Professor Herwig Baier celebrated his 85th birthday. The Federal Cross of Merit was awarded to the Wahl-Schweinfurter in 2018.
On June 6, Professor Herwig Baier, a Social Democrat who has been involved in displaced people for more than three decades – he comes from the Egerland region – celebrated his 85th birthday. “My date of birth is June 6, 1935. Since I was born in Lubenz, a small town in the Luditz district in Egerland, I was a Czechoslovakian citizen for the first forty months of my life,” he comments. Baier is regarded as a profound expert on the history of the Sudetenland and the Egerland and has published numerous articles as such.
In 1949 he passed the entrance exam at the teacher training center in Amberg. When the school year 1949/50 began, there were no such institutions anymore, they were now run as artistic high schools. In 1956 he graduated from high school. This was followed by studies for teaching at primary schools at the Institute for Teacher Education in Regensburg. He underwent the first state examination and also the second after three years of preparatory service in Regensburg.
As one was looking for young people for educational universities at the time, he was allowed to move to the administrative district of Middle Franconia to pursue part-time doctoral studies in the major subject pedagogy and the minor subjects history, political science and psychology at the University of Erlangen. In these subjects, he received his doctorate in 1969 in Erlangen.
Photo: Stoess
As a teacher he was employed at the university children’s clinic and the first hospital teacher in Bavaria. This is how he found his way into special education. After studying in Munich, the examination for teaching at special schools took place there in 1964.
Since 1968 he has been active in special education; first as a deputy special school teacher at the State Institute for the Training of Special School Teachers in Munich, from 1970 to 73 as a lecturer and professor at the Heidelberg University of Education, and since 1973 at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich as a professor and full professor.
From 1978 to 1983 he served as Vice Dean and from 1983 to 1987 as Dean of the Faculty of Psychology and Education. He retired in 2000.
After reunification, he was appointed as one of three West German professors as a full member of the structure and appointment committee of the rehabilitation sciences section of the Humboldt University in Berlin. He was a visiting professor at the Martin Luther University in Halle. In a cooperation agreement between the Karts University in Prague, he worked on a research project on the history of special education and the school for the disabled in the Bohemian countries. In 1985 he was appointed as a full member of the Sudeten German Academy of Sciences and Arts.
In 2014 he was honored to be elected “Honorary Vahstiha of Eghalande Gmoi z ‘Schweinfurt”. In 2018, Federal President Steinmeier awarded him the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon, which was handed over by secretary of state Gerhard Eck.
Since the opening of the Saazer Heimatmuseum in Schweinfurt in September 2012, he has also been active on the board of the Foundation of the Saazer Heimatmuseum. Although Professor Baier has a little scent in Murnau am Staffelsee, he spends most of his time in his apartment near the game park in Schweinfurt.
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Schweinfurt
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High School
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General (not subject-specific) universities
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Lecturers
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Faculties
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Gerhard Eck
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Colleges and universities
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Humboldt University
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Teaching post
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Ludwig Maximilians University Munich
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Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
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Pedagogical universities
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Special school teachers
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Sudetenland
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