Theodor Scharmann
Theodor Scharmann (born July 12, 1907 in Kreuzlingen , † November 1, 1986 in Hallein , Austria ) was an economic and social psychologist .
Scharmann came from the Odenwald School and was closely associated with the founding couple Paulus and Edith Geheeb , even when they founded the "École d'Humanité" in Switzerland after 1933. He was active in the youth movement as well as in the socialist student movement. He first studied German and from 1933 psychology and sociology with Willy Hellpach , Karl Jaspers and Theodor W. Adorno, among others , and received his doctorate in German ("Die Saelde im Rittertum") with Hans Naumann . Since German studies was a "subject of convictions" and he was summoned several times by the Gestapo for anti-Nazi activities, he worked as an army psychologist from 1935 , as he enjoyed relative protection from the Gestapo in the Wehrmacht. He was transferred to Vienna in 1938, where from 1939 he worked as a psychologist in the brain injury hospital and studied medicine at the same time. He worked with the psychoanalyst August Aichhorn . Since he had been active in the Austrian resistance movement O5 due to his humanistic-democratic attitude, he was able to stay in Vienna after the collapse of the Nazi regime despite his German citizenship and from 1945 headed the Vienna Labor Administration. Nevertheless, in order to be able to resume his scientific ambitions, he returned to Germany in 1948 and worked in the personnel office of the United Economic Area until 1951 and from 1951 as a senior government councilor in Bonn. Several stays in the US took place during this period.
After working as a private lecturer (habilitation subject: "Tertius miserabilis") at the Philipps University of Marburg (1955) and the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (1956), he was appointed full professor of psychology at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen- Nuremberg appointed. In 1966 he moved back to Austria as a founding professor at the newly founded Johannes Kepler University Linz , where he was director of the Institute for Psychology from 1966 to 1977.
Scientific focus topics for him were u. a. Work processes in industry ("work and profession", "optimum hypothesis") as well as early forms of computer-aided, programmed teaching ("LINDA" project).
After that he was visiting professor at the University of Salzburg until his death.
He was u. a. Member of the German Society for Psychology.
Scharmann was married twice. Two children resulted from these marriages.
literature
- Josef Sageder (ed.): The optimum hypothesis. New Aspects of Applied Social Psychology. , Festschrift Theodor Scharmann on his 75th birthday on July 12, 1982, Springer Verlag 1982
- Hermann Brandstätter: Prof. Dr. Theodor Scharmann died. Universitätsnachrichten Vol. 8 (Linz 1986) H. 2, p. 24
- Walter Neubauer: Theodor Scharmann - life and work. , in: Zeitschrift für Arbeits- und Organizational Psychologie, 1987, pp. 127–132
Web links
- Entry about Theodor Scharmann in the Federal Archives of the Federal Republic of Germany
- Short CV (PDF file; 287 kB)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Scharmann, Theodor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | psychologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 12, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kreuzlingen , Switzerland |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 1, 1986 |
| Place of death | Hallein , Austria |