Walther Specht
Walther Specht (born April 29, 1938 in Diefenbach im Enzkreis ) is honorary professor for educational sciences at the University of Tübingen , co-founder of the 'mobile youth work' in Germany and a high official in the Diakonisches Werk.
Live and act
In 1967, Walther Specht, on the basis of American research and practical experience in the field of community-related work with youth clubs and gangs, designed and practically tested a neighborhood-oriented approach to non-exclusive, destigmatizing youth work. The starting point for this was the helplessness experienced by 'Open Youth Work'. Specht wanted to find new ways to reach groups of problem young people and developed mobile youth work .
After studying social pedagogy at the University of Tübingen, he did his doctorate there on the subject of “juvenile delinquency and mobile youth work”. In 1986 he received a call to the University of Applied Sciences for Social Work in Esslingen and became a scientific advisor to the Diakonisches Werk Württemberg. Since 1993 he has been teaching (in addition to other teaching assignments in Germany and abroad) as an honorary professor at the Institute for Educational Science at the University of Tübingen.
From 1988 to 2002, Specht was a director of the Diakonisches Werk of the Evangelical Church in Germany. Since 1992 he has been chairman of the 'International Society for Mobile Youth Work' (ISMO), which he founded. From 1997 to 2001 he was also the spokesman for the National Poverty Conference . From 2001 to 2006 he also worked on the board of the German Forum for Crime Prevention .
Walther Specht took on a pioneering role in setting up social work structures for people at risk in the new federal states and in the transfer of knowledge to the countries of Central and Eastern Europe.
Awards
2002: Federal Cross of Merit
Works
- Juvenile delinquency and mobile youth work , Neuwied 1979
- The dangerous road. Youth conflicts and neighborhood work (as publisher), Bielefeld 1987
- To fight poverty , Stuttgart 1991
- Social room Hoyerswerda , Stuttgart 1992
- Street children and mobile youth work , Stuttgart 2000
Web links
- Literature by and about Walther Specht in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Woodpecker, Walther |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German educationalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 29, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Diefenbach in the Enzkreis |