Helga Breuninger

Helga Breuninger (* 1947 in Stuttgart ) is a German psychologist , business consultant and founder .

Life

Breuninger was born in 1947 as the second oldest daughter of the Stuttgart entrepreneur Heinz Breuninger ( Breuninger department stores). Initially intended as her successor after the death of her older brother, her father transferred the assets to a foundation.

She studied economics at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen (graduate economist 1971) and a second degree in psychology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich (graduate psychologist 1976). In 1980 she became a psychologist at Essen's Faculty 2 - Educational Sciences with a dissertation as the learning goal of relationship skills. The interlinking of practical training for teachers and targeted help for students with poor literacy skills for Dr. phil. ( summa cum laude ) doctorate.

In 1976 she initiated the so-called "Essen model of teacher training" at the University of Essen . In 1980 she founded her father with the capital the " Helga Breuninger Foundation to promote education and education ", whose managing director is. In 1982 she set up her own research institute for school learning and performance disorders in Essen. Together with Dieter Betz, she published several specialist articles. Breuninger is considered the founder of "integrative learning therapy "; In 1989 she played a key role in founding the Association for Integrative Learning Therapy , which she headed until 1999.

After the death of her father in 1980, she took over the management of the Breuninger Foundation GmbH, which she co-founded in 1968; Walter Bretschneider is co-managing director of the Breuninger Foundation . In 1995 she was the initiator of the Stuttgart business start-up center ( EXZET ). In 1996 she founded Successio, a company specializing in corporate succession, which was renamed Helga Breuninger Consulting GmbH in 2008. In 2009 she founded the Paretz Trust Foundation (sub-foundation of the Breuninger Foundation) with the architect Volker Donath in Ketzin / Havel .

From 1991 to 1994 she was a board member of the Helga Stödter Foundation for the advancement of women in management positions. In addition, she became a member of the board of trustees of the Baden-Württemberg initiative group Women in Responsibility, chairwoman of the sponsoring association of the Literaturhaus Stuttgart and the children's and youth theater Junge Ensemble Stuttgart , head of the supervisory board of the Stuttgarter Sonnenberg Klinik gGmbH, executive chairwoman of the Stuttgart community foundation and member of the advisory council for rural development at the Federal Ministry for Food and Agriculture .

Awards

• 1999 Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
• 2002 Hans Peter Stihl Prize
• 2003 Honorary Senator of the University of Stuttgart
• 2007 Golden Image of Woman
• 2007 Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class
• 2016 Order of Merit of the State of Brandenburg

Fonts (selection)

• with Dieter Betz: Every child can learn to write. A guide for reading and spelling weaknesses (= U - & - S pedagogy ). Beltz, Weinheim u. a. 1982, ISBN 3-407-25080-0 . (6th edition 1996)
• with Dieter Betz: vicious circle of learning disorders. Analysis and therapy of a school disorder . Urban and Schwarzenberg, Munich a. a. 1982, ISBN 3-541-10101-6 . (3rd edition 1993)
• with Rolf Peter Sieferle (Ed.): Market and Power in History . DVA, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-421-05014-7 .
• with Rolf Peter Sieferle (ed.): Cultures of violence. Ritualization and symbolization of violence in history . Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main u. a. 1998, ISBN 3-593-35952-9 .
• with Rolf Peter Sieferle (ed.): Nature pictures. Perceptions of nature and the environment in history . Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main u. a. 1999, ISBN 3-593-36327-5 .
• (Ed.): The way to professional independence. EXZET - a model for support and qualification . Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main u. a. 2000, ISBN 3-593-36488-3 .
• with Gerhart Schröder (Ed.): Cultural Theories of the Present. Approaches and positions . Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main u. a. 2001, ISBN 3-593-36866-8 .
• with Heike Schiller (Ed.): Farewell. The last farewell . Arnold, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-89790-182-X .
• with Rolf Peter Sieferle (Ed.): Agriculture, population and economic development in China and Europe (= Europe ́s Special Course . Vol. 10). Breuninger Foundation, Stuttgart 2003.

literature

• Christoph Keese , Wolfgang Münchau (Hrsg.): 101 women of the German economy (= Financial times Germany ). Gabler, Wiesbaden 2003, ISBN 3-409-15011-0 , p. 132 f.
• Vera Bloemer : Founders. Women talk about their commitment. A reader . Federal Association of German Foundations, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-941368-12-5 , p. 61 ff.
• Gabriele Damasko: Helga Breuninger. Psychologist and initiator . In: Lots of women. Detected in Baden-Württemberg. 47 portraits, Stuttgart: Theiss 2000, ISBN 3-8062-1525-1 , pp. 21–24.

Web links

• Literature by and about Helga Breuninger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Helga Breuninger at the Helga Breuninger Foundation