Abstract:
Erwin Bramesfeld, born in 1893 in Barmen/Rhineland, studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Darmstadt, where he then started an academic career as head of a new established Psychotechnic Institute in the 1920s. (Psychotechnic can be considered as an early scientific branch to what nowadays is called business psychology.) He also was responsable for academic as well as professional counselling for scholars and students until he left this university in 1939 and started a job in a pharmaceutical enterprise nearby. As the town of Darmstadt was nearly completly destroyed in an air attack in September 1944 and therefore the university, too, lost most of all administrational papers up to this time there is unfortunately a lack of special archive records. Yet some books Bramesfeld published and other general periodical publications of the university allow a small glance on his personal comprehension and his work as an early academic student councellor in engineering siences. During his life he has been honored as a well-known researcher in industrial and occupational science. Yet his forgotten engagement in general student advice and councelling is worth to be remembered, too.
Über die Autor*innen:
- Franz Rudolf Menne,
M.A., Studienberater (Universität zu Köln) i.R.
