Heiner Erke

Heiner Erke (born August 6, 1939 in Halle , † February 17, 2007 in Munich ) was a German psychologist.

Life

In 1970 he obtained his habilitation at the University of Saarbrücken . From 1970 to the end of September 2001 he was the head of the Department of Applied Psychology at the Technical University of Braunschweig at the Institute for Psychology .

During his teaching activity, he developed psychological methods for the perception of objects, especially in public vehicle traffic, on the basis of scientific principles. These findings prompted him to make suggestions for signposting level crossings with fluorescent foils, whereby he made a significant contribution to reducing the number of accidents through suggestions for improvement in Germany.

As part of traffic psychology, he investigated traffic conflicts in collaboration with the police. In Braunschweig he developed a traffic control system and a steering system for accessing cultural monuments. He developed a parking guidance system and the traffic management system for Munich Airport .

Other focal points of his work were questions of work and organizational psychology. His panel of experts was also heard as an expert in the Bundestag at committee hearings. He was a member of the German Society for Psychology.

Fonts (selection)

• The structure of knowing. 1. Half Volume: Perception and Consciousness. with Wolfgang Metzger (1899–1979), Göttingen 1966.
• with Bernhard Zimolong: traffic conflicts in urban areas. Federal agency for Roads, Accident Research, Cologne 1978.
• Signposting basics. 1981.
• Handbook of traffic conflict engineering. 1985.
• Optical structuring of the work environment. 1987.
• Psychological Performance of Images - From First Sight to Use. in: Learning to read pictures. 2005, ISBN 3-8244-4602-2 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Heiner Erke in the catalog of the German National Library
• Former field of work and organizational psychology ( memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )