Rudolf Tartler

Rudolf Tartler (born May 1, 1921 in Halle (Saale) ; † January 16, 1964 in Hamburg ) was a German sociologist.

After graduating from high school in 1940, he last worked as a motorcyclist in an armored infantry regiment on the Eastern Front during World War II and was discharged from the Wehrmacht in 1944 after being seriously injured . After briefly studying medicine at the University of Jena , Tartler went to Bremen in 1947 , where he pursued various activities. From the winter semester 1950/51 onwards he studied sociology, psychology, philosophy and history at the Universities of Göttingen and Hamburg and received his doctorate in 1954. He then became Helmut Schelsky's assistant at the Hamburg Academy for Community Economics , followed him in 1960 to the University of Münster and moved on 1961 at the social research center at the University of Münster in Dortmund. He completed his habilitation in 1961 with a highly regarded pioneering study on the sociology of old age for the subject sociology in Münster. In 1963, Tartler received a call to the second Hamburg chair for sociology, which he took on from October 1 and was no longer able to properly exercise due to a fatal traffic accident.

Publications

• The social generation shape and the generation relationship in the present , Diss. Phil., Hamburg 1954.
• (with Heinz Kluth / Ulrich Lohmar ), young workers yesterday and today. Social science studies , Quelle & Meyer, Heidelberg 1955.
• Age in modern society , Enke, Stuttgart 1961.
• Georg Simmel's contribution to the integration and conflict theory of society , in: Jb. Der Sozialwiss , Jg. 16, 1965, pp. 1 ff.

literature

• Helmut Schelsky , obituary for Rudolf Tartler. Academic commemoration Hamburg February 12, 1964 , copied typescript 1964.