Otto Klöden
Otto Klöden (born May 16, 1895 in Görlitz , Lower Silesia, † April 5, 1986 in Reutlingen ) was a German educationalist and Silesian expellee functionary .
Klöde passed the first teacher examination in 1914 in Reichenbach / OL . He took part in the First World War as an officer, then went to public school; He began studying German and history at the University of Breslau in 1921, and received his doctorate in 1927. phil., passed both state examinations for higher education and was appointed professor for educational science and general didactics at the college for teacher training in Hirschberg (Silesia) in the Giant Mountains in 1935 . During World War II , Klöden served in Poland, France and Russia and was released from American captivity in July 1945 as a lieutenant colonel .
From 1953 he was a school board member, then a high school board member and head of the district school office in Reutlingen. In 1948 he founded the state group Württemberg-Hohenzollern and was state chairman of Baden-Württemberg, since 1968 also deputy federal chairman of the Landsmannschaft Silesia , also a member of the Silesian state assembly and deputy chairman of the Federation of Expellees Baden-Württemberg. The Kirchentag of Protestant Silesians elected him as the first deputy president. In addition to educational studies, Klöden published many treatises such as newspaper articles on the political and cultural history of the German East and on basic questions of German Ostpolitik. In 1973 he received the Silesian Shield .
Honors
- 1972: Silesian shield
- 1980: Large Federal Cross of Merit
- 1985: Medal of Merit of the State of Baden-Württemberg
literature
- Alexander Hesse: The professors and lecturers of the Prussian educational academies (1926-1933) and colleges for teacher training (1933-1941) . Deutscher Studien-Verlag, Weinheim 1995, ISBN 3-89271-588-2 , p. 431–432 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
Fonts
- The concept of naturalness in Comenius and Rousseau , Heinze 1928
- On the problem of the right to self-determination in Central and Eastern Europe since the First World War , Stuttgart 1973
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Klöden, Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German educationalist and Silesian expellee functionary |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 16, 1895 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Görlitz , Lower Silesia |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 5, 1986 |
| Place of death | Reutlingen |