ABSTRACT
Around 1960 pedagogy was only a minor, marginal subject at German and Austrian universities. Usually it was assigned to a single professor, who had to teach all aspects of the subject. Pedagogy had little prestige and suffered from the lack of a scientifically qualified second generation. Its scientific character was still disputed. Generally, scholars treated it as a philosophical discipline or as a cultural science of a "hermeneutic-pragmatic" type. In terms of scientific theory, ideas and personnel-politically, an alliance of the following professors had the greatest influence: Theodor Litt, Eduard Spranger, Herman Nohl, Wilhelm Flitner and, in Austria, Richard Meister. Roth's major work, "Pedagogical Anthropology" again documented for the author that it was impossible to simultaneously accomplish scientific, morally-grounded and practice-oriented tasks within one-and-the-same sentence system.
