General lectures

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The General Lecture System at the University of Hamburg is a series of lectures on the premises of the University of Hamburg , which is expressly aimed at everyone. There are no entry requirements, anyone can take part.

The topics are organized and supervised by the university professors. In the 2011/2012 winter semester, over 20,000 people took part in the events. For example, lectures were offered on religion , missiles and health .
The events of the summer semester 2012 took place from the beginning of April to the beginning of July in the lecture halls of the University of Hamburg. Lectures on gender equality , aging and disability were also offered.

history

In 1613 the academic high school was built in Hamburg . It was created to offer high school graduates a transition from high school to university; only this group was taught. In 1764, Professor Johann Georg Büsch addressed the general public for the first time with a lecture. There was great interest and more lectures were held. In 1837 a legal basis was created for this general teaching system. In 1883 the academic high school was closed; the general lecture system could continue to exist through the law . 1895 was General Lecture essence of Werner von Melle reformed and expanded. More subjects were offered and grouped into subject series in order to give the citizens an overview. The number of listeners increased continuously. In the winter semester of 1913/1914 over 10,000 people of both sexes attended the lectures. Most came to several events, so that a total of 116,000 visitors were counted.

The strategic goal of what was then the Academic Gymnasium to work towards the establishment of a university in Hamburg became a part of the reality through the general lecture system . Doubts in the citizenry about the need for a university in the merchant city of Hamburg and finally the outbreak of the First World War postponed the establishment of the university. It was not until March 1919 that the first democratically elected citizens decided to found the University of Hamburg through a provisional university law. The general lecture system was expanded into a community college by the high school authorities . A corresponding university law was presented in 1921. With the handing over of power to the National Socialists , a series of lectures on naval war history was introduced. In 1943 general lectures were discontinued due to the war. In 1947 the practice begun in the Third Reich of offering regular courses also in general lectures was continued, but it met with little interest. In April 1959 the general lecture system was abolished.

Twenty years later, new plans arose to set up a general lecture system , which again had specific non-university interests with its own topics. In 1982, the general lecture system at the University of Hamburg was re-established as an independent series of events.

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  • Brochure General Lecture System of the University of Hamburg, Office for Scientific Further Education, summer semester 2012
  • General lectures
  • Jürgen Bolland: The founding of the "Hamburg University . In: University of Hamburg 1919-1969, Hamburg 1969, pp. 17-107