Maximilian Bickhoff

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Maximilian Bickhoff (born September 19, 1929 in Dortmund ; † May 3, 2010 ibid) was a German scientist and university patron .

Life

Maximilian Bickhoff was born in Dortmund . He came from a medical family, his mother died early. He earned the money for his studies as a vendor and taxi driver . After the study of Catholic theology and philosophy at the University of Paderborn and at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and the Psychology and Educational Sciences in Bonn he worked as a teacher and senior teacher of Catholic religious education and social sciences at vocational schools in Bonn and Dortmund. He was a reserve officer in the Bundeswehr .

After his retirement, he took up a doctoral degree at the Catholic University of Eichstätt in 1992 , where he majored in psychology in 1999 with a thesis on the subject of psychological and physical stress in teachers (release: BPB-Verlag, diritto publications, 2000; 2. 2004 edition). Against the background of his own experience during his studies, Bickhoff decided, as heir to a mechanical engineering factory, to support talented and needy students and research projects with a foundation established in 1997. As early as 1983, he made funds available for scientific research in the form of a foundation to compensate for deficits in the university's budget.

Bickhoff withdrew from the board of his university foundation in 2003.

Honors

The Catholic University made him an honorary senator in 1990 . In recognition of his services to social and scientific matters, Bickhoff received the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon in 1999 . In 2004 he was awarded the University Medal of the University of Trier .

literature

  • Hans Hunfeld : The other money 25 years of the Maximilian Bickhoff University Foundation. Pustet , Regensburg 2009. ISBN 978-3-791-72192-7
  • Dr. Maximilian Bickhoff. Catholic University of Eichstätt ( online )
  • Joachim Mathieu (Ed.): 30 years of the Maximilian Bickhoff University Foundation at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt: 1983–2013. Maximilian Bickhoff University Foundation, 2013.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alfred Bammesberger : Foreword - An idea and a few announcements. In: Manuela Boatcă , Claudia Neudecker, Stefan Rinke (eds.): The friend of the stranger, the enemy of the stranger: Understanding others from an interdisciplinary perspective. Waxmann Verlag , 2005, p. 9 ff. ISBN 978-3-830-96602-9
  2. ↑ The honorary dignitaries of the KU. Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.
  3. ↑ “7. Award of the University Medal " ( Memento from October 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), University of Trier, November 5, 2004.
personal data
SURNAME Bickhoff, Maximilian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German scientist and university patron
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund
DATE OF DEATH May 3, 2010
Place of death Dortmund