Hans Wollasch
Hans Wollasch (born July 17, 1903 in Breslau ; died April 26, 1975 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German social worker .
Life
Hans Robert Karl Wollasch was a son of the Breslau elementary school teacher Josef Wollasch and Margareta Hoenke. After graduating from high school at Matthias Gymnasium , he studied Catholic theology in Breslau from 1923 to 1927 and psychology, pedagogy and history in Munich after the state examination until 1929. He had to break off the doctoral procedure he later initiated with Aloys Fischer with a dissertation on family education in the Middle Ages, as Fischer was dismissed for racist reasons in 1937. He married Käthe Winkler in 1930, they had six children, one son was the historian Joachim Wollasch .
From 1930 Wollasch worked in the youth welfare department at the headquarters of the German Caritas Association (DCV) in Freiburg and part-time as a lecturer at the DCV's social technical schools. He took over the editing of the magazine "Jugendwohl". Wollasch was drafted as a soldier for seven months in 1942 during World War II.
From 1946 Wollasch was director of the seminar for welfare workers of the German Caritas Association in Freiburg, which was expanded to become the higher technical school for social work of the DCV. He also worked on the board of the Academy for Youth Issues in Münster . From 1949 he was a member of the central council and central board of the German Caritas Association. In 1966 he became department head for training and further education at the DCV.
From 1955 to 1970 Wollasch was the jury chairman of the Hermine Albers Prize awarded by the Working Group for Child and Youth Welfare (AGJ) . He was chairman of the specialist committee "Social Professions" of the umbrella organization German Association for Public and Private Welfare and was also on the board there.
Wollasch received the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon in 1954 and was appointed Commander of the New Year's Eve in 1965 , in 1968 he was awarded the title of professor in Baden-Württemberg , and in 1970 the University of Konstanz made him an honorary professor.
Fonts
- Bibliography of the publications by H. Wollasch, compiled by Erich Kiehn, in: Ein Wegbereiter beruflicher Sozialarbeit, H. Wollasch (1903–1975) for his 80th birthday , special issue 1 of the magazine “ Caritas ” 1983, pp. 55–64
literature
- Kurt Nachbauer: Wollasch, Hans , in: Hugo Maier (Ed.): Who is who of social work . Freiburg: Lambertus, 1998 ISBN 3-7841-1036-3 , pp. 641f.
- Badische Biographien , NF, Volume 2, pp. 316f.
Web links
- Literature by and about Hans Wollasch in the catalog of the German National Library
- Wollasch, Hans Robert Karl , at leo-bw
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wollasch, Hans |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wollasch, Hans Robert Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German social pedagogue |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 17, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wroclaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 26, 1975 |
| Place of death | Freiburg in Breisgau |