In 1949 he was one of the founders of the Rundfunk im amerikanischen Sektor Radio University and regularly lectured on scientific, philosophical and cultural-political topics.
After teaching assignments and a substitute professorship, he was appointed associate professor at the Free University of Berlin in 1971.
From 1973 to 1977 he was on leave there and at the same time director of the North Rhine-Westphalian Research and Development Centre for Objectified Teaching and Learning (FEoLL), where he worked with Helmar Frank and Miloš Lánský, among others.
Herbert Stachowiak gave a speech on "The Scientific Ideal of Academic Youth" at the 1st Dies Academicus of the Student Council of the University of Berlin in 1947.
Science had to face up to the tension between the purposeless search for truth and the ethical commitment to humane living conditions.
Since the 1950s, the model perspective received a strong boost from the new cognitive programme of cybernetics (Norbert Wiener) and systems theory (Ludwig von Bertalanffy), which can almost be characterised as a model-scientific approach.
In his undogmatic basic attitude, he sought to integrate parts of these school opinions into his thought, but this did not always meet with the approval of his colleagues.