Otto Tumlirz

Otto Tumlirz or Ota Tumlíř (born July 23, 1890 in Rosenberg , † January 3, 1957 in Graz ) was an Austrian psychologist and educator .

Life

During his studies Tumlirz became a member of the Association of German Students in Graz .

From 1930 he taught as the successor to the philosopher and pedagogue Eduard Martinak as a professor at the University of Graz . In 1936/37 he was Dean of the Philosophical Faculty.

He was a committed advocate of the Nazi regime's racial ideology . During the Nazi era, he became chairman of the educational seminar, and in 1944 he took over the newly established psychological institute at the University of Graz.

After Karl Bühler's forced departure in Vienna in 1938, Tumlirz added his chair to his position; However, he did not receive the call to succeed Bühler, but the professorship went to the Königsberg folklorist Gunther Ipsen on April 1, 1939 . Thus, the most important chair in the so-called Ostmark was lost to psychology . However, Ipsen, who had been drafted as an officer in the Wehrmacht from the early summer of 1939, never taught in Vienna. After the outbreak of the war, he rather steered his former Koenigsberg colleague Arnold Gehlen to a philosophy professorship in Vienna, to whom Ipsen's representative was ultimately appointed acting head of the Vienna Psychological Institute.

Turmlirz also seems to have worked with the Salzburg Army Psychology, which was led by Heinrich Roth as scientific director from July 1, 1939 . In return, Roth has been appointed by the University of Graz as a member of the examination for the psychologist examination.

Turmlirz left no doubt about his commitment to National Socialism; He was already an illegal member of the NSDAP in September 1937 and in the winter semester 1938/39, that is, in the year of the Anschluss , gave a lecture on the subject of The Fuehrer's Thoughts and their Realization in the Third Reich . In 1940 it was the lecture anthropological psychology on a racial basis and in 1944 he held race diagnostic exercises . Massive elements of the Nazi ideology can also be found in Otto Tumlirz's main work Anthropological Psychology from 1939:

“This new spiritual environment, which is based on the Nordic idea of ​​racial purity […], can, however, […] only affect those races that belong to the Nordic blood community or are closely related to it in their traits. It is therefore excluded that Jews or other foreign races can experience a character in the National Socialist, i.e. in the German spirit, since their racial traits oppose this spirit. "

- Otto Tumlirz : Anthropological Psychology

"Two groups of basic forms of human existence ... of particular importance, the differences between the sexes and between races."

- Otto Tumlirz : Anthropological Psychology

Tumlirz was retired as a university professor in June 1945 in the course of denazification and received a slightly reduced pension. In 1948 he was commissioned to act as a psychological advisor to the Styrian Youth Welfare Office and a judicial expert “to psychologically assess particularly difficult cases of welfare children”. In this function, he processed the files of 880 welfare children, some of which were also incorporated into his work on “youth neglect”. From 1952 he was allowed to teach again. He had not changed his mind, as evidenced by the works he wrote, which were reissued only slightly changed after the war, such as Tumlirz's Anthropological Psychology , which still spoke of “racial racial differences” even if Caesar was now instead of Hitler served as an example.

He is buried in the St. Leonhard Cemetery in Graz .

Publications

• Problems of Characterology , 1928
• Educational Psychology , 1930
• Youth Psychology of the Present , 1933
• Anthropological psychology , Junker and Dünnhaupt Berlin 1939.
  • Second, greatly expanded edition: Ernst Reinhardt, Munich / Basel 1955.
• Demolition of youth studies and character studies , 1940
• The youth neglect. Your psychological, educational and social problems , Graz / Vienna 1952

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Louis Lange (Ed.): Kyffhäuser Association of German Student Associations. Address book 1931. Berlin 1931, p. 230.
2. ^ Gerhard Benetka: History of the Faculty of Psychology. ( PDF ( Memento of the original from February 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ) 
3. ^ Library for Research on the History of Education of the German Institute for International Educational Research (Ed.): "Realistic thinking requires a context of the history of ideas" - Prof. Dr. Heinrich Roth on his 100th birthday. ( PDF )
4. ↑ ^{a b} Gertrude Czipke: The typewriter perpetrators . The Vienna Youth Welfare Service from 1945 to 1970 and its contribution to the implementation of a gender system directed against girls, women, “illegitimate” mothers and their children . Thesis. Vienna 2013, p. 245–246 ( PDF [accessed May 17, 2014]).
5. ↑ Hans-Christian Harten, Uwe Neirich, Matthias Schwerendt: Racial hygiene as an educational ideology of the Third Reich. edition education and science, Vol. 10. Akademie Verlag, Munich 2006.
6. ↑ Otto Tumlirz: Anthropological Psychology . Junker & Dünnhaupt, Berlin 1939, p. 392.
7. ↑ Otto Tumlirz: Anthropological Psychology . Junker & Dünnhaupt, Berlin 1939, p. 8. Quoted from Gertrude Czipke: The typewriter perpetrators . The Vienna Youth Welfare Service from 1945 to 1970 and its contribution to the implementation of a gender system directed against girls, women, “illegitimate” mothers and their children . Thesis. Vienna 2013, p. 245 ( PDF [accessed May 17, 2014]).
8. ^ Klaus Posch: Stepchild Psychoanalysis . online  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

Web links

• Literature by and about Otto Tumlirz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry in the Austria forum