Manfred Haak

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Manfred Kurt Haak (* 1931 in Eisenach ) is a German geographer and educator .

Life

Haak passed the Abitur at the Ernst-Abbe-Gymnasium in Eisenach in 1950 . He first worked as a fireman in the Eisenach automobile plant . From 1950 to 1953 he studied pedagogy and geography at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena . In 1954 he also passed the examination as a chemistry teacher in Jena and in the same year began a correspondence course for high school at the Pädagogische Hochschule Potsdam, which he completed in 1959.

Haak lives in Ludwigsfelde, is married and has two children.

Act as a teacher and development worker

From 1953 Haak began as a specialist teacher at the secondary school under construction in Großbreitenbach , became the deputy director and director for a year.

In 1964, Haak was sent to East Africa as a senior development worker and taught chemistry and geography at Lumumba College in Zanzibar for two years . In the third year of deployment, Haak began to set up a national teacher training institute with a UNESCO expert. In 1966 he became director of the Goetheschule Ilmenau . Three years later he did his doctorate at the University of Jena on the subject of " The city of Zanzibar - an economic-geographical study " for Dr. rer. nat.

In 1970 Haak went to Aden , the then capital of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen , to head a group of lecturers for three years to help set up a college for teacher training. At the request of the Yemeni school minister, he then became his personal advisor.

After this foreign assignment, Haak took over the management of the newly established radio and television department at the Central Institute for Further Education of Teachers and Educators at the Ministry of Public Education (MfV) in Ludwigsfelde . Under his direction, almost 100 television and radio programs for the further education of teachers were developed, broadcast and made available for loan to schools.

During this work Haak was delegated to UNESCO conferences on peace education and educational development. To open an exhibition and a series of lectures, he traveled to Oxford University and attended conferences with UNESCO participation in several European capitals.

In the GDR, Haak looked after foreign ministerial delegations who came to conferences or visits to the MfV. He also took part as chairman or secretary in conferences at the European Information Center for Teacher Training at Charles University in Prague .

After 1990

The Central Institute for Further Education for Teachers was wound up in 1991. Haak then worked freelance in advertising, as a foreign language lecturer and as a technical translator.

He volunteered to support the work of the Education and Science Union and became a member and deputy chairman of a group of the Federation of Retired Officials, Pensioners and Survivors .

In 2000 Haak wrote his autobiography My Schools , which he published as BoD in 2015.

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • Economic and geographical problems of the city of Großbreitenbach . Thesis at the Geographical Institute of the Pedagogical University Potsdam. Potsdam, 1958
  • Contributions to the geography of the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba . In: Scientific journal of the Potsdam University of Education, Institute for Geography, 1967
  • About the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen . In: Journal for Geography Education. Berlin, H 11, 1975
  • The special geological situation of Sperenberg was almost ignored in the regional planning procedure for the major airport . In: Märkische Allgemeine, February 1, 1995, p. 15
  • Großbreitenbach - contribution to the natural conditions . In: Festschrift 600 Jahre Großbreitenbach, pp. 11–16. B. Dölle Verlag, Hildburghausen, 1999
  • From educators for educators - a television series for further education . In: Deutsche Lehrerzeitung, 1976/30
  • To work with teaching materials in teacher training . In: Findings, experiences, reports, ZIW Ludwigsfelde, Nov. 1983, pp. 40–49
  • My schools As a learner and teacher from Thuringia into the wide world - experiences and experiences with four German states and two zones of occupation (1931–2000) Pro Business, ISBN 978-3-86386-865-9 , 2015
  • Großbreitenbach: Contributions to city geopraphy , Geiger Verlag, Herbstein 2019, ISBN 978-3-86595-693-4

Web links

  • ECONBIZ: publications in magazines [1]

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dissertation in the catalog of the German National Library
  2. ↑ Final assessment by Ahmed A. Abdul Elah, Minister of Education
  3. ^ Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport in Potsdam, September 5, 1995; to: Series of the GDR television From pedagogues for pedagogues Final report of the viewing group
  4. ↑ UNESCO Paris: UNESDOC-Database
personal data
SURNAME Haak, Manfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Haak, Manfred Kurt (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geographer and educator
DATE OF BIRTH 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Eisenach