Heinrich Düker

Heinrich Düker (born November 24, 1898 in Dassel , † November 8, 1986 in Saarbrücken ) was a German psychologist and politician .

Life

Heinrich Düker was born into a farming family. He was seriously wounded in the First World War . Düker studied psychology at the University of Göttingen from 1919 and was initially a student of Georg Elias Müller . In 1925 he did his doctorate under Narcissus Ach on the law of special determination . In 1929 he completed his habilitation in the field of industrial psychology and was then a lecturer in psychology in Göttingen from 1930 to 1935.

From 1936 to 1939 he was imprisoned for political high treason due to activities in the International Socialist Combat League and the German Freethinkers Association . Between 1940 and 1944 he worked as a psychologist for a Berlin company, but was arrested again in 1944 and taken to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp .

After the concentration camp was liberated in 1945, Düker returned to Göttingen as a professor, where he was elected the city's first mayor in 1946 as an SPD member. He served from November 1, 1946 to October 31, 1947. In 1947 he did not stand for re-election.

In the same year he accepted a position at the University of Marburg , where he held a chair in psychology until 1967. Düker's main interest was a psychology of volition, as well as learning and educational psychology and pharmacological contract research. As an experimental psychologist , he founded the Conference of Experimental Psychologists (TeaP) in Marburg in 1959 (organized with Werner Traxel ), which is still held annually today.

research

His research interests were in the following areas:

Awards

In 1975 the University of Düsseldorf awarded him an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Natural Sciences.
In 1978 the German Psychological Society awarded him the Wilhelm Wundt Medal .
In 1985, Düker was made an honorary citizen of the city of Göttingen.

A plaque in the Georg Elias Müller Institute for Psychology at the University of Göttingen also commemorates culverts. In the area of the university campus there is also the Heinrich-Düker-Weg .

Factory selection

On the Relationship between Church and Education (1926)
Studies on so-called attention (1956)
Illustration and Teaching Success (1969)
Heinrich Düker. In LJ Pongratz, W. Traxel & EG Wehner (eds.), Psychology in Self-Representations (pp. 43–86). Bern: Huber (1972)

literature

Lothar Tent (Ed.) (1999): Heinrich Düker: A life for psychology and for a just society . Pabst Science Publishers, Lengerich
Janke, W. (1999). Pharmaceuticals as research tools in performance research: On Heinrich Düker's importance for pharmacopsychology. In L. Tent (Ed.), Heinrich Düker - a life for psychology and for a just society (Volume 1, pp. 331–363). Lengerich: Pabst.

Web links

Literature by and about Heinrich Düker in the catalog of the German National Library
Contents of a memorial plaque in the entrance area of the Georg-Elias-Müller Institute for Psychology at the Georg-August University of Göttingen
Lothar Tent: Heinrich Düker's appointment to the Philipps University of Marburg
kw: Leading psychologist, upright democrat. Two-volume compilation honors Professor Heinrich Düker on the occasion of his 100th birthday . In: Marburger UniJournal . No. 5, April 2000
City Archives Göttingen: Heinrich Düker

Individual evidence

↑ Heinricht Düker in DORSCH Lexicon of Psychology

personal data
SURNAME	Culvert, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German psychologist, university professor, politician, mayor of Göttingen
DATE OF BIRTH	November 24, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH	The same
DATE OF DEATH	November 8, 1986
Place of death	Saarbrücken

[1] Heinricht Düker in DORSCH Lexicon of Psychology