Helmut König (pedagogue)

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Helmut König (born November 20, 1920 in Nowawes ; † May 17, 2005 in Birkenwerder ) was a German educational scientist and educational historian in the GDR .

Life

After his military service, König studied at the University of Jena and won a prize for a thesis on German school laws, which was recognized as a dissertation in 1948. He then did his internship at the Free School Community of Wickersdorf from 1948 to 1950, where the reform pedagogue Gustav Wyneken (1875-1963) founded a school. From 1950 he studied pedagogy with Robert Alt in Berlin , whereupon he qualified as a professor in 1954. As early as 1956 he became professor for the history of education at the Pedagogical Faculty of the Humboldt University in Berlin , of which he was dean from 1965 to 1968. Because of his achievements, he was appointed chairman of the Scientific Council of the Ministry for Popular Education of the GDR . In 1969 he was the first director of the Pedagogy Section. With the founding of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of the GDR (APW) in 1970, he headed the "Department for the History of Education" there until his early retirement due to invalidity in 1981.

His historical work shaped the maintenance of tradition in education in the GDR to the end. His work on the history of national education in Germany and on Friedrich Froebel is still recognized today. He published Fröbel's “Mutter-, Spiel- und Koselieder” in 1984, inspired by the wealth of Fröbel's estate in Berlin. One of his last published works was the edition of the letter: “My dear Mr. Froebel! Letters from women and virgins to the friend of children and people ”.

Awards

Fonts

  • Mithrsg .: German National Education Plans from the War of Liberation, Berlin 1954
  • On the history of national education in Germany in the last third of the 18th century , Akademie, Berlin 1960
  • Patriots in word and deed: teacher a. Students, professors etc. Students in the War of Liberation , Berlin 1963
  • Contributions to the educational policy and pedagogy of the revolutionary German labor movement during the November Revolution and the revolutionary post-war crisis 1918-1923 , 2 volumes, Berlin 1968
  • Ed .: Programs for bourgeois national education in the revolution of 1848/1849, Berlin 1971
  • My dear Mr. Froebel! : Letters from women and virgins to the friend of children and people / [on behalf of the Komm. For Dt. Education and school history of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences. of the GDR, ed. by Helmut König. Among employees by Barbara König], Berlin 1990

literature

  • Gert Geißler: König, Helmut, in: Klinkhardt Lexikon Erziehungswissenschaft (KLE), Volume 2, ed. v. Klaus-Peter Horn u. a., Heilbrunn 2012

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In the spotlight. Prof. Dr. Helmut König . In: Neues Deutschland , February 25, 1961, p. 4.
personal data
SURNAME King, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educational scientist and historian of education in the GDR
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Nowawes
DATE OF DEATH May 17, 2005
Place of death Birkenwerder