Hans Anger

Hans H. Anger (born June 13, 1920 in Essen ; † September 4, 1998 ) was a German physician , psychologist and university professor .

Life

Hans Horst Anger was born as the son of the concert pianist Hans Anger and his wife Martha, b. Dehnhardt was born in Essen. He first studied medicine at the Philipps University of Marburg and received his doctorate in 1944 with a dissertation on lung function before and after subtotal thoraplasty. He then began studying psychology in Marburg, where he became an assistant to Heinrich Düker and worked on medical-psychological issues. In 1950, Anger wrote a dissertation on the effect of gonadal hormones on the intellectual performance of less gifted children.

In the early 1950s he went to the United States for a longer period of study, where he a. a. received extensive methodological training in test theory, factor analysis, etc. from L. L. Thurstone . At the German Institute for Educational Research , Anger then developed several tests together with Rolf Bargmann, including a. the Frankfurt vocabulary test.

Habilitation thesis

Anger's 675-page habilitation thesis “Problems of the German University” (1960) is considered to be his main work. 138 professors at the universities of Bonn, Frankfurt, Heidelberg and Kiel were surveyed. The font offers an inside view of the post-war universities with an abundance of original citations. It was used for many years in university policy discussions. From today's perspective, the survey results contain a high degree of repression and stereotyping in the thinking of the professors of the time. One of the themes of the scriptures was the role of women in the university. Anger also occupied himself with this topic in later years.

The Cologne Institute

Anger received a call to the Cologne Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences. There he built the first university institute for social psychology in Germany. He taught there from 1962 until his retirement . The institute had good staffing facilities and the possibilities for experimental research were exceptionally good for the time due to the existing test rooms, equipment, library, etc. Anger worked on small group research, reference groups , the history of social psychology and research methods in social psychology. He was a founding member of the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology (today: European Association of Social Psychology ).

estate

Anger's estate is in the Psychology History Research Archive (PGFA) of the Distance University in Hagen.

Publications (selection)

Anger, Hans H. (1960). Problems of the German university. Report on a survey among professors and lecturers. Tübingen: Verlag JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck). Anger, H. (1965). Social psychology. In: E. v. Beckerath et al. a. (Ed.), Concise Dictionary of Social Sciences (pp. 636–650). Stuttgart: Fischer. Anger, H. (1962). Theory formation and model thinking in small group research, in: Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, 14, 4–18.

obituary

Lück, HE (1999). In memory of Hans Anger. Cologne Journal of Sociology and Social Psychology. 51 (3). 193-195.

Web links

• "Belief in miracles in this exciting world". SPIEGEL interview with social psychologist Hans Anger about Erich von Däniken's book successes . In: Der Spiegel . No. 48 , 1969, p. 211-213 ( Online - Nov. 24, 1969 , with a short biography on page 211).