Theodor Heuss Academy

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Theodor Heuss Academy
Exterior view of the Theodor Heuss Academy

Exterior view of the Theodor Heuss Academy

Data
place Gummersbach , North Rhine-Westphalia
architect Hans Brandt
Client Friedrich Naumann Foundation
Architectural style late modern Bauhaus style with regional specifics
Construction year 1965-1967
height 25 m
Floor space 23045 m²
Coordinates 51 ° 0 ′ 18 "  N , 7 ° 34 ′ 7"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 0 ′ 18 "  N , 7 ° 34 ′ 7"  E

The Theodor Heuss Academy in Gummersbach is an educational institution of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom .

history

Federal President Theodor Heuss , namesake of the academy

After laying the foundation stone on July 8, 1965 and a construction period of almost two years, the academy was inaugurated on May 26, 1967 in the presence of Federal President Heinrich Lübke and North Rhine-Westphalia's Prime Minister Heinz Kühn . The institution was named after Theodor Heuss , the first Federal President of the Federal Republic of Germany , whose upcoming 80th birthday in 1964 was the subject of a meeting of the Board of Trustees in 1962 and which was taken as an opportunity to think about setting up a foundation's own educational institution. Because, among other things, the then Minister of Economic Affairs of North Rhine-Westphalia and management consultant, Gerhard Kienbaum , who was based in Gummersbach, encouraged and supported the implementation of the project in his home town, the decision was made to build the academy at the current location. The city of Gummersbach provided the property free of charge, the establishment of the academy was mainly financed through donations.

The architect Hans Brandt , who lives in the neighboring Marienheide and a former student of Hans Poelzig , designed the academy in the late modern Bauhaus style on the recommendation of Kienbaum . The typical Bergische style of the Oberbergischer Kreis with slate cladding on the facade gives the academy a regionally specific look.

Conference venue

The Theodor Heuss Academy currently employs around forty people. In addition to three seminar rooms and five group work rooms named after liberal personalities, as well as a panorama hall for up to 120 people, the academy has 49 guest rooms with a total of 75 beds. There is also an academy restaurant, a bar (“Heuss Club”), and a fitness and leisure room.

In the Theodor-Heuss-Akademie, around 140 internal and external seminars, mostly lasting several days, take place annually, which are attended by around 5,000 participants.

Further work units of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom are located on the premises of the academy: since 1984 the archive of liberalism , since 1995 the international academy for executives and since 2009 the state office of North Rhine-Westphalia.

The Theodor Heuss Academy is certified for its pedagogical and didactic qualification processes and a member of the Gütesiegelverbund Further Education Association

  • Access area (west)

  • Interior view of the entrance area

  • Seminar and conference room " Ralf Dahrendorf " (with interpreter booths)

  • Multifunctional room " Immanuel Kant "

  • Interior view of the "Heuss Club" (until 2014 "Wacholderstube")

Educational program

The Theodor Heuss Academy offers a nationwide forum for the opinion and decision-making process of all citizens with the fields of "Liberal Positions and Cooperation", "Political Management and Political Culture" and "Rhetorical Communication and Digitization" and promotes the exchange between experts and executives Society, economy and politics. The academy offers seminars on the fundamentals of liberal politics and values, workshops on current political issues, specialist conferences on special issues and training courses for political management. The trainings aim to use rhetorical skills, personal appearance and convincing content to move people in society and politics to act and to enable participants to stand up for liberal values.

Full-time pedagogical employees develop the programs, organize the seminars and work out the content with the speakers. They are supported by administrative employees who are mainly busy processing registrations and invoicing.

management

The first director of the educational institution was Horst Dahlhaus in 1967 , who held this position until September 1968.

His successors were

Walter Erbe (1909–1967)

Art in the academy

In addition to the annual “Art and Cabaret on the Magic Mountain” exhibition, where artists from the region present their works, the academy is also a permanent art location. Works such as "Ode to Freedom" (acrylic on canvas) by Viktor Nikolajew, "Deutsche Landschaft" (mixed media) by Hans-Hermann T., "Der 9 November 1989" (oil on canvas) by Frauke Barow, as well as "Hungary 1991" (oil on canvas) by Josef Baska and "Homage to the 200th Anniversary of the French Revolution" (glass picture) by Richard Wilhelm have a permanent place in the facility. Several portraits and busts by Theodor Heuss, including Jürgen Kallmann , are also an integral part of the permanent exhibition. In front of the building is a bust of the former chairman of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, Walter Erbe .

literature

  • Wolfgang Gerhardt , Barthold C. Witte , Jürgen Frölich , Horst Köhler , Ralf Dahrendorf : Life and work of Friedrich Naumann 1860–1919. - Chronicle of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom 1958–2010. That we ourselves seek to become free as much as we can. Ed .: Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom. 2010 ( Digitale-sammlungen.de [PDF; accessed on July 19, 2017]).
  • Monika Fassbender: "... active on the basis of liberalism". The history of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation . Nomos, Baden-Baden 2009, ISBN 978-3-8329-4893-1 .
  • Henning von Vieregge: Party foundations. On the role of the Konrad-Adenauer-, Friedrich-Ebert-, Friedrich-Naumann- and Hanns-Seidel-Foundation in the political system of the Federal Republic of Germany (= series of publications on the foundation system ) . Nomos, Baden-Baden 1977, ISBN 978-3-7890-0280-9 .

Web links

Commons : Theodor-Heuss-Akademie  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Monika Fassbender: "... active on the basis of liberalism". The history of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation , Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden 2009, p. 121 ff.
  2. ↑ Theodor Heuss Academy, Archive of Liberalism, International Academy for Executives: Political Education for Freedom. 1967–2007 Forty years of Theodor Heuss Academy. Contributions to history , Gummersbach 2007.
  3. ↑ Understand change. Protect rights. Shaping the future. 50 years of international politics. Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, accessed on July 19, 2017 . , P. 87 ff.
  4. ^ Regional office for North Rhine-Westphalia. Knowledge. Shape. Precede. Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, accessed on July 19, 2017 .
  5. ↑ a b c Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom: Annual Report 2010 , p. 38 f., Accessed on July 25, 2017.
  6. ^ Members of the Association of Gütesiegelverbund Further Education eV Gütesiegelverbund Further Education eV, January 28, 2013, accessed on July 25, 2017 .
  7. ^ Theodor Heuss Academy. The educational facility of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom. Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, accessed on July 25, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Annual report 2012. Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, 2013, accessed on July 25, 2017 (p. 39).
  9. ^ Annual report 2008. Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, 2009, accessed on July 25, 2017 (p. 31 ff.).
  10. ↑ Reiner Thiess: "Hero of Democracy". Klaus Füßmann heads the academy. Kölnische Rundschau, January 28, 2013, accessed on July 19, 2017 .
  11. ↑ 2016–11 Theodor Heuss exhibition can come. Ford Foto-Klub Cologne, accessed July 19, 2017 .
  12. ↑ Flyer of the Theodor-Heuss-Akademie “Freedom-Views: Art in the Theodor-Heuss-Akademie”.