Heinrich-Georg Raskop

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Heinrich-Georg Raskop (born May 28, 1904 in Dortmund ; † July 15, 1985 there ) was a German adult educator , university professor and media politician . He belonged to the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU).

Life

Heinrich Raskop was baptized a Catholic. He graduated from high school in 1923 at the Bismarck-Realgymnasium and then studied law, economics and sociology in Münster , then history, German studies, folklore and pedagogy in Cologne . During his studies he completed an apprenticeship in publishing at the central office of the Volksverein for Catholic Germany in Mönchengladbach.

In 1929 Raskop took over the management of the Katholischen Bildungswerk Dortmund, founded the year before, from then on the Institute for Modern People's Education in Dortmund. After the National Socialist seizure of power in 1933, the institute's state subsidies were canceled, and after the so-called Röhm Putsch , Raskop and the institute were targeted by the Secret State Police. In order to improve his livelihood, Raskop entered the service of the Hörder Bergwerks- und Hütten-Verein in 1934 , where he was responsible for adult education and apprenticeship training. He kept the position until the end of the war and rose to become administrative director. Through the mediation of Lorenz Jaeger , the institute for modern popular education work became a church institution and was under the protection of the Reich Concordat , from 1938 it was again called the Dortmund Catholic Education Center. The main tasks were adult education and religious education, but it was also active in publishing. Heinrich Raskop published the Christian primer there together with Josef Pieper . He belonged to the Tuesday circle around Joseph Scherer , one of the germ cells of the Dortmund CDU.

After the end of the Second World War, Raskop became an employee of the Oberpräsident von Westfalen Rudolf Amelunxen and his Economics Minister Erik Nölting . Among other things, he initiated the establishment of the North Rhine-Westphalia material testing office in the Aplerbeck district of Dortmund. Since 1945 he was represented in the top committees of the North West German Radio and later of the West German Radio . He was involved in the development of VHF programs and preparation for the television program. From December 19, 1946 to April 19, 1947, he was a member of the appointed state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia for the CDU , and from 1946 to 1948 he was also a member of the Dortmund CDU council group.

In 1948 he was appointed professor of sociology, social education and political education at the Pedagogical Academy in Dortmund , which later became part of the Pädagogische Hochschule Ruhr . From 1951 to 1964 he sat again in the council of the city of Dortmund and was also parliamentary group leader of the CDU until 1962. From 1956 to 1964 he was chairman of the culture committee of the Westphalia-Lippe Regional Assembly .

Due to the generation change in the party, Raskop lost support in the party and was even expelled from the party in 1964. In 1972 he retired.

Heinrich Raskop died at the age of 81 on July 15, 1985 in Dortmund.

Awards

Heinrich Raskop was awarded the Dortmund Ring of Honor in 1958 .

Works

  • with Josef Pieper : Christian primer. Publication of the Catholic educational work. Kösel, Munich 1952.
  • (Ed.): Matthias Joseph Scheeben (presumably): The founding of Christian-German royalty and Christian-German culture at the time of the Saxon emperors. Grünewald, Mainz 1936. First published in: Periodische Blätter for the scientific discussion of the great religious questions of the present. Volume 4, 1875; Notes from Hans Schulte.

literature

  • Fritz Hofmann: Raskop, Heinrich G (ideon). In: Hans Bohrmann (Ed.): Biographies of important Dortmunders. People in, from and for Dortmund. Volume 2. Klartext, Essen 1998, ISBN 3-88474-677-4 , p. 93ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Fritz Hofmann: Raskop, Heinrich G (ideon). In: Hans Bohrmann (Ed.): Biographies of important Dortmunders. People in, from and for Dortmund. Volume 2. Klartext, Essen 1998, ISBN 3-88474-677-4 , p. 93ff.
personal data
SURNAME Raskop, Heinrich-Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German adult educator, university professor and media politician (CDU), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund
DATE OF DEATH July 15, 1985
Place of death Dortmund