Carl-Heinz Evers

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Carl-Heinz Evers (born January 23, 1922 in Freden / Leine ; † August 13, 2010 in Berlin ) was a German education specialist and politician of the SPD (left in 1993). He was the Berlin School Senator from 1963 to 1970 and is considered one of the fathers of the German comprehensive school .

Life

The son of a Reichsbahn engineer attended the secondary school in Holzminden and, after graduating from high school in 1940, was drafted into labor service and then into the Navy. Evers married Mechthild Schoof during the war, but the marriage was soon divorced. After his release from Soviet captivity, he began studying mathematics, physics, philosophy and education in Halle / Saale in 1946 . In 1950 he fled to West Berlin and continued his studies at the Free University . In addition, he worked here until 1952 as the first managing director of the “Office for All-German Student Issues” at the Association of German Student Unions , which campaigned for politically persecuted students who had fled the GDR. In 1951 he married Mechthild Schoof a second time. He adopted a daughter of his wife, Ulrike, as a daughter.

After the second state examination, Evers first worked as a teacher in Tempelhof , was appointed to the district school council in 1957 and two years later to the state school council (head of the school department in the Senate Department for National Education). In 1963, Berlin's Governing Mayor Willy Brandt finally appointed him to the position of school senator.

Evers had already come forward with a much-noticed memorandum on internal school reform. As a school senator, he soon became one of the best-known advocates of the democratization of the education system within the Conference of Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs , of which he became president in 1969. In 1968 he presented a plan known as the "Evers Model" for the simultaneous reform of the school and university sector and has since been considered one of the fathers of comprehensive schools and universities in Germany. Due to his school reform models, which are recognized nationwide, he has received several offers for ministerial offices in other federal states and also in the federal government. At the beginning of 1970 he suddenly resigned from his senatorial position and justified this with planned cuts in the financing of the school system.

Even after his resignation, Evers continued to advocate his school policy ideas and was among other things chairman of the non-profit society for comprehensive schools from 1972 to 1974 . In 1973 he was appointed honorary professor at the TU Berlin .

In addition, Evers has been increasingly involved in the human rights and peace movement since the 1980s, including as a member of the boards of trustees and advisory boards of the International League for Human Rights , the Action Reconciliation , the Initiative for Peace Educators and the Humanist Union .

Evers had already joined the SPD in 1945, but after the forced unification of the SPD and KPD to form the SED in the east, he temporarily switched to the Eastern CDU . After his escape, he rejoined the Social Democrats in West Berlin and was a member of the executive committee of the federal party from 1970 to 1974. In 1993 he resigned from the party in protest against the SPD's asylum policy.

literature

  • Lutz van Dick , Georg Hansen (Ed.): Today! Carl-Heinz Evers - a political-educational biography. Beltz, Weinheim et al. 1987, ISBN 3-407-34006-0 .
  • Carl-Heinz Evers: Models of modern educational policy. Speeches and essays from a decade. Diesterweg, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1969.
  • Carl-Heinz Evers, Johannes Rau (ed.): Upper level reform and comprehensive university. Diesterweg, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1970.
  • Carl-Heinz Evers: intermediate cases. Events from school and politics. Bergmann and Helbig, Hamburg 1998, ISBN 3-925836-45-4 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berlin's former school senator Evers has died. In: Berliner Morgenpost. August 28, 2010.
  2. ↑ a b Candida Splett: Obituaries: Micha Evers (born 1925). In: Der Tagesspiegel. July 21, 2011.
  3. ^ Joachim H. Knoll: Adult education and further education policy: science and practice in the field of tension between society and politics . Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar, 2009, ISBN 978-3-412-20378-8 ( google.de [accessed June 28, 2020]).

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personal data
SURNAME Evers, Carl-Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD)
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Freden (leash)
DATE OF DEATH August 13, 2010
Place of death Berlin