Gerd Kadelbach

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Gerd Kadelbach (born January 8, 1919 in Pitschen , Upper Silesia ; † March 18, 1996 in Selva Val Gardena ) was a German educator , journalist , editor and honorary professor at the University of Frankfurt . For decades he was head of the main department of education and training in the radio of Hessischer Rundfunk and the initiator and organizer of the Funkkolleg for many years . He also published under the pseudonym Karl Theodor Marbach.

Life

Gerd Kadelbach (with full name: Hans-Gerd Schulze-Kadelbach) was the eldest son of theology professor Dr. D. Gerhard Schulze-Kadelbach. After graduating from high school, he was first drafted into the Reich Labor Service and then into the Wehrmacht . During the Second World War he was wounded on the Eastern Front . As early as the winter semester 1945/46, Kadelbach studied classical philology , philosophy , German and history , first in Munich and later in Würzburg. In 1945 in Würzburg he was trained and used by religious in an eight-week course as a school helper - as a kind of auxiliary teacher. He completed his studies with the second state examination for teaching at elementary schools and in 1949 with a doctorate as Dr. phil. ; The subject of his dissertation was: Herder's historical thinking and idea of ​​humanity in connection with his image of Greece.

After graduating, Kadelbach worked as a teacher and headmaster in Winterhausen and at the same time led the religious education training in the Evangelical Dean's Office in Würzburg. In 1953 he was appointed school clerk in Mannheim . Just three years later, in 1956, he was appointed to Frankfurt am Main , where he was entrusted by the director of the Hessischer Rundfunk (hr), Eberhard Beckmann , with the management of the education and training department; this included in particular children's radio , school radio , women's radio and adult education . Due to his position in the hr, Kadelbach was appointed to the state board of trustees for adult education by the Hessian minister of education , and from 1958 to 1968 he was also deputy chairman of the Hessian state association for adult education (today: Hessian adult education association). From 1958 Kadelbach was also editor of the Hessian papers for popular education .

In 1961, Kadelbach took on a teaching position on schools and the means of mass communication at the Goethe University in Frankfurt, where he was made an honorary professor in 1967 and particularly addressed media didactic topics and represented the field of media impact research . From the initial teaching assignment, in contact with the then rector of the university, Walter Rüegg , the idea of ​​a "radio university" arose , which was implemented from 1966 under Kadelbach's direction by the Hessischer Rundfunk in the form of a " radio college for understanding modern society " . The Funkkolleg media network system, which extends far beyond Hessen to this day, developed from this .

Between 1959 and 1969, under Kadelbach's direction, the hr also succeeded in winning Theodor W. Adorno at least once a year as a speaker in the radio series Education Issues of the Present . Four lectures by Adorno and four longer conversations between Adorno and Hellmut Becker were published by Suhrkamp in 1971 under the title Education for Maturity , a “pedagogical best and long-seller”.

Kadelbach died while on vacation in South Tyrol.

Honors

In 1988 Gerd Kadelbach was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Education at the Philipps University of Marburg , with particular reference to his commitment to the Funkkolleg .

Fonts (selection)

  • Herder's historical thinking and idea of ​​humanity in connection with his image of Greece. Diss. Phil., Würzburg 1950.
  • Enchanted world of books. Strange reports of magicians, poets, professors, school children, printing machines, and a book doctor. Stock Exchange Association of the German Book Trade eV, Frankfurt am Main 1961
  • The spirit of Weimar. Beltz, Weinheim 1961
  • January 30, 1933 and what came after. Beltz, Weinheim 1961
  • The journey behind the curtain. Interzone journeys by a journalist. Beltz, Weinheim 1961
  • Germany after World War II. Beltz, Weinheim 1965
as editor
  • Science and Society: Introduction to the Study of Political Science, Modern History, Economics, Law, Sociology. Fischer-Bücherei, Frankfurt am Main 1967 (= Funkkolleg for the understanding of modern society, Volume 1)
  • Theodor W. Adorno: Education to come of age. Lectures and discussions with Hellmut Becker 1959–1969. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1971, ISBN 978-3-518-36511-3 (= Suhrkamp Taschenbuch 11).
  • Research report Funkkolleg: Model 1 and 2. Beltz, Weinheim 1972 (= Tübingen contributions to distance learning, volume 5), ISBN 3-407-13807-5
  • Educational issues of the present: criticisms, models, alternatives. Athenäum-Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1974

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Institute for Urban History, Frankfurt am Main: bequests, aristocratic and family archives "Ka-Kh".
  2. ↑ Klaus Ahlheim : Laudation for the honorary doctorate from Prof. Dr. phil. Gerd Kadelbach. University of Marburg, July 2nd, 1988. In: Klaus Ahlheim: Education is never non-binding. Offizin-Verlag, Hannover 2015, ISBN 978-3-945447-07-9 . (= Critical Contributions to Educational Science, Volume 11).
  3. ↑ Klaus Ahlheim, laudation for the honorary doctorate from Prof. Dr. phil. Gerd Kadelbach , p. 10.
personal data
SURNAME Kadelbach, Gerd
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hans-Gerd Schulze-Kadelbach; Marbach, Karl Theodor (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator, journalist, editor and honorary professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Pitschen , Upper Silesia
DATE OF DEATH March 18, 1996
Place of death South-Tirol