Dieter Kreft

Dieter Kreft

Dieter Kreft (born April 2, 1936 in Groß Mandelkow , Neumark ) is an administrative and educational scientist specializing in social work, social administration and social planning

Live and act

After completing his professional training as an administrative officer (Diplom-Verwaltungswirt (FH)), he studied law, economics and administrative sciences (Diplom- Kameralist ). He later completed a second degree in educational sciences (focus on social pedagogy) as a qualified pedagogue.

From 1952 to 1963 he worked in the general administrative service of the State of Berlin, then until 1971 in the field of school, public education and university administration, including as personal advisor to the school senator Carl-Heinz Evers . In the following ten years he worked as Senate Director ( State Secretary ) for the Senator for Family, Youth and Sport, Ilse Reichel-Koß , and in 1981 became full-time chairman of the board of the non-profit Foundation Social Pedagogical Institute Berlin (SPI). He held this position until 1987. Since then he has lived and worked in Nuremberg , where he and Hermann Glaser founded the Institute for Social and Cultural Work (ISKA) and headed it until the end of 1990. From 1990 to 1997 he was head of the Institute for Social Work and Social Pedagogy (ISS) in Frankfurt am Main . He then worked as a freelance specialist and organizational consultant.

Kreft is married to Ingrid Mielenz . He has two grown children.

Teaching activities

Since 1975 Kreft has been a regular lecturer at various technical colleges and universities , in 1993 he first became an honorary professor at the Northeast Lower Saxony University of Applied Sciences in Lüneburg and from 2004 at Leuphana University there .

Memberships

• Federal Association of Workers ' Welfare (FA 'Youth Policy' 1978–1992)
• German Association for Public and Private Welfare (1977–2003)
• Member of the board of the Social Pedagogical Institute Berlin Foundation (1981-2013)
• Member of the Board of Trustees of SPI-Berlin since 2013
• Member of the board of directors of the Institute for Social and Cultural Work in Nuremberg
• Member of the advisory board of the journals neue praxis and our youth * (there previously editor from 2001-2015)
• Working group for child and youth welfare
• Member of the SPD, the AWO and the Ver.di union

Awards

• Medal of Merit of the Workers' Welfare
• 'Ida Wolff Medal of the Arbeiterwohlfahrt, Landesverband Berlin eV (2013)'

Fonts

• Co-author in: Johannes Münder u. a .: Frankfurt commentary on the law for youth welfare . 1st edition 1978 (4th edition 1988), all Weinheim
• with Ingrid Mielenz (Ed.): Dictionary of social work . 1st edition 1980 (8th edition 2017) Weinheim
• with Helmut Lukas u. a .: Change of perspective in youth welfare , 2nd volume, Frankfurt / M. 1993
• Co-author in: Johannes Münder u. a .: Frankfurt commentary on SGB VIII: Child and youth welfare ; from 1st edition 1991 to 5th edition, Weinheim 2006
• with Jürgen Fuchs a. Rolf-Peter Löhr (Ed.): On the results of the action program against aggression and violence , (5 vol.) Münster 1997
• Sport in the legal framework of child and youth welfare , in: Zentralblatt für Jugendrecht 9/2001, 327 ff.
• with Peter folds: youth welfare planning: acting according to the rules of art , in: Neue Praxis 2/2003
• Fashions, trends and orientations for action in social work since 1945 - hits and flops, what remains for today? In: Archive for Science and Practice of Social Work 4/2004, 68 ff.
• with Ingrid Mielenz: Looking back on 60 years of child and youth welfare. From youth to child support in: Working group for child and youth welfare (ed.): Transitions - Child and youth welfare in Germany , Berlin 2009
• with Carl Wolfgang Müller : Methodology in Social Work. Concepts, methods, procedures, techniques , Munich 2010 (3rd edition 2019)

literature

• Johannes Münder u. Erwin Jordan (ed.): Courage to change . Festschrift for the 60th birthday of Dieter Kreft, Münster 1996

Johannes Münder: Dieter Kreft (on his 65th birthday), in: News Service of the German Association 4 / 2001,130

• Merten, R .: Dieter Kreft turns 70 , in: Our Youth 4/2006, 182 ff.
• ISS eV (Hrsg.): Illustrate social work . On the occasion of Dieter Kreft's 70th birthday - a selection of his publications and a bibliography, Frankfurt am Main 2006

Joachim Merchel: Dieter Kreft on his 80th birthday, in: our youth 4 / 2016,182-184

Web links

• Literature by and about Dieter Kreft in the catalog of the German National Library