Pedagogical Institute Weilburg

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The Pedagogical Institute Weilburg was an institution of the Hessian teacher training from 1946 to 1963, whose status corresponded to a pedagogical university .

history

Windhof Castle

The Frankfurt University for Teacher Training was relocated to Weilburg in 1934 and the resulting construction work continued until 1936. On November 1, 1939, the university was closed again due to the war and only existed formally until 1941.

In 1945, the US occupation authority for teacher training for the decided elementary school and junior high school , the Pedagogical Institute Weilburg establish that in 1946 received the teaching. From 1947 it could also use rooms in the Weilburger Windhof again. The institute existed until the end of 1963, before it was completely transferred to the "College for Education" in Giessen . The aim was to make teacher training more academically oriented through a greater scientific orientation .

The directors were Georg Morgenstern (until 1950), Walter Asmus (until 1954) and Julius Dettmar . Kurt Körber , from 1953 Hans-Werner Surkau and Friedrich Hahn successively represented Protestant theology.

University of Education Giessen 1961–1967

In order to make teacher training more academic, the state of Hesse founded two universities of education (HfE) in Frankfurt am Main and in Giessen by law on May 12, 1960, which were to accommodate the educational institutes in Jugenheim and Weilburg. In the summer semester of 1961, with a celebration on May 17, 1961, the HfE Gießen opened its business. The professors and lecturers from Weilburg were usually transferred or newly appointed until 1963. Friedrich Trost became President of the HfE Council . There were also well-known (extraordinary) professors Hildegard Hetzer , Friedrich J. Lucas , Dettmar, Adalbert Elschenbroich (German), Otto Brosius and Otto Antrick (deputies). As early as 1966/67, the HfE was fully integrated into the respective universities in Frankfurt and the University of Gießen as departments for educational sciences. The universities delayed their opposition to the upgrading of teachers to equal professors.

Memorial plaque

Memorial plaque

A plaque at the Windhof Castle of the Weilburger Hochschulring e. V., which was founded in 1950 and dissolved in February 2007.

supporting documents

  1. ↑ August Schummer: Opening speech at the Giessen University of Education. 1961, accessed January 11, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Education. University of Giessen, accessed on January 11, 2019 .
  3. ^ Rudolf Müller: Memorial plaque at the Windhof . In: Worth seeing in Weilburg - Weilburg monuments . Retrieved March 11, 2019

literature

  • Wernfried Schreiber: On the way to university teacher training: Teacher training in Hesse from 1945–1950 , Frankfurt am Main 1978
  • Karl Dienst: Between science and church politics: on the importance of university theology for the identity of a regional church in the past and present , Lang, Frankfurt am M. 2009
  • Anne Rohstock: From the “Ordinarienuniversität” to “Revolutionszentrale” ?: University reform and university revolt in Bavaria and Hesse 1957–1976 , Munich 2010 (esp. P. 130)