Rudolf Kober

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Rudolf Kober (born November 22, 1928 in Prague ) is a German art teacher , art historian and university lecturer. Between 1986 and 1990 he was a member of the People's Chamber of the GDR for the National Democratic Party of Germany (NDPD) .

Life

Rudolf Kober was born in Prague in 1928 as the son of a clerk and a seamstress. From 1934 to 1939 he first attended a Czech elementary school in Prague. After the occupation of Czechoslovakia by Germany, Kober was now taught at a German elementary school, where he repeated the 5th grade. He then attended a German high school in Prague between 1940 and 1944. After his 16th birthday in 1944, Kober was drafted into the Reich Labor Service ; in the last months of the war he was a soldier as a member of the Wehrmacht. After the end of World War II , Kober became a Czech prisoner of war, which he spent underground in the Czech coal mine until May 1946.

He was then released into the American zone of occupation and found shelter in Rörshain in North Hesse . Between September and December Kober attended the 10th grade at a grammar school in Homberg . In the same year, as part of the family reunification, he moved to the Soviet occupation zone in Neudietendorf near Erfurt in Thuringia . He started school at the Erfurt high school " Zur Himmelpforte " and left it in 1948 after passing the Abitur. Afterwards, Kober initially returned to his hometown of Neudietendorf, doing various jobs until he began training as a new teacher in 1949 at the pedagogical college in Wilhelmsthal near Eisenach .

At the beginning of the 1950/51 school year, Kober was appointed as a new teacher at the “Dr. Theodor-Neubauer-Oberschule ”in Großbreitenbach . He worked there until 1954, and in 1951 as deputy school director. At the same time, from 1951, Kober began a distance learning course in mathematics at the technical college for electrical engineering and mechanical engineering in Ilmenau , which he completed in 1954 as a subject teacher for mathematics at the upper level. After working in Großbreitenbach, Kober moved to Leipzig , where he studied art education at the pedagogical faculty of the Karl Marx University there until 1957 . The course enabled him to become a teacher at high schools in art education.

Professional activities

After completing his studies, Kober was employed as a specialist teacher for art education and mathematics at the Leibniz High School in Schkeuditz .

In 1961 he returned to Thuringia , where he worked at the Pedagogical Institute “Dr. Theodor-Neubauer ”in Erfurt until 1970 as a research assistant at the chair for art education. Kober also used this activity for his dissertation The Relationship of Leipzig Workers' Associations and Associations for Workers to Fine Art in the Period from the Beginnings of the Labor Movement to 1933 , with which he worked in 1970 at the Faculty for Culture, Linguistics and Education of the Leipzig Karl- Marx University for Dr. phil. received his doctorate . Afterwards, Kober was a senior research assistant and head of the art history department of the teaching institution “Dr. Theodor Neubauer ”in Erfurt and Mühlhausen .

For the next ten years, until 1982, Kober worked as a lecturer in art history at the university. In 1978 he received his PhD B at the University of Leipzig with the thesis "The Development of Panel Painting in Germany from the Beginnings to 1420/30". On September 1, 1982 Kobers became a full professor for theory of design and reception and head of the chair of the same name at the University of Education. In the summer of 1988 he was appointed to the Karl Marx University in Leipzig , where he became full professor of art history on September 1, 1988, with particular attention to the art of the 20th century, as the successor to his late, better-known brother Karl Max Kober ( 1930-1987). After the fall of the Wall, he retired in 1992 .

He published publications mainly on contemporary art, as well as on medieval art, especially in Erfurt.

Party activity

In 1955, Kober joined the NDPD. In 1976 he became a member of the Erfurt district assembly , to which he belonged for the NDPD until 1986. In 1986, Kober was first put up by his party as a candidate for the Volkskammer elections. As a result, Kober was elected to the GDR parliament , to which he was a member until March 1990. He was a member of the Culture Committee.

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SURNAME Kober, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art educator, art historian and university professor, Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague