Gerda Mundorf

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Gerda Mundorf (born January 24, 1913 ; † February 1, 1983 ) was a German pedagogue specializing in the history of German pedagogy.

The new teacher was on a specialty study of psychology and the state exam in pedagogy since 1951 in Pedagogical German Central Institute operates (DPZI), first in the branch office Dresden, then at the Berlin headquarters as head of the Section history of education. In 1955 she did her doctorate on Johann Gottfried Herder at the HU Berlin . She also worked on Wolf Bernhard von Tschirnhaus , Froebel and philanthropism . She was appointed to the editorial board under Heinrich Deiters for the complete edition of the works of Adolph Diesterweg .

In 1958, as part of a political discipline, she switched to the Academy of Sciences of the GDR and took part in setting up the work of the Commission for German Educational and School History . Your secretary had worked for the Reich Health Leader Conti during the National Socialist era , which Mundorf supposedly knew. Only Karl-Heinz Günther remained at the DPZI as an educational historian because the historical work was considered irrelevant for the further development of the socialist school system. In her new position she received the title of professor. In 1973 she was congratulated on her 60th birthday by the Central Committee of the SED in New Germany.

Fonts

  • The mother tongue in the educational work of Herders , Volk und Wissen, Berlin 1956
  • Herder's views on the educational function of the mother tongue and his work in improving German teaching , Diss. HU Berlin 1955
  • Contributions to the history of philanthropism: lectures on d. scientific Colloquium on Philanthropism on the 19th and December 20, 1956 in Dessau. Organized by d. Section History of Pedagogy and National Education in the German Central Pedagogical Institute , Berlin 1957

literature

  • Nicole Zabel: On the history of the German Central Pedagogical Institute of the GDR. An institutional history study , Diss. Chemnitz 2009
  • Christine Lost: Between Politics and Education. Possible effects of the pedagogues Erika Hoffmann, Gertrud Klauss and Gerda Mundorf in eastern Germany after the war . In: Yearbook for historical educational research . Ed. By the Historical Commission of the German Society for Educational Science, Vol. 1, Weinheim, Munich, Juventa Verlag: 1993. pp. 301–318

Single receipts

  1. ↑ Central Committee of the SED congratulates comrade Prof. Dr. Mundorf. Neues Deutschland, January 24, 1973, accessed August 11, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Mundorf, Gerda
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mundorf, Maria-Gerda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1913
DATE OF DEATH February 1, 1983
Place of death Berlin