Konstantin Dmitrijewitsch Mitropolski

Konstantin Dmitrijewitsch Mitropolski ( Russian Константин Дмитриевич Митропольский , scientific transliteration Konstantin Dmitrievič Mitropol'skij ; * 1893 ; † 1983 ) was a Soviet educational scientist .

The professor and former rector of the Karelian State Pedagogical Academy (Карельская государственная педагогическая академия (КГПА)) served in the People's Commissariat during World War II . Later he was in Germany in the Soviet zone of occupation from 1945 to 1949 head of the general education sector of the national education department of the SMAD . As such, he carried out a school reform based on the Soviet model, the main points being the eight-year standard school, elimination of class and class privileges with separation of church and state in the school system in the sense of Soviet pedagogy. His closest collaborators were Sergei Maximowitsch Schabalow andNikolai Pavlovich Stcherbow . The popular education department was dissolved after October 1949, and Mitropolski left the GDR on July 31, 1950.

Individual evidence

^ Sebastian Müller-Rolli: Evangelical school policy in Germany 1918-1958. Documents and representation. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1999, ISBN 3-525-61362-8 , pp. 443, 780.
↑ Manfred Heinemann : University officers and the reconstruction of higher education in Germany 1945–1949: The Soviet zone of occupation. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-05-004805-0 , p. 5.
^ Nicole Zabel: On the history of the German Central Pedagogical Institute of the GDR. An institutional history study. Dissertation . Chemnitz University of Technology, 2009, p. 29.
^ Gert Geißler: History of the school system in the Soviet zone of occupation and in the German Democratic Republic 1945 to 1962. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2000, p. 267.

personal data
SURNAME	Mitropolski, Konstantin Dmitrijewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Митропольский, Константин Дмитриевич (Cyrillic script); Mitropol'skij, Konstantin Dmitrievič (scientific transliteration); Mitropolski, KD
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Soviet educational scientist
DATE OF BIRTH	1893
DATE OF DEATH	1983

[1] Sebastian Müller-Rolli: Evangelical school policy in Germany 1918-1958. Documents and representation. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1999, ISBN 3-525-61362-8 , pp. 443, 780.

[2] Manfred Heinemann : University officers and the reconstruction of higher education in Germany 1945–1949: The Soviet zone of occupation. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-05-004805-0 , p. 5.

[3] Nicole Zabel: On the history of the German Central Pedagogical Institute of the GDR. An institutional history study. Dissertation . Chemnitz University of Technology, 2009, p. 29.

[4] Gert Geißler: History of the school system in the Soviet zone of occupation and in the German Democratic Republic 1945 to 1962. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2000, p. 267.