Gustav Johannes von Allesch

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Gustav Johannes von Allesch (also: Johannes von Allesch, Edler von Allfest ; born October 25, 1882 in Graz , † June 11, 1967 in Göttingen ) was a German psychologist .

Life

Allesch studied humanities in Graz, Munich and Berlin , where he received his PhD in 1909. phil. doctorate and from 1912 was an extraordinary assistant at the Psychological Institute. With the beginning of the First World War in 1914, von Allesch volunteered and served as a lieutenant , but suffered a nervous breakdown during the Serbian offensive in 1916. Dismissed in November 1918, he went back to Germany and in 1921 became a scheduled assistant at the Psychological Department of the University of Berlin, where he completed his habilitation in 1924 . During his student days in Berlin, he made friends with the Austrian writer Robert Musil .

In 1927 he received a teaching post at the University of Greifswald , where he was appointed associate professor in 1931 . As part of the politics of Alfred Rosenberg and the office of science in the Reich leadership of the NSDAP , Allesch came to the University of Halle to work there as a full professor of psychology from 1938. In 1940 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina Scholars' Academy . In 1941 he finally went to the University of Göttingen and also worked for the Wehrmacht as a psychologist in the personnel inspection department of the military district XI (Hanover). He belonged to the Nazi teachers' association.

After 1945 he continued his work and remained director of the Institute for Psychology and Education in Göttingen until his retirement in 1948. In 1947 he was the re-founder of the German Society for Psychology after the Second World War in the British zone of occupation and in 1949 with Gustav Kafka (re-founder in the American zone of occupation ) for the Federal Republic.

Marriages

On February 28, 1916 von Allesch married the divorced Emma Rudolph ( née Taubele ) who was seven years older and who had already called herself Ea von Allesch two years before the marriage in St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna . In the spring of 1921 this marriage was divorced again. In the same year Gustav Johannes von Allesch married the glass artist and textile designer Maria Anna Steudel , who at the time ran an arts and crafts shop called the Blaues Haus on Kurfürstendamm in Berlin and from 1925 taught as a professor at what is now the HfG Offenbach . Von Allesch also divorced her again. Maria Anna Steudel then emigrated to the USA, where she became a well-known and very successful designer under her married name, Marianna von Allesch .

Helene Aschmann, divorced Weisbach , became his third wife on February 22, 1928.

Fonts (selection)

  • The renaissance in Italy. The main features of their intellectual development are presented according to the sources and provided with introductory and explanatory essays . Kiepenheuer, Weimar 1912.
  • About the relationship between aesthetics and psychology. Part 1 . JA Barth, Leipzig 1909.
  • Paths to viewing art . Sibyllen, Dresden 1921.
  • The perception of space as a psychological process. In: The figure. Issue 3, 1941.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marriage book 1916 of the Dompfarre St. Stephan, Tomus 98, Folio 152.
  2. ^ A b Karl Corino: Robert Musil. A biography . Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek 2013, ISBN 3498008919 , p. 1665.
  3. ^ Karl Corino: Robert Musil. A biography . Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek 2013, ISBN 3498008919 , p. 667.
personal data
SURNAME Allesch, Gustav Johannes von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Allesch Edler von Allfest, Gustav Johannes von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 1967
Place of death Goettingen