Ernst Engelke

Ernst Engelke (* 1941 in Hildesheim ) is a German theology and social pedagogue. From 1980 to 2007 he was Professor of Social Work at the University of Applied Sciences in Würzburg . He is also a pioneer of the hospice movement and palliative care in Germany and the author of numerous publications on social work and death research . His teaching and research areas are theories and action methods of social work as well as the experience and behavior of terminally ill people, especially communication with them.

Life

Engelke studied philosophy, theology and psychology at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg and the University of Würzburg , where he received his doctorate in theology in 1978 . In 2000 he completed his habilitation in the field of education / social pedagogy at the Technical University of Berlin .

Engelke worked in hospital pastoral care, marriage, family and life counseling as well as social psychiatry . He also worked as a supervisor and teaching therapist for psychodrama , group psychotherapy and sociometry . For the development of the hospice movement in Germany was turned by him together with Marianne Riedel and Hans-Joachim Schmoll TV movie hope against hope - Dealing with the terminally ill of great importance. Together with Hans-Joachim Schmoll and Georg Wolff, he organized the first nationwide conference in 1977 in Hanover, “Death support for children and adults - abandonment and powerlessness”.

From 1993 to 1995 he was a member of the Social Affairs Specialist Committee , which, on behalf of the Bavarian State Ministry for Science and Art, developed new framework study regulations for the University of Applied Sciences Social Work in Bavaria . He was also a member of the working group for the establishment of technical college courses in the nursing sector. Since 2001 he has been involved in the academy for palliative medicine , palliative care and hospice work as well as in the palliative wards of the Juliusspital Würzburg Foundation .

Fonts (selection)

• Signals into life. Encounters with the dying . Pfeiffer, Munich 1977
• as ed. with Hans-Joachim Schmoll and Georg Wolff: death support for children and adults. Enke, Stuttgart 1979.
• Terminally Ill and the Church. Chr. Kaiser, Munich 1980.
• Social work as a science, an orientation . 3rd edition, Lambertus, Freiburg im Breisgau 1999
• When fear fights with hope. In the balance between truth and compassion - bedside education. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. 14.-16. April 2001.
• Social Work Theories. An introduction . 3rd edition, Lambertus, Freiburg im Breisgau 2002
• The science of social work: career and basics . 5th revised edition, Lambertus, Freiburg im Breisgau 2009
• Against the loneliness of the dying. How communication can succeed . Lambertus, Freiburg im Breisgau 2012
• Is that still a life ?: Suicide as a challenge for palliative medicine and palliative care . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2013
• The truth about dying. How we better deal with it . Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek near Hamburg 2015
• Is modern palliative and hospice work under pressure? . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2015

literature

• Andreas Heller, Sabine Pleschberger, Michaela Fink and Reimer Gronemeyer: The History of the Hospice Movement in Germany . Hospiz-Verlag Wuppertal 2012, p. 355
• Hans Günter Homfeldt, Roland Merten and Jörgen Schulze-Krüdener (eds.): Social work in the dialogue of their generations: Theory formation - training / profession - method development in the second half of the 20th century . Schneider-Verlag Hohengehren 1999. p. 213
• P. 357f. In: Ernst Engelke: Theories of Social Work. An introduction . Freiburg 2009
• P. 377f. In: Ders .: Against the loneliness of the terminally ill. How communication can succeed . Freiburg 2012

Web links

• Frank Kittelberger: Supervision in hospice and palliative care . Lecture in the KSA section of the German Society for Pastoral Psychology 2008, pp. 5 ff. PDF
• Literature by and about Ernst Engelke in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Sent by the Second German Television on March 24, 1975.