Dieter Galas
Dieter Galas (born July 18, 1937 in Wilhelmshaven ) is a German school politician and author of a commentary on school law .
Life
education and profession
After graduating from high school, Dieter Galas studied geography and mathematics at the University of Hanover with a subsequent doctorate as a Dr. rer. nat. in 1967. After completing his academic training, Galas started teaching and was headmaster at IGS Langenhagen from 1975 to 1990 .
With the takeover of the state government in Lower Saxony by an alliance of the SPD and the Greens, Dieter Galas became head of the ministerial office in the Ministry of Culture, led by Rolf Wernstedt (SPD) . From 1991 to 1998 he was the head of the school department and from 1998 to 2002 he was head of the department “Cross-school issues, training and further education of teachers, churches”.
Union work
Dieter Galas was state chairman of the education and science union (GEW) in Lower Saxony from 1973 to 1983 . In this function he organized the first teachers' strike in Lower Saxony since the Federal Republic of Germany came into existence in 1979 with the demand to shorten the weekly working hours for teachers. In addition to Lower Saxony, Hamburg and Hesse also took part in the labor dispute involving teachers who are usually civil servants. Lower Saxony's Minister of Education, Werner Remmers , who saw the call for a labor dispute as a violation of official fiduciary duties, suspended Dieter Galas from teaching.
politics
Until his professional move to the state government of Lower Saxony in 1990, Galas worked as a local politician and long-time chairman of the SPD parliamentary group in Langenhagen. The thematic focus of his political commitment at state level was and is school policy. He is particularly committed to comprehensive schools and their legal status. Even after leaving the Ministry of Culture, Galas is active as an educational policy advisor to the SPD parliamentary group.
Dieter Galas was one of the initiators of the "popular initiative for good schools", which was carried out from 2009 to 2012. The main demands on the CDU / FDP-led state government were the return to the Abitur after thirteen school years and the facilitation of the establishment of comprehensive schools by reducing the legal requirements for their minimum size. In 2011, the Lower Saxony State Court of Justice in Bückeburg dealt with the referendum because the state government found it to be partially inadmissible. The dispute was ended through a settlement between the parties and the referendum was declared unreservedly admissible. By January 2012, around 255,000 citizens who were entitled to vote supported the referendum by signing. This meant that the quorum of ten percent of those eligible to vote in the state parliament (around 608,000 people) required by the state constitution could not be met, but the referendum initiated a political reform process, which ultimately resulted in the demands being implemented.
Because of his involvement in Lower Saxony state politics, Galas was appointed by the SPD Lower Saxony as a member of the 14th Federal Assembly .
Author activity
Dieter Galas continues to act as Ministerialdirigent retired after retiring from active service. D. in the Lower Saxony Ministry of Culture as the author of the commentary on school law "Lower Saxony School Act". The commentary, which is now in its 10th edition (as of 2017), deals with questions that arise frequently in everyday school life and is aimed, among other things, at school administrators and teachers as well as employees in the state school authorities or the school offices of the communities and districts. The comments on the Lower Saxony School Act are supplemented by references to the legal and administrative regulations that have been issued and to the literature published on this.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Galas, Dieter (1968): Comparative geomorphological studies on the Riyal coasts of SW England and Brittany.
- ^ Teacher: February 30th . In: Der Spiegel . No. 11 , 1979, pp. 25-27 ( Online - Mar. 12, 1979 ).
- ^ Teacher: New quality . In: Der Spiegel . No. 47 , 1979, pp. 32-34 ( Online - Nov. 19, 1979 ).
- ^ Galas, Dieter: Comprehensive Schools in Lower Saxony, School Law Developments 1971-2009. in: Niedersächsische Verwaltungsblätter 11, 2009, pp. 297–303.
- ↑ http://www.volksbegehren-schulen.de/modx/assets/files/Materialien/VolksbegehrenSchulen_Dokumentation.pdf
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated August 14, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.mk.niedersachsen.de/startseite/aktuelles/presseinformationen/neue-broschuere-informiert-ueber-das-abitur-nach-13-jahren--heiligenstadt-mit-der-rueckkehr-zum-g9- we-enable-a-modern-and-high-quality-Abitur-with-more-time-for-learning-and-for-the-personal-development-of-the-students-150915.html
- ↑ http://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/praesidentswahl-wer-ist-die-bundesammlung/1869296.html
- ^ Dieter Galas, Gerald Nolte, Karl-Heinz Ulrich, Manfred Eickmann: Lower Saxony School Law: Comment
- ↑ http://www.beck-shop.de/Galas-Nolte-Ulrich-Eickmann-Niedersaechsisches-Schulgesetz/productview.aspx?product=15446054
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Galas, Dieter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German civil servant and school politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 18, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wilhelmshaven |