Felix Scherke

Johann Gerhard Günther Felix Scherke (born February 1, 1892 in Cottbus , † March 4, 1977 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German psychologist .

Life

Scherke was born in 1892 as the son of a teacher. After graduating from high school in 1911 at the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium Cottbus, he continued to study German , history and philosophy at the Philipps University in Marburg , Leipzig University (among others with Felix Krueger ) and Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg . In 1914 he was drafted into military service and was taken prisoner by Russia in the same year . In 1920 he returned to Germany; he had ended up in Manchuria . In 1921 he was at Theodor pulling in Halle (Saale) with a thesis about the behavior of the primitives to the death of Dr. phil. PhD .

He then worked as a research assistant in the Reichswehr Ministry and Reich Ministry of War. From 1936 to 1940 he was a military psychologist at the High Command of the Wehrmacht (OKW) in Berlin. He also completed training as a psychotherapist (based on Alfred Adler ). From 1940 to 1946 he was executive lecturer and head of the research center for industrial psychology at the German Institute for Psychotherapy Research and Psychotherapy in Berlin. At the end of the Second World War he came into conflict with the Nazi regime because he wanted to move the institute's library to Munich because of the approaching Red Army .

From 1948 to 1957 he was a full professor for psychology and education at the Nuremberg University of Economics and Social Sciences .

Fonts (selection)

• About the behavior of the primitives until death . Beyer & Sons, Langensalza 1923.
• with Ursula Countess Vitzthum von Eckstädt : Bibliography of intellectual warfare . With a foreword by Friedrich von Cochenhausen , Bernard & Graefe, Berlin 1938.
• Industrial psychology. Their methods and their technique . Albert Nauck, Berlin 1948.

literature

• Klaus-Peter Horn : Educational Science in Germany in the 20th Century. To develop the social and professional structure of the discipline from initial institutionalization to expansion . Klinkhardt, Bad Heilbrunn 2003, ISBN 3-7815-1271-1 , p. 328.
• Uwe Wolfradt : Scherke, Felix . In: Uwe Wolfradt, Elfriede Billmann-Mahecha , Armin Stock (eds.): German-speaking psychologists 1933–1945. A person lexicon supplemented by a text by Erich Stern . Springer, Wiesbaden 2015, ISBN 978-3-658-01480-3 , pp. 399-400.