Andreas Hohlfeld

Andreas Hohlfeld (* 24. June 1906 in Strasbourg ; † 14. April 1945 in the lower resin) was a German Nazi educator.

Life

education

Hohlfeld came from an Alsatian farming family and grew up in poor conditions. He attended elementary school in Dunzenheim . In October 1919, his family was expelled from Alsace under the Treaty of Versailles . Since the age of 14 he was a member of the “ Völkischer Bund ”, an anti-Semitic “ Wandervogel ” group; also in the Association for Germans Abroad (VDA) since 1921; since May 1, 1932 he was a member of the NSDAP .

Hohlfeld studied history, geography and German at the University of Leipzig , a. a. at Theodor Litt , and at the University of Marburg . There he did his doctorate under Wilhelm Mommsen and worked at the Institute for Border and German Abroad under Johann Wilhelm Mannhardt (sociologist) in Marburg. In 1932 the examination for the higher teaching post followed. 1932–1933 Hohlfeld was a trainee student at the Odenwald School , the educational home founded by Paul Geheeb , which he accused of a socialist attitude. The next stop was 1933 ethnically based school development "Hellaufschule" under Friedrich Schoell on the " Vogelhof (Erbstetten (Ehingen)) " in Hayingen .

Andreas Hohlfeld had been married to the English language specialist and reform pedagogue Ingeborg Badenhausen, the older sister of the theater scholar Rolf Badenhausen , since 1933 .

Career in the time of National Socialism

In the summer semester of 1933 he became Ernst Krieck's assistant at the Frankfurt a. M. and in 1933 there was a teacher there. In June 1934 he was appointed a full member of the Historical Commission for Westphalia . At the age of 28 in 1934 he was initially appointed provisional professor for political education and historical education at the HfL Dortmund. In 1936 he was transferred to Karlsruhe and appointed acting director of the Baden University of Teacher Training for the Baden district. The work began on November 11, 1936 with 130 beginners. The main task was to train primary school teachers . Hohlfeld was interested in a political orientation of the university: “(...) A young, select team that can be brought together for real community work based on the National Socialist ideology, and that is able to grow with and at its task and only with its own growth to bring the young university up to its perfection ”. Hohlfeld's “team” looked like this: The first group was made up of university lecturers with academic degrees (doctorate or habilitation); the second group of high school teachers; the third group profiled elementary school teachers, so-called "methodologists", who also had a scientific qualification.

In 1939 the HfL Karlsruhe was relocated from the “border and deployment area on the Rhine” to Darmstadt for two semesters . All young teachers were seconded to Alsace, which was just occupied in 1940. The HfL Karlsruhe was dissolved on April 1, 1942 and replaced by the Karlsruhe teacher training institute . Hohlfeld published a collection of texts in Strasbourg in 1941 under the title “Confrontation with the West”: “This is how you should relive the tremendous educational process that the German people since 1919, part of the German people only experienced after 1933 through our Führer’s educational work . "

In the autumn of 1939, the SS member (since 1936) Hohlfeld reported to be deployed at the front; As a member of the SD and Obersturmführer , he became a consultant ("Expert for Western Questions") at the Commander of the Security Police and the SD (Security Service of the Reichsführer SS) in Alsace. Gustav Adolf Scheel was in charge of this authority based in Strasbourg . Hohlfeld was involved in the evacuation and deportation of Alsatians.

When he returned to Karlsruhe, he coordinated the “retraining” at the Karlsruhe location as head of the HfL. Between 1940 and 1942, three special courses for teachers from Alsace took place at the HfL. Not a word of French was allowed to be spoken at the HfL or in the events. The main responsibility for the German lessons lay with the Karlsruhe Germanist and grammar school professor Karl Friedrich Probst , who was known for his language didactic teaching. The young Alsatian teachers received speech training from actors from the Baden State Theater.

From 1942, teacher training for the Baden area took place at the Karlsruhe Teacher Training Institute and the Heidelberg, Lahr, Bad Peterstal / Kurhaus Bad Freyersbach and Sinsheim / Elsenz Teacher Training Centers ; In addition, three gender-separated teacher training institutes were established for Alsace, which, however, were located in Baden locations until suitable buildings were created: the Strasbourg teacher training institution, temporarily located in Bad Rippoldsau ; the Colmar teacher training college, temporarily housed in Bad Peterstal; the Schlettstadt Teachers Training College , temporarily part of the “Hotel Victoria” building complex in Heidelberg. The LBA Karlsruhe at Bismarckstrasse 10 was bombed out during the air raid on the city on November 7, 1944.

Since 1941, Hohlfeld was a lecturer in modern history at the newly founded University of Strasbourg and a soldier on the Western Front as a soldier without special tasks. On November 1, 1944, he was appointed full professor of education in Strasbourg.

Andreas Hohlfeld fell on April 14, 1945 during the Volkssturm mission in the Lower Harz.

Fonts

• The Frankfurt Parliament and its struggle for the German army , Berlin 1932
• Confrontation with the West , Strasbourg 1942

literature

• Wolfram Hauer: Teacher training during the Nazi regime in the border region of Baden and in the "Gau Oberrhein" (2007) online
• Alexander Hesse: The professors and lecturers of the Prussian educational academies (1926-1933) and colleges for teacher training (1933-1941) . Deutscher Studien-Verlag, Weinheim 1995, ISBN 3-89271-588-2 , p. 370–372 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Web links

• Prof. Dr. Andreas Hohlfeld at the Historical Commission for Westphalia

Single receipts

1. ↑ Vogelhof
2. ↑ Elija Horn: India as an educator. Orientalism in German Reform Education and the Youth Movement 1918–1933. J. Klinkhardt, Bad Heilbrunn 2018. P. 238f.