Gustav Nass

Gustav Nass (born July 1, 1901 in Stargard , † August 11, 1995 in Kassel ) was a German psychologist and criminologist .

Life

After studying dramaturgy , philosophy , art history , German studies and psychology , Nass received his doctorate in 1929 and then worked as a clinical psychologist, as a research assistant at the University of Göttingen and as a consultant for career advice in the labor administration. During the Second World War , Nass was employed as an army psychologist.

After the end of the war, he worked as a journalist, lecturer at the art college and the music college in Kassel . From 1971 Nass was the deputy director of the Darmstadt correctional facility , after which he was chief psychologist in the Hessian Ministry of Justice until his retirement . Nass was one of the most widely read criminological authors of the 1950s and 1960s. It was in the forensic biological tradition of the interwar period.

Fonts (selection)

• The criminals. Soul, environment, guilt and fate. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 1966.
• The state and its criminals. An overall conception of criminal policy. Limes-Verlag, Wiesbaden 1968.
• The causes of crime. Shown and explained in 102 cases. Heymann, Cologne / Berlin / Bonn / Munich 1973, ISBN 3-452-17551-0 .
• Psychological causes of anarcho-terrorism. A psychogenetic and socio-anthropological investigation. Society for the Prevention of Crime, Kassel 1978.

literature

• National Research Council (US). Committee on an International Directory of Psychologists, International Union of Psychological Science. Committee on Publication and Communication: International Directory of Psychologists, Exclusive of The USA. in: Volume 520 of Publication (National Research Council (US)). Van Gorcum, Assen, pp. 107, 113, 114.
• Kerstin Brückweh: lust for murder: serial murders, violence and emotions in the 20th century. in: Campus Historical Studies, Vol. 43 .. Campus, Frankfurt / Main. 2006, ISBN 978-3-593-38202-9 , p. 57.
• Uwe Wolfradt: Nass, Gustav , in: ders. (Ed.), German-speaking psychologists 1933–1945. A dictionary of persons. Springer, Wiesbaden 2015, ISBN 978-3-658-01480-3 , p. 335 f.