Willy Strzelewicz

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Willy Strzelewicz (born October 23, 1905 in Berlin ; † October 25, 1986 ) was a German social and educational scientist who dealt with the importance of human rights for the democratic community in the first phase of his academic career and in his second creative phase for Became a pioneer of academic adult education in the Federal Republic of Germany .

Life

Strzelewicz studied sociology, philosophy and psychology at the Technical University of Dresden , the University of Vienna , the University of Berlin and finally the University of Frankfurt am Main , where he received his doctorate in sociology in 1931 and became a member of the Institute for Social Research . His doctoral supervisor was Max Horkheimer . His other academic teachers were Paul Tillich , Max Wertheimer and Karl Mannheim .

In 1933 Strzelewicz emigrated from National Socialist Germany via Czechoslovakia and Norway to Sweden , where he obtained a license in philosophy from Stockholm University in 1951 . In Prague , his first stop in emigration, he became a member of a social democratic organization. He had turned away from the “forgotten Marxism” of the Institute for Social Research, who had been a member of a communist youth organization during his studies.

In 1955 Strzelewicz returned to Germany to set up adult education at the University of Göttingen on behalf of the Lower Saxony Minister of Education . Soon afterwards he headed the pedagogical department of the German Adult Education Association in Frankfurt am Main, which he co-founded . From 1960 Strzelewicz worked as a university professor, initially as a full professor of sociology at the University of Education in Hanover, and since 1968 as an honorary professor at the Technical University of Hanover .

Fonts (selection)

  • Human rights in a new Germany , Stockholm: Stockholm working group for democratic Germans, 1944
  • The fight for human rights , Hamburg: Phönix-Verlag, 1947 (second edition with an afterword by Herbert Wehner , Hamburg: Christen, 1948; 1968 and 1969 expanded new editions)
  • Democratization and adult education , Braunschweig: Westermann, 1973, ISBN 3-14-167114-1
  • Science, education and politics , Braunschweig: Westermann, 1980, ISBN 3-14-167205-9 .

literature

  • Jost von Maydell : Willi Strzelewicz - A fighter against prejudice , in: PÄD extra, (1986) 12, pp. 13-14
  • Wolfgang Schulenberg: Strzelewicz, Willy , in: Wilhelm Bernsdorf / Horst Knospe (eds.): Internationales Soziologenlexikon , Vol. 2, Enke, Stuttgart ²1984, p. 839 ff.
  • Papcke, Sven : German sociology in exile. Diagnosis of the present and critique of epochs 1933–1945 . Campus, Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 3-593-34862-4 , (including Chapter VIII: The normative power of the normative. Willy Strzelewicz and the historical logic of human rights , pp. 163-185).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Sven Papcke: Deutsche Sociologie im Exil. Diagnosis of the present and critique of epochs 1933–1945 . Frankfurt am Main 1993, p. 171 f.
  2. ^ Since 1978 Technical University of Hanover , later University of Hanover , today Leibniz University of Hanover .
personal data
SURNAME Strzelewicz, Willy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social and educational scientist
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 1986