{"id":9415,"date":"2026-01-29T17:04:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T16:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/igpp.de\/obituary-to-prof-dieter-vaitl-1940-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T09:49:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T08:49:26","slug":"obituary-to-prof-dieter-vaitl-1940-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/igpp.de\/en\/obituary-to-prof-dieter-vaitl-1940-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Obituary to Prof. Dieter Vaitl (1940\u20132026)"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]Prof. Dieter Vaitl stands in the direct tradition of the institute’s founder, Prof. Hans Bender (1907\u20131991). Professor Johannes Mischo (1930-2001) succeeded Bender in 1975, first taking over his chair of Psychology and Frontier Areas of Psychology at the University of Freiburg and then, after Bender’s death in 1991, also becoming director of the IGPP. In 2001, after Mischo’s death, Dieter Vaitl became director of the institute and, two years later, also took over as chairman of the IGPP’s supporting association. Since Vaitl himself was chair of Clinical and Physiological Psychology at the University of Giessen at the time, he commuted between Giessen and Freiburg for several years and was actively supported in the institute’s management \u2018on site\u2019 by a management board consisting of the department heads at the time.[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” text_align=”left” row_position=”default” row_position_tablet=”inherit” row_position_phone=”inherit” overflow=”visible” pointer_events=”all”][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” overflow=”visible” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/2″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]Dieter Vaitl’s relationship with the IGPP and Freiburg parapsychology dates back to the years when the institute, founded in 1950, was still located at Eichhalde 12 in Freiburg-Herdern on the\u201cmagic hill.\u201d He worked there as a student assistant from 1964 to 1967 and always had fond memories of this private research institute, its founder, and the \u201canima\u201d of the institute, its long-time managing director, Ms. Lotte B\u00f6hringer (1917-1994). This is evident from the letter he wrote to his academic teacher, Hans Bender, on his 80th birthday on February 5, 1987, which can be read in the special issue of the Zeitschrift f\u00fcr Parapsychologie und Grenzgebiete der Psychologie <\/em><\/a>\u00a0(Vol. 29, Issue 1, 1987) published by me on this occasion.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” overflow=”visible” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/2″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][image_with_animation image_url=”9354″ image_size=”full” animation_type=”entrance” animation=”None” animation_movement_type=”transform_y” hover_animation=”none” alignment=”” border_radius=”none” box_shadow=”none” image_loading=”default” max_width=”100%” max_width_mobile=”default”][nectar_responsive_text text_color=”#0056a4″ font_size_desktop=”14″ font_line_height=”1.5″]Card experiments on extrasensory perception (ESP) conducted in 1966 at the Eichhalde Institute. From left to right: Claude Ruffin (intern), Prof. Hans Bender, student Dieter Vaitl, test subject HS.[\/nectar_responsive_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_column_text]In his memoirs describing his time at Eichhalde, Dieter Vaitl recounts not only his participation in the so-called tape recordings with Konstantin Raudive in Bad Krozingen, but also his encounter with the \u2018haunted medium\u2019 H. S., who was tested for alleged extrasensory perception (ESP) using Rhine’s card experiments and kept the small Eichhalde team in suspense at the time, especially since four IGPP employees themselves had personally witnessed spectacular physical phenomena, commonly referred to as \u201cspontaneous psychokinesis,\u201d or \u201chaunting\u201d for short.<\/p>\n

In the letter to his academic teacher Hans Bender, I mentioned, Dieter Vaitl notes that Bender was \u201cfar from the hostility toward happiness of many older people.\u201d Looking back, this can certainly be said with good reason of Dieter Vaitl, who liked to respond to compliments about his handsome appearance by saying, \u201cThe drake shows off his plumage.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eberhard Bauer<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”50″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]When Prof. Vaitl became director of the IGPP in 2001, I was a doctoral student at the institute. At that time, the IGPP was still very well funded thanks to grants from the Holler Foundation. It had departments and three times as many employees as it does today. The \u201eBender Institute for Neuroimaging\u201c, an institute affiliated tot he IGPP, had just started operations. Soon after, the annual grants from the Holler Foundation were suddenly reduced drastically, and from then on, cutbacks and savings were the order of the day. This led to many rumors, as well as discontent and criticism.[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” text_align=”left” row_position=”default” row_position_tablet=”inherit” row_position_phone=”inherit” overflow=”visible” pointer_events=”all”][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” overflow=”visible” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/2″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]When I was appointed director and board member of the institute, I gained insights into the IGPP’s financial development over the last 20 years and the major financial problems of the last 10 years. Looking back, I can say that Dieter Vaitl led the institute through these challenging times with prudence, foresight, and great commitment for 20 years. To celebrate the 70th anniversary of the IGPP’s founding and his departure as director of the institute, Vaitl published the research volume \u201c An den Grenzen unseres Wissens \u2013 Von der Faszination des Paranormalen \u201d (At the Frontiers of Our Knowledge \u2013 The Fascination of the Paranormal) in the spring of 2020. The approximately 30 chapters summarize the multidisciplinary work of the institute over the last 20 years, which was carried out under his authoritative leadership. This volume is a continuation of the volume \u201cAn den Grenzen der Erkenntnis \u2013 Handbuch der wissenschaftlichen Anomalistik\u201d (At the Frontiers of Knowledge \u2013 Handbook of Scientific Anomalistics), which Vaitl had already published in 2015 together with Gerhard Mayer, Ina Schmied-Knittel, and Michael Schetsche. The volume \u201cSPUK\u201d (Haunting), published in 2021 by Dieter Vaitl together with Andreas Fischer and dedicated to the photographs of Leif Geiges, once again ties in with Prof. Bender’s attempt to document his haunting investigations at that time.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” overflow=”visible” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/2″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][image_with_animation image_url=”9360″ image_size=”full” animation_type=”entrance” animation=”None” animation_movement_type=”transform_y” hover_animation=”none” alignment=”” border_radius=”none” box_shadow=”none” image_loading=”default” max_width=”100%” max_width_mobile=”default”][nectar_responsive_text text_color=”#0056a4″ font_size_desktop=”14″ font_line_height=”1.5″]Company outing to the exhibition \u2018Be Happy! We Do Not Forget You\u2019 at the Zander Collection in Stadionschen Schloss in B\u00f6nnigheim, curated by Andreas Fischer and Veit Loers and on display from October 2017 to January 2018.[\/nectar_responsive_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_column_text]From my personal encounters with Prof. Vaitl as a doctoral student at the institute, I will always remember his joking standard question: \u201cSo, Mr. Kornmeier, how are things going? Have you discovered the world formula yet?\u201d<\/p>\n

Prof. Vaitl was chairman of the board until his death. Eberhard Bauer and I were regular guests at the Vaitl home for our board meetings, where we were well looked after by his wife Christel. During this time, I had the opportunity to get to know and appreciate Dieter Vaitl from a different perspective. Working with him on the board was always professional, trusting, and characterized by mutual appreciation.<\/p>\n

As institute director and chairman of the board, Dieter Vaitl had a decisive influence on the IGPP for many years. And until the very end, our institute and its future were very close to his heart.<\/p>\n

Death is, of course, also a frontier area of psychology, and the question of whether there is something after death \u2013 the time-honored \u201csurvival\u201d problem of the Society for Psychical Research \u2013 is also a topic of interest to our institute. I would say that there is interesting literature on this subject, but the question remains open. If death is not the end, Dieter Vaitl may now have an answer to the question of the world formula. In any case, I will miss him in this life.<\/p>\n

J\u00fcrgen Kornmeier<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]References<\/p>\n

Fischer, A. & Vaitl, D. (Hrsg.) (2021): Spuk! Die Fotografien von Leif Geiges.<\/em>\u00a0Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg.<\/p>\n

Vaitl, D. (2020).\u00a0An den Grenzen unseres Wissens. Von der Faszination des Paranormalen<\/em>. Herder.<\/p>\n

Vaitl, D. (1987). Brief zum 80. Geburtstag von Hans Bender.\u00a0Zeitschrift f\u00fcr Parapsychologie und Grenzgebiete der Psychologie<\/em>, 29(1).<\/p>\n

Mayer, G., Schetsche, M. Schmied-Knittel, I. & Vaitl, D. (Hrsg.) (2015).\u00a0An den Grenzen der Erkenntnis: Handbuch der wissenschaftlichen Anomalistik<\/em>. Schattauer Verlag.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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