Aloys Fischer

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Aloys Fischer (born April 10, 1880 in Furth im Wald , Bavaria ; † November 23, 1937 in Munich ) was a teacher and worked on the foundations of a modern theory of upbringing and education . He promoted social education and vocational training and campaigned for the academization of teacher training.

Memorial plaque for Aloys Fischer on the house where he was born at Herrenstrasse 5 in Furth im Wald ('Founder of modern pedagogy')

Life

Fischer first grew up in Furth, where he attended elementary school. In 1891 he received a scholarship that enabled him to attend the humanistic grammar school of the Benedictine monastery in Metten . He passed his matriculation examination in 1899 as primus omnium . In the following winter semester he began studying Classical Philology, German Philology and History at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. The first state examination in 1902 was followed by doctoral studies under Theodor Lipps . From 1903 to 1906, Fischer was the private tutor for Adolf von Hildebrand's children . His work on symbolic relations , with which he won a competition at the Philosophical Faculty in 1904, was recognized as a dissertation.

In 1906 Fischer married Paula Thalmann, a Jew, who gave birth to Ernst Maria in 1907 and Peter Paul in 1911. From 1906 to 1907 Fischer headed a private grammar school class, in 1907 he completed his habilitation with Lipps and Hermann Grauert with the text Investigations on Aesthetic Value .

This was followed by the appointment as a private lecturer for philosophy by Prince Regent Luitpold of Bavaria . In 1908 Fischer took up a position as tutor of the Bavarian princes Luitpold and Albrecht . Luitpold died of polio in 1914, but Albrecht was tutored by Fischer until 1918. From 1910 Fischer was also the scientific director of the Pedagogical-Psychological Institute of the Munich Teachers' Association, and from 1914 he was also one of the editors of the Pedagogical Monographs series . In 1915 he became an associate professor of philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilians University and in 1918 a full professor of education. In 1920 he succeeded Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster and became head of the university's pedagogical seminar. Together with Otto Scheibner , Georg Kerschensteiner , Ludwig Pallat and Richard Seyfert , he published the magazine Die Arbeitsschule from 1924 . From 1925 he was one of the editors of the journal Die Erziehungs, along with Theodor Litt , Herman Nohl , Eduard Spranger and Wilhelm Flitner .

In the winter semester of 1927/28 he became dean of the Philosophical Faculty and in 1929, together with Alexander Pfänder, he was on the board of the Psychological Department of the University of Munich. In the same year he participated in a report by the Bavarian universities which aimed to integrate teacher training into university studies. In 1935 Fischer was both first chairman of the psychological seminar and chairman of the educational seminar.

Because of his Jewish wife, he was forced to retire in 1937. In the same year he died after an operation.

aftermath

Fischer's main focus was the development of vocational training and vocational schools, the recognition of which he demanded. The structures of today's technical and vocational schools go back to his plans and considerations. The vocational high school (state technical high school and vocational high school) in Deggendorf was named after him.

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SURNAME Fischer, Aloys
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Furth im Wald , Bavaria
DATE OF DEATH November 23, 1937
Place of death Munich , Bavaria