Wilfried Schlau

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Wilfried Schlau (born April 27, 1917 in Veliki Ustjug ; † April 1, 2010 in Friedrichsdorf ) was a German sociologist and university professor of German-Baltic origin.

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Schlau came from a German-Baltic academic family. He was a son of the philologist and educator Dr. Wilhelm Schlau (1886–1978) and his wife Frieda Dorothea, b. Neander (1888–1984) and grandson of provost Karl Schlau, who was murdered by the Bolsheviks in Riga in 1919 . Karl-Otto Schlau was his younger brother. He was born in northern Russia, where it is the family in the First World War had slyly. He spent his youth and school days in Mitau ( Latvian Jelgava ), where he graduated from high school in 1934 at the grammar school run by his father.

He first went to the Heimvolkshochschule Jablonken in the district of Ortelsburg , East Prussia for a year and, after an apprenticeship, began studying agriculture at the Agricultural Academy in Mitau in 1939. But in 1940 his family left the Baltic States as a result of the German-Soviet border and friendship treaty , and Wilfried Schlau began his military service in the Wehrmacht . After the end of the Second World War and being a prisoner of war , he continued his studies at the Hohenheim Agricultural University and graduated in 1949 with a diploma.

From 1950 Schlau worked at the Hessian country folk high school in Neustadt near Marburg / Lahn, later in Friedrichsdorf / Taunus, from 1952 to 1968 as director. In Neustadt in October 1950 he hosted the founding meeting of the Association of Homeland Expellees German Students, which he has always sponsored . V. (VHDS), host of several VHDS conferences in Friedrichsdorf. In Friedrichsdorf, Schlau founded the Bad Homburg vdH student education center with personalities from the VHDS

In 1969, Schlau completed his habilitation at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Hohenheim and was given the right to teach in the field of political sociology and recent social history. After a brief activity at the command academy of the German Armed Forces in Hamburg, he became a full professor of sociology at the Rhineland-Palatinate University of Education in 1971 and from 1979 at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz .

In addition to his teaching activities, he was involved in the student education center and, with the help of an industrial foundation, developed z. B. the "Mainz Model" to enable learning of the Polish language and culture. Before that, from 1965 to 1967 he led study conferences with university professors on subjects such as "Ukrainians, Belarusians and Germans" at the Hessian country folk high school with an impressive leaflet showing Ukrainians and Belarusians greeting the German armed forces in 1941 and threatening German occupation in 1943.

The dissolution of the Studentenbildungswerk took place on the decision of the members, the entry of the dissolution in the register of associations was confirmed by the Bad Homburg District Court on December 4th, 2008.

Like his father and brother, Schlau was also active in German-Baltic organizations.

Works

  • East German rural people who were expelled from their homeland. 1955.
  • Politics and Consciousness. 1971.
  • with Gerhard Schadwill: Teacher in Rhineland-Palatinate. 1984.
  • (Ed.): Unconditional homecoming. 1979.
  • (Ed.): The Mainz model. 1983.
  • (Ed.): A thousand years of neighborhood. The peoples of the Baltic region and the Germans. Munich: Bruckmann 1995, ISBN 3-7654-2404-8 .
  • The Baltic Germans. Munich: Langen Müller 1995 (areas of displacement and expelled Germans 6), ISBN 3-7844-2524-0 .
  • The East Germans: a documentary balance sheet 1945–1995. Munich: Langen Müller 1996 (areas of displacement and expelled Germans 12), ISBN 3-7844-2561-5 .
  • Against the maelstrom of time: selected contributions to political sociology and recent social history. On the occasion of the 70th birthday ed. by Herbert Brichta and Hans-Günther Parplies. Stuttgart: Steiner 1990 (Bibliography Wilfried Schlau pp. 309-315), ISBN 3-515-04915-0 .
  • (Ed.): Social history of the Baltic Germans. 2nd edition Cologne: Verl. Wiss. und Politik 2000 (Library Science and Politics 61), ISBN 3-8046-8876-4

literature

  • Claudia Rogall: The Heimvolkshochschulwerk - theory and practice of an educational concept: an educational initiative Wilfried Schlaus (transitions. Studies on Protestant and Catholic theology / religious education, Vol. 9), Peter Lang 2007. ISBN 3-6315-5870-8

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personal data
SURNAME Smart, Wilfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist and university professor of German-Baltic origin
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Veliky Ustyug
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 2010
Place of death Friedrichsdorf