Dieter miracle

Karl Dieter Wunder (born April 21, 1936 in Düsseldorf ) is a German teacher and was the chairman of the Education and Science Union (GEW) from 1981 to 1997 .

Life

The son of the librarian, head of operations at Reichsleiter Rosenberg and later high school professor Gerd Wunder and a teacher attended the high school in Schwäbisch Hall from 1946 to 1955 . He studied German and history at the Universities of Göttingen, Munich and Hamburg until he received his doctorate in 1962 on the subordinate clause in the Gospel Harmony of the Alsatian monk Otfrid von Weißenburg . In 1957 he joined the Socialist German Student Union (SDS) and was a member of its federal executive committee in 1959. He was expelled from the SPD in 1961 because of protests against the incompatibility with the SDS. In 1978 he reentered.

In 1963 Wunder became a trainee lawyer in Hamburg , and from 1965 he was a high school teacher. In 1970 he became head of the department for politics at comprehensive schools and was involved in the preparation of the comprehensive school Mümmelmannsberg in Hamburg. 1972–1981 he was senior director of this comprehensive school.

Since 1969 he has been a member of the board of the Hamburg regional association of the education and science union as secretary . In 1975/76 he set up the specialist group “Comprehensive Schools” at the GEW federal level and in 1977 became Managing Director of the GEW Board of Directors as head of the “Training and Further Education” section, 1979 head of the “Civil Service, Collective Bargaining and Salary Law” section, 1980 second deputy Chairman of the GEW. From 1981 to 1997 he was the federal chairman. He was also deputy chairman of the Education International (BI) from 1993–1998 , and chairman of the Brandenburg government commission "Development of Secondary School I in Rural Areas" from 1999–2000. In 1999 he became managing director of the Gustav Heinemann Initiative , a member of the Education Commission of the Heinrich Böll Foundation , the Education Advisory Council of the Hans Böckler Foundation , the Joint Education Commission Berlin-Brandenburg and the Federal President's Party Financing Commission .

Dieter Wunder publishes to this day on questions of education policy, after the end of his career also on Hessian aristocratic history. He is married to Heide Wunder .

Publications

• with Ute Erdsiek-Rave : Education - a social democratic future topic , Bonn 2011 online (PDF; 323 kB)
• Ed .: A new job? Teachers at all-day schools , newsreels, Schwalbach / Ts. 2008

Web links

• Literature by and about Dieter Wunder in the catalog of the German National Library
• Friedrich Ebert Foundation ADSD