Hans Wenke

Hans Wenke (born April 22, 1903 in Sangerhausen , † February 27, 1971 in Hamburg ) was a German educational scientist and non-party education politician.

Life

The son of an innkeeper studied philosophy, education, psychology and history at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin , where he received his doctorate in 1926. phil. PhD and then assistant to Eduard Spranger . In 1939 he went to the University of Erlangen as a lecturer in education and philosophy , where he became associate professor in 1941 and full professor in 1943 in psychology and education. In 1947 he accepted an appointment at the University of Hamburg , but in 1949 he moved to Tübingen , where he stayed until 1954. There Wenke also appeared in university politics in the following years and was elected rector in 1953. In the same year he also took over the chairmanship of the German Committee for Education .

In 1954, Wenke was elected to the Senate by the Hamburg citizenship and sent to the school authorities as President. He held this office until 1957. From 1963 Wenke was the founding rector of Bochum's Ruhr University , but was dismissed from this office because several of his “brown sayings” ( Der Spiegel , 14/1965, p. 40) had become known to the public . Wenke had written in the “Zeitschrift für Deutschkunde” in 1934: “The yardstick for the strength and value of a people” lies “in the biological, ie racial disposition and substance”. "Race care (is) not only a legitimate demand, but a necessity for the future of the German people". Also in a review of the book “Sieg Heil, SA”, Wenke praised the SA spirit because the “firmness of attitude (...) it embodied was the strongest foundation of the national-socialist movement”.

Until his retirement in 1967, Wenke taught again at the University of Hamburg. In the end, his teaching activities in Hamburg were overshadowed by violent arguments with the General Student Committee (AStA), which published a criticism of Wenke's lectures in the student magazine “auditorium”. "Unreasonable demands of the Wenkian lectures can only be criticized by breaking them up," says the magazine ( Der Spiegel , 52/1967, p. 60).

In 1960 Wenke was appointed chairman of the commission to advise the federal government on issues of political education .

From 1958 to 1961 Wenke was a member of the board of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation . 1958 and from 1961 to 1969 served on the foundation's board of trustees and on its advisory board from 1969 to 1971.

Even after his retirement, Wenke remained associated with the Ruhr University as an honorary professor . Also from 1967 until his death he headed the Hans Bredow Institute for Media Research in Hamburg.

literature

Hans Wenke in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Newsletter of the German Science and Technology, organ of the Reich Research Council (Hrsg.): Research and progress . Staff news. Appointments. tape 19, 23/24 , 1943, pp. 252 .

personal data
SURNAME	Wenke, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German educationalist and independent educational politician
DATE OF BIRTH	April 22, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH	Sangerhausen
DATE OF DEATH	February 27, 1971
Place of death	Hamburg

[1] Newsletter of the German Science and Technology, organ of the Reich Research Council (Hrsg.): Research and progress . Staff news. Appointments. tape 19, 23/24 , 1943, pp. 252 .