Wolfgang Bäuerle

Wolfgang Bäuerle (born June 8, 1926 in Ulm ; died February 19, 1982 in Cologne ) was a German social worker .

Life

Wolfgang Bäuerle was drafted as a soldier in World War II after graduating from high school. He was imprisoned as a British prisoner of war in Egypt and returned to Germany in 1948. He studied education (doctorate), psychology (diploma), sociology and youth law and worked as a student trainee between 1949 and 1954 as a home educator at the youth authority in Hamburg. In 1954/55 he was head of education at the Stuttgart College for the Blind, then head of the curative education department of the Hamburg youth authority, then attending psychologist in the psychotherapeutic counseling and treatment center in Eppendorf. He went to Rome as a research assistant in 1958 and became a lecturer in 1960 and director of the Hamburg Institute for Social Education in 1962, which was integrated into the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences in 1970 under his direction . In 1971 he switched to the Federal Association of Workers' Welfare (AWO) in Bonn as the main department head for socio-political and socio-educational issues . From 1974 to 1977 he became the founding director of the Institute for Social Work and Social Pedagogy (ISS) in Frankfurt am Main. In 1976 he was appointed professor of educational science at Bielefeld University .

Bäuerle worked in national and international committees of social policy.

Fonts (selection)

• Social work and society . Weinheim: Beltz, 1967
• Youth welfare and parenting education: legal Basics, facts, problems, tasks . Diss. Hamburg, 1970
• Parent Education Theory . Weinheim: Beltz, 1971
• Youth welfare and social work. Selected lectures and writings . Frankfurt am Main: IGfH, 1983

literature

• Dieter Kreft : Bäuerle, Wolfgang , in: Hugo Maier (ed.): Who is who of social work . Freiburg: Lambertus, 1998 ISBN 3-7841-1036-3 , pp. 58f.

Web links

• Literature by and about Wolfgang Bäuerle in the catalog of the German National Library