Hugo Schmale

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Hugo Schmale (born August 21, 1931 in Bochum ) is a German psychologist and philosopher . Schmale was particularly involved in experimental psychology and developed numerous empirical-psychological tests.

Education and career

Hugo Schmale studied psychology and psychiatry as well as philosophy at the University of Innsbruck . There he received his doctorate in 1958 with a thesis entitled The Meaning of Surface Colors for Perception . From 1958 to 1964 he was a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Occupational Physiology (today the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Physiology ) in Dortmund and then until 1971 at the Technical University of Munich . In 1967 the habilitation followed . From 1971 until his retirement in 1996, Hugo Schmale was full professor of psychology at the University of Hamburg .

Schmale was married twice. He lives in the Hamburg district of Harvestehude .

job

Schmale works scientifically and repeatedly emphasizes the connection to the “non-university world”. He had the plan to "make psychology subservient", he said on the occasion of an interview on his 80th birthday in the magazine Psychologie heute . Despite his strongly empirical work, he describes himself as a " Freudian ". In 1967 he published the BET professional aptitude test , the 5th edition of which appeared in 2013. Various basic functions of professional suitability (perceptual accuracy, spatial imagination, practical and technical understanding, arithmetic and linguistic skills, opto-motor coordination, fine motor dexterity, etc.) are recorded. The BET consists of 12 individual tests, which can be put together in various combinations.

In the 1960s he designed numerous tests for the youth magazine Twen from Munich. On the basis of his scientific work he developed the test procedure for the online partner exchange Parship , of which he is also a co-founder.

Publications

Hugo Schmale published numerous scientific articles and books.

Books

  • Hugo Schmale: Ortless Morality: Identity and Norms in a Changing World  (= Zurich Conversations). W. Fink, Paderborn; Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-7705-5224-5 .
  • Hugo Schmale, Marianne Schuller, Günther Ortmann, Reingard Kess: knowing / not knowing  (= Zurich talks). W. Fink, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-7705-4399-1 .
  • Ernesto Grassi, Hugo Schmale: Work and serenity: two basic forms of dealing with nature  (= Zurich Conversations). W. Fink, Munich 1994, ISBN 978-3-7705-2907-0 .
  • Ernesto Grassi, Hugo Schmale: Claim and Contradiction  (= Zurich Conversations). W. Fink, Munich 1987, ISBN 978-3-7705-2446-4 .
  • Ernesto Grassi, Hugo Schmale: The conversation as an event: a semiotic problem  (= Zurich conversations). W. Fink, Munich 1982, ISBN 978-3-7705-2081-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cathrin Wissmann: The grandpa who brings love
  2. ↑ Psychologie heute , August 2011, p. 78 f.
  3. ↑ Handbook for the BET Professional Aptitude Test Today
personal data
SURNAME Schmale, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Bochum