Adolf Willareth

Adolf Willareth (born December 10, 1874 in Ihringen , † February 19, 1953 in Heidelberg ) was a German educator.

Career

After completing an elementary school teacher training course and studying language abroad for several years, Adolf Willareth became a realteacher. He worked at elementary and community schools until he was transferred to the commercial school department of the Pforzheim Realschule in 1900 and to the newly founded commercial school in Mannheim in 1902. This prompted him to study at the Leipzig Trade College, where he passed the trade teacher examination in 1905. In 1906/07 he returned to the Mannheim School of Commerce as a lecturer in commercial science. In the following years he was director of several commercial schools, from 1908 in Konstanz, from 1911 in Pforzheim and from 1924 in Heidelberg. In Heidelberg he also directed the first German hotel management school (1925–1933).

Thanks to his educational, economic and commercial skills, he was a lecturer in commercial school education at the Mannheim University of Commerce from 1924 to 1933. After the end of the Second World War, at the age of 71, he took over the supervision of the commercial teaching course and the management of the business education seminar at the Mannheim University of Applied Sciences (1946 to 1953).

Willareth died on February 9, 1953 on the way to his lectures.

Honors

• 1951: Award of the title of professor by the state of Baden-Württemberg
• Honorary Senator of the Mannheim University of Applied Sciences
• 1952: Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany

literature

• Gerhard Lüdtke (Ed.): Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 1931. - 4th edition. - Berlin [et al.]: Gruyter, 1931
• Handbook of German Science: Vol. 2. - Berlin: Koetschau, 1949
• Pleiss, Ulrich: Business teacher training and business education . The business-pedagogical discipline formation at German-speaking academic universities. , Göttingen, 1973