Joachim Rohlfes

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Joachim Rohlfes (born December 11, 1929 in Stendal ) is a German history teacher and emeritus professor of history and its didactics at Bielefeld University .

Rohlfes was born as the son of the Chief Agriculture Councilor Otto Rohlfes and was baptized as a Protestant. He studied history, German and Latin in Munich and Göttingen. His Göttingen dissertation from 1955 was entitled "State, Nation, Reich in the Concept of the German Evangelical Church in the Age of German Unification (1848−1871)" . After working as a teacher at the Old School in Oldenburg and Fachleiter he became in 1968 professor at the University of Education in Bielefeld and at the University of Bielefeld . In 1971 Rohlfes wrote the outlines of a didactics of history and in 1986 the work History and its Didactics , which laid the foundations for the subject for decades.

Rohlfes was always very close to school lessons and, from a pragmatic position, remained suspicious of theoretical constructions of critical history didactics, for example by Klaus Bergmann or Annette Kuhn .

Rohlfes was co-author of the school history book Geschichte und Geschehen ( Ernst Klett Verlag ), co-editor of the series Political World Studies (Ernst Klett Verlag) and from 1976 to 2009 co-editor of the journal History in Science and Education .

Works

  • Problems and Possibilities of History Lessons , in: Herbert Krieger (Ed.), Task and Design of History Lessons. Handouts for the history teacher, Frankfurt a. M., pp. 1-25.
  • Germany since 1945. Historical-political world studies. Klett Leipzig 1995 (several new editions), ISBN 978-3-12-456201-2 .
  • History and its didactics. Göttingen 1st edition 1986, 3rd edition 2005. ( online ).
  • Outlines of a didactic of history . Göttingen 1971.
  • (Ed.), Historical Contemporary Studies. Handbook for Political Education. Goettingen 1970.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Otto Rohlfes was head of the animal breeding office in Stendal from 1920 to 1938 and head of the animal breeding department of the Weser-Ems Chamber of Agriculture in Oldenburg from 1938 to 1953. Cf. Theophil Gerber, Personalities from Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture and Veterinary Medicine, Vol. 2, p. 620. As a professor at Bielefeld University, Joachim Rohlfes lived privately in Oldenburg again.
  2. ↑ Michael Sauer, Winfried Schulze: On our own behalf . In: History in Science and Education . Volume 61, Issue 1, January 2010, p. 3.
personal data
SURNAME Rohlfes, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and history teacher
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Stendal