Albrecht Müller-Schöll

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Albrecht Müller-Schöll (born November 15, 1927 in Braunschweig ; † May 9, 1997 in Stuttgart ) was a German academy director , geographer , educator , editor and honorary professor . He lived and worked in Stuttgart.

Life

Müller-Schöll grew up in Stuttgart and Oberstdorf and took his Abitur in 1948. He studied geography and education in Tübingen and received his doctorate there in 1954. rer. nat. Volunteering was a matter of great concern to him from his youth, and so he got involved in evangelical youth work at an early age.

From 1954 to 1964 AMS was social officer of the “Working Group of Evangelical Youth in Germany”. In 1971 he founded a diaconal academy in Stuttgart that was central to the FRG . This was later, in 1990, combined with the Diaconal Qualification Center in Lobetal to form the Diaconal Academy Berlin / Stuttgart , which he headed until his retirement in 1992. After his retirement he continued to be active in further training. On behalf of the " Federal Ministry for Family, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth ", he accompanied projects as a consultant to improve the dialog between generations and in 1995 founded Social Consulting .

AMS died on May 9, 1997 in Stuttgart. Pastor Jürgen Gohde, President of DW, in his address at the memorial service on May 15, 1997: “Albrecht Müller-Schöll would have been a bad educator if he hadn't known that encouragement, motivation and support also included the experience of resistance . People who promote also challenge themselves and others and stand in the way. It is part of realism that educators know this and live with it. (...) Albrecht Müller-Schöll was like a solitaire, like a precious gem. (...) Sometimes I think that this generation does not grow back like that. But who can also draw from experience, who knows the deepest injuries to people, war and hardship, the time of development and reorientation, youth work , the development and reconstruction of the social in the post-war years, who was able to develop goals for further education and training in context one of the most rapid developments in German history. (...) For him, professionalism does not make voluntary social work (...) superfluous and requires a new form of solidarity between the generations ”.

Albrecht Müller-Schöll was with the music teacher Margarete, geb. Dinkelacker (* 1928; † 2012) married; they had four sons, Ulrich, Thomas, Axel and Nikolaus.

Services

Since 1955, Albrecht Müller-Schöll has been involved in setting up the “Youth Social Seminar” in Friedewald (Sieg), the “Wichernschule” in Hanover, numerous educational seminars for young workers, in the development of job-related educational work and in a highly regarded study on girls' social work. On the side, he worked until 1969 as an editor for the "Young Voice". In 1959 he founded the specialist journal “ Sozialpädagogik ”, of which he was the editor for 39 years. In 1965 he began to set up a central training center for employees in the Diakonie, which was opened in Stuttgart in 1971. The home education was influenced the field of work, the Albrecht Müller-Schöll always closely felt, and he has at times dramatic development from the 1960s to the 1980s, in word and deed crucial. In numerous specialist articles, through his training and consulting activities as well as the initiation, support and professional accompaniment of model projects, including avoiding closed accommodation, Müller-Schöll has made a very effective contribution to today's predominantly positive appearance of home education. AMS wrote about the critical left groups at the time: “Only this much is certain: the goal of some critical groups is a radical reform of home education. Some of the suggestions for improvement are noteworthy. They also contain much of what has long been targeted by educators, home managers and many institutions involved in home education. "

Other important fields of activity were projects for unemployed young people and model experiments for school social work, which he was involved in implementing in West Berlin, Stuttgart and Sicily. He was a co-founder of the “offensive youth work” approach.

In addition to his extensive management duties, Müller-Schöll taught at the Diakonische Akademie Jugendhilfe and carried out annual international study trips with return visits, for example to Denmark and Sweden (1973/1983), England (1976), USA and Canada (1979 and 1980), Sicily, France, Iceland and Greenland (1992). In practice he worked together with personalities like Martin Bonhoeffer and in theory intensively with Hans Thiersch , without forgetting the young specialists like then and there. a. To promote Manfred Günther . From 1970 to 1997 he was teaching at the Educational Science Institute of the University of Tübingen. In 1978 he was appointed honorary professor there. From 1985 to 1993 he also taught at the Diaconal Science Institute of the Theological Faculty of Heidelberg University. From 1991 AMS participated in the establishment of the “Saxon Social Academy” in Chemnitz.

Honors

Memberships

  • Chairman of the "Federal Association of Protestant Youth Development Service" (1960–1993)
  • Member of the board of the "youth development organization", (1958–1993)
  • German Federal Youth Association (1960–1964)
  • Working Group for Youth Welfare (AGJ) (1960–1975)
  • Industrial Youth Working Group (1961–1965)
  • 1965–1995 member and deputy chairman of the Federal Youth Board of Trustees
  • 1968–1996 member and chairman of the "Evangelical Central Institute for Marriage and Family Counseling (EZI)"
  • 1970–1988 Board of Trustees of the Foundation Deutsche Heilstätten Davos-Wolfgang
  • Founder (1974) and chairman of the association “Kinderkurheim Freibergsee” in Oberstdorf
  • 1964–1995 elected member of the main committee of the German Association for Public and Private Welfare

Fonts

  • Dialogue between generations / projects, ideas, opportunities in the context of youth welfare 1995
  • Supervision Strategies Stuttgart: Verl.-Werk der Diakonie, 1992, 1st ed.
  • Good for those who know nothing and yet remain silent - Stuttgart: Christliches Verl.-Haus, 1992, 2nd ed.
  • Social management - Frankfurt am Main: Diesterweg, 1983, 1st edition; Neuwied: Luchterhand, 1992, 3rd edition.
  • Youth social work and new technologies - Frankfurt am Main: Diesterweg, 1989, 1st ed.
  • Children's play days at Freibergsee - Stuttgart: Verl.-Werk. d. Diakonie, 1986, 1st ed.
  • Games for many - Stuttgart: Verlagswerk der Diakonie, 1986, 1st ed.
  • Field of activity: Home education - Tübingen: Katzmann, 1982
  • Young people in distress - Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1980, 1st edition.
  • Harald Hottelet, Peter Braasch, Albrecht Müller-Schöll, Dieter Sengling and Peter Flosdorf : Offensive youth welfare. New paths for young people - Stuttgart, Klett-Cotta, 1978
  • Pipe organs are not only used on Sundays - Stuttgart: Quell-Verlag, 1976, 1st edition.
  • Child instead of child - Stuttgart: Evangelisches Verlagswerk, 1966

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ since 2006: Federal Academy for Church and Diakonia
  2. ↑ Office of the Federal President
personal data
SURNAME Müller-Schöll, Albrecht
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German academy director, geographer, educator, editor and honorary professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH May 9, 1997
Place of death Stuttgart