 1973
• Professions in Modern Society , 1968
• The planning of our higher education , 1967
• Swiss higher education , 1967
• The desired number of children and the ideal family size , 1964

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Secret lessons ( Memento from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Abuse: Alice Miller's son was beaten by his father. In: Der Spiegel. May 2, 2010, accessed April 5, 2015 . 
3. ↑ Philipp Oehmke and Elke Schmitter: Father, yes, in this regard . In: Der Spiegel . No. 18 , 2010 ( online - May 3, 2010 ).

Web links

• Obituary , HSG Information, 7/99 (October 18, 1999), p. 11.