Peter Lautzas

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Peter Lautzas (born April 22, 1941 in Königsberg ) is a German historian and history teacher . He is the bearer of the Federal Cross of Merit .

biography

Lautzas was born as the first child of the agricultural economist Artur Lautzas and his wife Anni in Königsberg / East Prussia. After fleeing in 1945, the family lived in Lower Bavaria until 1956 and then in Mainz from 1956 . There he attended grammar school and from 1962 studied German, history and philosophy at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz until he passed the first state examination in 1968. In 1970/71 he completed his legal clerkship for higher education, in 1973 he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD . He then studied political science and sociology in Mainz for a few semesters.

From 1971 to 1974 Lautzas worked at the advanced high school in Alzey , and from 1977 at the state high school at the Electoral Palace in Mainz. Since 1975, he was also in teacher training, in addition as a regional consultant for the subject history since 1976 government district Rheinhessen-Pfalz busy.

His school service was interrupted by the delegation as a consultant to the Ministry of Culture of Rhineland-Palatinate 1974-1976, where he worked for Culture Minister Bernhard Vogel mainly engaged in the reform of the upper secondary school ( Mainzer study stage ) and their implementation was involved in the schools. After that, until his retirement in 2005 he was a permanent expert of the Ministry for History Education , 1975–1984 head of the curriculum commission for the upper secondary level, member of the committees of the Conference of Ministers of Education and the head of several state educational commissions. As a German expert, he took part in an advisory capacity at conferences in Great Britain (1978) and France (1988) and was consulted as a reviewer for foreign textbooks, for example from China.

In terms of association policy, Lautzas was state chairman for Rhineland-Palatinate in the Association of History Teachers of Germany (VGD) from 1986 to 2001 , and has been honorary chairman there since 2009. From 2002 to 2012 he was national chairman of the association. During this time, the magazine “ geschichte für heute ” was founded by the Wochenschau Verlag.

Lautzas has been involved in the field of cultural history for decades, most recently in 2015 as chairman of the Mainz City History Museum . He is the author of numerous publications on educational and scientific topics.

Lautzas has been married since 1966 and has a son (* 1981).

honors and awards

On August 13, 2007, Peter Lautzas was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit by the Federal President for his achievements.

Publications (selection)

• Living on after the genocide - The reconciliation policy in Rwanda after the genocide of 1994 . In: history for today 4/2015
• Archeology in German Education. Questions and requests to archeology from practice . In: Integrating Archeology. Science - Wish - Reality, Frankfurt 2012
• Historic Mainz , Schwalbach / Ts. 2012
• Educational canon in history? In: Bildungskanon heute , ed. by Ute Erdsiek-Rave and Marei John-Ohnesorg, Berlin 2012
• Limitless? Borders as an international problem (ed.), Schwalbach 2010
• Across borders . In: history for today 3/2010
• Division and Integration - The twofold German post-war history as a scientific and didactic problem . Edited together with Christoph Kleßmann. Series of publications by the Federal Agency for Civic Education Volume 482, Bonn 2005
• The siege of Mainz in 1793. In: The Mainzer Republic - The Rhenish-German National Convention , Mainz 1993
• State historical excursion guide Rhineland-Palatinate , 3 volumes (edited together with Klaus Kremb), Otterbach 1989–1993
• DUDEN Abitur Aid History , 2 volumes, Mannheim / Vienna / Zurich 1989 and 1991
• Community studies for the upper level of grammar school , Volume Geschichte (Ed.), Paderborn 1992 (2nd edition)
• Mainz fortress in the age of the Ancien Régime, the French Revolution and the Empire (1736–1814) , Wiesbaden 1973

Web links

• Association of History Teachers in Germany (VGD)
• Video The Germans: Dr. Peter Lautzas on "The Germans" (November 21, 2008, 1:00 p.m., 4:02 minutes)  in the ZDFmediathek , accessed on February 6, 2014.