Georg Anschütz was born in Braunschweig on November 15, 1886, and died in Hamburg on December 25, 1953. After graduating from high school, he studied psychology with Theodor Lipps in Munich and Wilhelm Wundt in Leipzig, among others. For his research he worked with Oswald Külpe in Würzburg and with Alfred Binet in Paris. Being a German citizen, Anschütz had to serve as a soldier during World War I. In 1915, he received the chair of Ernst Meumann after his death but shortly thereafter took over a professorship of pedagogy and experimental psychology in Constantinople. However, he lost said position in 1918 due to the occupation by the British. Due to the lack of a permanent position after his return to Hamburg, he worked as a private lecturer. Due to the granting of the subsistence minimum for private lecturers, he was able to move back to Hamburg, where he affiliated more closely with the National Socialist ideologies. Thus he joined the NSDAP in 1933 and became Gauamtsleiter in 1943/44. In 1939, he joined the National Socialist German Association of Lecturers of which he was in charge. In 1945, Anschütz was dismissed with immediate effect due to his political impact during the Nazi era. Later, in the Nurnberg trials, he was placed in a category 5 ("discharged person“).