Otto Brosius

Otto Rudolf Brosius (born January 12, 1899 in Berlin , † September 11, 1975 in Laubach ) was a German educator and university professor.

The son of a tool master Brosius studied in Berlin and received his doctorate in 1929 under Eduard Spranger . As his assistant 1932-36 he went with him to the army psychology of the Wehrmacht in Berlin. For the aptitude test , he wrote an essay on fanaticism .

From 1945 he taught Hessen in Marburg as a teacher, in January 1948 he became a lecturer in pedagogical courses, 1952–54 lecturer at the Pedagogical Institute Darmstadt-Jugenheim and 1955 ao. Professor at the Pedagogical Institute Weilburg . In December 1963, an associate Professor appointed to the "University of Education" at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen and retired there in 1967.

Fonts

• Wilhelm von Humboldt's Religion (1929)
• The fanatic - a personality analysis , inspection of the personnel auditing system of the army (1941, ed.). Human forms. Popular types. Part III. Volume 1 The doctrine of practical knowledge of human nature (practical characterology). Bernard & Graefe, Berlin 1941, pp. 79-87 online

literature

• Uwe Wolfradt, Elfriede Billmann-Mahecha, Armin Stock (eds.): German-speaking psychologists 1933–1945: Ein Personenlexikon , Springer, 2015 pp. 54–55.
• Walter Asmus : Obituary for Otto Brosius GU 1-1976