Walter Korn (politician)

Walter Korn (born December 7, 1937 in Oberndorf im Spessart ; † February 5, 2005 in Hanau ) was a German education politician and a member of the CDU state parliament in Hesse .

Life and work

Walter Korn was born on December 7, 1937 in Jossgrund-Oberndorf as the first of five sons of a farming family. The father, Karl Korn, died in Normandy in 1944. At the age of 14, Walter Korn was given the opportunity by the Franciscan Order to take the high school route to school. In the following years he was a student at the Franciscan boarding schools in Hadamar (Germany) and Watersleyde (Holland). In 1958 he graduated from the humanistic grammar school in Fulda , where he passed his Abitur examination. In 1961 he entered the Hessian school service. From 1966 he worked as a secondary school teacher for mathematics and sport and since 1970 he has been the promotional level leader. In 1967 he joined the CDU. Walter Korn was married to Christel Korn geb. Hohmann and father of two children (Sabine and Christoph).

Member of the Hessian state parliament

From 1970 to 1999 he was a member of the Hessian Landtag for what is now the Main-Kinzig I constituency . In the state elections in 1987 and 1995 he was elected in the constituency, but otherwise via the CDU state list. He was educational policy spokesman for the CDU parliamentary group from 1987 to 1991, chairman of the cultural policy committee from 1991 to 1995 and chairman of the CDU in the main committee. From 1984 to 1996 he was a member of the state board of the CDU Hessen. He was a member of the Federal Assembly five times .

Offices in the constituency

From 1968 to 1974 Walter Korn was a city councilor in Dörnigheim and from 1972 to 1974 a member of the district council of the old district of Hanau . After the founding of the Main-Kinzig-Kreis , he belonged to the district parliament without interruption and was deputy chairman of the parliamentary group. In 2001 he switched to the district committee. For more than a decade, from 1980 to 1990, he headed the CDU district association Main-Kinzig as chairman. From 1976 he was a member of the district board of the CDU East Hesse. In 2000 he was elected honorary chairman of his party in the Main-Kinzig district.

Public offices

1980 to 1988 chairman of the Hessian adult education association and chairman of the state board of trustees for adult education . 1985 to 1987 member of the federal board of the German Adult Education Association. From 1974 to 1987 and from 1995 deputy or chairman of the board of trustees of the Hessian State Center for Political Education . 1980 to 1992 member of the broadcasting council of the Hessischer Rundfunks and since 1982 chairman of the television program committee of the Hessischer Rundfunk and deputy member of the program advisory board of the ARD .

Humanistic roots of the education politician Walter Korn

The religious parental home and the school socialization oriented towards humanism shaped the political and above all the educational policy engagement of Walter Korn. In addition to the necessary orientation of an educational system to social and economic developments, the humanistic-oriented educational ideal of a holistic education of the individual and specific person who is unmistakable in his dignity remained decisive for Walter Korn .

Traces in the continuing education landscape

"If you look at the lifespan of Rohlmann (Korn's [educational] political opponent in the Hessian state parliament) and Korn from middle adulthood to death, you get the - initially trivial - insight that the actors in different ways have a sustainable They exerted an influence on the state's educational policy, left deep traces of educational policy in the continuing education landscape and, in their professional biographical generativity, even set milestones beyond the present for a worthwhile continuing education policy of the future. " This is the verdict of two biographical researchers in the social and educational sciences about the two state parliament members Korn (CDU) and Rohlmann (SPD), two key leaders in adult education. With their study, they wanted to make the interactions between the person and social structures more transparent in order to determine how individual biographies changed parts of the educational reality and how they contributed to the creation, but also the abolition of institutional structures.

Honors

In 1978 Walter Korn was honored with the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon and in 1988 with the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class.

literature

Jochen Lengemann : The Hessen Parliament 1946–1986 . Biographical handbook of the advisory state committee, the state assembly advising the constitution and the Hessian state parliament (1st – 11th electoral period). Ed .: President of the Hessian State Parliament. Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-458-14330-0 , p. 304–305 ( hessen.de [PDF; 12.4 MB ]).
Jochen Lengemann: MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 224.

Web links

Korn, Walter. Hessian biography. (As of March 14, 2017). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Individual evidence

↑ Dieter Nittel, Alan Sievers: On the trail of the “subjective factor” - The history of adult education as reflected in the generativity of a career . In: DIE (German Institute for Adult Education) Report. 1/2011, Bonn, p. 68 ( digitized version )

↑ Dieter Nittel: Biography-theoretical approaches in adult education. In: Rudolf Tippelt, Aiga von Hippel (ed.): Handbook for adult education / further education. 5th edition. VS, Wiesbaden 2011, ISBN 978-3-531-18428-9 , p. 105 ff.

↑ Dieter Nittel, Alan Sievers: On the trail of the “subjective factor” - The history of adult education as reflected in the generativity of a career . In: DIE (German Institute for Adult Education) Report. 1/2011, Bonn, pp. 61-73 ( digitized version ).

↑ Award of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany on January 24, 1990 . In: The Hessian Prime Minister (Ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1990 No. 7 , p. 262 , point 150 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 5.6 MB ]).

personal data
SURNAME	Korn, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (CDU), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH	December 7, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH	Oberndorf in the Spessart
DATE OF DEATH	February 5, 2005
Place of death	Hanau

[1] Dieter Nittel, Alan Sievers: On the trail of the “subjective factor” - The history of adult education as reflected in the generativity of a career . In: DIE (German Institute for Adult Education) Report. 1/2011, Bonn, p. 68 ( digitized version )

[2] Dieter Nittel: Biography-theoretical approaches in adult education. In: Rudolf Tippelt, Aiga von Hippel (ed.): Handbook for adult education / further education. 5th edition. VS, Wiesbaden 2011, ISBN 978-3-531-18428-9 , p. 105 ff.

[3] Dieter Nittel, Alan Sievers: On the trail of the “subjective factor” - The history of adult education as reflected in the generativity of a career . In: DIE (German Institute for Adult Education) Report. 1/2011, Bonn, pp. 61-73 ( digitized version ).

[4] Award of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany on January 24, 1990 . In: The Hessian Prime Minister (Ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1990 No. 7 , p. 262 , point 150 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 5.6 MB ]).