Erwin Gniza

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Erwin Gniza (born August 6, 1910 in Weinböhla ; † July 29, 2006 in Dresden ) was one of the pioneers of German industrial safety theory .

Life

Gniza studied pedagogy and music at the TH Dresden , whereby he financed his studies as a dance musician. After his probationary year in school, he switched to psychology .

In the 1940s, Erwin Gniza worked as Werner Straub's assistant on psychological issues relating to occupational safety. At the Institute of Labor Economics and Industrial safety in Dresden he worked from 1953 as deputy director. Together with Erhard Möhler and Bruno Schneider , Gniza developed the path theory of occupational safety in the 1950s. Today the approaches to the prevention of relationships and behavior belong to the common good of occupational safety and are reflected in the rules and regulations.

Another field of work was research on the question of human error . The industrial psychologist introduced the concept of “wrongdoing as current excessive demands ” to occupational safety. In addition to "work psychology", he also taught personality psychology , psychodiagnostics and statistics .

In December 2001 the Saxon Science Minister Hans Joachim Meyer presented Erwin Gniza with the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon for his life's work on behalf of the Federal President . In the GDR he received the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze in 1960 and in silver in 1970. In 1987 he received an honorary doctorate from the TU Dresden.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of psychology in Dresden on the website of the TU Dresden. (Retrieved April 8, 2009.)
  2. ^ Minister of Science Prof. Dr. Meyer awards the Federal Cross of Merit to Prof. Gniza, Dresden, and Prof. Bigl, Leipzig - press release on the presentation ( Memento from September 14, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  3. ↑ Saxony yesterday and today: Saxon bearers of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. (No longer available online.) In: sachsen.de. Archived from the original on September 15, 2016 ; accessed on December 23, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.geschichte.sachsen.de
  4. ^ New Germany , October 7, 1960, p. 4
  5. ↑ Neues Deutschland, July 31, 1970, p. 2
  6. ↑ Honorary doctorates of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences ( Memento of the original from January 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the TU Dresden  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / tu-dresden.de
personal data
SURNAME Gniza, Erwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychologist, pioneer of occupational safety theory in Germany
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Weinböhla
DATE OF DEATH July 29, 2006
Place of death Dresden