Theodor Rutt

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Theodor Rutt (born May 5, 1911 in Cologne ; † March 7, 2006 ) was a German pedagogue , Germanist , linguist and university professor who, in addition to numerous specialist books on German teaching , linguistics and the German language, also wrote books on local history .

Life

After graduating from high school , Rutt studied German at the University of Cologne and the Pedagogical Academy in Bonn , graduating with the state exams in 1933 and 1936 . He then worked as a teacher at elementary schools operate and concluded in 1939 his doctorate Dr. phil. with a dissertation on the subject of self-education and self-education in life and in the works of Adalbert Stifter . He finished another postgraduate course in philology in 1942 with the assessor exam.

After the Second World War, Rutt was a lecturer at the Pedagogical Academy in Cologne, where he took over a professorship for didactics of the German language in 1951 . At the same time he was rector of the Pedagogical Academy in Cologne between 1954 and 1962 .

Through his numerous specialist and teaching books, he shaped German teaching in primary and elementary schools in particular and was among other things the author of your mother tongue between 1962 and 1970 : Arbeitsbuch für die Deutschuntersprache , a series of books for German lessons from the second to the ninth school year, which in several New editions appeared.

In his numerous publications he also dealt with topics such as education, teaching and youth care, but also with the local history of the Oberbergisches Land and the Rhein-Sieg district . In particular, his book Land an Sieg und Rhein: Geschichte, Kultur, Wirtschaft (1960) contains an extensive description of companies and institutions such as Boge GmbH and Schoeller'sche worsted yarn spinning mill in Eitorf , August Lepper in Bad Honnef , Reifenhäuser Group in Troisdorf , Kautex Textron in Holzlar , Hennef Sports School , but also to places and personalities such as Wolsdorf , Herchen-Bahnhof , Maximilian Jacobi or the Stieldorfer Passion Play .

After the Pedagogical Academy was renamed the Cologne University of Education in 1962, he remained active there and became Vice Rector in 1964 . In 1965 he took over a professorship at the newly founded Pedagogical University of Rhineland and taught at its Cologne department until his retirement on October 1, 1979. In addition, he was President of the Pedagogical University Senate of North Rhine-Westphalia for several years . He was also a member of the Society for Jenaplan Pedagogy in Germany, which deals with the Jena Plan , a school development concept developed by Peter Petersen in 1927 .

Grave in the Melaten cemetery

Rutt, who subsequently wrote numerous books on various subjects, published his memoirs in 1992 under the title Experienced Educational Reality: Insights into Becoming and Becoming. Educational sketches .

For his many years of service he received in 1986 the Order of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany and in 1993 by the Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia , Johannes Rau , the Order of Merit of North Rhine-Westphalia awarded.

His grave is in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne (hall 28).

Publications

Educational publications

  • Linguistics. 4th to 6th school year , co-author Heinrich Breuer , Cologne 1950
  • Native language school , 3 parts, co-author Heinrich Breuer, Ratingen 1951
  • Language development and book. Lively language knowledge, creative language skills Volume 1, Ratingen 1951
  • Ways of the word. Lively language knowledge, creative language skills , Volume 3, Ratingen 1955
  • Picture and word. Lively language knowledge, creative language skills , Volume 4, Ratingen 1955
  • The single font in German lessons , 2 volumes, co-author Frank Schnass, Heilbrunn 1955
  • Truth and Value in Education and Upbringing. Josef Esterhues on his 70th birthday , Ratingen 1955
  • On the essence of language: An introduction to the meaning and workings of the word, language and mother tongue , Ratingen 1957
  • Youth and books: Report on the 4th Mainau youth book conference 1958 , Konstanz 1959
  • Book and Youth , Constance 1960
  • Taggestirn , Paderborn 1961
  • Didactics of the mother tongue , Frankfurt am Main 1964
  • Preparation of essays in the fifth school year: Contributions to pedagogical and didactic factual research , Paderborn 1968
  • Didactics of the mother tongue , Frankfurt am Main 1968
  • Didactics: nature, tasks, basic features, forms, especially of teaching , revision of the book by Josef Esterhues , Paderborn 1970
  • Contributions to empirical teaching and education research , 2 episodes, Wuppertal 1971/73
  • Aid for disabled people through equitable orthographic lessons , Düsseldorf 1975
  • Education, based on the Christian image of man , Cologne 1977, ISBN 3-920007-39-5
  • Anthroposophical education - salvation teaching for our time? : On the fundamentals of Rudolf Steiner's anthroposophical teaching , Heinsberg 1983, ISBN 3-88852-109-2
  • Petersenschule today , Heinsberg 1983, ISBN 3-88852-115-7
  • Cologne texts , 6 volumes, Berlin 1991/93

Biographical publications

  • Self-education and self-education in life and in the works of Adalbert Stifter , dissertation University of Cologne, 1939
  • Adalbert Stifter: The educator , Wuppertal 1970
  • Doctor med. Fritz Wester, Persecuted by National Socialism , Cologne 1983, ISBN 3-7691-7915-3
  • Peter Petersen: Life and Work , Heinsberg 1984, ISBN 3-88852-133-5
  • Heart in works and letters by Adalbert Stifter , Hoffeld 1997, ISBN 3-9803297-8-X
  • The image of man by Thomas von Kempen: Imitatio Christi in our time , Hoffeld 1998, ISBN 3-9803297-6-3

Local history publications

  • Home chronicle of the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis , Cologne 1953
  • Oberbergisches Land: history, culture, economy, administration , Cologne 1958
  • Land on Sieg and Rhine: history, culture, economy , Bonn 1960
  • Rösrath in the course of history , Rösrath 1970
  • Overath: History of the community , Cologne 1980, ISBN 3-7927-0530-3

Background literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ernst Heinen: Teacher training in Cologne under the claim of science and training (1946-1971) , p. 53  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 286 kB)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / duepublico.uni-duisburg-essen.de  
  2. ↑ Merit holders since 1986. State Chancellery of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed on March 11, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Rutt, Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 2006