Bernhard Schulte (pedagogue)
Bernhard Schulte (born July 20, 1914 in Brögbern ; † January 26, 1984 in Freckenhorst ) was a German educator and adult educator .
Life
Bernhard Schulte was born the son of a farmer in Brögbern near Lingen (Ems) . After military service, years of war and captivity, he was appointed advisor for rural pastoral care and rural educational work at the Episcopal Vicariate in Münster in 1947/1948 and at the same time acquired the qualification for teaching at secondary and secondary schools.
Bernhard Schulte was particularly involved in the restart of adult education in the Münsterland after the end of the Second World War . The initiators and sponsors of this development work were the then Bishop of Münster, Michael Keller , and the then Vicar in Freckenhorst and later Bishop of Münster, Heinrich Tenhumberg . In addition to the spiritual and moral renewal of the rural youth and the rural people after the National Socialist era, their aim was to bring about reconstruction and the associated adjustment to the rule of law, democratic and market-based framework conditions, as well as the management of an incipient technical and scientific revolution in agriculture .
The expansion and development of Catholic rural people's organizations (Katholische Rural People Movement (KLB), Catholic Rural Youth Movement (KLJB)) called for further training and further education for farmers, their family members and the population in rural areas as a whole. Bernhard Schulte therefore campaigned early on for the establishment of a Catholic rural adult education center for the diocese of Münster. Thus, on his initiative, on 29 December 1949 in Ascheberg the association "Catholic Landvolkshochschule Schorlemer-Alst" e. V. founded, named after the founder of the Westphalian Farmers' Association , Burghard Freiherr von Schorlemer-Alst (1825–1895), who, according to Schultes, was “tough and incorruptible for the concerns of the peasant class, for truth and clarity in private and public life, for the fundamental rights of the personality and fought for civil and personal freedom ”.
With the founding of the association, Bernhard Schulte was appointed head of the still-to-be-built Catholic rural adult education center “Schorlemer Alst” . In the absence of his own premises, Schulte organized the first basic course for young farmers in the period from January 3, 1950 to February 14, 1950 in the educational facility of the Catholic workers' movement (KAB) "Gottfried-Könzgen-Heim" in Haltern . The educational work started in this way found such an echo in the rural population that by no means all applicants could be accepted into the basic courses and the establishment of a school of their own became more and more urgent. The city of Freckenhorst offered itself as a location, which provided a corresponding plot of land and which already had a good reputation in rural education thanks to the rural women’s school and the 1st agricultural winter school founded there in 1882. Construction of the new school began in the spring of 1953, and after a short construction period, Bishop Keller handed it over to its intended purpose on February 2, 1954.
For the educational work at the Freckenhorster Landvolkshochschule, Bernhard Schulte, as the responsible director, placed three tasks in the foreground of his educational endeavors until he retired in 1979:
- The work should primarily be based on direct practice and thereby pick people up where they stand, take and understand their concerns and concerns seriously, and make social contexts clear, open and practical.
- One of the decisive factors for successful adult education work is the practice of value-oriented behaviors such as B. Solidarity , responsibility and tolerance in the experienced community through exemplary interaction between teachers and students.
- All educational work must remain “humane”, i. H. learning and creative action must be combined with sociability and relaxation.
Bernhard Schulte was a co-founder of the "Association of Catholic Rural Adult Education Centers in Germany" (May 4, 1951) and was a member of the board of the Association of Rural Folk High Schools in Germany from 1958 to 1978 (today: Association of Educational Centers in Rural Areas eV based in Berlin, an association of Catholic, Protestant and professional rural adult education centers), of which he regularly chaired in 1959, 1962, 1966 and 1972.
Bernhard Schulte has received numerous awards for his services to the education of people in rural areas. He received the papal order Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice , the " Paulus plaque " from the diocese of Münster , the "Schorlemer-Alst plaque" from the Westphalian-Lippian Agricultural Association and the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon .
In addition to his work as head of the rural adult education center, Bernhard Schulte was also involved as a local politician in the monastery town of Freckenhorst. For several electoral terms he was a member of the Freckenhorster and, after the local reorganization in 1972, of the Warendorf city council. His involvement in the culture committee, which he headed for many years, was particularly influential. He played a decisive role in the establishment of the partnership between Freckenhorst and Pavilly (France) and was also the chairman of the local partnership committee. He was also the founder and chairman of the Freckenhorster Heimatverein and chairman of TuS 07 Freckenhorst.
Bernhard Schulte died on January 26, 1984 and was buried on the feast of St. Thiatildis , the first abbess of Freckenhorst Monastery, in the Freckenhorst cemetery with great sympathy from the population.
literature
- Bernhard Strathaus: Bernhard Schulte - His work and his legacy . In: Hermann Flothkötter (Hrsg.): Dare to be human: 40 years of the Catholic rural community college "Schorlemer Alst" Freckenhorst , Regensberg, Münster 1994, ISBN 3-7923-0666-2 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schulte, Bernhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German educator and adult educator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 20, 1914 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brögbern |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 26, 1984 |
| Place of death | Freckenhorst |