1. Hans Bender was a German lecturer on the subject of parapsychology, who was responsible for establishing the parapsychological institute Institut fur Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene in Freiburg.
11 Facts About Hans Bender
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Hans Bender took the doctors degree 1933 by Rothacker with the dissertation Psychische Automatismen.
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Hans Bender's claim to have made his a state examination for a PhD in medicine by professor Kurt Beringer on the subject of "Die Arbeitskurve unter Pervitin" remained a claim, as he was not able to present the promotion certificate.
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From 1942 to 1944, he taught psychology and clinical psychology, managing the Paracelsus Institute, where Hans Bender originally planned to make research on the subject of astrology.
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Hans Bender had been skilled in depth psychology and oriented himself mostly by approaches of Pierre Janet and Carl Gustav Jung.
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Hans Bender considered this to be proof that it was not myths and traditions without correspondence in objective reality that were present here, but individual, actual experiences of the individual observers, which were based on objective, even if still unknown, characteristics of reality.
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Hans Bender was consulting him in astrology both in private and scientific matters.
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In 1978, for example, the detective director Herbert Schafer of the State Criminal Police Office in Bremen obtained a confession from Heinrich Scholz, the focus person in a haunting case of 1965, which Hans Bender had declared to be genuine.
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Hans Bender's assistants countered with expert reports that were meant to prove that at least some of the manipulations described by Scholz could not have taken place.
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The problem of manipulations exists in the most known haunting case of Hans Bender, "the haunting of Rosenheim", that occurred in an attorney's chancellery between 1967 and 1968.
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Hans Bender was later found to have lied about having a doctorate, in addition to ignoring evidence and exaggerating his own observations on psi.