German psychologists

Karl Friedrich Alfred Heinrich Ferdinand Maria Graf Eckbrecht von Dürckheim-Montmartin (24 October 1896 – 28 December 1988) was a German diplomat, psychotherapist and Zen Master.

Johann Gebhard Ehrenreich Maass (German: Maaß; February 26, 1766 – December 23, 1823) was a German psychologist.

Willy Hellpach (26 February 1877 in Oels, Silesia - 6 July 1955 in Heidelberg) was the sixth State President of Baden.

Sebastian Leitner (1919 in Salzburg – 1989) was a German commentator and science popularizer.

Karl Duncker (2 February 1903, in Leipzig – 23 February 1940) was a Gestalt psychologist.

Otto Ludwig Binswanger (October 14, 1852, Scherzingen, Münsterlingen – July 15, 1929, Kreuzlingen) was a Swiss psychiatrist and neurologist who came from a famous family of physicians; his father was founder of the Kreuzlingen Sanatorium, and he was uncle to Ludwig Binswanger (1881-1966) who was a major figure in the existential psychology movement.

Richard Meili (* February 28, 1900 in Schaffhausen, † July 5, 1991 in Gümligen near Bern) was an internationally renowned scientist in practical psychology, diagnostics, personality development and intelligence.

Georg Elias Müller (20 July 1850 – 23 December 1934) was a significant early German experimental psychologist who is credited with the theory of retroactive interference.

Max Friedrich Meyer (June 14, 1873 – March 14, 1967) was a German-born American psychologist.

Franz Clemens Honoratus Hermann Brentano (German: [bʀɛnˈtaːno]; January 16, 1838 – March 17, 1917) was an influential German philosopher, psychologist, and priest whose work strongly influenced not only students Sigmund Freud, Kazimierz Twardowski, Alexius Meinong, Carl Stumpf, Anton Marty, Christian von Ehrenfels, and Tomáš Masaryk (as well as Masaryk's student, Edmund Husserl), but many others whose work would follow and make use of his original ideas and concepts.

Eduard Spranger (27 June 1882 – 17 September 1963) was a German philosopher and psychologist.

Oswald Külpe (German: [ˈkylpə]; August 3, 1862 – December 30, 1915) was one of the structural psychologists of the late 19th and early 20th century.

Gottfried Fischer (13 September 1944 – 2 October 2013) was a German psychologist, psychotherapist and psychoanalyst.

Harald Walach (born 1957) is Professor for Research Methodology in Complementary Medicine at Viadrina European University Frankfurt (Oder).

Evelin Gerda Lindner (born May 13, 1954, in Hameln, Germany) is a medical doctor, psychologist, transdiciplinary scholar and author who has developed the Theory of Humiliation, a pioneering work in which she describes humiliation of honor and dignity among the strongest obstacles on the way to a better and peaceful world.

David Katz (October 1, 1884, Kassel - February 2, 1953, Stockholm) was a German-born Swedish psychologist and educator.

Paul Julius Adolf Helwig (May 27, 1893 – August 7, 1963) was a German stage-manager, script-writer, philosopher and psychologist, who has contributed in an original way to the analysis of human behavior.

Rolf van Dick (born 5 April 1967 in Duisburg) is a social psychologist in Germany.

Friedrich Schumann (1863–1940) was a German psychologist.

Wilhelm Wirth (July 26, 1876, Wunsiedel - July 13, 1952, Amberg) was a German psychologist.

Curt Werner Bondy (April 3, 1894 in Hamburg – January 17, 1972) was a German psychologist, social educator.

Albert Paul Weiss (September 15, 1879 – April 3, 1931) was a German American behavioral psychologist, theorist, scientist, and experimentalist.

Amélie Mummendey (* 19 June 1944 in Bonn, Germany) is a German social psychologist.

Bruno Klopfer (1 October 1900 – 1971), was a German psychologist, born in Bavaria.

Dietrich Dörner (born 28 September 1938, Berlin) is emeritus professor for General and Theoretical Psychology at the Institute of Theoretical Psychology at the Otto-Friedrich University in Bamberg, Germany.

Erna Barschak (1888 in Berlin – 12 October 1958 in Philadelphia) was a German teacher of vocational education studies and a psychologist.

Gerd Gigerenzer (born September 3, 1947, Wallersdorf, Germany) is a German psychologist who has studied the use of bounded rationality and heuristics in decision making.

Walther Poppelreuter (also incorrectly written in the literature Walther Poppelreuther and Walter Poppelreuter; born October 8, 1886 in Saarbrücken; died June 11, 1939 in Bonn) was a German psychologist and neurologist.

Gunter Schmidt (born 22 November 1938) is a German sexologist, psychotherapist and social psychologist.

Jochen Fahrenberg (* September 18, 1937 in Berlin) is a German psychologist in the fields of Personality, psychophysiology and philosophy of science.

Angelika Bergmann-Kallwass (born October 31, 1948 in Cologne) is a German psychologist and television host.

Volkmar Sigusch (born June 11, 1940) is a German sexologist, physician and sociologist.

Helga Schubert (Pseudonym for Helga Helm, born 7 January 1940 in Berlin) is a German Psychologist and author.

Moritz Lazarus (15 September 1824 – 13 April 1903), born at Filehne, in the Grand Duchy of Posen, was a German philosopher, psychologist, and a vocal opponent of the antisemitism of his time.

Franz Carl Müller-Lyer, born Francis Xavier Hermann Müller (5 February 1857 - 29 October 1916) was a German psychologist and sociologist.

Karl von Vierordt (July 1, 1818 – November 22, 1884) was a German physiologist.

Heinrich Klüver (/ˈkluːvər/; May 25, 1897 – February 8, 1979) was a German and American psychologist born in Holstein.

Otto Selz (14 February 1881 – 27 August 1943) was a German psychologist from Munich, Bavaria, who formulated the first non-associationist theory of thinking, in 1913.

Karl Peglau (May 18, 1927 – November 29, 2009) was a German traffic psychologist who invented the iconic Ampelmännchen traffic symbols used in the former East Germany in 1961.

Wolfgang Giegerich (born 1942) is a psychologist, trained as a Jungian analyst.

Jack Nasher-Awakemian (born Jack Lord Nasher-Awakemian) born 1979 in Korbach, Germany to his father Dr.

Tom Troscianko (1953-November 15/16 2011) was a German-born stateless person of Polish descent British psychologist associated mainly with Bristol University.

Ursula M. Staudinger (born April 3, 1959 in Nuremberg, West Germany) is a German psychologist and aging researcher.

Heiner Rindermann (born 1966) is a German psychologist and educational researcher.

Robert Weimar (13 May 1932 in Cologne – 28 February 2013) was a German professor of law and psychologist.

Dr. Anton Schelkopf (aka Dr. Toni Schelkopf, Toni Schelkopf or Schelkopf Toni) (28 April 1914 in Munich – 19 May 1975 in Starnberg) was a German Psychologist doctor who also was among other works a Film Producer in the late 1940s and 1950s.

Peter Gollwitzer is a professor of psychology in the Psychology Department at New York University.

Eberhard Schorsch (30 December 1935 – 14 November 1991) was a German physician, psychotherapist, psychiatrist, author and sexologist.

Arno Gruen (May 26, 1923 – October 20, 2015) was a Swiss-German psychologist and psychoanalyst.

Gerd Jüttemann (born 7 December 1933) is a German psychologist.

Felicitas Heyne is a German psychologist and book author.

Ernst Joachim Wolfgang Stroebe (born 5 May 1941) is a German social psychologist and Emeritus Professor of Social Psychology at the Utrecht University and the University of Groningen, particularly known for his works "Introduction to social psychology" and "Social psychology and health," and on brainstorming.

Rudolf Werner Georg Hippius (9 June 1905 in Schadriza, Pskov Oblast – 23 October 1945 in Prague) was a German-Baltic psychologist.

Tholey started the study of oneirology in an attempt to prove that dreams occur in color.

Nadja Yvonne Hirsch (born 13 July 1978) is a German politician, who has been a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2009 for the Free Democratic Party of Germany, part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe.

Helmut Leder (born 1963 in Bardenberg, Germany) is a Professor of Psychology at the Department of Basic Psychological Research and Research Methods, Faculty of Psychology of the University of Vienna, in Austria.

Claus-Christian Carbon (born 23 March 1971 in Schweinfurt, Germany) is a Full Professor of Psychology at the Department of General Psychology and Methodology, Institute of Psychology of the University of Bamberg, in Germany.

Heinrich Düker (24 November 1898 - 8 November 1986) was a German psychologist, politician and professor.

Norbert Schwarz is Provost Professor in the Department of Psychology and the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California and a co-director at the USC Dornsife Mind and Society Center.

Hans-Jürgen P. Walter (* March 25, 1944 in Weidenhausen, Germany) is a German psychologist and psychotherapist known as the main founder of Gestalt Theoretical Psychotherapy.

Edith Jacobson (German: Edith Jacobssohn; September 10, 1897 – December 8, 1978) was a German psychoanalyst.

Hans Bender (5 February 1907 – 7 May 1991) was a German lecturer on the subject of parapsychology, who was also responsible for establishing the parapsychological institute Institut für Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene in Freiburg.

Oskar Pfungst (1874–1933) was a German comparative biologist and psychologist.

Georg Groddeck (13 October 1866 in Bad Kösen – 10 June 1934 in Knonau, near Zurich) was a physician and writer regarded as a pioneer of psychosomatic medicine.

Karl Groos (10 December 1861, in Heidelberg – 27 March 1946, in Tübingen) was a philosopher and psychologist who proposed an evolutionary instrumentalist theory of play.

Theodor Waitz (March 17, 1821 – May 21, 1864) was a German psychologist and anthropologist.

Erich Schröger (born 11 November 1958 in Munich) is a German psychologist and neuroscientist.

Georg Schramm (born 11 March 1949) is a German psychologist and Kabarett artist.

Peter Kruse (30 January 1955 – 1 June 2015) was honorary professor of organizational psychology at the University of Bremen and professional consultant for collective intelligence.

Moritz Wilhelm Drobisch (August 16, 1802, Leipzig – September 30, 1896, Leipzig) was a German mathematician, logician, psychologist and philosopher.

Albert Freiherr von Schrenck-Notzing (18 May 1862 – 12 February 1929) was a German physician, psychiatrist and notable psychical researcher, who devoted his time to the study of paranormal events connected with mediumship, hypnotism and telepathy.

Otto Lipmann (6 March 1880 – 7 October 1933) was a German psychologist, an expert in vocational guidance, and one of the pioneers in the use of counseling for the selection of a profession.