Reinhard Buchwald

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Ernst Reinhard Buchwald (born February 2, 1884 in Großenhain ; † January 13, 1983 in Heidelberg ) was a German literary and cultural historian and one of the founders of the German adult education center movement and a representative of the Thuringian direction of adult education.

Life

Come and study

The son of the cloth manufacturer Oscar Buchwald attended the Bürgerrealschule in Großenhain from 1890 to 1893 and in 1897 was given a free position at the Royal Princely and State School of St. Augustin in Grimma , which he attended until his Abitur in 1903. In the same year Buchwald won the Goethe scholarship with a prize work, which gave him the opportunity to study at the university.

In the summer semester of 1903 he studied art history, classical philology and German literary history at the University of Munich under Adolf Furtwängler, among others . He also attended lectures in history, music and philosophy. In the same year he moved to the University of Jena , where his teachers included Albert Köster , Karl Lamprecht , Eduard Sievers and Jakob Zeidler . In 1906 he was at the University of Leipzig with a dissertation on the subject of " Joachim Greff . Investigations into the Beginnings of the Renaissance Drama in Saxony ” , which was supervised by Albert Köster, is doing his doctorate. After a break due to his professional activity, Buchwald studied economics at the University of Heidelberg in the summer semester of 1913 .

Profession and military service

Buchwald had his first job as a research assistant at Insel-Verlag Leipzig, where he was an authorized signatory from 1910 to 1912 . In 1912 he was drafted into the military, served as a volunteer Red Cross nurse in the Laon military hospital from 1914 to 1915 and then served on the Eastern Front until 1918. In 1918 he was given the job of a research assistant in the Weimar Demobilization Office.

After the war, he initially took on a position as an advisory board member and head of the sales department at Eugen Diederichs-Verlag Jena , before he became one of the fathers of the adult education movement as a co-founder of the Thuringian Adult Education Center in Jena . From 1920 to 1923 and again from 1925 to 1930 he was the managing director of the Thuringian Adult Education Center, and also a scientific advisor at the Herrmann Böhlau Weimar publishing house . From 1922 to 1930 he was also a member of the government in the Thuringian Ministry of Public Education in Weimar. From 1927 to 1933 Buchwald was chairman of the Reich Association of German Adult Education Centers.

Teaching

From 1925 Buchwald had a teaching position at the welfare schools in Weimar and Jena. From 1929 to 1930 he was a lecturer for theory and practice in adult education at the University of Jena. In 1930 he got a job as a teacher at the Odenwald School in Heppenheim and in 1932 got a teaching position for adult education at the University of Heidelberg. The teaching assignment was expanded over the years to include the subjects of education (1932), educational philosophy with Schiller and Goethe (1934), German educational history (1941) and German literary history (1943).

From 1944 Buchwald taught as an honorary professor for the history of education and the history of literature at Heidelberg University. In addition, in 1945 he held the position of director of education for the city of Heidelberg. In 1952 Buchwald retired. According to his respective functions or teaching assignments, Buchwald's research focuses on pedagogy and adult education, culture and educational history as well as German classical music.

Reinhard Buchwald was never a member of the NSDAP .

Reinhard Buchwald's son, Konrad Buchwald , was a botanist, nature conservationist and landscape planner and in 1971 played a decisive role in the first draft of the Federal Nature Conservation Act .

Honors

Memberships

Works

  • The science of the German national character . 60 p. Jena. Diederichs (1917)
  • The educational interests of the German workers . 36 S. Tübingen. Mohr (1934)
  • Schiller vol. 1: The young Schiller . 366 p. Leipzig. Insel-Verlag. (1937)
  • Schiller Vol. 2: Wander- u. Master years 519 p. Leipzig. Insel-Verlag. (1937)
  • Guide through Goethe's Faust poem. Explanation of the work and history of its creation . 499 p. Stuttgart. Kröner (1942; 8th edition 1983).
  • The legacy of the German classics . 190 p. Leipzig. Insel-Verlag. (1944)
  • Goethe and German fate. Basics of a life story . 387 S. Munich. Munich publisher. (1948)
  • Goethe time and present. The Effects of Goethe in German Intellectual History . 38 p. Stuttgart, Kröner (1949)
  • Reinhard Buchwald: History experienced. Memoirs of life 1884–1930 (= studies and documentation on German educational history. Vol. 44). Edited by Ulrich Herrmann. Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 1992.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bettina Reimers: Buchwald, Ernst Reinhard. In: Christoph König (Ed.), With the assistance of Birgit Wägenbaur u. a .: Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800–1950. Volume 1: A-G. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-015485-4 , pp. 287–289, here p. 287.
personal data
SURNAME Buchwald, Reinhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Buchwald, Ernst Reinhard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary and cultural historian and co-founder of the German adult education center movement
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Grossenhain
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 1983
Place of death Heidelberg