Herbert Scherer

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Herbert Scherer (born March 3, 1929 in Bayreuth ; † May 30, 2018 ) was a German high school teacher and student historian .

Life

After graduating from secondary school in Bayreuth, Scherer studied philology , history , German and English at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . As a working student he worked for a roofer , in a gardening shop and in a spinning mill . He completed his legal clerkship at the Albert-Einstein-Gymnasium Munich and in Wunsiedel , Starnberg and Ingolstadt . After school service in Wunsiedel, he was a teacher at the German School Casilla in Quito from 1965 to 1973 and headmaster (1967–1973) of the German Humboldt School in Guayaquil . His commitment to the development of the school was highly praised in professional circles.

After that, he headed the Gymnasium Pegnitz for over 20 years as senior director from 1973 . During his tenure as headmaster from 1978 to 1979, the construction of the large extension building (today's new building) with specialist and college level rooms, library, new classrooms and dual gymnasium fell; 1986 the inauguration of the sports area above the school and in 1993 the elevation of the grammar school to the status of a recognized UNESCO project school . For several years he was a speaker and course director at the Academy for Teacher Training and Personnel Management in Dillingen an der Donau .

He had been a member of the CSU since 1965. He lived as a pensioner in Pegnitz and wrote for the North Bavarian News , among other things .

Federal Order of Merit

“Scherer has earned outstanding services through his commitment, which goes far beyond the normal professional level, as well as through his exemplary work in the extracurricular area. From 1973 to 1993 he was head of the state grammar school with a student hostel in Pegnitz and has developed it into one of the most important institutions in the entire district. On his initiative, the originally mathematical and natural science high school was expanded to include the new language area, and Italian and Chinese were added to the compulsory foreign languages. Another concern for him was the maintenance of previous partnerships and the initiation of new partnerships with foreign schools such as in France, England, Italy, the Czech Republic and with the American high school in Vilseck. Due to the wide-ranging international connections, the Pegnitz grammar school was the first Bavarian grammar school to be recognized as a UNESCO project group. The proposed person also worked in the “Intercultural Student Exchange” working group of the German UNESCO Commission, organized and carried out events for German and Czech teachers, conducted advanced training courses and supervised the annual vacation seminars for high school students from the northern Bavarian government districts in the Pegnitz student hostel. Due to his high level of commitment, he was elected 1st chairman of the working group of state student homes in Bavaria and has also made a name for himself as the head of the adult education center for ten years. He has also distinguished himself as a co-founder of various associations, such as the cultural support association. "

- Founding of the order of the Federal President

corps

As a member of the Bayreuth school association Abituria, Scherer found the Corps Cisaria , in which he became active on November 28, 1949. On June 30, 1950, he fought his first scale on the first since 1935 Bestimmtag his corps. On July 13, 1950 recipiert , he was in 1951 at 100. Cisarias Stiftungsfest senior . In 1952/53 he was the first local spokesman for the restituted Weinheim Senior Citizens' Convention (WSC). In the post-war period he championed a German Seniors' Convention . When it could not be enforced, he signed the second cartel agreement between the two associations in 1954 as a member of the antitrust commission of WSC and KSCV .

Old gentleman since 1959 , from 1960 to 1963 he was the second chairman of the Weinheimer Association of Old Corps Students , after which he was editor of the association newspaper Die Wachenburg for two years . He initiated the Akademie Weinheim Seminar (KWS) and the Historical Commission of the WSC. After giving the speech at the 150th foundation festival of his corps in 2001, he put down the cisar ribbon in 2004.

Honorary positions

  • Deputy Chairman of the Association of German Teachers Abroad
  • Spokesman for the public boarding schools in Bavaria
  • 6 years chairman (1980–1986) and honorary president of the Volkshochschule Pegnitz

Honors

  • National Order of Merit of Ecuador (1971)
  • Order of Merit for Education in Ecuador 1st Class ( Condecoración al Mérito Educacional de Primera Clase )
  • Alexander von Humboldt Medal in silver
  • Silver medal of merit from the district of Bayreuth and the district of Upper Franconia
  • Golden Citizen Medal Pegnitz
  • Cross of Merit on Ribbon (August 16, 1994)
  • Franconian Cube (2004)

Publications

Dialect contributions

  • It kend scho so saa - aa if it is not so. Thinking and working in Pegnitz . Adult Education Center, Pegnitz 1989 (52 pages)

Student history contributions

  • The WSC Corps in the Prohibited Period (1933–1945) . In: Einst und Jetzt , yearbook of the association for corps student history research , Vol. 5 (1960), pp. 82-93.
  • The first years of the Polytechnisches SC in Munich (1868–1870) . In: Einst und Jetzt , Vol. 12 (1967), pp. 69-76.
  • 125 years of the Technical University of Munich - The student initiative to found a technical university in Munich . In: Einst und Jetzt , Vol. 39 (1994), pp. 231-247.
  • The student as a socialist comrade. Weinheim Corps students between tradition and National Socialist education . In: Einst und Jetzt , Vol. 41 (1996), pp. 117-128.
  • A German Seniors' Convention. Idea and reality between 1934 and 1954 . In: Einst und Jetzt , Vol. 42 (1997), pp. 49-61. Digitized version (PDF file; 57 kB)
  • The reintroduction of the determination censorship. The WSC as a weapons student association after 1945 . In: Einst und Jetzt , Vol. 42 (1997), pp. 111-119.
  • Re-establishment in conflict. The restitution process of student corporations after the Second World War using the example of Weinheimer SC . In: Einst und Jetzt , Vol. 43 (1998), pp. 135-151.
  • With many tricks through a sad time. The fight of the corp house association Cisaria [Munich] for its house 1935 to 1950 . In: Einst und Jetzt , Vol. 43 (1998), pp. 349-358.
  • How the Weinheimer SC gained a foothold in Munich in 1905 . In: Einst und Jetzt , Vol. 44 (1999), pp. 233-237.

Other contributions

  • Herbert Scherer, Roberto Hahn, Gustavo Lara: La indispensable revolución cultural: observaciones y consideraciones con respecto a la situación en Latinoamérica. Colegio Alemán Humboldt de Guayaquil, 1971.
  • Structural changes to a school abroad using the example of the German School Guayaquil. In: Journal for Culture Exchange , Vol. 29 (1979), H. 1, pp. 48-53. ISSN  0044-2976 .
  • International partnerships Pegnitz schools. In: Pegnitz - 650 years of the city . Stadt Pegnitz, Pegnitz 2004, ISBN 3-925361-50-2 , pp. 144–152, 161.
  • A designer of the Upper Franconian landscape. Forest director Niederwald was born 100 years ago. In: Archive for the history of Upper Franconia. 2006.
  • Because the flag is more than death. The swan song of the Hitler Youth in Bayreuth in 1945. In: Archive for the history of Upper Franconia. 2011.

literature

  • Scherer, Herbert , in: Friedhelm Golücke : Author's lexicon for student and university history. A bio-bibliographical directory . SH-Verlag, Cologne 2004. ISBN 3-89498-130-X , pp. 287-288.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hartmut Fröschle : The Germans in Latin America. Fate and achievement. (= Book series German-Foreign Relations of the Institute for Foreign Relations, Stuttgart , vol. 15) Tübingen 1979, p. 388.
  2. ^ A b c Corps Cisaria Munich 1851–2008, list of corps members . Munich 2008
  3. ↑ Arthur Weilbauer: Los alemanes en el Ecuador: estudio histórico. = The Germans in Ecuador. Historical study. (bilingual German and Spanish) Quito 1975, p. 75.
  4. ^ Gerhard Philipp Wolf; Walter Thousand Pounds: Pegnitz, Veldensteiner Forst. Historical forays. Erlangen 1986, p. 485.
  5. ↑ Hans-Jochen Schauer: Leuchner: "Chatting hours from Mayor Raab without results". In: North Bavarian News. April 15, 2015.
  6. ↑ For example: Home Ministry must protect Heimat. Herbert Scherer: Authority must prevent power line. In: North Bavarian News. From May 14, 2015. Online
  7. ↑ H. Scherer (1997a)
  8. ↑ Andrea Gisbert: Thümmler gives up the office of chairman after 26 years. In: North Bavarian News. April 10, 2014. Online
  9. ^ Claus Volz: Adult Education Center remains on the road to success. In: North Bavarian News. from May 1, 2013. Online
  10. ^ Edmund Frank: Ecuador with the Galápagos Islands. Travel guide with city guide u. Itineraries. Munich 1972, p. 48.
  11. ↑ Herbert Scherer, Roberto Hahn, Gustavo Lara: La indispensable revolución cultural: observaciones y consideraciones con respecto a la situación en Latinoamérica. Colegio Alemán Humboldt de Guayaquil, 1971, p. 1.
  12. ↑ Herbert Scherer, Roberto Hahn, Gustavo Lara: La indispensable revolución cultural: observaciones y consideraciones con respecto a la situación en Latinoamérica. Colegio Alemán Humboldt de Guayaquil, 1971, p. 1.
  13. ↑ https://www.landkreis-bayreuth.de/DerLandkreis/KommunalrechtlBestUNGEN/VerordnungundSatzungen.aspx?view=~/kxp/orgdata/default&orgid=79095cef-40df-4fe1-93d8-0e40adfa36ec  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.landkreis-bayreuth.de  
  14. ↑ Nordbayerische Nachrichten : Honor where honor is due. Honorary Citizens in Pegnitz: A manageable list. February 11, 2013. Online
  15. ↑ Awarding of the Franken cube ( memento from April 29, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  16. ↑ Bayerische Staatsbibliothek : Bavarian Bibliography. 1998. Munich 2000, p. 455.
personal data
SURNAME Scherer, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philologist, high school teacher, WSC official and student historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Bayreuth
DATE OF DEATH May 30, 2018