Adolf Reichwein University
Under the name Adolf-Reichwein-Hochschule , there was a pedagogical college in Lower Saxony from January 15, 1946 to 1969, first in Celle , then from 1953 in Osnabrück .
Adolf Reichwein University of Celle 1946–1953
From January 15, 1946 until the move to Osnabrück in the late summer of 1953 , there was a college of education in Celle . The director was Hans Bohnenkamp (1893 to 1977), who had selected the location on behalf of the British occupying forces in order to set up training for the urgently needed elementary school teachers . A shortened course of one and a quarter years should quickly counteract the acute teacher shortage, for which 60 students were initially selected. In the 1951 summer semester, 82 new students were admitted. A total of around 500 students graduated here.
Bohnenkamp won the head of the Stadtkantorei, Professor Fritz Schmidt, and the school board of the Heinrich Pröve district as the first lecturers for the PH. At the end of the Weimar Republic, Pröve had been professor of history at the Pedagogical Academy in Altona . For Bohnenkamp there were two traditions in the new teacher training: the youth movement and the educational movement of the 1920s. On October 20, 1946, two years after Adolf Reichwein's execution , the PH was given the name “ Adolf Reichwein University ”. Like Bohnenkamp, Reichwein belonged to the Wandervogel movement. As a member of the " Kreisau Circle " he was active in the resistance against the Nazi regime.
In autumn 1946 the PH moved into the west wing of the Old Town School (also known as the “Glass School”), which was built by Otto Haesler in the Bauhaus style in 1927/28 . In addition to Bohnenkamp, Schmidt and Pröve, the teaching staff included seven lecturers: Helmuth Kittel , Ms. Birkemeyer, Heinrich Vogeley and Walter Breidenbach, among others . At the time of the move in 1953, 17 full-time teachers were teaching.
Adolf Reichwein University of Applied Sciences Osnabrück 1953–1969
In Osnabrück, the Adolf-Reichwein-Hochschule continued to exist until it was integrated into the Lower Saxony University of Education , Osnabrück department, in 1969. After the move to the Osnabrück castle , Helmuth Kittel headed the university from 1954 to 1959. The number of students rose quickly . Lecturers who later taught during the early days of Osnabrück University were Elisabeth Siegel , Emil Gostischa (psychology), Walter Breidenbach (mathematics), Walther Söthje (music education), Heinrich Vogeley (German language and methodology of German teaching) and Horst Wetterling ( Pedagogy). Vogeley headed the PH from 1959 to 1962, Kurt Sydow from 1962 to 1965, Horst Haller from 1967 to 1969. In 1973, the University of Osnabrück was founded, which began operations in 1974 and offered teacher training for all types of schools.
literature
- Konrad Klütz: The Celle Pedagogical University (Adolf Reichwein University) 1946 to 1953 , in: Celler Chronik 7 (1996), pp. 171–221.
- Thorsten Unger: “From Barack to Baroque”. Spotlights on the history of the Adolf-Reichwein-Hochschule (University of Education) in Celle / Osnabrück 1946–1973, in: Osnabrücker Mitteilungen 123 (2018), pp. 233–273.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ https://reichwein.hypotheses.org/1901
- ↑ Glass School. Otto Haesler Foundation, accessed on January 18, 2019 .
- ↑ Andreas Babel: Celle already had a university. Celler Zeitung, January 30, 2015, accessed on January 15, 2019 .
- ↑ Thorsten Unger: Historical traditions in the distorting mirror. Adolf-Reichwein-Hochschule, 2015, accessed on May 14, 2019 .