Dieter Kirchhöfer

Dieter Kirchhöfer (born September 6, 1936 in Leipzig ; † October 15, 2017 in Berlin ) was a German philosopher , educational scientist and vice-president of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of the GDR .

After attending the Leibniz High School in Leipzig, Kirchhöfer studied geography and history at the Pedagogical Institute in Dresden . First he taught as a teacher in Rossbach , then as a teacher at the technical college for after-school care workers in Bad Frankenhausen , became an assistant at the Dresden University of Education in 1963 and began a distance learning course in philosophy at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig . He obtained his doctorate with Dieter Wittich in 1972 and completed his habilitation in 1981. As a university lecturer for philosophy, epistemology , scientific methodology and logic , he taught at the University of Education in Dresden and Zwickau as well as at the military academy "Friedrich Engels" and the Technical University of Dresden . In 1981 he was promoted to rector of the Zwickau University of Education and in 1985 to vice-president of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences in Berlin under Gerhart Neuner .

With the dissolution of the APW in 1990, Kirchhöfer lost his position. He received teaching positions at several universities as well as research projects on childhood development in East Germany, on which he worked in cooperation with the Max Planck Institute for Human Development Berlin , the University of Potsdam and the Siegen Center for Childhood Research .

Fonts

• The concept of principles in Marxist-Leninist philosophy , Leipzig 1972 [= Diss.]
• The development of the methods. On the effect of contradicting tendencies in method development , Leipzig 1979 [= habilitation thesis]
• I don't know if I should be happy. Children experience the turnaround, Metzler, Stuttgart 1991 ISBN 978-3476303370
• Growing up in East Germany. Long-term study of daily runs of 10 to 14 year old children , Juventa, Weinheim / Munich 1998 ISBN 978-3-7799-0204-1
• Development of the individual. Subject of education: a human ontogenetic approach , Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2012 ISBN 978-3-631-63809-5

Web links

• Nekrolog: Dieter Kirchhöfer