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This doctor thesis issues from a school having a long tradition in algebraic theory of n-dimensional space groups rooted in the early work of H. Zassenhaus and in the computer assisted group theory algorithms developed by J. Neubüser. While the natural frame for space groups is crystallography and that of irreducible representations of space groups is solid state theory, their mathematical relevance is much wider. The role played in Lie algebras and Lie groups by crystallographic groups generated by reflections is a typical example. The motivation for the present work is a rather different one: the study of given families of finite groups, those of prime power order and the so-called perfect groups [see e.g. \textit{C. R. Leedham-Green}, \textit{S. McKay}, \textit{W. Plesken}, Proc. Lond. Math. Soc., III. Ser. 52, 73-94 (1986; Zbl 0593.20036), and \textit{D. Holt}, \textit{W. Plesken}, Perfect groups (Oxford University Press, 1989; Zbl 0691.20001)]. Mathematically speaking, an abstract n-dimensional space group is a group extension of a free Abelian group T of rank n by a finite group G operating faithfully on T. In the theory of irreducible representations of space groups, a central position is taken by modules over orders [see \textit{Ch. W. Curtis} and \textit{I. Reiner}, Representation theory of finite groups and associative algebras (Interscience Publ., 1962; Zbl 0131.25601)]. In the present thesis, algebraic fields of arbitrary characteristics are considered and the connection discussed between irreducible representations for characteristic zero and \(p>0\), respectively. Discussed in detail are the equivalence classes, the effect of induction and of restrictions, degeneracies and correlations. Finally, in about hundred pages, one finds character tables and other numerical results obtained by applying computational group theory to finite factor groups of a given space group.