Georges Schmitz
Georges Fernand Schmitz (born September 26, 1925 in Petingen , Luxembourg ; † August 31, 1983 in Palma ) was a German professor of psychology.
Life
Georges Schmitz was drafted into the Wehrmacht during the Second World War , during the German occupation of his Luxembourg homeland, and was subsequently unjustly expatriated from the Moselle state. Also as a late sign of reparation, his later head of state, Grand Duke Jean , awarded him a high honor on the occasion of his official visit to Bonn in the 1970s (see below).
Georges Schmitz left Marianka († 2012) as a widow. Three children emerged from the marriage: Gabriele Suzanne, Thomas Theodor († 2001) and Albert Michael († 2008). The family residence was in Wesseling am Rhein.
In the 1960s and partially beyond that, Schmitz worked as part of a UNESCO mission at the University of Léopoldville (now Kinshasa ) in what was then the Belgian Congo. On behalf of the EEC , he helped build the university. He later held a visiting professorship at Stanleyville / Kisangani University for over a decade . In the years before his death he was dean of the philosophy faculty at the University of Siegen .
Schmitz earned lasting merits through his personally hands-on and pastoral deep form of psychotherapy, which goes to traumatic roots.
In his writings, he emphasized, among other things, the eminent importance of intelligence and learning promotion in elementary school for the course of the further human educational path. As a warning, he took the point of view based on his own research that career and fate would often be mapped out for life in a way that should not be underestimated.
His tomb was created in 1988 in Wesseling by the renowned sculptor Paul Nagel .
Awards
- Knight of the Papal New Year's Order
- Knight of the Order of the Oak Crown .
Works
- The Influence of School Fate in Elementary School on Selection for Secondary Schools . Cologne 1963.
- Elementary school performance, intelligence and transfer selection . E. Reinhardt, Munich 1964.
Web links
- Literature by and about Georges Schmitz in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schmitz, Georges |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schmitz, Georges Fernand (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German psychologist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 26, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pétange , Luxembourg |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 31, 1983 |
| Place of death | Palma |