Curriculum Vitae

1937–
Born in Allenstein, East Prussia, on 6 November 1937, the son of Friedrich Czycholl, a savings bank clerk, and his wife Hildegard, née Galonska

1945
War-induced flight from Pillau across the Baltic Sea, via Stettin and Hamburg, to Delmenhorst

1957
Passed his Abitur at the ‘An der Willmsstraße’ grammar school in Delmenhorst on 6 March 1957

1957–
Six-month work placement at Deutsche Edelstahlwerke AG in Krefeld from 1 April to 30 September 1957

1958–1963
Studied economics, Business Education and Spanish at the Free University of Berlin and the University of Cologne

1959
Six-month work placement at Farbenfabriken Bayer AG in Krefeld-Uerdingen from 16 March to 18 September 1959

1960
Completed a course at the University of Seville, Spain, obtaining the Certificado de Estudios Hispánicos on 26 September 1960

1963
Graduated from the University of Cologne on 11 December 1963 with the academic degree of ‘Diplom-Handelslehrer’

1964 – 1966
Research assistant at the Institute for Vocational, Economic and Social Education at the University of Cologne

1966
In February/March 1966, undertook an educational research trip through Bolivia (on behalf of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Bonn. Paper ‘The Textbook Situation in Bolivia’, co-authored with Hans Molzahn)

1966–1972
: Research assistant at the Institute for Economic and Social Pedagogy at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

1969
Awarded a Dr. oec. publ. degree on 7 July 1969 for a thesis on “Fundamental Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Comparative Business Education”

1972–1974
Habilitation fellow of the German Research Foundation

1974
Habilitation by the School of Economics at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich with a thesis on “Dimensions of Development and Justification in Economic Didactics”. Awarded the right to teach ‘Economic and Social Pedagogy’ on 28 February 1974

1974
Appointed full professor of pedagogy, specialising in Business Education, at the School of Social, Economic and Law Sciences of the then University of Social and Economic Sciences in Linz, Germany, with effect from 1 April 1974

1978
Declined an appointment at the University of Dortmund

1980
Appointed as Academic Director of the Institute for Vocational Adult Education (IBE) at Johannes Kepler University Linz on 24 September 1980 at the constituent general meeting of the IBE Association

1982–1984
Dean of the School of Social and Economic Sciences at Johannes Kepler University Linz for the academic years 1982/83 and 1983/84

1985
Member of the Board of the Anna Magull Foundation since 1985

Accepted an appointment to the C4 professorship in Business Education/Didactics of Economic Sciences at the University of Oldenburg with effect from 1 July 1985

1989 – 1991
Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Law at the University of Oldenburg for the academic years 1989/90 and 1990/91

1990–1994
, Executive Director of the Commission/Section for Vocational and Business Education of the German Society for Educational Science

1991 – 1996
Executive Director of the Working Group on the Vocational Training Research Network (AG BFN)

2003
Retired since 1 April 2003