Aloys Fischer

Aloys Fischer (10 April 1880 – 23 November 1937) was a German educationalist and worked on the foundations of a modern theory of education.

From 1910 Fischer was simultaneously scientific director of the Pedagogical-Psychological Institute of the Munich Teachers' Association, and from 1914 additionally one of the editors of the series Pädagogische Monographien.

Together with Otto Scheibner, Georg Kerschensteiner, Ludwig Pallat and Richard Seyfert, he edited the journal Die Arbeitsschule from 1924.

From 1925 he was also one of the editors of the journal Die Erziehung, along with Theodor Litt, Herman Nohl, Eduard Spranger and Wilhelm Flitner.

In the winter semester of 1927/28 he became Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and in 1929, together with Alexander Pfänder, Chairman of the Psychological Seminar at the University of Munich.