Rudolf Raasch

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Rudolf Raasch (born October 18, 1925 in Kolberg , Pomerania ; † May 5, 2008 in Tauberbischofsheim , Württemberg ) was a German teacher and history teacher .

Life

After elementary school, Raasch attended teacher training institutions in Treptow an der Rega and Gartz (Oder) . When the Second World War was already over, he became a career officer . In the 24th Panzer Division (Wehrmacht) he fought as a flagjunker and lieutenant against the Red Army and the United States Army . He received the tank combat badge and the wound badge . After a short American captivity , he found his family, who had been driven out of Pomerania, in Bitterfeld . He took part in a one-year training course for new teachers in Halle (Saale) and taught at schools in Saxony-Anhalt for one year . He then succeeded in being admitted to study education , psychology and history at the Humboldt University in Berlin . After the state examination in 1953, he became a research assistant at the chair for didactics and methodology of history teaching at the HU's new pedagogical faculty.

East Berlin

With a doctoral thesis with Walter Strauss and Werner Hartke , he was awarded a Dr. ped. PhD . The State Secretariat for Higher Education of the GDR wanted him to take over the management of the History Methodology Department at the University of Rostock . It didn't come to that; because the Volk und Wissen Verlag requested his dissertation for publication. Kurt Hager (SED), however, objected because he considered the work to be "class hostile". When the dispatched Volkspolizei Raasch missed in Rangsdorf , his wife gave him a phone call at the faculty. He fled to West Berlin on April 2, 1957 . Hager then demanded that the evaluation of the doctorate be reduced from "With Distinction" to "Insufficient". Under the direction of its dean Heinrich Deiters , the faculty rejected this request. The second evaluation of the dissertation requested by Hager was also omitted.

Frankfurt am Main

In West Germany , Raasch was caught by Georg Eckert in 1957 . In 1958 he went to the German Institute for International Educational Research as a research assistant . He stayed at DIPF for 32 years. Erwin Stein , Walter Schultze (1903–1984) and Wolfgang Mitter (* 1927) ensured Raasch's freedom of research. In the summer of 1958 he went on a study trip to Switzerland . Raasch was temporarily a member of the institute's management in the 1960s. His idea of ​​pedagogy was based primarily on anthropology and psychology in man's search for meaning. There he met with Philipp Lersch . Closely linked to German idealism , Raasch advocated an education in patriotism and national consciousness. His first empirical study after the escape dealt with this topic. Around 6,000 high school students in Hesse and Lower Saxony were included in the study. In the foreword to the book Contemporary History and National Consciousness published by Luchterhand in 1964 , it says:

“Our research results are exciting. They make the morally based "coming to terms with the past" just as questionable as a one-sided cosmopolitan upbringing. It is as if the West German education was oriented towards a 'world of tomorrow' without sufficiently preserving the historical context ... What also lives in most of the students in the Federal Republic is the love for their national group association, the desire to be proud of his historical achievements. However, this love does not seem to be socially acceptable with us. Here lies the problem. "

- Luchterhand publishing house

The results of the investigation led to a public discussion about coming to terms with the past and the nation . The major parties welcomed the book. Carlo Schmid and Eugen Gerstenmaier praised it. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , Frankfurter Rundschau , Die Welt , Welt am Sonntag , Der Spiegel , Kristall (magazine) , German University Newspaper and most of the radio stations brought reviews . Resolute resistance formed around the Institute for Social Research . Theodor W. Adorno and Friedrich Minssen feared a "renationalization" and initiated counter studies. The West German radio broadcast an (anonymous) declaration of war.

The Protestant Church in Hesse and Nassau commissioned Raasch early 1970s with a study for religious instruction . With around 30,000 pupils in general and vocational schools, it became the largest empirical study on a subject. In the last years of his career, Raasch devoted himself to the youth movement and the German question . In his opinion, the picture of the Weimar Republic drawn in most school history books could not exist from a historical perspective. He spent his 23-year retirement in Stadtprozelten and died at the age of 82 in the Tauberbischofsheim district hospital.

Works

  • with Walter Schultze and Heinrich A. Müller: England's schools today. A representation of the public general education school system . Frankfurt am Main 1960.
  • Contemporary history and national consciousness. Research results on issues of political and general education . Luchterhand, Berlin 1964.
  • School philosophy and worldview. An empirical contribution to questions of philosophical and general education . Beltz, Weinheim 1968.
  • with Wolfgang Hilligen : Educational research and educational progress. Walter Schultze on his 65th birthday . Bertelsmann 1970.
  • Religious educational project, research conception . Frankfurt am Main 1973.
  • Religious education project Evaluation procedure Representation using the example of class 7; Hauptschule, Realschule, Gymnasium . Frankfurt am Main 1973.
  • Youth on the matter with God. Statistics about attitudes . Frankfurt am Main 1975.
  • The Republic of Weimar in school history books . Frankfurt am Main 1988.
  • German youth movement 1900-1933 and West German school youth around 1980. A cultural and educational report . Frankfurt am Main 1984, Cologne 1991.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Rudolf Raasch (Kulturportal West-Ost) (authorized by Raasch)
  2. ↑ Dissertation: Didactic and methodological currents in German history teaching since 1945
  3. ^ The education system in Switzerland in single pictures . Frankfurt am Main 1958
  4. ↑ Broadcast manuscript "Einfalls und Ausfalls" from December 7, 1964
  5. ↑ Review in Der Spiegel 1/1965
personal data
SURNAME Raasch, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pedagogue and history teacher
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Kolberg , Pomerania
DATE OF DEATH May 5, 2008
Place of death Tauberbischofsheim , Württemberg