Wilfried Gottschalch

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Wilfried Gottschalch (born January 18, 1929 in Dresden ; † July 24, 2006 in Bussum ) was a German teacher, social scientist and educationalist. His writings on political socialization were standard reading at German universities in the 1970s and 1980s.

Live and act

In 1949, at the age of twenty, Gottschalch became a junior teacher at a vocational school in the GDR , but later went to West Berlin. There he became a member of the Socialist Youth of Germany - Die Falken and had been a professor at the University of Education since 1963 . Since 1971 he has taught at what was then the Reform University in Bremen ; 1977 Gottschalch was also one of the signatories of an obituary written under the pseudonym "Mescalero" for the Federal Prosecutor General Siegfried Buback, who was murdered by the RAF . The "Mescalero" affair was followed by disciplinary measures against those university employees who did not want to distance themselves. As a result of these measures, which restricted his work, he moved to the University of Amsterdam at the end of the 1970s , where he became professor of theoretical andragogy .

Finally, he participated in the development of socio-educational teaching at the TU Chemnitz and the TU Dresden , where he was active as an honorary professor . But he kept his residence in the Netherlands; his grave is in Bussum (North Holland).

According to Lothar Böhnisch , psychoanalysis was the "structural grid" of social and educational science thinking with Gottschalch, whereby he applied it not with therapeutic, but political motivation. With his fundamental criticism of the socialization conditions , he has become an outsider in the academic discourse.

Fonts (selection)

  • Parliamentarism and council democracy , Wagenbach, Berlin 1968
  • Social learning and political education , Frankfurt am Main: European Publishing House, 1969 (6th edition 1973)
  • On the sociology of political education: Instead of a lecture , Frankfurt am Main: Europäische Verlagsanstalt, 1970
  • Socialization research: materials, problems, criticism (with Marina Neumann-Schönwetter and Gunther Soukup), Frankfurt am Main: Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, 1971 (print run up to 1981: 185,000)
  • Conditions and chances of political socialization , Frankfurt am Main: Fischer, 1972
  • Socialization: theoretical approaches and problems of the present , Weinheim; Basel: Beltz, 1985
  • Sociology of the Self: Introduction to Socialization Research , Heidelberg: Asanger, 1991 (Dutch original edition Sociologie van het zelf , 1985)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Album Academicum ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jodeninnederland.nl
  2. ↑ a b WILFRIED GOTTSCHALCH
  3. ↑ Report of the 4.Verbandskonferenz of Socialist Youth of Germany The Falcons (1953), publishing professionals Youth, Bonn, p 48
  4. ↑ Doubtful reputation
  5. ↑ Murder begins with the bad word - sympathizers and so-called sympathizers III: The universities
  6. ↑ Lothar Böhnisch: Obituary for Wilfried Gottschalch (PDF) ( Memento of the original from February 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dgfe.de
personal data
SURNAME Gottschalch, Wilfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social and educational scientist
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH July 24, 2006
Place of death Bussum