Fritz Strack was appointed to the Chair II in 1995, which had been vacant for 13 years. With him, it was finally possible to bring continuity back into the teaching and research of this chair.
After studying psychology in Mannheim, Freiburg and at Stanford University, Strack received his doctorate in 1983 and his habilitation in 1989, both supervised by Martin Irle in Mannheim. In 1991, he was appointed to the University of Trier and in 1995 to Würzburg, where he worked until his retirement in 2016. He and his team succeeded in achieving outstanding and internationally highly regarded research results in various fields of social psychology.
Particularly noteworthy is the endowment of two important prizes in psychology by Fritz Strack:
2004: the Oswald Külpe Prize of the University of Würzburg.
2015: the Martin Irle Prize of the German Psychological Society