Georg Rudinger

Georg Rudinger (born June 21, 1942 in Leipzig ) is a German gerontologist and emer. Professor of psychology at the University of Bonn .

Life

Georg Rudinger graduated from high school in 1962 at the humanistic Kaiser-Karls-Gymnasium in Aachen. From 1962 to 1967 he studied psychology, philosophy and psychopathology at the University of Bonn . From 1967 to 1971 he worked as a research assistant in various research projects, such as the Bonn longitudinal study of aging (BOLSA) .

Georg Rudinger worked for WDR2 radio and WDR television from 1969 to 1978. In the entertainment department at WDR2 radio, he co-designed the programs "Feeding allowed", the songwriter hit parade and the carnival hit parade . From 1972 Rudinger designed, among other things, the programs Kopf um Kopf and Privatissimum as part of the science department of WDR television . In 1973 he and Hans Ahlborn, Alexander von Cube and Willi Vollmann received the Gruner + Jahr Award for Media Research.

In 1971 he did his doctorate with Hans Thomae on the subject of "Intelligence in Old Age". In 1974 he became a professor at the University of Bonn and in 2010 after a three-year extension he was released from his duties.

Georg Rudinger has been married to Helga Rudinger (née Schäfer) since 1965 and has two children.

Services

Georg Rudinger held various visiting professorships, for example at the Pennsylvania State University (1987), at the University of Geneva (1988/89), at the University of Leipzig (Wilhelm-Wundt Professorship, 1990) and at the University of Leiden (1995). Long research stays took him to Temple University Philadelphia and the University of California .

His special research areas are developmental psychology over the lifespan, technology, new media, mobility (and old age) as well as the history of science and intellectual history. From 2000 to 2006 he was Dean of the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Bonn. He is the founder of the Center for Evaluation and Methods (ZEM). He is the founder and speaker of the Center for Aging Cultures (ZAK). Since mid-2010 he has been the managing partner of the survey center Bonn (uzbonn). Rudinger worked as a freelancer for WDR in the 1970s.

Memberships and functions

Georg Rudinger was a liaison professor at the German National Academic Foundation from 1988 to 1992 . From 1995 to 2000 he was chairman of the structure commission and finance officer of the philosophy faculty. From 2000 to 2006 he was Dean of the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Bonn. From 2007 to 2010, Rudinger was the rector's representative for evaluation and quality assurance.

research

His main research areas were statistical models, methods, surveys, diagnostics and evaluation. These topics are supplemented by research in the areas of developmental psychology across the lifespan, technology, new media, mobility (and age), and the history of science and the history of ideas. Research projects were / are:

• Healthy Campus at the University of Bonn and the Sport University Cologne.
• AGE-V3: Traffic-related key data and road safety-relevant health data of older road users with the Institute for Occupational Physiology at the University of Dortmund (IfADo) and the Federal Highway Research Institute
• MOBIL 2030: Mobility culture in an aging society - scenarios for the year 2030.

Fonts (selection)

• with A. Becker, K.-A. Neuhausen and M. Laureys (eds.): Theodosius Schoepffers Gerontologia seu Tractatus de jure senum: Cultural studies studies on a forgotten treatise on the rights of old people. (= Super alta perennis. Studies on the effects of classical antiquity. Volume 5). Bonn University Press / V&R unipress, Göttingen 2011.
• with K. Kocherscheid (Ed.): Older road users - dangerous or endangered? (= Applied Research in Psychology and Evaluation 5). Bonn University Press / V&R unipress, Göttingen 2011.
• with K. Hörsch (Ed.): Self-Assessment at Universities: From choosing a subject to creating a profile. (= Applied Research in Psychology and Evaluation 4). Bonn University Press / V&R unipress, Göttingen 2009.
• with K. Hörsch and Th. Krüger (eds.): Research and Advice - The Center for Evaluation and Methods. (= Applied Research in Psychology and Evaluation 3). Bonn University Press / V&R unipress, Göttingen 2009.
• with K. Hörsch (Ed.): Implementation of evaluation results: theory and practice. (= Applied Research in Psychology and Evaluation 2). Bonn University Press / V&R unipress, Göttingen 2009.

Articles (selection)

• with T. Krüger: Rector and Minister of Science of the Year 2012. In: Research & Teaching. 3/2012, pp. 216-219.
• with K. Kocherscheid: Infrastructure and traffic. In: H.-W. Wahl, C. Tesch-Römer, JP Ziegelmann (Ed.): Applied Gerontology - Interventions for a good aging in 100 key terms. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2012, pp. 576-581.
• Longitudinal studies. In: H. Holling, B. Schmitz (Ed.): Handbook Statistics, Methods and Evaluation. (= Handbook of Psychology. Volume 13). Hogrefe, Göttingen 2010, pp. 212–223.
• with A. Becker, E. Jansen, KA Neuhausen and W. Schmitz: Cultural Aspect of Aging - Theodosius Schoepffers Gerontologia seu Tratctatus de jure senum (1705). In: A. Kruse (ed.): Life in old age - personal and shared responsibility in society, culture and politics. Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, Heidelberg 2010, pp. 83–95.
• with S. Poppelreuter: Elderly and transport. In: K. Button, H. Vega, P. Nijkamp (Eds.): A dictionary of transport analysis. Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK / Northampton, MA USA 2010.

Web links

• Literature by and about Georg Rudinger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Rudinger's page at the University of Bonn at the Center for Evaluation and Methods (ZEM) and at the Bonn survey center
• Interview DeutschlandRadio: Older road users: at risk or dangerous? dradio.de (September 1, 2011)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Website of Georg Rudinger, Department of Methodology, Diagnostics and Evaluation, Institute for Psychology, University of Bonn http://www.psychologie.uni-bonn.de/institut/verbindungenlehre-und-diagnostik/mitarbeiter-1/prof.-dr .-georg-rudinger-1  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .  
2. ↑ Hans Ahlborn, Alexander von Cube , Georg Rudinger, Wilhelm Vollmann : The audience in the process of mass communication - active or passive partner? (= G + J series of publications. Volume 14). Verlag Gruner + Jahr, Hamburg 1973.
3. ↑ Helga Rudinger's website: http://www.helga-rudinger.de/ ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . 
4. ↑ Center for Evaluation and Methods (ZEM): http://www.zem.uni-bonn.de/
5. ↑ Center for Aging Cultures (ZAK): http://www.zak.uni-bonn.de/
6. ↑ Bonn survey center (UZ): http://www.uzbonn.de/
7. ↑ List of selected research projects: http://www.psychologie.uni-bonn.de/institut/verbindungenlehre-und-diagnostik/mitarbeiter-1/prof.-dr.-georg-rudinger-1/forschungsbereich-mit-ausgewaehlten- projects  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .  
8. ↑ Healthy Campus http://www.healthy-campus.de/
9. ↑ http://www.psychologie.uni-bonn.de/institut/verbindungenlehre-und-diagnostik/mitarbeiter-1/prof.-dr.-georg-rudinger-1/publikationen  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.