Kurt Bätz

Kurt Bätz (* 1942 in Heidelberg ; † November 6, 1987 in Stuttgart ) was a German religious educator.

Bätz's father was an authorized signatory at a Jewish furniture factory in Heidelberg. Bätz attended the Helmholtz High School in Heidelberg , where he graduated from high school in 1961. He then studied Protestant theology in Göttingen and Heidelberg .

After a vicariate in Mannheim - Seckenheim , he was a religion teacher at the Justus-Knecht-Gymnasium Bruchsal from 1968 to 1978 . Later he became head of studies at the Religious Education Institute (RPI) in Karlsruhe . In 1985 he received his doctorate from the University of Frankfurt a. M. to Dr. phil. He died of a heart attack on November 6, 1987.

Fonts (selection)

Essays

• Face the religions of the world with a completely new openness and radicalism? Considerations on the religious pedagogical justification for the teaching treatment of non-Christian religions . In: Der Evangelische Erzieher , Volume 35 (1983), pp. 524–551. ISSN 0179-3551
• Church and Faith Mediation . In: Belief and Learning , Volume 2 (1987), Issue 1, pp. 70f. ISSN 0014-3413

Monographs

• together with Heinz Schmidt: 33 teaching units for religious instruction in the 9./10. School year of the Realschule and the Gymnasium . Stuttgart 1980. (2 volumes)
• together with Dieter Haas: Counselor religious instruction. Assistance for construction and implementation . Kaufmann-Verlag, Lahr 1984. ISBN 978-3-7806-0446-0
• Judaism. Paths and stations of its history . Calwert Verlag, Stuttgart 1985. ISBN 3-7668-0747-1 (also dissertation Frankfurt / M. 1985)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Willy Messmer (Ed.): We have to talk every day. The Reichspogromnacht and the commemorations in retrospect . Verlag der Jugendwerkstatt, Östringen 1990. ISBN 3-925699-10-4 , p. 124.