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Otto Heinrich Herz (born March 21, 1944 in Weinheim an der Bergstrasse ) is a German educational reformist , psychologist and author .

Life

In 1965 Otto Herz passed his Abitur as an industrial scholarship holder from the Heiner and Walter Freudenberg Foundation and president of the student parliament at the Odenwald School and then studied psychology , education , philosophy and theology in Hamburg and Konstanz .

In Hamburg, Herz was the initiator of the “Students in Companies” campaign. In 1967/68 he worked as deputy chairman of the Association of German Student Associations (VDS) and became a member of the SPD .

From 1970 to 1980 he worked for Hartmut von Hentig in setting up the laboratory school and the upper level college at Bielefeld University . Otto Herz had been a member of the overall responsible sponsoring association of the Odenwald School since the mid-1970s and resigned in 2010 after the OSO abuse scandal became public again . 1980 to 1982 he worked as the federal chairman of the non-profit society comprehensive school (GGG) and from 1981 to 1984 as the last "headmaster" of the Hermann-Lietz-Schule , the founding boarding school of the German state educational institutions .

In 1985, Herz joined the Institute for Intercultural Education at the Free University of Berlin as a research assistant . In 1987 he took up a job at the State Institute for Schools and Further Education in Soest , responsible for the project "Designing School Life and Opening Up Schools" (GÖS) for COMED e. V., the association for the promotion of community education. In 1991 he was, with Wolfgang Tiefensee , co-founder of the Leipzig neighborhood school , one of the two Saxon school trials. He was the head of the "Practical Learning" department at the University of Dortmund and from 1993 to 1997 a member of the Executive Board of the Education and Science Union (GEW), School Board Department . Then he campaigned for the mayor of Leipzig, Wolfgang Tiefensee. He has been working as a freelancer since 1998.

In 2000 he set up the Foundation for the Promotion of Civil Courage . The non-profit foundation promotes political education to develop personal judgment and the ability to act politically.

Otto Herz writes specialist articles, gives lectures and is involved in numerous school and educational projects. He is the patron and supporter of the association initiative Schüler Helfen Leben e. V. He describes himself as anti-authoritarian and rejects the school system in Germany as being unjust.

Otto Herz is married to the pedagogue Ulla Dolt-Herz and lives and works in Bielefeld and Leipzig ( Alte Handelsschule ) and has a daughter.

Fonts (selection)

As an author and editor

  • (Ed.): Organizational models of university didactics. Materials and results of an expert seminar. Working group for university didactics, Hamburg 1970.
  • (Ed.): Learning in the university. Contributions and suggestions from a motivational psychological point of view. Working group for university didactics, Hamburg 1972.
  • (Ed.): Practical relevance in studies. Documentation of the congress from November 20-22, 1974 in the Hamburg Congress Center. Working group f. University didactics, Hamburg 1975.
  • Make school conflicts solvable. Cooperation between students, parents, teachers. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1982, ISBN 3-499-17486-3 .
  • (Ed.): Education for Sustainable Development. Leske and Budrich, Opladen 2001, ISBN 3-8100-3140-2 .

Articles in magazines and others

  • Learn to live together. Learning to live together. Apprendre á vivre ensemble . In: Sonnenberg 112, January 1987, special edition
  • Five to twelve or rethink school. Articles in Education and Science, July 1993 - May 1997, in: Freedom cannot be decreed. E&W 1/94
  • Overnewsed but underinformed? In: Forum Gesamtschule , number 13, spring 1997, pp. 12/13
  • Caught Good - Ten Steps to Encouragement and Encouragement . Special print A3 from: Pedagogy 9/97, p. 60
  • And was love learned? in: crime scene classroom. Texts against violence in school. Reiner Engelmann (Ed.), Arena-Taschenbuch Volume 1784, 1994, special edition
  • Learn in life. Living in learning - impulses for relieving innovations in: Special issue of the cities network NRW, issue 6, Unna, networks for the "School for Life", August 11, 1999 in Dortmund
  • Turn problems into opportunities . In conversation: Dr. Paul Schwarz with reform pedagogue Otto Herz - according to TIMSS. abridged in: school booklet of the reform school Markersbach
  • Mission statement for a school principal, for a school principal, for members of the school management team . An impetus from Otto Herz and Armin Lohmann. Special print from COMED e. V., 1999
  • House of Learning . Ceremonial speech on the 75th anniversary of school campsites in Germany. in: the school camp. slh 191 - 2002 - issue 1
  • Those who are against grades are not against effort. A reply to the speech by Federal President Roman Herzog on education policy . Rundschau of November 22, 1997, p. 14
  • Learning is more important than teaching . A pro-vocation by Otto Herz. GEW newspaper Rhineland-Palatinate 7–8 / 2000, special edition, 3 pages
  • An invitation to live in learning . A vision from Otto Herz. in: BDKJ Journal, Vol. 10, No. 10, October 2001, pp. 4-7
  • To be there for each other - partnership between the generations . Ceremonial speech by Otto Herz at the opening of the Senior College of the University of Leipzig 2001/2002, November 8, 2001
  • The avant-garde. Six phases and a ray of hope. in: Civil courage NOW from the Foundation for the Promotion of CIVIL-COURAGE, 2002, Arena Verlag
  • Without peace, almost everything is nothing . in: Civil courage NOW from the Foundation for the Promotion of CIVIL-COURAGE, 2002, Arena Verlag
  • 9 arguments for longer learning together . In: Humane School . Announcements of the Federal Association of the Action Humane School (AHS), 29th year, October 2003, pp. 1–4
  • The school for a modern Germany . In: Free from fear and need. A human rights reader . Patmos Verlag Düsseldorf , January 2004, pp. 174–179

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Home - Freudenberg Foundation Weinheim. In: www.freudenbergstiftung.de. Retrieved January 19, 2017 .
  2. ^ Badische Zeitung: Freiburg: People in the city: Otto Herz continues to fight for his reform pedagogical ideas - badische-zeitung.de . ( badische-zeitung.de [accessed on February 23, 2017]).
  3. ↑ NaSch Lexicon | Neighborhood school. In: www.nasch.de. Retrieved December 18, 2016 .
  4. ↑ 20 years of the Leipzig neighborhood school . In: mephisto 97.6 . ( mephisto976.de [accessed December 18, 2016]).
personal data
SURNAME Heart, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Herz, Otto Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German reform pedagogue, psychologist and author
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Weinheim