Walter Schultze (educational scientist)

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Walter Schultze (born December 15, 1903 in Hamburg ; † November 10, 1984 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German teacher trainer and educationalist .

After attending the teachers' college in Hamburg, Schultze worked as a primary and secondary school teacher between 1924 and 1934. He studied education, philosophy and ethnology and received his doctorate in 1931. phil. This was followed by years of assistant and lecturing at the university's educational science seminar and at the college for teacher training in his hometown. On November 11, 1933, he signed the confession of professors at German universities and colleges about Adolf Hitler . After military service and imprisonment, Schultze began working at the Institute for Teacher Training in Hamburg, which he eventually took over.

Grave of Walter Schultze

In 1952 Schultze was appointed professor at the new University for International Educational Research (HIPF) in Frankfurt am Main, where he headed the General and Comparative Educational Science department until 1971. After the conversion of the HIPF into the German Institute for International Educational Research (DIPF), he was also director of the research college from 1964 to 1969. In the 1960s, Schultze coordinated the German participation in the International Project for the Evaluation of Educational Attainment , one of the first international comparative school performance studies (First International Mathematics Study 1964 and Six Subject Survey 1966-1973). For many years he was Secretary General of the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA). The multi-volume compilation “Schools in Europe”, which Schultze published simultaneously in German, English and French in 1968, is one of his outstanding journalistic achievements. In addition, he was co-editor of the Paedagogica Europaea , a series of publications on pedagogy and comparative educational science abroad, as well as the handbook for teachers from Bertelsmann Verlag. In 1968 and 1969, Schultze was called in as an expert in the deliberations of the German Education Council . From 1972 to 1974 he was chairman of the German Society for Educational Science .

Walter Schultze is buried in the main cemetery in Frankfurt .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schultze's self-portrait in Ludwig J. Pongratz (ed.): Pedagogy in Self-Presentation, Hamburg 1978, pp. 303–347; Institute archive of the DIPF, Best. 122 (General and comparative educational science), 1.
  2. ^ Walter Schultze 80, in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of December 15, 1983.

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personal data
SURNAME Schultze, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educationalist
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 1984
Place of death Frankfurt am Main