Arthur Mayer

Arthur Mayer (born December 8, 1911 in Ottenbach ; † February 26, 1998 in Munich ) was a German psychologist .

Life

Family and education

The catholic 1,931 baptized, born Ottenbacherstrasse Arthur Mayer, son of the head teacher's Alfons Mayer and his spouse Maria put, the High School at the grammar school in Göppingen from. After studying natural sciences, Arthur Mayer moved in 1933 to study scholastic philosophy at the Munich University of Philosophy in Pullach . From 1937 to 1940 he received training as a Catholic clergyman in the Jesuit boarding school St. Blasien , and in 1939 he was released from the Jesuit order for illness and political reasons. From 1940 he devoted himself to studying psychology with Erich Rothacker at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , which he graduated in 1943 with a diploma in psychology. In 1945 Arthur Mayer was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD.

Arthur Mayer married Alice, nee Schölich, in 1953. There were three children from this marriage. He died in Munich at the end of February 1998 at the age of 86.

Professional background

After completing his studies, Arthur Mayer took up a position as a career advisor for brain injured people at the Institute for Clinical Psychology in Bonn, and in 1944 he took on a managerial position as a career advisor in the district of the Heidelberg , Mannheim , Pforzheim and Mosbach employment offices . In 1948 Arthur Mayer went to the Mannheim Business School, which was re-established in 1945, as assistant to Edmund Lysinski , in 1951 he completed his habilitation as a private lecturer in psychology, in 1954 he was appointed extraordinary , 1957 extraordinary , and in 1959 full professor and director of the Institute of Psychology. In 1963 Arthur Mayer accepted a full professorship for applied psychology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . Mayer, who was appointed head of the Department of Applied Psychology within the Institute for Psychology, retired in 1977.

Arthur Mayer was a member of the Professional Association of German Psychologists , of which he was President from 1954 to 1956. In 1987 he was awarded the Hugo Münsterberg Medal in recognition of his special services to applied psychology . Mayer emerged in particular through treatises in the field of industrial psychology.

Publications

• author
• The social rationalization of the industrial enterprise; a contribution to the theoretical foundation of a social psychology of the industrial enterprise. Habilitation thesis Wirtschaftshochschule Mannheim, W. Steinebach, Munich, 1951
• together with Heinz Laur: The unused forces: Better cooperation and higher productivity through knowledge and maintenance of human relationships in the company. Steinebach, Munich, Düsseldorf, 1953
• Man and work. People and work, working group for the promotion of industrial relations in Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart, 1954
• together with Herbert Lehmann: The young person in the company. People and work, working group for the promotion of industrial relations in Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart, 1955
• editor
• together with Bernhard Herwig: Handbuch der Psychologie 9th volume industrial psychology. Verlag für Psychologie, Göttingen, 1961
• Organizational psychology. in: Poeschel-Reader, 3rd, 1st edition, Poeschel, Stuttgart, 1978

literature

• August Ludwig Degener, Walter Habel: Who is who? Das deutsche Who's Who, Volume 16 ,, Arani, Berlin, 1970 ISBN 3-7605-2007-3 , p. 824.
• Werner Schuder (Hrsg.): Kürschner's German learned calendar . Volume 2, 13th edition, De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1980, ISBN 3-11-007434-6 . P. 2484.
• Uwe Wolfradt, Elfriede Billmann-Mahecha, Armin Stock (eds.): German-speaking psychologists 1933–1945 An encyclopedia of persons, supplemented by a text by Erich Stern. Springer Fachmedien, Wiesbaden, 2015 ISBN 978-3-658-01480-3 . Pp. 305, 306.

Web links

• Literature by and about Arthur Mayer in the catalog of the German National Library