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Obituary Dr Andreas Gmelch

Dr Andreas Gmelch was responsible for the subject Didactics of Labour Studies at the Otto Friedrich University of Bamberg as an independent subject representative from 1980 to 2009. In this role, he played an important role in establishing and further developing the subject of Didactics of Work at Bavarian universities, both in terms of content and organisation. Through his diverse involvement in various committees (e.g. in the curriculum commission for the subject of labour studies at the Institute for School Quality and Educational Research and on the examination board of the Bavarian Ministry of Education) and through his numerous publications, he succeeded in establishing the importance of the subject of labour studies as a profile-forming subject in secondary modern schools. His students appreciated Dr Gmelch as a very competent and caring member of the teaching staff.
Dr Gmelch always played a decisive role in shaping the professional discourse on the content and scientific foundation of the subject of didactics of work in the working group of Bavarian work didactics experts through his many years of school practice, his experience in university teaching and his research work. Even after his retirement in 2009, he remained connected to the members of the working group in a professional and friendly exchange.
In Dr Gmelch, we have lost a highly esteemed colleague whose friendly, humorous and helpful manner will be greatly missed.
Our deepest sympathy goes out to his family.
The working group of Bavarian didactics experts:
Holger Arndt, Karin Aschenbrücker, Roland Back, Alexander Eichler, Peter Herdegen, Gerhard Hopf, Michael Köck, Petra Meißner, Alexandra Wierer

1933-2021
We bid farewell to Dr Ilse Kammerbauer, who
as a member of the teaching staff for social studies and didactics
of Labour Studies at the University of Regensburg for a long time.
Dr Kammerbauer studied from 1963 to 1966 at the Regensburg University of Education to obtain a teaching degree
for primary schools. She then worked as a teacher at the S. Klara School and the Konrad School in
Regensburg.
From 1975 until her retirement, Ilse Kammerbauer taught the subjects of social studies and social science at the Chair for the Didactics of Social Studies
Social studies and labour studies. As an academic councillor, she taught the subject
Didactics of Labour Studies at the University of Regensburg. Many graduates
Graduates will remember her as a stimulating and extremely committed member of the teaching staff.

Prof Hettlage was born in Königsberg/East Prussia in 1943. He studied
Economics, sociology and social philosophy at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). 1969 Doctorate
dr. rer. pol. in 1969, Dr. phil. in 1971. 1971-1972 he worked as a project manager in a department store group in Zurich
Zurich, 1972-1977 as a research assistant at the Department of Sociology at the University of Basel
Of the University of Basel. in 1978 he habilitated in sociology and was a private lecturer at the University of Basel from 1978-1981
Basel. from 1979-1981 he worked as a freelancer at PROGNOS AG in Basel. Since 1981 he has been employed at the
University of Regensburg.
In the winter semester of 1988/89, Prof. Hettlage took over the deputy chair of sociology at the
University of Economics and Social Sciences St. Gallen (Switzerland). In January/February 1993 and in
April/May 1994 he was a visiting professor at the Università degli Studi di Trento (Italy). In WS 2003/04 and in
2004 he was a visiting professor at the University of Basel (Switzerland).
in 1993, Prof. Hettlage organised the Europe Colloquium on the topic: "Education in Europe: Education for Europe?"
Europe?", in 1995 the international symposium took place under his direction: "Ethnoregionalisation or
Ethnoperipherisation? On Parallelities and Discontinuities of the Western and Central European
Transformation process". in 2002 he was co-organiser of the international symposium: "'United States'
- On the significance of space and borders in modernity. A comparison between Europe and the USA." In the WS
2002/03 he organised the lecture series: "Living in a society of lies - denial, cover-up,
Denying, Covering up, Twisting, Forgetting, Repressing" as part of the interdisciplinary DFG Research Training Group: "Cultures of Lies"
Lies". in 2003, he co-organised the international symposium: "Europe and European sociology - Is there a European sociology?
Is there a European sociology?". in 2007 he co-organised the workshop:
"The study of social orders - 25 years after Goffman's death."
His research areas are: Economic, cultural and development sociology, family sociology,
Sociology of the family, sociology of co-operatives and migration, European integration, the border area between social philosophy
and sociological theory.
Prof. Hettlage is a member of various scientific associations: e.g. "Schweizerische
Gesellschaft für Soziologie"; member of the editorial board of the "Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Soziologie" since 1975;
"International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy" (IVR), Swiss section; "German
Society for Sociology" (sections "Development Sociology", "Cultural Sociology",
"Economic Sociology"); "Görres Society" (sections "Sociology", "Economics"); "Correspondant
étranger" for the French journal "Revue Européenne des Migrations"; Scientific Advisory Board of the
german-Italian journal "Annali di Sociologia/Soziologisches Jahrbuch" (Trento); co-editor of the
"Schriften zum Genossenschaftswesen und zur Öffentlichen Wirtschaft", Duncker & Humblot Verlag, Berlin;
"Human Science Centre" (HWZ) of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich.
International research co-operation exists with various institutes in France, Italy, Austria,
Poland, Switzerland, Slovenia, the Czech Republic and Hungary.

Prof. Dr Dieter Goetze 29.10.1942 - 27.8.2014
Prof. Dr Dieter Goetze passed away on 27 August 2014.
For decades, he played a key role in shaping the work of the Institute of Sociology at the University of
Regensburg through his research in the fields of developmental sociology, political sociology and
Cultural sociology, the sociology of education and the sociology of gender relations. For generations
of Regensburg sociology students, he was an understanding and extremely stimulating teacher
Teacher.
Even after his retirement in 2007, he supported the remaining "residual institute" both in terms of content and organisation
organisationally. We could always rely on his advice. His broad sociological knowledge, the stimulating discussions
Sociological theory developments and his friendly and supportive way of dealing with people
People are greatly missed.