Hermann Benner

Hermann Kurt Benner (born April 6, 1935 in Karlsruhe ) is a vocational training researcher and professional pedagogue who worked from 1971 to 1997 at the Federal Institute for Vocational Training in the field of training regulation research and who also published on this research area.

Life path and study

Hermann Benner was born in Karlsruhe in 1935 as the seventh child of the married couple Hermann and Johanna Benner. After finishing school, he completed an apprenticeship in goldsmithing in Karlsruhe from 1951 to 1954. During his apprenticeship and his work as a goldsmith , Benner was already preparing for the foreign school exams (high school diploma) and, after successfully completing his university entrance exam, began studying at the Karlsruhe Institute of Education (today: Karlsruhe University of Education ). Benner successfully completed his studies with the examination for teaching at elementary schools on March 18, 1959.

From 1959 to 1961 Benner was the main teacher at an elementary school in Mannheim and at the same time qualified as a school youth advisor as part of further training at the Municipal Institute for Education and Teaching Mannheim.

From 1962 to 1963, Benner studied to become a teacher at commercial vocational schools at the Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences. After the state examination on October 2, 1963, he worked as a teacher at the Pforzheim Goldsmith School and at the Hanau State Drawing Academy until 1971 , most recently as Director of Studies. Benner completed a part-time study of vocational education , applied psychology and economic policy at the Technical University of Darmstadt on October 14, 1970 with the academic degree Magister Artium .

On March 17, 1976 Benner received his doctorate at the Technical University of Berlin on the subject of "The apprenticeship as a professional pedagogical and economic problem". In his dissertation , Benner examined essential aspects of the training occupations that are integrated into the scientific, educational, economic, social and legal systems in the Federal Republic of Germany in many ways. With this work Benner showed possibilities and framework conditions for the development of state-recognized training occupations.

Work at the Federal Institute for Vocational Training

Shortly after the establishment of the Federal Institute for Vocational Training Research (BBF), as the predecessor of today's Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB), Benner began his work in the field of training regulation research at this institute in 1971 and held various management positions there until 1997.

With the Vocational Training Act (BBiG) of 1969, the historically developed dual system of vocational training that existed in Germany was given a legal basis for the first time. On this basis, the company-based qualifications of the state-recognized training occupations had to be specified in training regulations in such a way that, on the one hand, they can be imparted by training companies and, on the other hand, enable them to perform a wide range of professional activities at the skilled worker level in the employment system. The training regulations themselves are issued by the relevant federal ministry as a statutory ordinance and published in the Federal Law Gazette.

The factual and content-related development and preparation of the training regulations was carried out under Benner's direction by subject-specific qualified employees of training regulation research who, among other things, used recognized social science methods and included the expertise of vocational training experts from specialist organizations and trade unions. For example, from 1979 to 1982 Benner headed the research project Reorganization of the Metal and Electrical Professions ; this was followed by the implementation of the research results in training practice.

During Benner's research work, the reorganization and modernization of the majority of the state-recognized training occupations were completed, so that around 90 percent of the trainees could be trained according to current BBiG guidelines.

With regard to the uniform vocational educational mandate of the dual training system, training regulations for in-company vocational training are to be coordinated with the framework curricula of the Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education of the Federal Republic of Germany for vocational school teaching during training, which was also observed in the context of training research in Benner's work area.

Publications (selection)

• Contributions to the vocational and business education dictionary , ed. by Franz-Josef Kaiser, Verlag Günter Pätzold, Julius Klinkhardt, Bad Heilbronn 2006, ISBN 3-7815-0912-5
• with Hermann Schmidt: Development of new training occupations, in: From the championship to educational hike - Vocational training on the way to the year 2000, ed. by Wolfgang Wittwer, Bertelsmann Verlag, Bielefeld 1996, ISBN 3-7639-0049-7
• Critical appraisal of proposals for new training occupations, in: New qualification and employment fields , Ed .: Federal Institute for Vocational Training (The Secretary General), Verlag W. Bertelsmann, Bielefeld 1996, ISBN 3-7639-0705-X
• Regarding the reorganization of the training occupations in the professional field of economy and administration, in: Computer und Berufsbildung, Ed. Adolf Kell and Heinrich Schanz, Holland & Josenhans Verlag, 1994, ISBN 3-7782-9550-0
• with Friedhelm Püttmann: 20 years of joint results protocol. A critical presentation of the process for coordinating training regulations and framework curricula for vocational training in recognized training occupations from a federal and state perspective. Published by the Federal Ministry of Education and Science (BMBW), Bonn 1992
• On Friedrich Rücklin's vocational school concept, in: Founding years of the vocational school / 2nd vocational-historical congress, Ed .: Federal Institute for Vocational Training (The Secretary General), Berlin, Bonn 1990, ISBN 3-88555-405-4
• Contributions to Rolf Arnold : Business Education from a National and International Perspective. Edited by Antonius Lipsmeier , Nomos , Baden-Baden 1989. ISBN 978-3-7890-1841-1
• with Klaus Pampus: Job-related curriculum reform. Reflections on the returns and desiderata of a pedagogical innovation approach in the field of in-company vocational training, in: Zeitschrift für Pädagogik, vol. 34, issue 6, Nov. 1988
• with Hermann Schmidt: The contribution of vocational training research to finding a consensus between employers and trade unions in the reorganization of training occupations, in: Work, vocational and business education in transition, ed. by Rudolf Lassahn and Birgit Ofenbach, Verlag Peter Lang, Frankfurt / Main, Bern, New York, 1986, ISBN 3-8204-9654-8
• On the problem of the development of company training regulations and their coordination with general school curricula, in: Schule und Berufsausbildung, ed. by Walter Georg, W. Bertelsmann Verlag KG, Bielefeld, 1984, publisher no .: 60 01 146 62
• Regulation of the state-recognized training occupations. Edited by the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training, Berlin 1982 ISBN 978-3-88555-167-6 , [2. Edition 1996 ISBN 3-7639-0545-6 ]
• Delimitation of occupational groups or occupational fields with regard to vocational training at skilled worker / specialist level in the EC. [Study]; prepared on behalf of the publisher: European Center for the Promotion of Vocational Training (CEDEFOP), Luxembourg, 1981
  • French edition: Délimitation des groupes ou champs professionnels dans l'optice de la formation professionnelle des ouvriers / employés qualifiés au sein de la Communauté Européenne. 1982
• Help with the implementation of training regulations in operational practice. Contributions to the didactics of in-company vocational training. Published by the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training, Berlin 1979. ISBN 978-3-88555-019-8
• The apprenticeship as a vocational and educational economic problem. [zugl. Diss. TU Berlin v. 1976]; Schroedel , Hannover 1977. ISBN 978-3-507-91853-5
• On the problem of occupational flexibility in training occupations, in: Contributions to labor market and occupational research, 30 (3), ed. by Dieter Mertens, Manfred Kaiser, Nuremberg, 1978
• Curriculum models for training in technical-commercial professions, in: Vocational training and employment - problems and approaches to solutions in East and West, writings on vocational training research, Volume 45, Hermann Schroedel Verlag KG Hannover, 1977, ISBN 3-507-91854-4
• The vocational curriculum: a consideration under the aspect of comparative pedagogy, in: Die Berufsbildende Schule: Journal of the Federal Association of Teachers at Vocational Schools (BLBS), 1974, issue 6
• Vocational training in the field of tension between social and political interests, in: Law of the youth and the education system, magazine for schools, vocational training and youth education, 1973, issue 4,

Web links

• Literature by and about Hermann Benner in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Literature by Hermann Benner in the holdings of the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The training occupation as a professional pedagogical and educational economic problem, Hermann Benner, ed. BBF / BIBB, 1977
2. ↑ Professions for the future: Interview on the reorganization of industrial metal and electrical professions in the eighties. in: Vocational Training in Science and Practice 3/2013, pp. 6–10, here p. 8; on-line
3. ↑ Regulations of state-recognized training occupations, Hermann Benner, Ed. BIBB, 1995