Walther Malmsten Schering

Walther Karl Malmsten Schering , also Walther Carl Malmsten Schering , (born June 8, 1883 in Göttingen , † June 26, 1954 in Marburg ) was a German officer , psychologist and sociologist . During the Second World War he taught as a professor at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin .

Life

Walther Malmsten Schering was the son of the university professor Ernst Schering and his wife Maria (née Malmsten). After graduating from high school in 1901, he entered the military and remained an active officer until 1921, during the First World War as a major in the headquarters , then in a volunteer corps in Upper Silesia . This was followed by a brief employment at Telefunken and then studying medicine at the University of Breslau . In 1923 Schering moved to the University of Berlin, where he studied philosophy , psychology and sociology . In 1927 he was at Alfred Vierkandt Dr. phil. PhD . In 1930 he also passed the teaching examinations for chemistry , physics and mathematics , but was too old to start school.

Schering, who had already joined the NSDAP on May 1, 1933 , completed his habilitation in 1934 with a thesis on Carl von Clausewitz's philosophy of war , which was only accepted after criticism and revision. On May 1, 1935, he was awarded a teaching post for war philosophy and war sociology at the University of Berlin; In 1938 he became a permanent associate professor for psychology and characterology at the University of Berlin. In 1939/40 he did military service at the Feld-Nachrichten-Kommandantur 6. From 1942 to 1945 he was the Lecturer's Leader at the Berlin University (deputy). In March 1943 he was given a full professorship, which was expressly designated for sociology. At the same time, he taught on behalf of the SS at the police officers' school in Berlin-Köpenick from 1942 .

After 1945 Schering retired to Marburg as a private scholar. In the arbitration chamber proceedings in 1948 he was classified as a “fellow traveler” by the Arbitration Chamber Marburg-Land and sentenced to a fine of 50 Reichsmarks. In 1948 Schering retired .

Scientifically, he moved in the field of tension between psychology and sociology. He viewed a social group as a whole in the sense of Gestalt psychology. Similar to his teacher Vierkandt, he assumed that social behavior in the community is controlled by drives and instincts .

Fonts (selection)

The creative forces in people and their care . Siemens & Co., Hamburg 1935.
Clausewitz's philosophy of war. An investigation into its systematic structure . Hanseatische Verlags Anstalt, Hamburg 1935.
Defense philosophy . JA Barth, Leipzig 1939.
Soul, character and inheritance. Psychological study on the question of upbringing and self-education . Siemens publishing company, Bad Homburg 1939.

literature

Christian Sehested von Gyldenfeldt: From Alfred Vierkandt to Carl v. Clausewitz. Walther Malmsten Schering and the sources of collective action in peace and war , series: Contributions to the history of sociology, Volume 12, Münster 2002, LIT-Verlag, ISBN 3-8258-6259-3 .
Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon on National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , p. 147.
Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .

Individual evidence

↑ Unless otherwise stated, biographical information is based on: Uwe Wolfradt u. a. (Ed.), German-speaking psychologists 1933–1945. A dictionary of persons . Springer, Wiesbaden 2015, ISBN 978-3-658-01480-3 , p. 398 (Lemma: Schering, Walther Malmsten ).
↑ Christian Tilitzki : The German University Philosophy in the Weimar Republic and in National Socialism , Berlin 2002, part 1, p. 638 ff.

↑ ^a ^b Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon on National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , p. 147.

↑ Hans-Joachim Lieber , Autobiographical Comments on the Development of Sociology in Post-War Germany (1945–1965) . In: Christian Fleck (Ed.), Paths to Sociology after 1945. Biographical Notes . Leske and Budrich, Opladen 1996, ISBN 3-8100-1660-8 , pp. 77-98, here p. 80.

personal data
SURNAME	Schering, Walther Malmsten
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Schering, Walther Karl Malmsten (full name); Schering, Walther Carl Malmsten (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German officer, psychologist and sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH	June 8, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH	Goettingen
DATE OF DEATH	June 26, 1954
Place of death	Marburg

[1] Unless otherwise stated, biographical information is based on: Uwe Wolfradt u. a. (Ed.), German-speaking psychologists 1933–1945. A dictionary of persons . Springer, Wiesbaden 2015, ISBN 978-3-658-01480-3 , p. 398 (Lemma: Schering, Walther Malmsten ).

[2] Christian Tilitzki : The German University Philosophy in the Weimar Republic and in National Socialism , Berlin 2002, part 1, p. 638 ff.

[Wissenschaftspolitik_2004-3] Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon on National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , p. 147.

[4] Hans-Joachim Lieber , Autobiographical Comments on the Development of Sociology in Post-War Germany (1945–1965) . In: Christian Fleck (Ed.), Paths to Sociology after 1945. Biographical Notes . Leske and Budrich, Opladen 1996, ISBN 3-8100-1660-8 , pp. 77-98, here p. 80.