Edgar Reimers

Edgar Reimers (born October 22, 1924 in Libau , Latvia ; † September 11, 2011 ) was a German educator and university teacher .

The son of a teacher served as a soldier in World War II and was taken prisoner of war. Reimers completed an agricultural apprenticeship in Lüneburg at the Pedagogical University there and at the University of Göttingen . In 1957 his doctorate took place there, the subject of which was the work Law and Limits of an Appeal to Luther in the more recent efforts for a Protestant education . A two-year teaching post was followed by teaching positions in Hanover and Münster. Since 1964 he was professor of education at the University of Education in Siegen. As part of the re-establishment of the University of Siegen , he held the post of rectorate from 1972 and was chairman of the commission for teaching and studies. He performed these functions for around a decade. In 1990 he finally retired . Together with Hans Hermann Groothoff, Reimers was the editor of a pedagogical dictionary.

Publications

• Right and Limits to Appeal to Luther in Efforts to Provide Protestant Education , 1956
• Right and Limits of Appeal to Luther in Recent Efforts to Provide Protestant Education , 1958
• Selected writings on pedagogy and their justification - Immanuel Kant by Hans-Hermann Groothoff with the assistance of Edgar Reimers, 1963
• The Fischer Lexicon / 36th Pedagogy , Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, 1964
• Education between the humanities and social sciences by Bernd Fichtner - Festschrift for Edgar Reimer's 60th birthday, 1985
• On the history of the schools in Siegerland , Verlag Die Blaue Eule, Essen, 1992

Web links

• Obituary for Prof. Dr. Edgar Reimers at www.uni-siegen.de, accessed on March 23, 2012