Gerda Lederer

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Gerda Lederer (born Heim , April 9, 1926 in Vienna-Mariahilf ) is an American social scientist of Austrian origin.

Life

She grew up on Mariahilfer Strasse in Vienna's 6th district, where the Heims owned two shops. In September 1938 - six months after the annexation of Austria - the Jewish family fled from the Nazis , initially to Paris.

Lederer has lived in New York since July 1939. She studied physics and mathematics at New York University and taught at Westchester Community College, Scarsdale High School and Heilwig-Gymnasium in Hamburg. She then took up another degree and received her doctorate in psychology at the age of 61 . She worked as a translator, wrote social science studies with a focus on anti-Semitism and authoritarianism and gave lectures at the universities of Vienna , Berlin and Hamburg . In 1999 she worked on Käthe Kratz 's documentary Farewell for a lifetime . Gerda Lederer is married to Herbert Weber.

Fonts (selection)

  • Youth and Authority , Opladen 1983, ISBN 3-531-11599-5
  • Strength and weakness: the authoritarian personality today (with William F. Stone and Richard Christie), New York 1993, ISBN 0-387-97698-1
  • German research version of the right wing authoritarianism scale von Altemeyer (with Johann F. Schneider), Saarbrücken 1995.
  • Authoritarianism and society: trend analyzes and comparative youth studies from 1945–1993 (Ed. With Peter Schmidt), Opladen 1995, ISBN 3-8100-1283-1
  • Ordinary anti-Semitism. On the political psychology of contempt (ed. With Christine Kulke), Freiburg 1998, ISBN 3-89085-302-1

literature

  • Angela child father: Lederer, Gerda. In: Brigitta Keintzel, Ilse Korotin (ed.): Scientists in and from Austria. Life - work - work. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2002, ISBN 3-205-99467-1 , pp. 452–457.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The last witnesses: Gerda Lederer
  2. ↑ Page about the film at the Austrian Film Commission ( memento of the original from April 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.afc.at
personal data
SURNAME Lederer, Gerda
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heim, Gerda (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American human scientist
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna-Mariahilf