Georg Ernst Anschütz (15 November 1886 – 25 December 1953) was a German psychologist, who worked especially in the field of music psychology and synaesthesia.
After further stays abroad, mainly in Austria, Italy and Switzerland, he moved to Leipzig in early 1912, where he worked with Wilhelm Wundt and Eduard Spranger.
In 1920 he was habilitated at the newly founded University of Hamburg and appointed as a private lecturer, but under Meumann's successor (William Stern) he could not at first obtain a permanent position.
In addition to teaching and non-scientific activities, Anschütz distinguished himself at the time as a pioneer of synaesthesia and, from 1927, organized several congresses on this topic, which were aimed at both scientists and interested laypeople.
[5] Already on 1 May 1933 Anschütz had joined the NSDAP, and on 11 November 1933 he signed the Vow of allegiance of the Professors of the German Universities and High-Schools to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialistic State.
At the end of the 1940s, he founded a "Free Research Center for Psychology and Frontier Areas of Knowledge" in which he worked with laymen and other dismissed Nazi scientists and which dealt, among other things, with phenomena of occultism.