Wolfgang Proske

Wolfgang Proske (born March 5, 1954 in Kelheim ) is a German social scientist , historian and educator . From 1977 to 2017 he worked as a teacher, most recently for history and visual arts , was temporarily school principal and development worker and is the editor and co-author of the book series perpetrators, helpers, free riders on those affected by the Nazi regime from Baden-Württemberg . In 2014 he founded the "Kugelberg Verlag - Verlag für historical social research".

Life

Wolfgang Proske was born in 1954 as the son of the teacher Hans Proske and his wife Elfriede. After visiting the Protestant elementary school Kelheim-old town, which led his father, and the Danube Oberrealschule Kelheim to Class 12 he laid in 1973 as a private student at the State Technical College of Regensburg , the trade-baccalaureate from. Proske began his studies in 1973 at the University of Applied Sciences Regensburg , department of social affairs. In 1974 he moved to the University of Regensburg , where he took up a teaching post for elementary schools, where he also studied sociology and history for three semesters . In 1977 he graduated with the first teaching examination for elementary schools. The topic of his approval work was: Metamorphosis of the shaman to the pharaoh. Historical-philosophical attempt on Egyptian prehistory and early history. From 1977 to 1980 he was a trainee teacher in the Bavarian administrative district of Upper Palatinate, where he passed the second teaching examination. In 1980 he went to Mochudi, Botswana, as a development worker with the German Development Service (DED) as a substitute for military and community service . From autumn 1982 he was doing his second degree at the universities of Aachen , Hagen and Bremen and graduated in 1984 with a degree in social science with a thesis on the political psychology of apartheid in South Africa .

From 1984 he worked as a teacher at elementary and secondary schools in the Bavarian administrative district of Swabia. In 1988 he received his doctorate in history under Imanuel Geiss (University of Bremen) and Horst Gründer (University of Münster) with a thesis on Hermannsburg missionaries of the 19th century in what is now Botswana. In 1994 he left the Bavarian civil service at his own request in order to switch to the German School in Tripoli, Libya , as director . In 1996 he returned to Germany and worked in history / social studies for the evening secondary schools in Ulm , Laupheim and Heidenheim and from 2009 for the evening high school in East Württemberg in Aalen , Heidenheim and Schwäbisch Gmünd . In addition, he took on teaching positions in history and fine arts at day high schools, most recently at the Max Planck high school in Heidenheim .

At a young age, Wolfgang Proske was a functionary of the "Falken" in the district of Lower Bavaria / Upper Palatinate . In 1977 he founded the “Association for Freedom of the Mind” in Regensburg. He is a member of the board of the Humanist Freethinkers Ostwuerttemberg and 2nd chairman of the association “Care, Mutual Aid & Culture”. From 2013 to 2015 he was a member of the state board of the "Humanists Baden-Württemberg".

Wolfgang Proske has been married to Silvia Streitel-Proske, a specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy, since 1986, and has an adult daughter.

Publications

In 1989, Wolfgang Proske published in collaboration with the church critic Karlheinz Deschner and in 1992 with the administrative judge Gerhard Czermak on the rights and demands of those without religious affiliation in the school system. In 1998 he published the article: Secularization as a universal historical perspective concept . After acquiring a Montessori diploma in 2005, he subjected Montessori education to a devastating criticism and spoke of a “concept to ward off pluralistic social conditions”. With the publication of the book series Täter, Helfer, Free Rider, Proske has been dedicating himself to research on Nazi perpetrators since 2010 . The series, which is staggered regionally for Baden-Württemberg and adjacent areas, consists of ten volumes: Ostalb, Ulm / Neu-Ulm region, eastern Württemberg, Upper Swabia , Lake Constance area , southern Baden , northern Baden , north of today's Baden-Württemberg, south of today's Baden-Württemberg. Volume 10 on the Stuttgart region, which concludes the series, was published in the summer of 2019, together with a complete register . In particular, the article by Proske in Volume 6 (2017) about the archbishop of Freiburg, Conrad Gröber , who was controversial because of his behavior during the National Socialist era , was widely received in the press and most recently led to a commemorative political debate in Gröber's hometown of Messkirch about the necessary revision of Gröbers dortiger honor citizenship and the renaming of a named after Gröber road and a nursing home the charity .

Awards

In October 2019, Proske was awarded the Rahel Straus Prize for sustainable projects of remembrance culture in Baden-Württemberg for the publication of the book series Täter, Helfer, Free Riders by the state working group of the nationwide association against forgetting - for democracy .

Web links

• www.ns-lastete.de
• www.kugelbergverlag.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wolfgang Proske (Ed.): Perpetrators, helpers, free riders - Nazi-burdened people from ... (Vol. 1 + 2: Klemm & Oelschläger Verlag, Ulm 2010 and 2013, ISBN 978-3-945893-05-0 and ISBN 978- 3-86281-062-8 ; volume 3: Verlag Freiheitsbaum Reutlingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-945893-02-9 ; from volume 4: Kugelberg Verlag, Gerstetten 2015, 2016 and 2017, ISBN 978-3-945893- 00-5 , ISBN 978-3-945893-04-3 and ISBN 978-3-945893-06-7 ).
2. ↑ Wolfgang Proske: Botswana and the beginnings of the Hermannsburg mission. Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1989, ISBN 3-631-40546-4 .
3. ↑ Wolfgang Proske (Ed.): Handbook for non-denominational teachers, parents and students. Aschaffenburg / Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-922601-14-6 ; Gerhard Czermak, Wolfgang Proske, Gerhard Rampp: Non- denominational in school - a guide for parents, teachers and students. Lichtenau 1994, ISBN 3-89111-431-1 .
4. ↑ Wolfgang Proske: Secularization as a universal historical perspective concept. In: Enlightenment and Criticism , Issue 1/1998, ISSN 0945-6627, pp. 3–26.
5. ↑ Wolfgang Proske: The Montessori pedagogy and its ideological foundations. In: Forum Democratic Atheists (ed.): Mission classroom. On the influence of religion and esotericism on education and upbringing. Alibri, Aschaffenburg 2005, ISBN 3-932710-78-9 , pp. 55-83.
6. ↑ For the edition of the series in general cf. the interview with the editor at http://ns-ministerien-bw.de/2015/11/die-regionale-ns-taeterforschung-voranendung-interview-mit-dr-wolfgang-proske-herausgeber-der-buchreihe-taeter-helfer - Free riders / Commission "History of the State Ministries in Baden and Württemberg in the Time of National Socialism", 2015.
7. ↑ Wolfgang Proske: Dr. Conrad Gröber: “Honestly in Germany” and “overflowing registers” in the organ work of his soul… In: Wolfgang Proske (Hrsg.): Perpetrator - Helfer - Free rider. Nazi victims from southern Baden (=  perpetrators - helpers - free riders . Band 6 ). 1st edition. Kugelberg, Gerstetten 2017, ISBN 978-3-945893-06-7 , pp. 104 ff .
8. ↑ See: Stefan Jehle, Heinz Siebold: Debates in Meßkirch - Was the Archbishop a "brown Conrad"? In: Stuttgarter Zeitung , May 28, 2017.
9. ↑ Award ceremony: "Awarding the Rahel Straus Prize". Against forgetting - for democracy e. V., Landesarbeitsgemeinschaft Baden-Württemberg, accessed on October 23, 2019 . 
10. ↑ Julia Schenkenhofer: A prize for remembering - and dunning . In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten . No. 244 , October 21, 2019, p. 18 .