Wolfgang Brüggemann

Wolfgang Brüggemann (born March 4, 1926 in Bochum ; † December 5, 2014 ) was a German pedagogue and science and education politician ( CDU ).

Life

Brüggemann grew up in the Ruhr area and Mecklenburg. Towards the end of the Second World War, he first became a flak helper and later a soldier. At the end of October 1945 he came back from British captivity and graduated from high school in Bochum in 1946. From 1948 he studied theology, philosophy, history and German at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster and in Lund ( Sweden ). In 1949 he became a member of the Catholic student union AV Cheruscia zu Münster in the CV . He was also involved in the Association of German Catholic Youth (BDKJ) and the AStA at the University of Münster as well as the Ring of Christian Democratic Students (RCDS), of which he became national chairman. After successfully passing the first and second state examinations , he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD . Brüggemann then entered the secondary school service in Bochum.

In 1965 he received a call to a professorship for political education and teaching history at the Ruhr College of Education , Department of Hamm, in the 1985 University of Dortmund was incorporated. As early as 1970 he moved to Dortmund as a professor, where he became professor on May 29, 1980 with suspension of his rights and duties. At the request of Franz Cardinal Hengsbach, from 1986 to 1992 he was head of the Education, Schools and Education Department in the Vicariate General of the Diocese of Essen .

Brüggemann had been involved in local politics as a member of the CDU since 1946 , councilor and parliamentary group chairman as well as temporarily mayor of Bochum. From 1966 to 1985 he was a member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia , he was elected four times from the state list. He was particularly committed to science and education policy and was instrumental in redesigning the universities of Bochum, Dortmund, Essen, Duisburg and Wuppertal. He was also active in the CDU at federal and state level, at state level he was temporarily a member of the state executive.

Fonts

• Studies on the Vitae literature of the Carolingian era , dissertation, Münster 1957
• Man in modern democracy. A handout for understanding the political , 1973, ISBN 3-87497-086-8
• 100 years Rerum novarum (1991): The answer of the Catholic Church to the social question in the 19th century , Kamp 1991, ISBN 3-89709-793-1 , together with Horstwalter Heitzer
• Beginnings and Transitions , Brockmeyer 2002, ISBN 3-8196-0642-4 (autobiography)

literature

• Prof. Dr. phil. Wolfgang Brüggemann . In: Valentin Wehefritz (Hrsg.): CVs from your own hand . Biographical archive of Dortmund university professors. No. 3 . Dortmund 1993 ( tu-dortmund.de [PDF; accessed on November 17, 2010]).

Web links

• Wolfgang Brüggemann at the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia