Harri Reinert

Harri Reinert

Harri Reinert (born September 14, 1929 in Berlin ; † March 31, 2001 there ) was a German political scientist and politician ( SPD ). He made a particular contribution to the development and expansion of the adult education center in Berlin-Spandau , which was named after him.

Live and act

Harri Reinert was born on September 14, 1929 as the son of the businessman Harry Alexander Reinert (1882-1951) and his third wife Klara Martha Thiele (* 1904) in Berlin, where he attended elementary school and the Hohenzollern high school in Berlin-Schöneberg . After his family was bombed and moved to Zerbst / Anhalt , he continued to attend school there, interrupted by the Volkssturm and reconstruction work, and finally passed his Abitur in 1948. In the same year the family moved back to Berlin. During the blockade , Reinert worked on the construction of the airfield . In 1949 he began studying at the Free University of Berlin (FU), which he broke off for family reasons. Instead, he completed an apprenticeship as a business assistant (travel agency expedition) and worked in this profession for five years.

In 1955 he resumed his studies at the Free University of Berlin and the German University of Politics , which later became the Otto Suhr Institute . He completed his studies in politics , modern history and constitutional law in the winter semester 1959/1960 as a political scientist. In 1964 he received his doctorate at the Philosophical Faculty of the Free University of Berlin under Ernst Fraenkel and Klaus Stern . On his 1966 as supplement No. 15 to the Yearbook for American Studies under the title Mediation Committee and Conference Committees . A dissertation published on the comparative doctrine of systems of rule is still referred to in political science publications.

Reinert was already actively involved in politics during his studies. He was a member of the SPD and a district councilor in Berlin-Schöneberg. From 1961 he was initially a freelancer at the State Center for Political Education Work of the State of Berlin and the Press and Information Office of the State of Berlin, and from 1963 as a consultant at the State Center for Political Education Work.

From 1969 to 1991 Reinert held the post of director of the adult education center in Spandau. Under his leadership, the VHS developed into a professionalized training facility for all areas of the Spandau district. In 1991 he retired due to age.

Harri Reinert died on March 31, 2001 at the age of 71 in Berlin and found his final resting place in the Parkfriedhof Lichterfelde . He left a wife and two grown children.

Community college work

Name plate on the building of the adult education center in Spandau

Reinert developed the VHS Spandau from the rather simple beginnings without further scientific-pedagogical employees into a fully developed facility with a wide range of full-time program areas, including languages, professional training, art, cultural education, sociology and health education. While the VHS offered only 242 courses and individual events in 1969, there were more than 600 in 1991. This development was accompanied by better spatial equipment from just a few of its own rooms to a separate classroom building, which gradually led to a restructuring of the Course offers from predominantly evening courses to more day and weekend courses and more compact courses made possible.

Many areas of responsibility were set up that still play an important role in the work of the VHS today: target group-oriented courses for women's education, integration courses for foreign citizens, vocational training, acceptance of or introduction to final exams (state-recognized qualifications in accounting and computer applications ), Electronics courses with an examination from the Heinz Piest Institute , language and IT courses with the option of obtaining a certificate from the German Adult Education Association or international language certificates such as the Cambridge Certificate (English) and the DELF certificate (French).

Thanks to his rhetorical talent, his political experience and his legal knowledge, Reinert was able to successfully represent the interests of the adult education center in the higher-level decision-making bodies (adult education committee, district, state of Berlin). He was a member of the Working Group of Berlin Adult Education Centers and co-founder of the Society for the Promotion of Adult Education in Berlin. V.

Naming for the adult education center Spandau

On November 26, 2008, the district assembly decided unanimously to instruct the district office to rename the adult education center in Spandau to " Harri-Reinert-Volkshochschule ". In addition to numerous other invited guests, the district mayor Konrad Birkholz and the district councilor for education, culture and sport Gerhard Hanke took part in the naming ceremony on June 17, 2009 . The Berliner Abendblatt published an article about the upcoming event on the front page of June 13, 2009, and the local television station Spandau-TV reported on the event.

Honor

• 2009: Appointment of the VHS Berlin-Spandau in Harri-Reinert-Volkshochschule

Publications

• The following statement by the English author LS Amery in his book "Thoughts on the Constitution" is to be examined for its significance for the understanding of the government system in Great Britain and the Federal Republic . Berlin 1959, OCLC 918209668 (diploma thesis).
• Otto Suhr Institute at the Free University of Berlin and State Center for Political Education Berlin (Ed.): Democracy protects itself: Party bans in the Federal Republic . Berlin-Schöneberg 1960, OCLC 250331664 .
• Parliamentary mediation committees: With special consideration of the conference committees of the Congress of the USA and the mediation committee according to Article 77 of the Basic Law of the Federal Republic of Germany . Berlin 1964, OCLC 720400061 (dissertation).
• Mediation Committee and Conference Committees: A Contribution to the Comparative Doctrine of Systems of Power . Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, Heidelberg 1966, OCLC 1070719220 .

literature

• Gisela Licktig: The development of a professionalized adult education center from 1975-2001. A personal review . In: 100 Years of the Spandau Adult Education Center . Berlin-Spandau 2019.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Preface to the dissertation Mediation Committee and Conference Committees. A contribution to the comparative doctrine of the rule systems , Verlag Carl Winter, Heidelberg, 1965, p. 5.
2. ↑ Annual program August 2012 - July 2013 Harri-Reinert-Volkshochschule Spandau. In: yumpu.com. Retrieved May 6, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Printed matter 1122 / XVIII
4. ↑ Naming ceremony for the Volkshochschule Spandau. In: berlin.de. District Office Spandau, June 8, 2009, accessed on May 6, 2020 (press release). 
5. ^ Harri Reinert Adult Education Center Spandau . In: Berliner Abendblatt . June 13, 2009.