Hans Schwier

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Hans Schwier (born February 21, 1926 in Lerbeck ; † July 31, 1996 at Cape Finisterre ) was a German educator and politician ( SPD ). From 1980 to 1983 he was Research Minister and from 1983 to 1995 Minister of Culture of North Rhine-Westphalia .

Life

After graduating from elementary school, attending secondary school and graduating from high school in 1943, Schwier participated in World War II as a soldier . He was most recently taken prisoner, from which he was released in 1945. A year later he passed the Abitur and in 1948 began studying at the Pedagogical Academy , which he completed in 1950 with the first state examination for teaching at elementary schools. He worked from 1950 to 1956 as a teacher at an elementary school and passed the second state examination for teaching at elementary schools in 1954. From 1956 to 1969 he was the rector of a primary and secondary school and from 1969 to 1970 he was a school councilor for the Bielefeld district . In 1970 he was retired in accordance with the State Legal Status Act. In 1980, he resigned from office in accordance with Section 32 of the Members' Act (AbgG NW).

Difficult joined the Education and Science Union (GEW) in 1950 and the SPD on April 1, 1952. From 1968 to 1988 he was a member of the SPD district committee in East Westphalia-Lippe , from 1971 to 1989 a member of the state committee of the SPD North Rhine-Westphalia and from 1973 to 1978 chairman of the SPD sub-district Gütersloh .

Difficult was a council member of the city ​​of Oer-Erkenschwick from 1963 to 1964 , from 1969 to 1973 member and chairman of the SPD parliamentary group in the district council of Halle (Westphalia) and, after the local reorganization, from 1973 to 1980 member of the district council of Gütersloh . In the state elections in June 1970 , he was elected as a member of the North Rhine-Westphalian state parliament, to which he was a member until 1995. There he represented constituency 143 ( Halle –Bielefeld-Land II) from 1970 to 1975 , from 1975 to 1985 he was elected via the state list and from 1985 to 1995 he was a member of constituency 104 (Gütersloh III). In parliament, Schwier was deputy chairman of the SPD parliamentary group from 1975 to 1980. In 1975 he was one of the initiators of the school reform plan " Cooperative School ", which failed in 1978.

Difficult was appointed Minister- President Johannes Rau as Minister for Science and Research of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia on June 4, 1980 and as such campaigned for austerity measures at universities in the early 1980s. He held his office as Minister of Science until October 25, 1983, when he was appointed Minister of Education as the successor to Jürgen Girgensohn as part of a cabinet reshuffle .

In this role, too, he advocated cost-cutting measures. In 1984 his proposal, known as the "Schwier Plan", to cut teachers' salaries by 4% in order to use the money saved to create new apprenticeship positions met with resistance from the teaching staff and the GEW. In the following years he gradually deviated from the declared course of the state SPD to introduce the comprehensive school system throughout the state. On July 17, 1995, Schwier left the ministerial office for reasons of age, as he had announced in May.

In addition to his political offices, Schwier was chairman of Neue Schauspiel GmbH in Düsseldorf , member of the supervisory board of the Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen and advisory board of the board of trustees of the Ruhr Cultural Foundation in Essen . From 1995 until his death he was chairman of the European Academy of Sports in Velen Castle .

Difficult died in 1996 while on vacation in Spain , presumably in a swimming accident. His body was found on a beach near Cape Finisterre in the province of A Coruña .

Hans Schwier was married and had three children.

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  1. ↑ "End of the Miracle". The North Rhine-Westphalian Minister of Science, Hans Schwier, ordered his 34 universities to implement drastic cuts - a model for other federal states too? In: Der Spiegel . No. 30 , 1982, pp. 50-56 ( online - 26 July 1982 ).
  2. ↑ "Swing there". A cabinet reshuffle in the SPD-ruled North Rhine-Westphalia reveals the weaknesses of Prime Minister Johannes Rau . In: Der Spiegel . No. 41 , 1983, pp. 28-29 ( Online - Oct. 10, 1983 ).
  3. ↑ "At a distance". North Rhine-Westphalia's SPD education minister is making a new school policy - against the teachers' union . In: Der Spiegel . No. 20 , 1984, pp. 110-113 ( Online - May 14, 1984 ).
  4. ↑ "All or nothing". 100,000 young teachers on the street, outdated colleges in schools - this catastrophe, calculated for 1990, wants to prevent the Minister of Education, Schwier. His suggestion is popular. Does he have a chance? In: Der Spiegel . No. 51 , 1984, pp. 82-84 ( Online - Dec. 17, 1984 ).
  5. ↑ Martin Doerry , Hans Leyendecker, Werner Harenberg: "There is no such thing as the best school". NRW Minister of Culture Hans Schwier (SPD) on the dispute over the comprehensive schools . In: Der Spiegel . No. 27 , 1988, pp. 28-35 ( online - 4 July 1988 ).
  6. ↑ "Teachers and School Councilors" . In: Der Spiegel . No. 31 , 1995, p. 48 ( online - 31 July 1995 ).
  7. ↑ Werner Harenberg: "How many teachers are lazy?" Hans Schwier for 15 years as Minister of Science and Culture in North Rhine-Westphalia . In: Der Spiegel . No. 31 , 1995, p. 48-52 ( online - 31 July 1995 ).
  8. ↑ "Died". Hans Schwier . In: Der Spiegel . No. 32 , 1996, pp. 182 ( online - Aug. 5, 1996 ).
personal data
SURNAME Difficult, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator and politician (SPD), MdL, Minister
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Lerbeck
DATE OF DEATH July 31, 1996
Place of death Cape Finisterre