Gustav Siewerth Academy

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Gustav Siewerth Academy
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founding 1988
Sponsorship Private
place Weilheim-Bierbronnen
state Baden-WürttembergBaden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg
country GermanyGermany Germany
Rector Albrecht von Brandenstein-Zeppelin
Students Operation is closed in the winter semester 2014/15
Employee 1 (part-time)
Website siewerth-akademie.de

The Gustav Siewerth Academy (GSA) is a private university founded in 1988 , whose state recognition was revoked in 2013. The academy is named after the philosopher and educator Gustav Siewerth and is based in Weilheim-Bierbronnen in Baden-Württemberg . With only 13 students at the end, it was the smallest state-recognized academic university in Germany.

Foundation and ideological orientation

The academy was created in an effort to counteract the neo-Marxism of the Frankfurt School around Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer . It was founded by the philosopher Alma von Stockhausen , the founding rector was the church historian Remigius Bäumer . The legal and financial sponsor is a non-profit company with limited liability, Gustav-Siewerth-Haus gGmbH . The then head of the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger , who was friends with the founder, took an active part in the establishment of the institution in the first phase and observed the further development with benevolence. The university is a member of the Forum of German Catholics . Their basic ideological orientation is conservative Catholic . Leading members of the Academy's Senate maintain relationships with the Engelwerk .

Organization and courses

The academy does not receive any state or church funding. According to founder Alma von Stockhausen, state approval was only given by the then Prime Minister Hans Filbinger on condition that he waived any state funds. All professors teach free of charge. The founder acquired the Gustav-Siewerth-Haus in Oberbierbronnen in 1970, she also bought the inventory and the library. Maintenance costs and the costs for the part-time secretary are financed by a group of friends of the academy. The students pay a tuition fee of 900 euros per semester, which, according to Alma von Stockhausen, is deliberately kept very low. In addition, the students have the opportunity to purchase the tuition fee by helping in the household, which is very much accepted. Most university students find accommodation in the Marienburg monastery in Ofteringen with the Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration and the Passionists . There the students can take over the night worship for the elderly nuns and receive board and lodging in the guest house of the monastery.

The honorary rector is Albrecht Graf von Brandenstein-Zeppelin , the Grand Chancellor of the Academy is the retired Archbishop of Freiburg, Robert Zollitsch . The Senate includes Leo Elders , Reinhold Ortner , Johannes Stöhr and Roland Süßmuth , and the teaching staff includes Niels Openenberger (logic) and Lutz Sperling (natural philosophy). The college has two departments: philosophy and theology. It does not offer any current degrees, but only the Magister artium (MA) course, which is legally expiring and which the Church still recognizes. A doctorate is not possible.

The carrier is the Gustav-Siewerth-Haus gGmbH.

End of state recognition

In June 2013 the university was withdrawn from state recognition by the Baden-Württemberg Minister of Science Theresia Bauer , as it was unable to maintain a sustainable university structure with its part-time academic staff, for which 12,000 to 26,000 euros were spent annually. Since 2009, the academy has not offered a single degree program that complies with the requirements of the State University Act. Since the GSA sued the administrative court in Freiburg against the revocation, the revocation of the state recognition was not yet legally effective. A date for the oral hearing was not yet foreseeable in March 2015, the proceedings in October 2015 were still pending. In the meantime the academy became more and more a "phantom institution" without permanent staff and without contact persons. The last course catalog was created for the summer semester 2014 and only offered a general course without a recognized degree. Lectures and a summer academy in August will still take place.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Statistical Reports Baden-Württemberg, State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg, Article No. 3234 15001 B III 1 - j / 15, teaching and education from September 1, 2015 ( memento from October 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF)
  2. a b Statistical reports Baden-Württemberg: Students at Baden-Württemberg universities in the winter semester 2012/13 ( Memento from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (Article No. 3234 13001 Teaching and Education) State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart, 15th July 2013
  3. There is a lawsuit against the withdrawal of state recognition by the Ministry of Education of the State of Baden-Württemberg in 2013. ( VG Freiburg (1 K 1098/13) Revocation of state recognition for the Gustav Siewerth Academy ) ( VG Freiburg · Judgment of October 21, 2015 on file inspection rights Az. 1 K 2020/13 )
  4. a b University status see Hochschulkompass ( memento from January 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), University Rectors' Conference
  5. Guido Knopp's helper by Stefan Wirner, Jungle World No. 16, April 12, 2000
  6. Gustav-Siewerth-Haus GmbH, Weilheim-Bierbronnen, founded November 24, 1987. Entry in the commercial register at Freiburg District Court HRB 620666
  7. ^ Statement on the work of the Gustav Siewerth Academy by Cardinal Ratzinger from July 19, 1995, published on the university's website .
  8. Thomas Schuler : Research in court becomes research for court - In: Thomas Leif: More passion research: scandal stories and disclosures; a handbook for research and information procurement, VS Verlag, 2003, pp. 73–83; Published online in advance in: Netzwerk Recherche (PDF; 1.1 MB), pp. 66–76.
  9. a b The Gustav Siewerth Academy - Part 1 Stories from Weilheim ... by Tanja Borenski, Official Bulletin of the WEILHEIM Community, No. 5 / KW 10, March 7, 2012
  10. ^ Course catalog WS 2012/13 Gustav Siewerth Academy
  11. ^ "Academy without recognition" Badische Zeitung, July 1, 2013
  12. ^ Rüdiger Soldt: Exclusively like Heidegger , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , July 9, 2013
  13. ^ Minister revokes the state recognition of Gustav Siewerth Academy Schwäbisches Tagblatt, June 29, 2013
  14. Gustav Siewerth Academy fights for state recognition - Ministry of Science withdraws recognition from the Gustav Siewerth Academy in Weilheim. Badische Zeitung , July 6, 2013
  15. ^ Annual report 2014 of the VG Freiburg. March 18, 2015, accessed May 7, 2019.
  16. Freiburg Administrative Court, judgment of October 21, 2015 - 1 K 2020 - / 13
  17. Catholic elite university in the Black Forest: No connection under this number , Südkurier , August 13, 2014
  18. Course catalog SS 2014. Retrieved on August 21, 2018 .
  19. ^ Summer theological course. 5th – 10th August 2019. In: Academy homepage. Retrieved May 7, 2019 .

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