Lörrach University of Education
| Lörrach University of Education | |
|---|---|
| activity | December 16, 1966 - March 31, 1984 |
| Sponsorship | state |
| place | Loerrach |
| state | Baden-Württemberg |
| country | Germany |
| Students | 682 WS 1974/75 |
| Employee | 76 |
| including professors | 47 teaching civil servants and employees as of June 30, 1981 |
| Annual budget | DM 5.6 million in 1981 |
The Lörrach University of Education was the ninth university of education in Baden-Württemberg . It existed from 1966 to 1984 at the Lörrach location .
history
The government of the federal state of South Baden relocated the Pedagogical Academy from Bad Rippoldsau to Lörrach with effect from February 1, 1947 . The actual start of teaching only took place in November 1947 with 93 students between 20 and 30 years of age, most of whom were combatants and some of them had only passed the secondary school leaving certificate before their military service . The academy was housed in the Fridolin School. Until 1951, training for teachers - including Protestant and Catholic religious teachers - was carried out in Lörrach, with training lasting two years each. There was a special educational academy for teachers in Gengenbach . In December 1951, the previously simultaneous academy was divided into a Protestant and a Catholic branch and both were relocated to Freiburg .
In 1962 there was a discussion in the state of Baden-Württemberg about the need for teachers and the correspondingly necessary teacher training. In 1963, the state parliament decided in principle to found a ninth college of education, which should be located in southern Baden.
Lörrach with his mayor, Egon Hugenschmidt , saw his chance to get a university of national importance and was supported by the state parliament members Nikolaus Lorenz and Wilhelm Jung . One argument in favor of Lörrach was that there was no training facility for Protestant religion teachers in southern Baden at the time, as the University of Education in Freiburg had only been Catholic since 1958. In addition, there was no university in the border region until then. The competitors for the university location were Donaueschingen , Lahr , Müllheim , Offenburg , Villingen , Waldkirch and Weil am Rhein . On January 27, 1966, the state decided to set up the ninth college of education in Lörrach. The implementation of the resolution was regulated by an ordinance of the state government of July 26, 1966, and the founding act with the Minister of Education, Wilhelm Hahn, took place on December 16, 1966 . The city of Lörrach rented a construction section of the Eichendorff elementary school to the country and contractually secured space for the planned own buildings of the college of education, which, however, were never started.
In connection with the country's austerity efforts and predictions of a flood of teachers, there were soon voices calling for the new university to be closed. Already in 1977 the college of education was threatened with liquidation, with violent opposition from all parties in Lörrach. On February 9, 1977, there was a large demonstration in Lörrach for the preservation of the university, which ultimately led to a commitment by the Stuttgart state government and the Prime Minister Hans Filbinger personally. Filbinger's successor, Lothar Späth , also gave the impression in 1978 in speeches about university policy that the government wanted to preserve rural university locations.
An investigation by the State Audit Office for the 1979 financial year came to the conclusion that there were few students for every teacher in Lörrach and that the costs per student were therefore the highest in comparison to the other teacher training colleges. The university countered that the lack of financial resources had also limited the attractiveness and efforts to introduce additional subjects were rejected. Politicians limited the development opportunities of the Loerrach University from the start and viewed them as "an object that is available at any time".
When rumors surfaced again in the first half of 1980 about an imminent closure of the pedagogical university, the Senate of the university assumed in a statement on May 12, 1980 from a "deliberate indiscretion" which had the purpose of unsettling potential students from one To dissuade the decision to study in Lörrach and then to dissolve it due to falling student numbers.
On June 18, 1980, the state government decided to close the Loerrach University of Applied Sciences on March 31, 1984. The relevant draft law was approved by the cabinet on September 30, 1980 and passed by the state parliament on November 27, 1980. The efforts of a group of MPs, the university, the city and the district to have the constitutionality of the dissolution resolution checked in a judicial review procedure failed.
After the closure
The buildings used by the University of Education were then used by the Lörrach University of Cooperative Education . The library of the University of Education was transferred to the Lörrach Regional Scientific Library . The wings of the building that are no longer required were demolished in 2010.
Since February 1, 1982 Lörrach has had a seminar for the practical training of primary and secondary school teachers: the so-called State Seminar for Didactics and Teacher Training (GWRHS) Lörrach.
Rectors
- Max König (1966–1969)
- Alfred Vogelbacher (1969–1976)
- Gerhard Homann (1976–1978)
- Ekkehard Blumenthal (1978–1982)
Course offer
Educational area
- General pedagogy
- School pedagogy
- philosophy
- psychology
- Sociology / Politics
- Protestant and Catholic theology
Scientific and didactic area
- biology
- German
- English
- Scientific Politics / Social Studies
- geography
- history
- Art education
- mathematics
- Music education
- Physical education
- Protestant and Catholic theology / religious education
- Works / technology
Lecturers
Renowned lecturers taught at the Loerrach University of Applied Sciences. These were:
- Bernhard Bischoff (art pedagogue) (1932–2008), professor of art education with a focus on medieval art, regional art and early childhood drawings in art education
- Heinrich Bollinger (1916–1990), professor of psychology
- Lothar Bossle (1929–2000), professor of sociology
- Andreas Digeser (1925–2010), professor of English with a focus on linguistics
- Peter Fiedler (theologian) (1940–2009), professor of religious education
- Gernot Gonschorek (* 1943), lecturer in school education
- Hans-Hagen Hartter (1943-2001), lecturer for fine arts and its didactics
- Peter Kern (pedagogue) (* 1940), professor of pedagogy
- Karl Kuhn (biologist) (1934-2014), professor for didactics of biology
- Jürgen E. Pleines (1934–2012), professor of philosophy
- Klaus Schubring (* 1940), Professor of History
- Dieter Walther (1930–2013), professor of religious education
- Otto Wittmann (geologist) (1907–1986), lecturer in geography
literature
- Otto Leible (ed.), Gerhard Homann: Lörrach University of Education . In: Der Kreis Lörrach , Stuttgart 1980, pp. 168–169.
- Egon Hugenschmidt : 12. The Lörrach University of Education . In: Loerrach. Landscape - History - Culture , Lörrach 1982, pp. 535–537.
- Lörrach University of Education: facts and backgrounds. A documentation in the context of the politically intended closure of the Lörrach University of Education , Lörrach 1980.
- Fritz Schmieder: Memories of the Pedagogical Academy in Lörrach 1947-1949 . In: Our Lörrach. - 21. 1990. - pp. 166-169.
- Ekkehard Blumenthal: From the founding act to the closure order: 15 years at the Lörrach University of Education . In: Our Lörrach . - 13. 1982, pp. 178-189.
- Siegfried Kullen: Lörrach as a university town . In: Regio Basilensis, 1971, pp. 103-112.
Web links
- Main State Archive (Stuttgart), Anja Adelt, Ralf Othengrafen: Repertories: Ministry of Culture: Lörrach University of Education: 1960-1982, preliminary files from 1937; Repertory contains blocked documents. EA, 3.815 [1]
Individual evidence
- ↑ highest level; s. Homann p. 168
- ↑ s. Official Journal of the Baden State Administration - French Occupation Area, Volume 2, No. 11, March 26, 1947 online at the Baden State Library
- ↑ s. Schmieder p. 166
- ↑ s. Karl Stiefel: Bathing. 1648-1952 , Volume II, Karlsruhe 1979, p. 2002
- ↑ s. Kullen p. 103
- ^ Homepage of the Eichendorff School on the previous location; accessed on May 30, 2019
- ↑ According to the 1977 structural plan, the capacity of the universities of teacher education should be reduced from 11,900 to 9,000.
- ↑ s. Blumenthal p. 185
- ↑ s. Lörrach University of Education: facts and backgrounds. A documentation in the context of the politically intended closure of the Lörrach University of Education , Lörrach 1980, p. 42
- ↑ Law amending the law on teacher training colleges in the state of Baden-Württemberg
- ↑ s. Annual report of the Rector for the period from July 19, 1980 to July 18, 1981
- ↑ Homepage of the seminar , last accessed on May 31, 2019
Coordinates: 47 ° 37 '2.4 " N , 7 ° 40' 38.1" E