Herbert E. Colla

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Herbert E. Colla (born January 18, 1941 in Koblenz ; † August 24, 2017 ) was a professor emeritus for social education at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg since 2009 .

Live and act

Colla studied education, psychology and psychiatry in Göttingen. During his studies, which also included Heinrich Roth's “realistic turn” in educational science, Colla worked with Martin Bonhoeffer, among others, as a supervisor of the youth protection center “Haus auf der Hufe”, an institution that has established itself as an alternative to traditional home education since 1961 . After completing his studies, Colla moved to Tübingen as assistant to Andreas Flitner . In 1973 he received his doctorate with a theoretical treatise on socio-educational relationship work with Flitner and Hans Thiersch . The publication “Der Fall Frank” emerged from his doctorate, in which Colla analyzes an intensive educational relationship with a visitor to the youth protection center in Göttingen. Subsequently, Colla moved to Lüneburg in 1974, where he established the university degree in social pedagogy and temporarily headed it as dean.

Research content

Colla's research interests included the inpatient accommodation of young people, but also the alternatives to this, foster child care in Germany and internationally, young people risky behavior, especially suicidality. More recently, especially as a result of his collaboration as an expert in the Bundestag Enquete Commission on Demographic Change in 2002, social education has also dealt with dying and death in the context of the hospice movement. His teaching focus is the social and intellectual history of social pedagogy, its case studies, as well as the practical fields of home education and (child and youth) psychiatry.

His theoretical considerations deal with a broad theoretical sphere of influence delimited by classical educators such as Johann-Heinrich Pestalozzi or Herman Nohl, who u. a. with Colla's reflections, experiences a critical rediscovery in social education. However, in the sense of the interdisciplinarity of social pedagogy, he also processes considerations from related disciplines such as Erving Goffman's considerations on "total institutions", Siegfried Bernfeld and Bruno Bettelheim on the "therapeutic milieu", but also theoretical considerations such as those implemented in the Glen Mills Schools become. Basically, Colla's work can be classified within a subject-oriented social pedagogy.

Current work

Since his retirement in March 2009, Colla has held teaching positions at Leuphana University Lüneburg, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, BA Breitenbrunn and HAW Hamburg.

He was a member of numerous bodies and commissions, for example the study commission on demographic change of the federal government.

Fonts (selection)

  • The Frank case, Munich, 1973
  • Home education. Stationary models and alternatives, Munich, 1981
  • (with Wolfgang Ramb): Human dignity in the phase of natural dependence - youth psychiatric and socio-educational aspects . In: Borsi, HG (Ed.): Human dignity in everyday psychiatric life, 1989
  • Personal dimension of (social) pedagogical ability - the pedagogical reference. In: Colla, HE et al. Handbook of Home Education and Foster Care in Europe, 1999
  • Glen Mills Schools - A private out-of-state residential facility. In: German Youth Institute eV: The Glen Mills Schools, Pennsylvania, USA. A model between school, child and youth welfare and justice? An expertise, 2002
  • Suicide. In: Thiersch, H./Otto, HU Social Work Handbook, 3rd edition, 2005
  • Death and hospice work. In: Thiersch, H./Otto, HU Handbuch Soziale Arbeit, 4th edition, 2011

as editor

  • (with Thomas Gabriel, Spencer Milham, Stefan Müller-Teusler and Michael Winkler): Handbook Residential and Foster Care in Europe , 1999
  • (with Gerald Knapp and Josef Scheipl): Youth welfare on the move. Reform approaches in Austria , 2001
  • (with Christian Scholz and Jens Weidner): Confrontational pedagogy. The Glen-Mills Experiment , 2001
  • (with Werner Faulstich): Panta Rhei. Contributions to the concept and theory of history , 2008
  • (with Kathrin Blaha, Christine Meyer, Stefan Müller-Teusler): The person as an organon in social work , 2013

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Text on the house of hooves
  2. ↑ Colla is an expert on the commission (PDF file; 3.78 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Colla, Herbert E.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social pedagogue and emer. university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Koblenz
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 2017