Horst Diere

Horst Diere (* 1928 in Herzberg (Elster) ) was a leading history methodologist in the GDR until 1990 .

After studying history at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Horst Diere received his doctorate in 1961 on a school history topic from the Weimar Republic . Continuing to work in Halle, he completed his habilitation in 1976 with a thesis on the history of schools at the beginning of the Nazi dictatorship . In Halle, he played a leading role in the training of history teachers and headed the Central Expert Commission on Methodology of History Teaching at the Ministry of Popular Education to the end. Therefore, he was also responsible for the methodological assessment of the last official history book published by Volk und Wissen . In October 1989 in Ludwigsburg, at the first German-German meeting of the Conference on History Didactics, he gave a lecture on history teaching in the GDR that was uncritical according to Schneider. Diere was also supervised by the first democratic state government in Saxony-Anhalt with the publication of the new framework guidelines .

Fonts

• The revolutionary policy of the Ministry of Science, Art and Public Education with regard to history lessons at the higher schools in Prussia and the phenomena associated with it (1918–1923): [Along with] comments , Halle 1961
• Right-wing social-democratic school policy in the service of German imperialism: History lessons at the higher schools in Prussia between 1918 and 1923 under the sign of class betrayal by the right-wing SPD leadership , Halle 1964
• Fascist German Imperialism and the School 1933/34: On the Analysis of the Part of the School and its History Lessons in the ideological preparation for war in the phase of the establishment and consolidation of the fascist dictatorship in Germany , Halle 1976
• (Ed.): Demands of the developed socialist society on the training and communist education of future certified teachers , Halle 1986
• Methodology of History Lessons in East Germany - A Review , in: Hans Süssmuth (Hrsg.): History Lessons in United Germany. Looking for reorientation . 2 volumes. Nomos, Baden-Baden 1991 ISBN 3-7890-2302-7 , ISBN 3-7890-2303-5

literature

• Gerhard Schneider : There is still no trace of the “Science Union”. A semester of history didactics at the Martin Luther University Halle , in: Bernhard Muszynski (Ed.): Science transfer in Germany: Experiences and perspectives in the integration of the German university landscape, Opladen 1993, pp. 142–166

Single receipts

1. ↑ Horst Diere and a .: Teaching program for the training of qualified teachers. Ministry of Public Education (GDR) and Ministry of Higher and Technical Education, 1983, accessed on July 13, 2018 . 
2. ↑ MMinisterium Bildung, Wissenschaft, Kultur Sachsen-Anhalt (Hrsg.): Provisional framework guidelines for grammar school history . Magdeburg 1991.