College officer

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University officers were civilian employees of the military governments who participated in the reconstruction of the university system in Germany after the end of the Second World War .

recruitment

The majority of the university officers were academics, some of whom had studied in Germany . There was no special preparation for the task assigned to them.

Task

University officers, also called university officers, helped denazify the faculty. They helped fight hunger and housing shortages among university members. They also tried to reorient university teaching. University officers were involved in the material reconstruction of universities. They discussed the Third Reich with university members . They also organized professors' and student exchanges with foreign countries as well as scientific conferences. University officers promoted the initiation of research in post-war Germany .

British zone of occupation

In the British zone of occupation , the task of the university officers , initially referred to as University Control Officer (UCO) , later as University Education Control Officer (UECO) and most recently as University Education Officers , was from autumn 1945 to rebuild schools, universities and colleges To promote scientific institutions. At the beginning of 1947 the British occupying power handed over responsibility for higher education to the German states. The University Education Officers had as members of the military government from now on only an advisory role. In 1951 this also ended with the revised version of the Occupation Statute .

Individual college officers

Howard P. Becker , Edward Hartshorne , Pyotr Ivanovich Nikitin , Raymond Schmittlein and Pyotr Wassiljewitsch Solotuchin belonged to the group of university officers .

literature

  • Manfred Heinemann (Ed.): University officers and the reconstruction of the higher education system in West Germany 1945-1952. Part 1: The British Zone , Verlag August Lax, Hildesheim 1990, ISBN 3-7848-3901-0 .
  • Manfred Heinemann (Ed.): University officers and the reconstruction of the higher education system in West Germany 1945-1952. Part 2: The US Zone , Verlag August Lax, Hildesheim 1990, ISBN 3-7848-3902-9 .
  • Manfred Heinemann (Ed.): University officers and the reconstruction of the higher education system in West Germany 1945-1952. Part 3: The French Zone , Verlag August Lax, Hildesheim 1991, ISBN 3-7848-3903-7 .
  • Manfred Heinemann (Hrsg.): University officers and the reconstruction of the higher education system in Germany 1945-1949. The Soviet zone of occupation , Akademie Verlag , Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-05-002851-3 .
  • Waldemar Krönig, Klaus-Dieter Müller: Post-war semester. Studies in the war and post-war period , Franz Steiner Verlag , Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-515-05597-5 ( full text ).