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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. He dealt mainly with brain injuries of soldiers during the First World War and developed psychometric examination procedures that were used in the treatment of brain-injured patients and in industrial aptitude tests. He was among the first high school teachers who advocated openly for Nazism before the "seizure of power" (Machtergreifung). His psychometric tests are often used in visual neuropsychology, especially the Poppelreuter figure visual perceptual function test.〔 ==Biography== The son of a high school director, Poppelreuter studied philosophy with a special emphasis on experimental psychology in Berlin and received his doctorate in 1908 in Königsberg. He then studied medicine and graduated in 1914.〔Georg Lamberti: ''Die Psychotechnik in den zwanziger Jahren des 20. Jahrhunderts.'' In: Georg Lamberti (Hrsg.): ''Intelligenz auf dem Prüfstand: 100 Jahre Psychometrie.'' Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-525-46241-7, S. 49.〕 He came on as assistant to Gustav Aschaffenburg at the Psychiatric Hospital of Cologne, which during the First World War was the Cologne fortress hospital for head injuries. In 1919, Poppelreuter moved to Bonn and became head of the newly founded "Institute for Applied Psychology" - trade station for German brain-injured war victims. In 1922, he received a position at the University of Bonn as an associate professor of clinical psychology. Poppelreuter's work on brain injury gave him high professional recognition. He developed a series of psychometric examination methods that were used in industrial psychology and vocational counseling. His clinical interest was given to the possible treatment of neuropsychological dysfunction. Against his resistance Poppelreuter's "Brain-Injured Institute" moved in 1925 to Dusseldorf; however, it had been vacant since 1924. Poppelreuter had let himself namely 1923/24, sabbatical and turned to ergonomic issues at Gelsenkirchen mine association. In 1925, he became head of the Institute of Work Psychology at RWTH Aachen University and founded in 1928 on Adolf Wallichs guided Chair for teaching a laboratory for industrial psycho-technique. Here he continued the experience he had gained from the inclusion of war-disabled in the rationalization of work processes in order. In the winter semester 1931/32 he held a series of lectures on political psychology as applied psychology on the basis of Hitler's book ''Mein Kampf'', which he in 1934 under the title Hitler, the political psychologist published. Hitler had told him in July 1932 in writing his joy that the first time his book will issue a lecture at a university. In the Nazi period, Poppelreuter operated as a consultant of the National Socialist German Institute for Technical Work Research and Training in Dusseldorf. In Bonn, he served as Deputy Chairman of Psychology at the German Society. Shortly before his death, occupational and partisan judicial proceedings had been initiated against him for alcohol abuse and reprehensible means in a divorce dispute. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Walther Poppelreuter」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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