Jan-Hendrik Olbertz

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Jan-Hendrik Olbertz (born October 2, 1954 in East Berlin ) is a German educationalist and non-party politician .

From 2002 to 2010 he was Minister of Culture of the State of Saxony-Anhalt for the CDU, from 2010 to 2016 he was President of the Humboldt University in Berlin .

Life and work

Jan-Hendrik Olbertz is a son of the agricultural scientist Manfred Olbertz . Before studying pedagogy for German and music at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg from 1974 to 1978, Olbertz worked for a year as an educator in a day care center. After the teacher's exam was followed by a research study of educational science , which he in 1981 with the graduation to the Dr. paed. with the work on the connection between study ethics and student self- employment . Completed a college educational research . He then worked as a research assistant and since 1985 as a senior assistant at Martin University. In 1989 he completed his habilitation with the thesis Academic Ethos and University Pedagogy - a study on the interdisciplinary theoretical foundations of moral education at the university . In 1990, Olbertz held a visiting professorship at Bielefeld University , and in 1992 he was appointed professor for educational science with a focus on adult education / academic further education at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg. From 1992 to 1996 he was a member of the Academic Senate, from 1992 to 2002 a member of the council of the Martin Luther University, from 1993 to 2002 a member of the State School Advisory Board of Saxony-Anhalt, from 1994 to 2002 a member of the board of the German Society for Educational Science (DGfE ) , from 1998 to 2002 its deputy chairman. From 1996 to 2000 he was founding director of the Institute for University Research (HoF) Wittenberg . In 2000 he followed Paul Raabe as director of the Francke Foundations in Halle . In 2010, in connection with his election as President, Olbertz was appointed to the so- denominated Chair of Educational Science at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

Olbertz has been a member of the Evangelical Academy of Saxony-Anhalt since 1995. V. From 1995 to 1997 he was a member of the study commission “Schools with a Future” of the State Parliament of Saxony-Anhalt, from 1995 to 2000 a member of the “Blue List” committee of the Science Council . In 1999 he was appointed a member of the 11th Federal Assembly of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Jan-Hendrik Olbertz has been married since 1975 and has three children.

Debate about Olbertz's dissertation and habilitation

From Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk , a former member of the Commission of Inquiry of the German Bundestag for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship, the nominee for President of the Humboldt University was accused of "an overly matched attitude at times of the GDR." Kowalczuk claims to have stated that both the dissertation Dissertation A and the habilitation thesis Dissertation B "was (s) committed to Marxism-Leninism from the first to the last page" and "served to support and stabilize the SED rule". Olbertz spoke of him today at times “embarrassing” passages and of “verbal concessions” that he had to make in order to secure certain freedom. Saxony-Anhalt's Prime Minister Wolfgang Böhmer defended his former minister of education in an interview with the magazine Superillu , in which he said, among other things, "that at least verbal concessions had to be made to the SED regime in the GDR era is undisputed." The Humboldt University Council supported the future president. The educational historian Heinz-Elmar Tenorth subjected Olbertz's habilitation thesis to a closer examination in the FAZ and advocated text analysis rather than practicing system scolding.

Public offices

Olbertz at the 2013 Kirchentag

After the state elections in 2002, Jan-Hendrik Olbertz, who was not party to any party, was appointed minister of culture to the state government of Saxony-Anhalt led by Prime Minister Wolfgang Böhmer ( CDU ) on May 16, 2002 .

From 2005 to 2013 he was a member of the Presidium of the German Evangelical Church Congress .

After he was elected as the new President on April 20, 2010 by the Council of the Humboldt University in Berlin, he took up this post on October 18, 2010 as the successor to Christoph Markschies . During his presidency, the Humboldt University achieved the status of “ University of Excellence” in 2012 as part of the federal and state government excellence initiative. Because he did not see a majority in the HU committees for the reintroduction of a chancellor as head of administration, which he was striving for, Olbertz announced in March 2015 that he would not run for re-election. Finally, on May 11, 2016, Sabine Kunst , who was elected in January, followed him into office.

Publications (selection)

  • About the connection between study ethics and student self-employment. A university educational study . Halle 1982 (dissertation).
  • Academic ethos and university education. A study on the interdisciplinary theoretical foundations of moral education at the university . Halle 1989 (habilitation).
  • as editor: Educational Science. Traditions - Topics - Perspectives . Opladen 1997
  • with Peer Pasternack (ed.): Profiling, standards, self-control . A dialogue between university research and reform practice. Deutscher Studienverlag, Weinheim 1999, ISBN 3-89271-879-2 .
  • with Hans-Uwe Otto (ed.): Quality of education . HoF, Wittenberg 2001.

See also

literature

  • Andreas Stirn: Of constraints and leeway in dictatorship (processing). The debate about Jan-Hendrik-Olbertz's GDR past. In: Germany Archive . 4/2010, pp. 581-587.
  • Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk: The universities and the revolution 1989/90. A conference contribution and its consequences. In: Benjamin Schröder, Jochen Staadt (eds.): Under hammer and circle. Repression, opposition and resistance at the universities of the SBZ / GDR. (= Studies of the SED State Research Association at the Free University of Berlin, Vol. 16), Peter Lang, Frankfurt / M. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-60523-3 , pp. 365-408.

Web links

Commons : Jan-Hendrik Olbertz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jan-Hendrik Olbertz elected as the new President of the HU. Press release of the HU Berlin from April 20, 2010, accessed on April 20, 2010.
  2. ↑ Madlen Schmidt: Chair of Educational Science - Institute for Educational Science. Retrieved January 4, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of May 26, 2010, p. 4; see. also Tilmann Warnecke: Propaganda and pedagogical dispute over Jan-Hendrik Olbertz 'role in the GDR. In: Potsdam's latest news. May 28, 2010, accessed on May 28, 2010. Torsten Harmsen: Defense for the HU President. In: Berliner Zeitung. May 28, 2010, accessed May 30, 2010.
  4. ↑ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of May 26, 2010. Olbertz spoke of him today in partially “embarrassing” passages of text
  5. ↑ Jürgen Kaube: Two kinds of smoke. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. May 25, 2010, accessed May 30, 2010.
  6. ↑ Torsten Harmsen: The new HU president defends himself against the accusation of having carried out SED propaganda: “I wanted to gain freedom”. In: Berliner Zeitung. May 26, 2010, accessed on May 29, 2010. Jan-Martin Wiarda: Humboldt University Berlin: An alleged affair In: Die Zeit. June 2, 2010, accessed June 16, 2010.
  7. ↑ Wolfgang Boehmer in an exclusive interview: There should be no taboos when it comes to saving ( Memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) In: Superillu. June 1, 2010, accessed June 14, 2010 (no longer available online.)
  8. ↑ Torsten Harmsen: Declaration of the council for Jan-Hendrik Olbertz: HU defends its new president. In: Berliner Zeitung. June 2, 2010, accessed June 16, 2010.
  9. ↑ Heinz-Elmar Tenorth: Instead of system scolding, text analysis is required. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 179/2010 of August 5, 2010, p. 6 - online in the Volksstimme of October 18, 2011
  10. ↑ http://www.morgenpost.de/printarchiv/berlin/article138597231/HU-Praesident-Olbertz-tritt-nicht-mehr-zur-Wiederwahl-an.html
  11. ↑ Sabine Kunst is the new HU President , HU Berlin press release of May 11, 2016, accessed on September 5, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Olbertz, Jan-Hendrik
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Olbertz, Jan H.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educationalist, politician (independent), Minister of Education of Saxony-Anhalt, President of the Humboldt University in Berlin
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH East Berlin