Josef Kraus (teacher)

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Josef Kraus on a poster of the CDU parliamentary group in the Hessian state parliament

Josef Kraus (born August 4, 1949 in Kipfenberg , Eichstätt district ) is a German educator and psychologist. From 1987 to June 2017 he was President of the German Teachers' Association (DL). He lives in Ergolding near Landshut .

Live and act

After he had passed his Abitur at the Willibald-Gymnasium in Eichstätt in 1969 , Kraus was a contract soldier for two years . In Würzburg he then studied German and sports from 1971 to 1977 for teaching at grammar schools; He passed his 2nd state examination in Ingolstadt . A year later he also received his diploma in psychology in Würzburg . From 1980 he taught for 15 years as a grammar school teacher in Landshut and was responsible as a school psychologist for the administrative district of Lower Bavaria . From February 1995 he was headmaster at the Maximilian-von-Montgelas-Gymnasium in Vilsbiburg .

From 1979 to 1987, Josef Kraus held various board positions in the German Association of Philologists and from 1987 to June 2017 he was President of the German Teachers' Association (DL). From 1991 to 2014 he was a member of the defense minister's advisory board for internal management issues and from 1993 to 1996 he was an assessor at the Federal Testing Office for Media Harmful to Young People .

In the state election campaign in 1995 , Kraus appeared for the then Hessian CDU top candidate and former Federal Minister of the Interior, Manfred Kanther, as the latter's shadow culture minister.

In March 2009 Josef Kraus was honored with the Federal Cross of Merit with ribbon . In 2015 he received the Landshut district medal in gold. For 2018 he was awarded the German Language Prize.

Josef Kraus retired on July 31, 2015. His term of office as DL President ended on June 30, 2017.

Education critic

At the hearing of the Conference of Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs (KMK) on the spelling reform on May 4, 1993 in Bonn, Josef Kraus criticized the spelling reform . On the occasion of the PISA study , he stated that the reform had led to a higher rate of errors in spelling and that “a certain arbitrariness” had crept in. Kraus therefore warns against decultivation through careless use of language. Broad sections of the population do not accept the reform. The school therefore teaches an orthography that is being practiced less and less outside of school. This results in "much greater chaos".

Josef Kraus wrote four books in which he criticized these and other shortcomings in the German school and education system - Fun Pedagogy - Dead Endings in German School Policy (1998), The PISA Schwindel (2005), Is Education Still To Be Saved: A Polemic (2009) , and How to Bring an Educated Nation to the Wall (2017). The book "50 Years of Re-education, The 68ers and Their Legacies" also goes to court for reforms that he describes as left-wing; Kraus takes a decidedly strong right to right-wing extremist positions. The work was published by the publisher Manuscriptum, known as the right-wing extremist, in which u. a. also Björn Höcke (AfD), Alexander Gauland (AfD), Konrad Adam (AfD), Akif Pirinçci , Frank Böckelmann (Ed. of the Ztschr. Tumult. Quarterly publication for the disruption of consensus , in which Josef Kraus also publishes and is attributed to the "New Right" will), Bernhard Lassahn (author Die Freie Welt , peculiarly free ), André F. Lichtschlag , Jörg Guido Hülsmann (author and member of the editorial team, peculiarly free).

In autumn 2005 Josef Kraus founded the “Lebendiges Deutsch” campaign together with the chairman of the German Language Association , Walter Krämer , and the journalist trainer Wolf Schneider .

Kraus also attributed the different results of the IQB country comparison 2012 in East and West Germany to the fact that “a difficult migrant clientele” lived in the West, whereas the migrants in the East “mostly came from Vietnam” and were “sometimes even better at school” . At the same time he relativized the statements of the study on the social permeability of the education system and pointed out that the German educational system is socially more permeable than assumed.

Journalistic and political activity

Josef Kraus is still active in a variety of journalistic activities, including as an author in the media Junge Freiheit , Cato (magazine) , and Cuncti . and Tichy's insight

He worked as a speaker for the Library of Conservatism and appeared as a speaker for the German Guild .

In addition, he is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation for Family Values ​​eV

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  1. ↑ Josef Kraus is retiring as headmaster of Maximilian von Montgelas Gymnasium Vilsbiburg ( Memento from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) In: Isar-TV on July 31, 2015
  2. ↑ Josef Kraus stops - Germany's head teacher is retiring ( Memento from September 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) In: BR - News from July 30, 2015
  3. ^ Hermann Zabel (ed.): No angry at work. Reports and documents on the revision of German spelling. Edited in connection with the Society for German Language . Hagen: Reiner Padligur Verlag, 1996, p. 68 ff.
  4. ↑ Peter Baier: Teachers Association President Josef Kraus on PISA. With more German lessons to success. In: Bayernkurier, Volume 53, Issue No. 27, July 4, 2002.
  5. ↑ Volker Corsten: And what happens in schools? The basis: What teachers think of a reform of the reform. In: Welt am Sonntag of August 8, 2004.
  6. ↑ Josef Kraus: We need a school offensive for the German language. Theses by DL President Josef Kraus on International Mother Language Day on February 21, 2006.
  7. ↑ "Education is much more than PISA." Josef Kraus, President of the Teachers' Association, fears that important school subjects will fall under the wheels of usability . Interview with the NRZ from November 23, 2008, reproduced on the website of the German Teachers' Association.
  8. ↑ a b Fabian Löhe: School performance comparison: Lower Saxony only average. New Osnabrück newspaper from October 11, 2013.
  9. ↑ Josef Kraus: Teaching "decency and behavior" in school? August 29, 2003, accessed March 29, 2020 .
  10. ^ Josef Kraus: Whose country? Comment on general service. January 5, 2020, accessed March 29, 2020 .
  11. ↑ CATO's authors. Retrieved on March 29, 2020 : "In Cato, issue 2/2018, Kraus wrote a contribution to the 25th anniversary of Botho Strauss's" swelling goat song "."
  12. ↑ Authors. Retrieved March 29, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Josef Kraus. Retrieved March 29, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Josef Kraus: "How to bring an educated nation to the wall - And what parents need to know now" online! November 8, 2017, accessed March 29, 2020 .
  15. ↑ Dates of the German Guild for 2018. Accessed on March 29, 2020 : "We were able to win Mr. Josef Kraus as the main speaker."
  16. ↑ Foundation for Family Values ​​- about us. Retrieved March 29, 2020 .

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SURNAME Kraus, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teachers and President of the German Teachers' Association (DL)
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Kipfenberg , Eichstätt district