Kurt Wilde
Kurt Wilde (born June 12, 1909 in Eldena (Greifswald) , † May 28, 1958 in Hamburg ) was a German psychologist and university professor.
Life
Kurt Wilde was the son of a postmaster. He finished his school career in Greifswald in 1928 with the Abitur and then studied psychology, philosophy and natural sciences at the University of Greifswald . After completing his studies, he was awarded a Dr. phil. doctorate and was from 1934 to 1936 as a research assistant at the Institute of Psychology, University of Greifswald operates. He then moved to the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics (KWI-A), where he soon became a research assistant at Kurt Gottschaldt's genetic psychology department . He completed his habilitation in 1939 at the University of Halle for Psychology and Hereditary Psychology with the text "Measurement and Evaluation Methods in Hereditary Psychological Twin Examinations" and was then a private lecturer.
After the seizure of power , he joined the SA in June 1933 , where he achieved the rank of squad leader . In May 1937 he became a member of the NSDAP . He was also a member of the NSV and the NS-Dozentbund (NSDDB). At the NSDDB, Wilde took on leading positions in Halle, so he was provisional lecturer leader at the University of Halle and in 1941 deputy to the Gaudozentenbundführer Wilhelm Wagner .
After the beginning of the Second World War , Wilde was not drafted into the Wehrmacht due to a research assignment to inspect the intelligence forces . In the spring of 1942 he was initially provisional and from January 1943 as an associate professor, he was officially the successor of the university professor Gustav Johannes von Allesch in the chair of psychology at the University of Halle; he also became director of the Psychological Institute at the University of Halle. In the same year he did military service as a sergeant in the army of the Wehrmacht, but left the troops in 1944 due to illness. After that he did not take up his professorship at the University of Halle.
After the end of the war he was taken on as an adjunct professor at the University of Göttingen and was appointed to the chair of psychology there in 1953: at the same time he became head of the psychological institute there. The Wilde Intelligenztest (WIT), an intelligence test named after him, was published in 1963 by the psychologist Adolf Otto Jäger .
Fonts (selection)
- On the phenomenology of heat pain (dissertation, University of Greifswald)
- Measurement and evaluation methods in hereditary psychological twin examinations , archive for the whole of psychology 109, 1941, pp. 1–81 (also habilitation thesis 1939, University of Halle)
- Hereditary psychological studies on the ability to exercise , Archive for the whole of Psychology 109, pp. 82–119, 1941
- The dog as a moving animal , Archive for the whole of Psychology 112, 1944
literature
- Henrik Eberle : The Martin Luther University in the time of National Socialism 1933-1945 , Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 2002, p. 398 f.
- Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
- Hans-Walter Schmuhl : Crossing borders. The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics 1927–1945. Series: History of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in National Socialism, 9. Wallstein, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89244-799-3
Web links
- Entry on Kurt Wilde in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis
Individual evidence
- ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 677
- ↑ Brockhaus Encyclopedia: in twenty-four volumes, Volume 24, FA Brockhaus Wiesbaden 1996, p. 193
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wilde, Kurt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German psychologist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 12, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Eldena (Greifswald) |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 28, 1958 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |