"In all the three parties, I am terribly much."

42 years ago was Ralf Dahrendorf sociology professor at the University of Konstanz. His higher education reform plans caused great sensation. blogs ONLINE Dahrendorf, documents a brief, in the autumn of 1967 in the blogs appeared.

 

Ralf Dahrendorf

is professor of sociology at the University of Constance and, together with five other professors and industrialists a "Plan for Higher Education of Baden-Wuerttemberg elaborated far beyond this state has found echoes.

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Ralf Dahrendorf (1974, as Director of the University of London LSE)

From the right-oriented Hamburger "world" as "truly transformative University Plan" from the liberal Munich "Süddeutsche Zeitung" as a product of an "avant-garde educational" praised, this university is the first comprehensive practical recipe, the German education to prevent disaster.

Instead of expanding the university - more jobs for teachers, more money for research, more buildings and university start-ups - supports Dahrendorf in his plan is now primarily a policy of reconstruction "of the reform.

Core of the Baden-Württemberg "recommendations for reform of the structure and organization of universities, teacher training colleges, art colleges, engineering schools and higher professional schools" is one the idea that these different institutions to a "differentiated Gesamthochschule" to unite the other hand, the strong promotion of a " Short course ", which after only six semesters at a proper conclusion that should lead.

The separation into a short and a long study would also be true for the professors profound consequences. The traditional German unit of university teaching and research would be a system of soft, in which professors with a chair and lecturers will be - depending on whether they are primarily research or primarily in teaching.

Dahrendorf, 38, son of the Socialist-peak consumption Association functionary Gustav Dahrendorf, erschrieb already offered a 23-year-old in his hometown of Hamburg Dr. phil. He studied in England, and then acquired the English with 25 doctoral degrees. At 29 he became a professor of sociology at the Hamburg Academy for Community Economics, "then he was a visiting professor in New York and from 1960 to 1966 professor at the University of Tübingen.

With his book "Society and Democracy in Germany" (1965) he delivered a "textbook on German self-image, inability of Germany and of German hope" ( "Time"). Dahrendorf, married to an Englishwoman, is also abroad with the most respected sociologists of the present. He lives by his own sentiment "a part of my life in the Anglo-American Sociology" and was already "about a dozen" calls to sociology departments in England and the USA. As vice chairman of the founding committee for the University of Constance, he makes important obstetrician services for Kurt Georg Kiesinger favorite child, and not only that it will occasionally with members of a (nonexistent) Kiesinger-"brain trusts" are counted.

Dahrendorf, who also account the SPD was added and Tübingen once (unsuccessfully) on a FDP City Council candidate list was: "I'm not down and think about my voting in any new election. I have seen in our three principle parties fairly. that in all three of my lot is scary, does not bother me because I am a political being. "

From: THE blogs, No. 42/1967