Curt Bondy

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Curt Werner Bondy (born April 3, 1894 in Hamburg ; † January 17, 1972 ) was a German psychologist and social researcher.

Curt Bondy, left

Life

Bondy grew up in Hamburg in an upper-class Jewish merchant family as the younger brother of the reform pedagogue Max Bondy .

He attended the Landschulheim Schloss Bischofstein and began studying medicine in 1914. Because of the outbreak of war, he had to interrupt his studies and took part in the First World War as a medic . He then studied psychology in Hamburg and received his doctorate there under William Stern in 1921 on "The Proletarian Youth Movement in Germany". After Angress he was a co-founder of the socialist student body in Hamburg and was already involved in social education during his studies, especially in the field of penal reform. In 1921/22, Bondy and Walter Herrmann undertook the first German attempt to reform juvenile prison systems in the Hahnöfersand juvenile prison near Hamburg, which is still considered to be groundbreaking today. This failed due to political resistance. From 1923 to 1925 Bondy was a volunteer assistant at the Pedagogical Institute of the University of Göttingen with Herman Nohl . He completed his habilitation in Hamburg in 1925 with Nohl and Moritz Liepmann on pedagogical problems in juvenile prison systems for social pedagogy and social psychology, where he taught as an assistant professor until 1930. From 1930 he was an honorary professor for social education in Göttingen and almost parallel to this he ran a juvenile prison in Eisenach until he was given leave of absence on April 25, 1933. Together with Wilker and Herrmann , Bondy is considered to be a “champion for the renewal of welfare education and the pedagogy of the juvenile prison system”.

In 1933 he was expelled from these positions and worked for a while with Martin Buber in the Jewish aid organization in Frankfurt am Main. In 1936 Bondy was appointed head of the Groß Breesen training center in Silesia by the Reich Representation of German Jews - despite great hostility from Zionist circles , which was to play an important role in the restructuring .

After the November pogroms in 1938, Bondy was deported with the other Groß Breesenern to the Buchenwald concentration camp , from which most of the group were released in December with international help for immediate emigration. Bondy stayed first in England and Holland; In 1939 he was able to emigrate to the USA, where he was involved in setting up the Hyde Park Farm in the state of Virginia (an attempt to continue Groß Breesen in American exile) and taught at the university: “After his forced emigration he taught at the traditional college from 1940 of William and Mary in Richmond , Virginia, initially temporarily, later regularly as a low-paid instructor. In 1948 he became a full professor there. "

In 1949 he accepted the appointment to the professorship for psychology at the University of Hamburg . Bondy headed the Institute of Psychology until his retirement in 1959.

Services

Curt Bondy made a major contribution in Hamburg to aligning the course with international standards: He introduced the subjects of “Social Psychology” and “Psychological Methodology” and also gave a lecture on Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis . Under Bondy's direction, the first intelligence tests for German adults and children were standardized - the best known is the Hamburg-Wechsler intelligence test for adults (HAWIE, 1956). He initiated the “Social Pedagogy” course at the University of Hamburg and developed a concept of interlocking academic and practical training at an educational counseling center that he created , which influenced the development of clinical psychology .

Fonts (selection)

  • Pedagogical Problems in Juvenile Prisons, 1925; New edition with a foreword by Klaus Eyferth and an addendum by Jörg Ziegenspeck, Lüneburg: Verlag Erlebnispädagogik 1997
  • Youth without ties, Munich: Juventa 1952
  • with Jan Braden, Rudolf Cohen and Klaus Eyferth: Young people disrupt order. Report and opinion on the rioting riot, Munich 1957.
  • Introduction to Psychology, Frankfurt aM: Ullstein 1967, 16th ed. 1990; most recently Cologne: Anaconda 2007

literature

  • Susanne Guski canvas (ed.): Curt Werner Bondy: Psychologist and prisoner welfare officer . Hentrich and Hentrich, Berlin 2018. ISBN 978-3-95565-202-9 .
  • Gertrud Herrmann: The socio-educational movement of the 20s, Weinheim 1956
  • Walter Herrmann: The Hamburg youth prison Hahnöfersand. A report on educational work in the penal system, Hamburg 1923; New edition with a foreword by Klaus Eyferth and an addendum by Jörg Ziegenspeck, Lüneburg 1997
  • Paul Probst: History of the Department of Psychology at the University of Hamburg. In: K. Pawlik (Ed.): Report on the 39th Congress of the German Society for Psychology, Vol. 2, Göttingen: Hogrebe 1995.
  • Bondy, Curt. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 3: Birk – Braun. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-598-22683-7 , pp. 277-280.
  • Werner T. Angress: Generation between fear and hope. Jewish youth in the Third Reich. 2nd Edition. Christians, Hamburg 1989, ISBN 3-7672-0886-5 . The book is available online: Werner T. Angress: Generation Between Fear and Hope .
  • Peter Dudek : Bondy, Curt , in: Hugo Maier (Ed.): Who is who of social work . Freiburg: Lambertus, 1998 ISBN 3-7841-1036-3 , pp. 97f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner T. Angress: Generation between fear and hope , pp. 52–53
  2. ↑ Werner T. Angress: Generation Between Fear and Hope , p. 52, speaks of the Socialist German Student Union (SDS), but it can only have been about the Socialist Student Union of Germany , since the SDS was only founded in 1946.
  3. ^ Dörner: p. 93
  4. ↑ Herrmann
  5. ↑ Simonsohn, back cover
  6. ↑ Klaus Eyferth: CURT BONDY ALS LEHRER , "Harvey P. Newton Collection" (see web links; pdf page 23)
personal data
SURNAME Bondy, Curt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bondy, Curt Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychologist and social researcher
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH 17th January 1972