Alfred Burgardsmeier

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Alfred Burgardsmeier (born November 3, 1890 in Essen , † July 22, 1962 in Bad Bocklet ) was a German church historian and religious educator .

The son of the elementary school teacher Heinrich Burgardsmeier studied theology, German and history at the universities of Bonn and Münster from 1910 to 1913. On August 10, 1914, Alfred Burgardsmeiner was made cath. Ordained priest and worked as chaplain in Aachen and Bonn until 1921. In 1920 he was promoted to Dr. phil. with a dissertation on François de Gravelle . Then he worked as a religion teacher at vocational and commercial schools and from 1925 at the high school in Bonn. From October 1926 he switched to the Dreikönigsgymnasium in Cologne. On April 1, 1928, he became a professor at the Pedagogical Academy in Bonn , which in May 1933 became a college for teacher training . In November 1933 he signed the professors' declaration of Adolf Hitler at German universities and colleges . From 1937 he worked at the college for teacher training in Koblenz . From 1944 to 1949 he was pastor in Albertshausen (Bad Kissingen) .

In 1947 a second dissertation on God and Heaven in the psychic world of youth from the third school year to the end of primary school followed; based on own surveys in Cologne and Bonn at the University of Freiburg (Breisgau). In 1949 he became a professor for catechetics and religious education in Münster until his retirement in 1957. In 1951/52 he headed the theological faculty as dean. Burgardsmeier wrote numerous school books on church history ("Light and Life") and writings on religious education .

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  • Religious education from a psychological perspective , Patmos Düsseldorf, 2nd edition 1955

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SURNAME Burgardsmeier, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German church historian and religious educator
DATE OF BIRTH November 3, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH eat
DATE OF DEATH July 22, 1962
Place of death Bad Bocklet