Ernst-Günther Skiba

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Ernst-Günther Skiba (born May 28, 1927 in Gadderbaum ; † July 10, 2012 in Berlin ) was a German social scientist and university professor.

Life

Skiba's grave in the Zehlendorf cemetery

Skiba received his doctorate in 1969 from the University of Hamburg . His dissertation was "the first and at the same time the largest and best-known empirical study on the position of social workers in society".

In 1973 he was appointed to the Free University of Berlin , where he was professor for social education and social work until 1992. In doing so, he earned services for the establishment of a university social pedagogy. He was particularly interested in psychoanalytic social pedagogy.

In addition to research and teaching, he ran a psychotherapeutic practice.

His final resting place is in the Zehlendorf cemetery . (Field 020-384)

Publications (selection)

  • The social worker in contemporary society (dissertation), 2nd edition, Weinheim, Basel 1972
  • Qualified pedagogue - and what then? (Ed.), Berlin 1984, ISBN 3-88433-013-6

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Juliane Kraul: Social work: from outsider to television star? , Master's thesis, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, October 2010, p. 21f ( PDF )
  2. ^ Obituary notices from the family and the Free University of Berlin, Tagesspiegel of July 22, 2012, p. 15