Max Gustav Lange
Max Gustav Lange (born September 10, 1899 , † 1963 in Berlin ) was a German educator and sociologist .
Born as the son of a baker in Neumark , Lange completed a teaching seminar (1st exam in 1920 in Pölitz) and studied in Berlin from 1921 to 1927 (history, education, economics, sociology, philosophy). Politically, he was linked to the USPD and SPD . Before 1933 a. a. Taught at the Rütlischule school in Berlin-Neukölln under Adolf Jensen and belonged to a reformer group with Robert Alt and Paul Heimann . After 1933 he continued to work as a teacher and joined the NSDAP in 1940 . From 1940 to 1943 he did military service.
After 1945 he became a member of the KPD and initially worked in the school administration. He did his doctorate in Jena under Peter Petersen with a thesis on Young Hegelianism and the beginnings of Marxism and became professor of sociology and education in Halle (Saale) and Potsdam . From 1946 to 1950 he was editor-in-chief of the East Berlin magazine Pädagogik . Here he published numerous texts in which he sought a sociological justification of pedagogy and advocated a Marxist orientation in educational science.
In 1950 he suddenly gave up his activity in the GDR and tried to make a name for himself as an anti-communist in West Berlin . In West Berlin he was appointed lecturer at the Otto Suhr Institute for Politics and then professor at the PH Berlin . His work " Political Sociology " took up a new approach from the USA in 1961 and was published several times.
Fonts (selection)
- Early capitalism , people and knowledge, Berlin 1947 (textbooks for upper school classes)
- Totalitarian Education: The Education System of the Soviet Zone of Germany , Frankfurt am Main 1954
- Political Sociology , Vahlen, Berlin 1961 (5th edition 1972)
- On the foundation of educational science: Texts on the sociological foundation of pedagogy 1946 - 1950 , ed. by Wolfgang Eichler and Horst Sladek, Lang, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin a. a. 2007
literature
- Klaus-Peter Horn : Educational science in Germany in the 20th century: for development , Klinkhardt, Bad Heilbrunn 2003 (p. 101) ISBN 978-3781512719
- Wolfgang Eichler : The Stone of Sisyphus: Studies on General Pedagogy in the GDR , LIT Münster a. a. 2000
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Lange, Max Gustav |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German educator and sociologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 10, 1899 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1963 |
| Place of death | Berlin |