Fritz Stippel

Fritz Stippel (born January 9, 1915 in Munich ; † August 3, 1974 ibid) was a German education professor .

Life

Fritz Stippel studied after graduating from high school in 1934 at Wittelsbacher-Gymnasium in Munich Classical Philology , German and history at the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich and was then almost two decades as a high school teacher working in his hometown. In 1939 he received his doctorate from the LMU Munich with a thesis on honor and deference in antiquity as a Dr. phil. Since 1946 he has taught history of pedagogy at the University of Munich. After his habilitation in 1949, he worked in addition to high school service at the Freising Teachers' Training College and at the University of Munich, initially as a private lecturer and later as an adjunct professor of education. When teacher training became an academic in 1958, he accepted the call as a professor of education at the Pädagogische Hochschule in Munich- Pasing , which was incorporated into the University of Munich as the Faculty of Education in 1972. He worked there until his untimely death in 1974. In the 1950s and 1960s, he had a lasting impact on the training of many elementary school teachers in Munich with regard to their pedagogical foundation and value orientation.

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Stippel's pedagogical thinking was firmly grounded in Christian faith and in the world of thought of Western philosophy - as in his eyes the pedagogue is always and constantly referred to philosophical and also to theological questions “ if he does not want to run the risk of confusing himself in the purely descriptive exhaustion or to lapse into talk due to the lack of reflection and vagueness of his concepts ”. His main endeavor was to help establish and develop a theory of education based on a doctrine of people that understands and interprets them as a person - helping to develop and expand personal pedagogy . This seemed to him to be extremely important, especially against the background of the experience with National Socialism. The accomplishment of this task was all his work, especially his critical study on National Socialist pedagogy “ The Destruction of the Person ”, published in 1957 , in which he tried to show “ where a hypertrophic national collectivism leads in pedagogy ”. In 1958 he published his pioneering essay On the “ basic lines of personal pedagogy ” in 1961 followed a respectable volume “ starting points for pedagogical thinking ”, which he had worked out together with students and in which, as part of a weighty study, he examined the consequences of existentialism as “ an expression of a significant and profound philosophical metanoia ” for the Pedagogy showed. In 1966 he finally published - again created together with students and colleagues and at the same time intended as a commemorative publication for the philosopher Max Müller - a small volume entitled " Aspects of Education " in which he once again expressed his views on the anthropological foundation and the most important basic concepts of education summarized and in which he described the title of his essay as follows: “ Education is never something 'rounded', something 'harmonious', insofar as personal existence means nothing other than ever new stepping out and into the uncertainty, into the risk, into the possible conflict, yes in the collapse of failure. [...] The educator is truly the homo viator who is on the way for a lifetime to a future perfection in the hope and only in it foreseeable , which is absolutely beyond the power of our will and our access. Education always remains a fragment , just as our existence is quite fragmentary ... "

Plagiarism case

In 1960, Professor Heinrich Döpp-Vorwald from Münster raised the accusation that Stippel had taken over essential thoughts and quotations from “ The Destruction of Person ” from his own work, without indicating this. Stippel rejected the allegation of plagiarism and stated that he was not familiar with Döpp-Vorwald's work. Stippel's action for an injunction against Döpp-Vorwald was dismissed. The court ruled that "[the] defendant's assertion that the correspondence between his book and the plaintiff's work could not be accidental ... is a proven factual statement".

Personal

Fritz Stippel was a member of the Catholic Bavarian Student Union Rhaetia .

literature

• Honor and Honor Education in Antiquity. Konrad Triltsch, Würzburg 1938, DNB 571594018 . (Studies in cultural philosophy, history of philosophy and educational science, Volume 7)
• Heinrich Lades, Friedrich Scheck, Fritz Stippel (Hrsg.): Handbook of youth welfare. Wilhelm Steinebach, Munich / Düsseldorf 1950, DNB 451804198 .
• The destruction of the person. Critical study on National Socialist pedagogy. Publishing house Ludwig Auer, Donauwörth 1957, DNB 454894015 .
• Starting points of pedagogical thinking - contributions to contemporary pedagogy. Ehrenwirth, Munich 1961, DNB 450180395 .
• Aspects of education. Auer, Donauwörth 1966, DNB 455565279 .
• Education, entitlement, reality. Volume 4: The Enlightenment. with Werner Raith. Werner Raith Verlag, Starnberg 1971, ISBN 3-921121-15-9 .

Secondary literature

• Klaus-Peter Horn: Educational Science in Germany in the 20th Century. Klinkhardt, Bad Heilbrunn 2003, ISBN 3-7815-1271-1 , p. 353.
• Fritz March: Pedagogue Profiles. Miniatures of great educators and great educational thinkers. Vol. II, Auer, Donauwörth 1984, ISBN 3-403-01614-5 , p. 156 ff.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Klaus-Peter Horn: Educational Science in Germany in the 20th Century.
2. ↑ For guidance. In: Aspects of Education. 1966, p. 7.
3. ↑ The destruction of the person. 1957, p. 9.
4. ^ Quarterly journal for scientific pedagogy. Issue 3/1958.
5. ^ Starting points for pedagogical thinking. 1961, p. 141.
6. ↑ s. O.
7. ↑ s. O.
8. ↑ Bavaria: Who did the professor copy from? In: The time . No. 21/1961 , May 19, 1961 ( online ).