Karl Abraham (business educator)

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Karl Abraham (born July 6, 1904 in Odereck (Züllichau district), † January 29, 1990 ) was a German business educator .

Career

Abraham was born the son of a railway secretary. After graduating from high school in Liegnitz in 1922 , he completed a traineeship at Reisner bookstore in Liegnitz. From 1923 on he studied at the Berlin Commercial College and in 1926 passed the diploma commercial teacher examination. He went to Breslau , where he studied political science at the university and received his doctorate in 1929 under Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy and Heinrich Bechtel (dissertation: "The basics of a vocational school policy"). The habilitation he was striving for in 1934 at the Handelshochschule Berlin was initially denied due to political influence.

Since moving to Breslau in 1926, he had already been working there as a teacher at the municipal commercial vocational school. He also worked at the Wroclaw Chamber of Commerce. After the end of the Second World War he came to Brilon in 1945 and was acting director of the district vocational school there. In 1946 he was a briefing advisor to the Düsseldorf Executive Committee. In the same year he became a lecturer at the Vocational Education Academy in Solingen . Here and in the successor institution, the Vocational Education Institute in Cologne, he taught until 1952.

In 1952 he completed his habilitation ("The company as an educational factor") for vocational and business education at the University of Cologne . He initially stayed as a private lecturer at the University of Cologne and also taught at the vocational education institute in Cologne. In 1953 he went to the Mannheim Business School as an associate professor for business education and was appointed full professor there a year later . From 1957 until his retirement in 1972 he was professor for business education at the University of Frankfurt am Main .

Honors

literature

  • Horn, Klaus-Peter: Educational science in Germany in the 20th century: On the development of the social and technical structure of the discipline from initial institutionalization to expansion. Julius Klinkhardt, Bad Heilbrunn 2003, ISBN 3-7815-1271-1 .
  • Pleiss, Ulrich: Business teacher training and business education . The business-pedagogical discipline formation at German-speaking academic universities. , Göttingen, 1973

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, people and course catalog for the .... semester (http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/solrsearch/index/search/searchtype/collection/id/17036/start / 100 / rows / 100 / sortfield / year / sortorder / desc)
personal data
SURNAME Abraham, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German business educator
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Odereck (Züllichau district)
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 1990