Franz Emanuel Weinert

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Franz Emanuel Weinert (born September 9, 1930 in Komotau , Czechoslovakia , † March 7, 2001 in Munich ) was a German psychologist and, among other things, Vice President of the Max Planck Society . Weinert's definition of the concept of competence in a report for the OECD on which the “ Klieme Expertise” is based and thus has a decisive influence on the current educational reform in Germany is particularly powerful .

Weinert was appointed to Heidelberg University in 1968 . Here he occupied the newly created chair for developmental and educational psychology . In the following years he was particularly powerful in these two areas. His services as a mentor and his activities within the framework of the German Research Foundation and the Max Planck Society are also significant . Among other things, he was founding director of the Max Planck Institute for Psychological Research in Munich. From 1984 to 1986 he was President of the German Society for Psychology . In 1984 he was accepted as a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

The Psychological Institute of Heidelberg University has been awarding the Franz E. Weinert Memorial Prize annually since 2003 .

Publications (selection)

  • (together with B. Driver): Good school performance for everyone? Aschendorff. Münster 1985.
  • (together with M. Waldmann): Intelligence and Thinking - Perspectives on Gifted Research. Publishing house for psychology, Göttingen 1990.
  • (together with A. Helmke) (Ed.): Development in primary school age. Psychologie Verlags Union, Weinheim 1997.
  • (Ed.): Development in childhood. Psychologie Verlags Union, Weinheim 1998.
  • (together with W. Schneider) (Ed.): Individual development from 3 to 12: Findings from the Munich Longitudinal Study. Cambridge University Press, New York 1999.
  • Concepts of competence . OECD, Paris 1999.
  • (Ed.): Performance measurements in schools. Beltz, Weinheim 2001.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz E. Weinert (Ed.): Performance measurement in schools . Weinheim and Basel: Beltz, 2001: 27f.
  2. ^ State Institute for School Quality and Educational Research Quality, Munich: Competence, more than just knowledge
  3. ^ Franz Emanuel Weinert obituary in the 2001 yearbook of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (PDF file).
personal data
SURNAME Weinert, Franz Emanuel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weiner, FE
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Komotau
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 2001
Place of death Munich