Philipp Eggers

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Philipp Bernhard Eggers (born July 9, 1929 in Bochum ; † January 22, 2016 there ) was a German educationalist and lawyer .

Life

Philipp Eggers, called König, was the son of the businessman and managing director Friedrich Karl Eggers, who died in 1956, and his wife Elisabeth, born in 1956. King. After graduating from high school in 1951, he studied Catholic theology , law and political science, as well as educational and social sciences at the universities of Heidelberg , Münster and Würzburg . Since 1954 he has been a member of the Catholic student association VKDSt. Saxonia Munster . After working in financial administration and as a teacher, Eggers became a research assistant at the educational science seminar of the University of Heidelberg with Hermann Röhrs . In 1961, Eggers was awarded a Dr. phil. , in Würzburg 1976 as Dr. iur. utr. PhD. As a lecturer for school pedagogy, he worked at the Rhineland University of Education (Dept. Bonn). In 1969 he became a private lecturer at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Amsterdam , a year later Scientific Councilor and Professor of General Pedagogy at the Rhineland University of Education (Aachen Department).

Eggers took on an unscheduled professorship at Heidelberg University in 1972; a year later he was appointed to the chair of educational science at the University of Bonn . Further teaching activities took him to the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt and, in 1991, as a DAAD visiting professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin . At the Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald, he was the founding representative of the Institutes for Education and Psychology. He held an honorary professorship at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Eichstätt campus.

Main areas of activity

In his academic work, Eggers devoted himself above all to humanities education in the tradition of Wilhelm Flitner and is concerned with Günther Küchenhoff's legal philosophy . Interdisciplinarity is a necessity for Eggers - as his career shows. In addition to his university activities, Eggers was involved in the training and further education of priests (for example at the St. Lambert Study House in Burg Lantershofen as part of the late-calling priest training) and in adult education.

honors and awards

  • Hedwig Medal of the Diocese of Berlin in bronze (1969)
  • Honorary doctorate from the Universidad de San Buenaventura in Bogotá-Medellin-Cali, Colombia (1980)
  • Commander's Cross of the Order of Gregory (1990)
  • Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1999)

Works (selection)

  • The concept of personality in Karl Marx and in Catholic social teaching . Univ. Dissertation Heidelberg 1961
  • Sociopolitical conceptions of the present. Democratic socialism. Marxism. Catholic social teaching. Neoliberalism . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart et al. 1969
  • (as editor): University laws of the federal and state governments . Bock, Bad Honnef 1970
  • (as editor, together with Franz Steinbacher): Sexualpädagogik. Klinkhardt, Bad Heilbrunn 1976. ISBN 3-7815-0256-2
  • The development of youth welfare legislation in the Federal Republic of Germany with special consideration of the regulatory principles of subsidiarity and solidarity. A contribution to the development of the rule of law to the welfare state . Bock & Herchen, Bad Honnef 1979 (plus Univ. Diss. Würzburg 1976).
  • (as editor, together with Franz Steinbacher): Sociology of Adult Education. (= Handbook of Adult Education; Vol. 6). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart et al. 1977. ISBN 3-17-001721-7
  • (together with Franz Steinbacher): Pedagogical Sociology.  : Klinkhardt, Bad Heilbrunn 1979. ISBN 3-7815-0384-4
  • Fell, Margret; Hablitzel, Hans ; Wollenschläger, Michael (ed.): Upbringing - Education - Law. Contribution to an interdisciplinary and intercultural dialogue. Festschrift for Philipp Eggers on his 65th birthday. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary notice Philipp B. Eggers, General-Anzeiger v. January 26, 2016 , obituary notice Philipp B. Eggers , FAZ v. January 27, 2016
  2. ↑ Philipp Eggers: The concept of personality in Karl Marx and in Catholic social teaching . Heidelberg 1961.
personal data
SURNAME Eggers, Philipp
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eggers, Philipp Bernhard; Eggers, Philipp B.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educationalist and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Bochum
DATE OF DEATH 22nd January 2016
Place of death Bochum