Adolf Freunthaller

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Adolf Freunthaller (* 1887 in Mauer near Amstetten , Lower Austria ; † 1965 Vienna ) was an Austrian pedagogue , special school director and Viennese school councilor. He was an important deaf teacher in Austria during the interwar period.

Life

Freunthaller was a deaf teacher in Vienna. In the early 1920s, together with Fritz Pifl (also Fritz Biffl), he developed the first kindergarten for hearing-impaired children within the German-speaking area, which was established in Vienna in 1916, into a mother-school language preschool .

From 1925 to 1938 he was Viktor Urbantschitsch's successor and headed the municipal deaf-mute institution in Vienna- Döbling . The "signaling method" , which his niece Susann Schmid-Giovannini later used for some time, also came from him .

The Nazis declared him unworthy of bringing up German children because he was a Freemason and also taught Jewish children. It was only by accident that he escaped arrest.

In 1949 he was asked by the community to help set up the newly created special kindergarten Schweizer Spende in Vienna, the first special kindergarten for the hearing impaired in the German-speaking area. There he recommended - in the sense of Urbantschitsch - training the remaining hearing for spoken language with a stethoscope as a hearing aid.

In 1952 he was appointed to Turkey, where he conducted a teacher training program with local teachers who were already active in special education or who wanted to work in this field. Some of his books had been translated into Turkish. .

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Freunthaller's activities were closely related to the history of the Viennese deaf during the Red Vienna : Around 1919 the Vienna Deaf and Dumb Council organized a large mass meeting of the deaf, at which for the first time in the history of the Viennese deaf movement almost all of Speising's deaf teachers living at the time (with director Fritz Pifl ) , von Döbling (with Director Kraft ), von Fünfhaus (Director Schramke ), from Zinkgasse, from Canisiusgasse (Director Wotypka ) were present. A future program was announced which included, among other things, the demand for the combined teaching method (spoken and sign language) and the introduction of permanent educational lectures for adults.

In the autumn of 1924, two representatives of the Viennese deaf people asked for a bar in order to be able to carry out the educational and care work for the school-leavers and adult deaf people in Vienna. When the new director of the municipal deaf-mute facility in Döbling, Freunthaller found out about the concerns of the Viennese deaf people, he personally looked after the interests of the Viennese deaf people and helped to make their wishes come true. As a result, an interest group and working group was established between city councilor Julius Tandler and Freunthaller, from which the board of trustees of the municipal welfare organization for the deaf and dumb later emerged.

In 1929, based on the decisions of this board of trustees, the Vienna Deaf and Dumb Welfare Association WITAF (the previous organization, the Vienna Deaf and Dumb Support Association , was founded in 1865). In the former orphanage of the City of Vienna in Gassergasse - Laurenzgasse 1, a home for the Viennese deaf was built, suitable for educational and welfare purposes as well as cultural events. After its completion, WITAF developed an unprecedented activity and was able to gain 800 of the 900 deaf people recorded by questionnaires as members in a short time. The Städtische Taubstummenfürsorgestelle and Freundthaller received duplicates from the membership file, from which Freunthaller was able to compile social statistics on the deaf and dumb on Viennese soil .

On Freunthaller's recommendation, WITAF set up an advice center for the deaf and mute. The newly established WITAF educational center, in which the directors Pifl and Freunthaller participated, was able to hold numerous lectures and training courses, such as German, Esperanto, French, mathematics, lifestyle and health studies, etc. In 1938 the Nazis deleted the association from the association register.

Fonts

  • Opinion of the deaf-mute teacher on modern questions of physical education . Lecture, 1914
  • The kindergarten as a link in education for the deaf and dumb . Lecture given at the Samuel Heinicke anniversary conference of the Federation of German Deaf-Mute Teachers Pentecost 1927. German. Museum for the Education of the Deaf and Mute, 1927
  • The current state of deaf dumbness on Viennese soil. A study carried out on behalf of the Board of Trustees for the Welfare of the Deaf and Mute in Vienna . German publishing house for youth and people, Vienna 1933.
  • The practice of articulation lessons . In: Journal for Child Research. Organ of the Society for Curative Education and the German Association for the Welfare of Young Psychopaths Volume: 45, 1936
  • The structure of language in the deaf and dumb child. Detailed work plan for language lessons at a 10-grade school for the deaf and mute , 1936.

literature

  • Susanne Schmid-Giovannini: Picture stories for deaf, hard of hearing and speech-impaired children using the signaling method of Professor Adolf Freunthaller . Fountain of Youth, 1964
  • Susanne Schmid-Giovannini: Listening and speaking, instructions for the auditory-verbal education of hearing-impaired children. New edition as an e-book, www.edizio.com/hoeren-und-rechen.html
  • Armin Löwe : Hearing Impaired Education International. History - countries - people - congresses. An introduction for parents, teachers and therapists of hearing impaired children . Universitätsverlag Winter GmbH, Heidelberg 1992, ISBN 3-8253-8183-8
  • Walter Schott: The Lower Austrian Provincial Deaf Mute Asylums in Vienna-Döbling 1881-1921 and Wiener Neustadt 1903-1932: Represented according to annual reports, protocols and historical records with an outline of the development history of deaf education up to the establishment of the first institution . Self-published by Walter Schott, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-9501178-1-4
  • M. Miles: Deaf People, Sign Language and Communication, in Ottoman and Modern Turkey: Observations and Excerpts from 1300 to 2009. From sources in English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Latin and Turkish, with introduction and some annotation, 2009 . [1]

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ M. Cem GIRGIN (2006) History of higher education provision for the deaf in Turkey and current applications at the Anadolu University. Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology, 1951-1953
personal data
SURNAME Freunthaller, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian deaf teacher
DATE OF BIRTH 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Wall near Amstetten , Lower Austria
DATE OF DEATH 1965
Place of death Vienna