Richard Hellmuth Goldschmidt

Richard Hellmuth Goldschmidt (also: Richard-Hellmuth Goldschmidt; * July 25, 1883 in Posen , † June 2, 1968 in Münster ) was a German psychologist .

Life

Richard Hellmuth Goldschmidt was a son of the district judge Richard Goldschmidt and Clara, geb. Boring. After graduating from high school in Wiesbaden , he studied psychology with a doctorate in Leipzig in 1910 under Wilhelm Wundt and medicine with a doctorate in 1912 in Munich . After working at the Hamburg Institute of Psychology, he was in 1914 at the Münster University habilitated . With Amelie Bert, whom he married in 1910, he had daughters Ricarda (* 1911) and Ruthilt (* 1915). As a war volunteer , Goldschmidt was a medical officer in Münster and head of a psychological testing center during the First World War . For this he received the Cross of Honor for War Participants on August 2, 1935 . After the war, as a private lecturer and non-official associate professor for philosophy and experimental psychology, he set up a department for experimental psychology with the research areas of psychological optics and work psychology . In 1932 he gave a lecture on his “color changing game” at the International Psychological Congress in Copenhagen .

After the transfer of power to the Nazis , he was in 1933 due to the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil the teaching license revoked, so he, at first without the family in the Netherlands emigrated, where he attended the University of Amsterdam was able to work as a lecturer. On November 11, 1938, his property in Germany was confiscated. In 1939 he fled further to Great Britain , where he found irregular employment as a visiting professor at Queen's College (Oxford) , University College London and the University of Edinburgh . After his return to Germany in 1949, he was able to work as an honorary professor in Münster and was finally appointed associate professor in 1951, shortly before his retirement in 1952.

Fonts

• Psychological advice to make studying easier. Aschendorff, Münster 1919.
• Postulate of the color changing games. Carl Winter, Heidelberg 1928.
• Psychological Vademecum. Schroeder, Bonn 1930.
• Knowledge and insight. Hain, Meisenheim am Glan 1967.

literature

• Ulfried Geuter: data on the history of German psychology. Volume 1. Verlag für Psychologie Hogrefe, Göttingen 1986, ISBN 3-8017-0225-1 , p. 167 f.
• Gisela Möllenhoff, Rita Schlautmann-Overmeyer: Jewish families in Münster 1918 to 1945. Biographical lexicon. Westphalian steam boat, Münster 1995 ISBN 3-929586-48-7 .
• Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International biographical dictionary of Central European émigrés 1933–1945. Vol. 2: The arts, sciences, and literature. Saur, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 395 f.
• Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945. Edited by the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. Saur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Richard Hellmuth Goldschmidt in the catalog of the German National Library
• Richard-Hellmuth Goldschmidt , floor discussions, joint project of the WWU Münster and the Münster University of Applied Sciences