Wolfgang Mitter

Wolfgang Mitter (born September 14, 1927 in Trutnov , Czechoslovakia ; † October 23, 2014 in Oberursel (Taunus) ) was a German educator .

From 1954 to 1964, Mitter was senior lecturer and head of department at the Kassel study seminar, from 1964 to 1972 as a professor at the Lüneburg University of Education, and from 1965 as a lecturer at the University of Hamburg . From 1972 he worked at the German Institute for International Educational Research (DIPF), until 1998 as head of the department for general and comparative educational science , 1978–1981 and 1987–1995 at the same time as director of the institute. From 1974 to 2007 he also taught as a professor at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main .

Since 1971, Mitter has acted as co-editor of the magazine Bildung und Erbildung . From 1981 to 1985 he was President of the Comparative Education Society in Europe (CESE) and from 1991 to 1995 President of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES). From 1997 to 2000 Mitter was President of the World Association of Educational Research (WAER).

The restructuring of the German Institute for International Educational Research in the course of German unification is one of his significant scientific organizational achievements . The aim was to integrate the Central Pedagogical Library of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of the GDR and a group of academy scientists into the DIPF. In this way, the former central library could be converted into the library for educational history research of the DIPF in Berlin.

Awards

• Chevalier de Léopold II , 1985
• Goethe badge of the state of Hesse , 1992
• Medal “650 years of Charles University in Prague”, 1998
• Honorary doctorate from the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg , 2001
• “Nummus memorialis argenteus” (Silver Commemorative Medal) from Charles University in Prague, 2010
• Member of the Academia Europaea

Web links

• Literature by and about Wolfgang Mitter in the catalog of the German National Library
• Wolfgang Mitter on the website of the German Institute for International Educational Research.
• [1] Obituary on the website of the German Institute for International Educational Research.