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Nowdeys, we come back to the tradition of thinking abort the education in the individual categories, what is especially important for pedagogical research, including andragogy, which use the term of individual model. The article constitutes a modest contribution to this process, which shows four generations of academics building the andragogy in German, with a special attention to professor Wiltrud Gieseke – the representative of the forth generation. Her scientific and professional way, main publications, translations into Polish and realized projects in cooperation with Polish andragogists were presented.