Fritz Giese

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The grave of Fritz Giese and his wife Emmy in their son's grave at the Querenburg cemetery in Bochum.

Wilhelm Oskar Fritz Giese (* May 21, 1890 in Charlottenburg ; † July 12, 1935 in Stuttgart (according to other information Berlin )) was a German psychologist who dealt in particular with psychotechnology . In addition, he was one of the first to methodically incorporate the knowledge of depth psychology into psychological diagnostics and deal with questions of literature , work , sports medicine and music therapy .

Life

Doctorate and work in Halle

After graduating from high school, Giese, the son of a technical businessman , studied German and philosophy , later psychology , medicine and physics at the University of Leipzig and received his doctorate there in 1914 under Professor Wilhelm Wundt with a dissertation on the subject of investigations into Zöllner's deception .

Subsequently, during the First World War, he worked as a psychologist on a ward for the brain injured in the state hospital in Nietleben near Halle , where he founded the first German provincial institute for practical psychology.

In addition, he was the author of specialist books such as Psychological Contributions (1916), Youth Handbook of Human Studies (1916), About the Sex Difference (1917), Female Body Formation and Movement Art according to the Mensendieck System (1920), Tasks and Essence of Psychotechnik (1920), Psychology and Careers Advice (1920), Psychotechnics and the Taylor System (1920, with Frederick Winslow Taylor ). He also expressed himself in memoranda such as The Idea of ​​Compulsory Service for Women (1916) on the possibilities of compulsory service for women.

In 1921 he was commissioned by the law and political science faculty of the Friedrichs-Universität Halle to hold lectures and exercises on business psychology . At the same time, publications such as Psychotechnical Proficiency Tests for Adults (1921), Occupational Psychology and Work School (1921) and Psychological Dictionary (1921), with which he laid the foundation for Dorsch's Psychological Dictionary , Psychologie und Psychotechnik (1922), followed in the next few years .

Professor at the TH Stuttgart

In 1923 Giese followed a call as a private lecturer for psychology and education at the TH Stuttgart , where he set up a psychotechnical laboratory. At the same time published textbooks as professional psychological observations in the realm telegraph service (telephony and Siemens operation) (1923), Psycho Technical Internship (1923), The doctrine of thought waves (1924), The except personal unconscious (1924), Body & Soul (1924), Psychoanalytic Psychotechnik (1924) Psychological mass tests for the purpose of career counseling (1924, co-author of his wife Emmy Lang ), theory of psychotechnology (1925), spirit in sport (1925), girl culture (1925), manual of psychotechnical aptitude tests (1925), women as an atmosphere value (1926), Zeitgeist and professional education (1927), methods of business psychology (1927), forms of experience of aging (1928), the public personality (1928), psychotechnology in education (1928), free literary creation among children and young people (1928), work and occupational psychology (1928), psychology of the working hand (1928) and economics and psychotechnology (1929).

In 1929 he became professor of psychology at the TH Stuttgart. In addition to his teaching activities, he dealt with research on cultural pathology, dimensioning and traffic psychology . After he turned down a professorship at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro in 1931, guest professorships at the Complutense University of Madrid and the University of Barcelona followed in 1932 .

In addition, Giese, who was a sponsoring member of the Hitler Youth , continued his extensive professional literary work and, following a German edition of John B. Watson's Behaviorism , published other books under the title Der Behaviorismus (1930), such as Psychological Observation Technique for Work Samples (1931), Philosophy of the Work (1932), psychology as a subject and research area at the Technical University (1933) and Nietzsche , the fulfillment (1934).

1939 was finally published posthumously the revised by him and Theodor Elsenhans founded psychology textbook .

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SURNAME Giese, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Giese, Wilhelm Oskar Fritz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Charlottenburg
DATE OF DEATH July 12, 1935
Place of death Stuttgart or Berlin