At the beginning of December 2023, Wolfgang Schroedter passed away, who had been an private lecturer in our department for almost a quarter of a century. He belonged to a generation of social scientists who combined social-psychological knowledge and sociological expertise in an and sociological expertise in an original way and was formative for the history of sociology in Frankfurt. After studying sociology (with the minor subjects of psychology, education and political science) at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Goethe University, Wolfgang Schroedter received his doctorate in 1979 under Alfred Lorenzer. Twenty years later, he completed his habilitation at the same department and was authorized to teach sociology with a focus on social psychology.