Kurt Theodor Oehler

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Kurt Theodor Oehler (born February 28, 1942 , legal resident in Aarau ) is a Swiss author.

family

The first ancestors of the Oehler family can be traced back to the 17th century in the northern German area of Lüneburg . Later representatives of the family lived as carpenters, master masons, plumbers or foresters in the Frankfurt am Main area .

The ancestor of the Swiss branch was Karl Gottlieb Reinhard Oehler, who studied theology , philology and philosophy in Giessen and Heidelberg and was elected professor at the Aarau Cantonal School in 1820 . There he started his own family and after his professorship in Aarau worked as a dye works manager, factory owner and as a cantonal school councilor. In his second marriage, he returned to Germany, where he set up the aniline factory in Offenbach am Main , which would ultimately become an integral part of IG Farbenindustrie AG.

The son of Karl Gottlieb Reinhard Oehler, August Karl Georg, stayed in Aarau, where he and his successors built up the machine factory and iron and steel works Oehler & Co. AG from a small workshop, which ultimately specializes in cable cars, ski lifts, electric vehicles and storage systems the first use of electric arc furnaces and the production of electric steel castings was. In 1970 the Oehler AG company in Aarau was merged with the Georg Fischer AG industrial group in Schaffhausen .

Life

Oehler was born on February 28, 1942 in Aarau, in the so-called "Villa Oehler", which was the only one to survive the entire "Torfeld Süd" development. As a qualified engineer, his father ran a model making studio in Aarau, and his mother was the daughter of the asylum father Arnold Meyer von Lenzburg .

Oehler attended the municipal and cantonal schools in Aarau, which he graduated with the Matura in 1959 . He stayed with numerous friends from his school days, for example the writer Hermann Burger . In the last school year he also became friends with the later Federal Councilor Kaspar Villiger .

Oehler knew early on what would actually interest him: philosophy and psychology . Already during his school days he dealt with the Greek philosophers and later turned to medieval thinkers and finally to modern philosophy. This resulted in a strong interest in ideological issues and increasingly also in psychology. Since he was referred to in many interesting papers on Sigmund Freud , he borrowed his twenty lectures in the canton library for an introduction to psychoanalysis . With this book, Oehler's life was to change fundamentally.

But his professional career opposed his strongest interests. When Oehler was sixteen years old, his father died. Alfred Oehler, his father's cousin and owner of the Maschinenfabrik und Eisen- und Stahlwerke Oehler AG in Aarau, suggested that Oehler study foundry engineering and later join his company. The company is ready to finance his studies in Aachen .

Oehler was in great doubt. On the one hand, he was convinced of his philosophical and literary interests. On the other hand, he did not have the courage to turn down his "uncle" s generous offer. In addition, a career advisor advised him to study science. He had learned himself that a natural scientist had always been superior to him, the humanities scholar.

In 1961, after almost two years of military service, Oehler moved to Aachen and was able to successfully complete his studies as a foundry engineer in 1968 after practical work in England, Sweden, Switzerland and Germany. He then moved to Munich and continued his studies in economics at the Technical University . During this time he received the news that his uncle's company had given up its independence and merged with the industrial group Georg Fischer AG in Schaffhausen.

At the same time there was a global revolt of the European youth generation against the Vietnam War and against what they saw as an ossified, authoritarian and world war-shaped generation of parents: the 1968 rebellion . Oehler identified with their values ​​and became a convinced “68er” himself. Within a single year he rose from a simple student to the highest representative of the Association of German Student Associations , as whose functionary he restructured the student self-administration in Munich and headed the association's delegates' meeting in Hamburg for two hours.

As part of this movement, Oehler had a fundamental rethink of his attitude. After completing his second degree in industrial engineering , he switched to the "Psychology and Educational Sciences" department within the same faculty, where he was able to obtain a doctorate in natural sciences in 1975 as a psychologist . With this, Oehler had made the decisive turn from technical or economic disciplines to human sciences, especially psychology. From 1975 to 1980 he continued his education at the school of the Berlin psychiatrist Günter Ammon , before returning to Switzerland in 1980 as a fully trained “group dynamic”, “group psychotherapist” and “psychoanalyst”.

After major initial difficulties, after a short detour, Oehler managed to set up his own practice as a psychological intern at the Waldau clinic in Bern . In 1984 he married his wife Susanne, with whose help he was able to continuously enlarge the practice, buy an old farmhouse on the Moron and build a holiday home in Spain .

Oehler then wrote several specialist books on the "group dynamic process", on "rivalry", on the "essence of the soul" and on the so-called "hole in the ego", developed a "psychological test" and finally wrote a novel about them ancient library of "Alexandria" and a philosophically oriented description of his life with the title The apples from the tree of knowledge . In 2018 he published a book about the group dynamic background of the worldwide slide to the right and the crisis of democracy with the title Does democracy still have a future? .

Publications

Non-fiction

  • Change of attitudes depending on the emotional meaning of the effective information. Munich 1975 (also Diss. Techn. Univ. Munich, 1975).
  • The group dynamic process. A key to a better understanding of social conflicts in family, school, work and politics. RG Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1999, 2nd, revised edition 2007, ISBN 978-3-8301-1120-7 .
  • Rivalry and how to deal with it correctly (= Beck's series. 1515). CH Beck, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-406-49434-X .
  • The essence of the soul. A psychological and scientific discussion of the question of the essence of the soul. BoD, Norderstedt 2005, ISBN 3-8334-2904-6 .
  • I-structural work in group psychotherapy and body experience. In: Künzler et al .: Body-centered psychotherapy in dialogue. Springer, Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-01059-0 .
  • The «hole in the self». Frank & Timme, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-7329-0275-0 .
  • Does democracy still have a future? The group dynamic background for the slide to the right and the crisis of democracy. Swiss Literature Society, Zug 2018, ISBN 978-3-03883-040-5 .

Fiction

  • Friendship. In: Salü Hermann. In memoriam Hermann Burger. Edition Iseli, Eggingen 1991, ISBN 3-925016-65-1 .
  • Alexandria. Looking for the ancient library. Book Print Verlag, Goch 2008, ISBN 978-3-940754-20-2 .
  • The apples from the tree of knowledge. From believing Christian to convinced atheist. Noack & Block, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-86813-041-6 .

Diagnosis

  • I-shape test according to Oehler (IGTO). RG Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-8301-0126-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Robert Oehler: The Oehler of Aarau. Sauerländer Verlag , Aarau 1956.
  2. ↑ Reiner Conrad: The Oehlerwerk in Offenbach. Historical views of an industrial icon. Sutton Verlag , Erfurt 2017, ISBN 978-3-95400-798-1 .
  3. ^ Association of Aargau Museums and Collections (VAMUS): Industrial Culture Database. Run number 180: Oehler & Cie. AG Aarau .
  4. ↑ a b c d Kurt Theodor Oehler: The apples from the tree of knowledge. From believing Christian to convinced atheist. Noack & Block, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-86813-041-6 (autobiographical notes).
  5. ↑ Kurt Theodor Oehler: Change of attitudes depending on the emotional meaning of the effective information. Munich 1975 (also Diss. Techn. Univ. Munich, 1975).
personal data
SURNAME Oehler, Kurt Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss author
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Aarau , Switzerland