Dietrich Goldschmidt

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Hans Dietrich Goldschmidt (born November 4, 1914 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † May 20, 1998 in Berlin ) was a German sociologist and educational researcher .

Life

Dietrich Goldschmidt was the son of the historian Hans Goldschmidt , who converted from Judaism to Protestantism in 1902 , and his wife Sophie. Goldschmidt studied mechanical engineering and business administration at the Technical University of Berlin-Charlottenburg from 1933 to 1939 . The then technical college refused to give him a doctorate on the grounds that he was a “ half-Jew ”. Goldschmidt then worked for five years despite his qualification as an engineer in the position of a factory worker at Demag engine works. In 1944 he was interned by the National Socialists in a forced labor camp near Burg near Magdeburg until the end of the war.

Goldschmidt's grave in the St.-Annen-Kirchhof in Berlin-Dahlem

His scientific career as a sociologist and educational researcher began after the Second World War . He became co-editor of the Göttinger Universitätszeitung , which was renamed the Deutsche Universitätszeitung in 1949 , and received his doctorate in 1953 from the Institute for Sociology of the University of Göttingen under Helmuth Plessner with an economic- sociological study on the British controversy over the nationalization of the iron and steel industry . From 1956 to 1963 he was professor of sociology at the Pedagogical University in Berlin . He then worked as director at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin until his retirement in 1982 .

In 1966 Goldschmidt was appointed to the German Education Council, for which, among other things, he prepared reports on the further development of engineering schools into scientifically oriented universities of applied sciences. In 1978 he also took over the chairmanship of the Senate Commission of the German Research Foundation for University Didactics . In addition to his work as an educational researcher in the narrower sense, Goldschmidt was committed to coming to terms with the Nazi past : He was active in the Action Reconciliation , advocated reconciliation work with the peoples affected by Hitler's Germany's warfare, and promoting dialogue between Christians and Jews as well as the support of the so-called developing countries .

In February 1998, a few months before his death, the TU Berlin awarded Goldschmidt an honorary doctorate for his achievements in the field of educational sociological studies, the connection between engineering and social sciences, the educational reform as well as cross-cultural socialization and international educational research .

Fonts (selection)

  • The iron and steel industry in the transformation of England. An economic and sociological study on the occasion of the current dispute in Great Britain over the nationalization of the iron and steel industry . Göttingen 1953 (also dissertation at the law and political science faculty of the University of Göttingen, March 14, 1953), further edition as: Stahl und Staat: An economic-sociological investigation on the British nationalization experiment , Stuttgart, Düsseldorf: Ring-Verlag 1956
  • with Hans-Joachim Kraus (ed.): The non-terminated covenant. New meeting of Jews and Christian community . Kreuz-Verlag, Stuttgart / Berlin 1962.
  • as editor: The National Socialist Violent Crimes. History and judgment . Kreuz-Verlag, Stuttgart / Berlin 1964.
  • with Sibylle Hübner-Funk: reports and materials for the technical college . (= Reports and studies of the education commission, volume 10). Klett, Stuttgart 1974, ISBN 3-12-922920-5 .
  • with Ulrich K. Goldsmith (Ed.): Herman J. Weigand: Critical probings. Essays in European literature from Wolfram von Eschenbach to Thomas Mann . Lang, Bern / Frankfurt am Main 1982, ISBN 3-261-04921-9 .
  • as publisher: Research subject university. Overview and trend report . Campus, Frankfurt am Main 1984, ISBN 3-593-33392-9 .
  • as editor: Peace with the Soviet Union - an unfinished business . Gütersloh publishing house Haus Mohn, Gütersloh 1989, ISBN 3-579-00582-0 .
  • The social challenge of the university. Historical analyzes, international comparisons, global perspectives . Deutscher Studien-Verlag, Weinheim 1991, ISBN 3-89271-210-7 .

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SURNAME Goldschmidt, Dietrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist and educational researcher
DATE OF BIRTH November 4, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau
DATE OF DEATH May 20, 1998
Place of death Berlin