Alfred Kleeberg

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Alfred Kleeberg (born July 26, 1887 in Plauen , † April 8, 1957 in Hamburg ) was a German school principal and school reformer.

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Alfred Kleeberg came from the Vogtland. During his studies he became a member of the Burgundia Jena Landsmannschaft in 1908 . He was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD . After completing his studies, he first worked as a senior teacher in Leipzig . On October 1, 1913, he took up a position in the teachers' seminar on Freiligrathstrasse in Hamburg-Hohenfelde . During the First World War he did military service. Kleeberg then returned to Hamburg, where he campaigned for changes in teacher training from 1919. He joined the DVP and became a member of what later became the Volksbund for Germanness Abroad . In Hamburg he participated in the founding of a secondary school that opened in 1922, which enabled talented elementary school students to acquire higher education entrance qualifications more quickly based on the concept of the German High School . Kleeberg took over the school management until 1933. He placed particular emphasis on musical subjects, individual priorities and a changed school leaving examination. By choosing an exam subject themselves, students should be able to show that they were able to proceed independently and according to current methods.

Kleeberg joined the Association of German High Schools and Advanced Schools, in which he worked for many years and which he took over as chairman in the early 1930s. From 1930 he headed the Hamburg Philologists' Association, in which he called for reforms. Kleeberg wrote numerous essays in which he presented his ideas about reform pedagogy and possible changes. After the seizure of power , the National Socialists transferred Kleeberg from July 10, 1933, the management of the German High School on Lübeckertorfeld , which was merged with the monastery school that had been relocated there in 1934 and from then on bore that name. Kleeberg, who publicly committed himself to the goal of “national renewal”, joined the NSDAP in 1937 . He supported efforts regarding borderland Germany and actions in the context of Ostpolitik. This included, among other things, a “partnership” between Hamburg schools and those in occupied Polish Lodz in 1943 . He compromised with the regime, but showed a human and educational sense of responsibility. As far as he could, he stood up for threatened schoolgirls. As part of the Kinderlandverschickung , he took care of classes at his school that were in Bavaria.

After the end of the Second World War , Kleeberg was deposed in the same year, dismissed from state employment and imprisoned, and later rehabilitated. From October 1, 1949, he took over the position of director of studies for the pedagogical training of students of the higher teaching post who were enrolled at the pedagogical institute of the University of Hamburg . From 1954 to 1957 Kleeberg was a member of the Independent Commission for the Hamburg School System , which the Hamburg Senate had appointed. As part of this activity, Kleeberg asked for elementary secondary schools to be set up in Hamburg.

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  1. ↑ Berthold Ohm (Ed.): Addendum to the address directory of the old gentlemen of the German Landsmannschaft. Hamburg 1932, p. 4.
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SURNAME Kleeberg, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German school principal and school reformer
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Plauen
DATE OF DEATH April 8, 1957
Place of death Hamburg