Albrecht Leo Merz

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Albrecht Leo Merz (born February 4, 1884 in Schramberg ; † February 9, 1967 in Stuttgart ) was a German senator and founder of the Merz School and the Merz Academy .

Life

Merz studied architecture in Berlin and Stuttgart. During the First World War he was a ballistics teacher and an officer at the artillery measuring school in Wahn near Cologne. In the Wandervogel he was one of the leaders of the Free German Youth . The factory building and factory school he founded in Stuttgart in November 1918 had to be officially closed in 1933/34, but Merz continued to run it privately. He was banned from writing and speaking . From 1934 he supervised the apprenticeship training at the Klemm aircraft factory in Böblingen and from 1942 worked as a freelancer at the Institute for Constitutional Research founded by Walther Rudolf Jaensch at the Charité . After the war, he founded the Europäische Werkring in 1946 , reopened his school and expanded it to include a high school in 1952 and a boarding school in 1956.

pedagogy

Albrecht Leo Merz's educational concern was to train people who would use all of their abilities to use intellectual knowledge and creative design for life and work, that is, holistic education of young people in science, art and craftsmanship and not with intentions that are hostile to technology .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German Biographical Encyclopedia , ed. by W. Killy 7.1998, cit. according to DBA 3 (0619) p. 279.

Works

  • Manifesto of Education . Stuttgart 1947.

literature

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personal data
SURNAME Merz, Albrecht Leo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German senator and school founder
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Schramberg , Black Forest
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 1967
Place of death Stuttgart