Pedagogical University in Wuppertal
| Pedagogical University in Wuppertal | |
|---|---|
| activity | 1946-1972 |
| place | Wuppertal |
| Students | ~ 200 |
The Pedagogical University in Wuppertal existed from 1965 to 1972 and was responsible for the training of primary and secondary school teachers as well as special school teachers .
history
It emerged from the Wuppertal Pedagogical Academy with a Protestant orientation that was founded in the Rhineland at the request of the British military government . In the winter semester of 1946, it began teaching with 200 students. The leader until 1959 was Oskar Hammelsbeck , who came from the Confessing Church .
In 1962 the academy was renamed the University of Education . From 1965, the previously independent university was continued as a department of a new Pedagogical University of Rhineland merged from several locations .
In August 1972, the Wuppertal University of Applied Sciences (now the Bergische Universität Wuppertal ) began teaching as a merger of the Wuppertal University of Applied Sciences and the Wuppertal School of Education in the Rhineland Department.
Building ensemble
The ensemble of buildings on the Hardtberg , which was built in 1958 as the Wuppertal Pedagogical Academy, was taken over by the North Rhine-Westphalia prison school in 1977 and left in December 2014.
literature
- Karl-Hermann Beeck: The Pedagogical University in Wuppertal from 1959 to the foundation of the Wuppertal University in 1972: the era of reform . Inst. For school research and teacher training, Wuppertal 1999, ISBN 3-933290-10-4 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Wuppertal book for school and teacher training - Festschrift for the new building celebration of the Wuppertal Pedagogical Academy, Born-Verlag, Wuppertal, 1958
Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′ 49.7 " N , 7 ° 10 ′ 3.3" E