Anton Fingerle

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Anton Fingerle

Anton Fingerle (born January 5, 1912 in Munich ; † November 12, 1976 there ) was the first city school councilor (CSU) of Munich after 1945.

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The son of the cook Anna Fingerle entered the 1st class of the Maximiliansgymnasium in Munich in May 1922 , graduated from high school here in 1931 and then studied at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

At the suggestion of the incumbent Mayor Karl Scharnagl , Fingerle was appointed Munich's 1st City School Councilor in 1945 by the American occupying forces. He held the office until 1976. In 1947, under his leadership, negotiations led to the establishment of the Education Service Center in the Amerikahaus with the responsible American departments . This gave rise to the idea for a pedagogical institute that was founded on July 2, 1969. During his 30-year term in office, he set up institutions such as the school youth counseling service , the school psychological service , the international teacher and student exchange , the district youth association Munich-Stadt , and the youth culture agency. He was also actively involved in the founding of the International Youth Library , of which he was chairman from 1958 to 1970, as well as the association of Bavarian country school homes. In addition, he created successful institutions of the so-called second educational path : the evening grammar school and the Munich college and from 1968 was honorary professor for classical philology and didactics of ancient languages ​​at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . He was also actively involved in the founding (July 9, 1948) of the Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation . Munich was the first German city in which such an alliance was formed.

Fingerle, "who was very open to pedagogical innovations in his role as the city school councilor," vehemently advocated the expansion of kindergartens. In this regard, he supported innovative focal points that became a model for kindergarten education in what was then the Federal Republic of Germany:

  • Testing of "repression-free education"
  • Establishment of 'school kindergartens' for school-age but not yet school-ready children
  • Opening of new hospital kindergartens
  • Establishment of a kindergarten for children with polio and thalidomide harm
  • Special music kindergartens
  • The project 'bilingual kindergarten'
  • Facilities for children who cannot attend special schools without special preparation
  • Concepts and experiments for preschool early intervention in kindergarten
  • Learning to swim for children in their final year of preschool
  • Pre-school groups with special support offers
  • Model experiment 'German-Italian kindergarten groups'
  • Testing of the series of experiments 'German and foreign children in kindergarten'.

Fingerle was the father of five daughters. On November 12, 1976, in the entrance hall of the university, he suffered a heart attack on the way to the lecture, to which he succumbed. More than two thousand mourners accompanied him on November 17, 1976 to his final resting place in Munich's north cemetery (grave location: 136-A-88).

In the Giesing district of Munich , an educational institution with several school branches bears his name. On his 100th birthday, an exhibition was dedicated to the school politician and pedagogue from the Department for Education and Sport of the City of Munich, opening on April 23, 2012. In the same year, the CSU Munich awarded the Dr. Anton Fingerle Education Prize for the first time .

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • Education for group communication. A handbook for school principals, Munich 1950
  • The school as a medium, in: Die Pädagogische Welt 1953 / H. 2, pp. 103-105
  • Reason and Faith on Political Education in Schools, Munich 1958
  • Adult education today and tomorrow: Festschrift for Karl Witthan, Munich 1962
  • Munich home and cosmopolitan city, Munich 1963
  • Race question today, Munich 1963

literature

  • City of Munich (Ed.): Colorful as life - 100 years of municipal kindergartens in Munich 1907-2007 , Munich 2007, pp. 36–37 ( online version, pdf , PDF; 4.45 MB)
  • Elisabeth Zellmer: Daughters of the Revolt? Women's movement and feminism in the 1970s in Munich. Munich 2011

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ according to information from the Munich City Archives
  2. ↑ annual report on the k.Maximiliansgymnasium in Munich for the school year 1930/31
  3. ↑ https://www.pi-muenchen.de/index.php?id=49
  4. ↑ https://www.bayern-internate.com/der-verband/geschichte/ Zweckverband Bayerische Landschulheime
  5. ↑ https://www.muenchen.de/rathaus/Stadtverwaltung/Direktorium/Stadtarchiv/Juedisches-Muenchen/WoBruederlichkeit.html with photo
  6. ↑ Zellmer 2001, p. 77
  7. ↑ cf. Zellmer 2001, p. 77 f
  8. ↑ State Capital Munich 2007, p. 37
  9. ↑ http://www.monacomedia.de/muenchenwiki/index.php/Anton-Fingerle-Zentrum
  10. ↑ "No thing without a finger". In: sueddeutsche.de. November 3, 2016, accessed August 1, 2018 .
  11. ↑ CSU Munich: Awarding of the Dr. Anton Fingerle Education Prize

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personal data
SURNAME Fingerle, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German City School Council (CSU)
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH November 1976
Place of death Munich