Alfred Jentzsch (pedagogue)

Alfred Jentzsch (born December 14, 1890 in Meißen ; † 1983 ) was a German educator .

Life

Alfred was the son of the Meissen city council and building contractor Oskar Jentzsch. He attended a high school; studied natural sciences at the University of Leipzig and did his military service. Jentzsch served during the First World War as a reserve lieutenant in Infantry Regiment No. 183 of the Saxon Army on the Western Front , was awarded both classes of the Iron Cross , the Knight's Cross II class of the Albrecht Order with swords and on November 16, 1916 with awarded the Knight's Cross of the Military Order of St. Henry .

In 1918 he was with the dissertation The flux density in the eastern Thuringia to Dr. phil. PhD. He then became teacher and directed 1928 to 1930 the Saxon Philologenverband . Subsequently he was head of the Leipzig Education Authority.

On May 1, 1933, he joined the NSDAP . In 1935 he became rector of the St. Thomas School in Leipzig and thus successor to Karl Tittel . During his tenure, Jentzsch tried to turn away the ideas of the Hitler Youth from the St. Thomas Choir and to enforce a Christian educational policy. As senior director of studies , he taught mathematics, physics, chemistry, geography and philosophical propaedeutics. On September 15, 1937, he opened the 725th anniversary of the Thomas School in the Gewandhaus in Leipzig and wrote the preface to From the history of the Thomas School in old and new times. Festschrift for the 725th school anniversary .

On August 26, 1939 he was drafted into military service. He served as battery chief and first lieutenant in the Reserve Flak Department 134 (deployed in Halle, Merseburg and Essen). Until 1945 he was represented as rector by the senior teacher Johannes Pinckert . On July 31, 1945, Jentzsch was dismissed from office without notice by the Allied Control Council decision. Most recently he lived in Bad Wildungen, Hesse .

Fonts

• From the history of the Thomas School in old and new times. Festschrift for the 725th school anniversary. Teubner, Leipzig 1937.
• Man uses the earth. Regional geography from an economic geographical point of view. Westermann, Braunschweig 1964. (together with Johannes Winkler)
• Man uses the earth. A goods customer from an economic geographical point of view. 2nd edition, Westermann, Braunschweig 1967. (together with Johannes Winkler)

literature

• Judith Krasselt, Hans-Jürgen Bersch : The Thomas School in Leipzig between the Weimar Republic and National Socialism. (= Brochures of the Thomanerbund eV, Volume 2). Published by the Thomanerbund eV, Leipzig 2000.
• Rebecca Ziegs: The Thomas School through the ages . Attempt to create a chronicle between 1945 and 1972 (= brochures of the Thomanerbund eV, volume 3). Published by the Thomanerbund eV, Leipzig 2010.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Judith Krasselt, Hans-Jürgen Bersch: The Thomasschule zu Leipzig between Weimar Republic and National Socialism: p. 90.
2. ↑ The Royal Saxon Military St. Heinrichs Order 1736-1918. An honor sheet of the Saxon Army. Wilhelm and Bertha von Baensch Foundation, Dresden 1937, p. 348.
3. ^ Geographical Yearbook 46-48. 1931, p. 135.
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Rebecca Ziegs: The Thomas School through the ages . Attempt to create a chronicle between 1945 and 1972. p. 34.
5. ^ Thomas Schinköth: Leipzig, the city of music in the Nazi state. Verlag Klaus-Jürgen Kamprad, Leipzig 1997, ISBN 3-930550-04-0 , p. 362.
6. ↑ Ludger Tewes: Youth in War. By air force helpers and soldiers 1939–1945. R. Hobbing, Essen 1989, ISBN 3-920460-49-9 , p. 195.
7. ↑ Rebecca Ziegs: The Thomas School through the ages . Attempt to create a chronicle between 1945 and 1972 , p. 40.