Contemporary history education center at Schloss Egg
The contemporary history education center Schloss Egg in the East Bavarian border region e. V. was a Lower Bavarian education center. From 1960 to the end of the 1980s it was located at Egg Castle in Bernried near Deggendorf . It belonged to the independent institutions for political education and did not give preference to any political or religious affiliation.
history
The education center was founded in 1959. It was created as a facility of the VHS / VBW Niederbayern. The board of directors transferred the responsibility for carrying out the political education work to the then second chairman of the Lower Bavaria district working group, Fred-Helge Gornig-Henricken, the founder of the institution.
After restoration and renovation work, Egg Castle was moved into in 1960. After Gornig-Henricken's departure at the end of the 1980s, Egg Castle was no longer available to his successors. The facility moved out of the castle and from now on was called the Europa-Akademie Bildungszentrum Bernried , based in the center of Bernried, Lower Bavaria.
management
Director Fred-Helge Gornig-Henricken founded and managed the contemporary history education center at Schloss Egg for 30 years. He was also responsible for the in-house accommodation and catering operations and was a member of the association's board and as a speaker from the start. Long-term employees included Angela Tietze (management and secretariat) and Evelyn Strehlke (business administration) as well as the study leaders Ludwig Traut-Welser and Hans F. Momma.
Speakers
Speakers were university professors, other scientists, politicians from the federal government, states and municipalities, journalists, officers of the Bundeswehr and lecturers in particular from political science, law, economics and history. Mention should be made of Federal President Karl Carstens , President of the Bundestag Annemarie Renger and the "father of space travel" Hermann Oberth .
Visitors
By 1985 alone, almost 100,000 participants took part in the events of the education center, including over 60,102 seminar participants who stayed in the building for two to 14 days. 249 specialist conferences, 259 study conferences, 706 political seminars, 45 international and European conferences and seminars, 144 information and encounter trips and 184 lecture events were held. 24,697 people took part in the 655 borderland trips into the Bavarian Forest with a visit to the border with Czechoslovakia . 63.5% of the participants came from Bavaria, 31.7% from the other federal states and Berlin (West), 3.8% from other European countries and 1.0% from non-European countries. 31.5% of the participants were students and pupils, 23.6% civil servants, 16.7% employees. In addition, the education center held 68 individual lectures with 4666 participants and an information trip to the United States with 145 participants. In addition to the political education work, concert and song evenings as well as recitation evenings were offered.
Series of publications
The educational institution published the series "From Politics and Current Affairs":
- Book 1: State and Armed Power.
- Book 2: Africa and Europe.
- Book 3: The USA after the presidential election.
- Book 4: In the service of democracy.
- Volume 5: The Road to a United Europe.
- Issue 6/7: Asia yesterday, today and tomorrow.
- Book 8: Principles of Soldier Leadership.
- Book 9: The remote-controlled human.
- Issue 10/11: Our world today.
literature
- Annual reports of the contemporary history education center Schloss Egg (archived by the Deggendorf district)