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August Verleger (born August 7, 1883 in Gütersloh ; died October 13, 1951 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German social pedagogue , writer and publisher .

Life

August Verleger was one of ten children of railway worker Wilhelm Verleger. After elementary school he attended the preparatory institute in Schildesche and then the teachers' seminar there. In 1903 and 1905 he passed the first and second teaching examinations. He had two children from his first marriage to Hedwig Verleger, and after the divorce he married the welfare worker Lene Mann in 1931 . Verleger worked as a teacher in Veltheim (1903), Hartum (1903/04), on the preparatory work and on the rescue house in Schildesche (1904-1908) and at an elementary school in Duisburg (1909). In the 1909 school year he was transferred to the Hölderlin School in Frankfurt am Main , where he passed the examination to become a secondary school teacher in 1913 and as a school principal in 1914. He also wrote school books on the side . In 1919, the Frankfurt school certificate put him in charge of the youth hostel , a welfare home for young men at risk. In 1921 the facility moved from the very cramped rooms in the former Senckenberg Hospital on Stiftstraße to the former Bockenheimer Hospital on Ginnheimer Landstraße. At the new location and under the new name Westendheim , Verleger developed an open day care home with 120 places in the Berlin welfare home “Lindenhof” under the impression of the educational reform work of Karl Wilker . The young people were allowed to spend most of their work and leisure time outside the home. Verleger joined a working group on Alfred Adler's individual psychology . He found support from the Frankfurt Youth Welfare Office and from members of the Frankfurter Naturfreundejugend , who worked with him free of charge.

The effects of the global economic crisis from 1929 and the political radicalization in Germany made the work more difficult, which came to a standstill due to the austerity measures of the 1932 Emergency Ordinance and the associated dismissal of most young people. The Westendheim was closed on December 31, 1932, and Verleger was retired on May 1, 1933 after the National Socialist seizure of power . The Westendheim then temporarily served as a concentration camp for union officials.

The publisher resumed his literary work on the Frankfurt Sagenschatz, but was subject to a partial publication ban from 1937.

In 1946, with the approval of the American military government, he founded a school book publisher , which later became Hirschgraben-Verlag, for elementary schools and special schools. In addition, he participated in the development of Südwestfunk (SWF), which broadcast a large number of its radio plays .

Works (selection)

Fiction
  • Old Frankfurt legends . Kramer, Frankfurt a. M. 1927.
  • Taunus legends . Kramer, Frankfurt a. M. 1928.
  • The Wolf Angel. The story of the brave Fraulein Justina von Cronstetten . Frankfurt a. M. 1931/1932.
  • Hometown. Old Frankfurt and Taunus legends . 1936.
  • Remote listening. How a human dream came true . Diesterweg, Frankfurt a. M 1938.
  • Lüttkemann's Brink. A novel by farmers from Lower Saxony . Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1938.
  • Remote listening . Novel. Tauchnitz, Halle 1941.
  • Griesemann's Kolk . Narrative. 2nd Edition. Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1943.
  • Fate in the village . Novella. Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1944.
  • The deep well . Novel. Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1946.
  • The miracle out of nowhere. Novel. How the German steam engine came about . Hirschgraben, Frankfurt a. M. 1948.
  • Red geraniums. Narratives . Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1949.
  • The tamed flame. Nikolaus August Otto's way to his engine . Novel. Hirschgraben, Frankfurt a. M. 1951.
  • The old Möhle . Self-published, Frankfurt a. M. 1953, posthumously.
  • The lunar rainbow . Hirschgraben, Frankfurt am Main 1955.
  • The way through hell. Baron Götz and Karl XII. Novel. Parzeller, Fulda 1960.
  • How Graewken became a count . Narrative. Bechauf, Bielefeld 1961.
  • The dollhouse . Narrative. Bechauf, Bielefeld 1961.
  • January sagas .
  • Döttelken. Narration .
Essays
  • Critical to welfare education , in: Zentralblatt für Jugendrecht und Jugendwohlfahrt, Issue 7, 1930, pp. 234–239.
  • The open educational home , in: Freie Wohlfahrtspflege, Heft 4, 1931, pp. 250-260.
  • Becoming and working in Westendheim . 61 booklets. Frankfurt am Main 1925–1930.

literature

  • Wolfgang Klötzer (Hrsg.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . Second volume. M – Z (=  publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 2 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-7829-0459-1 , p. 509 .
  • Winfried Heid: Verleger, August , in: Hugo Maier (Hrsg.): Who is who of social work . Lambertus, Freiburg 1998, ISBN 3-7841-1036-3 , p. 600f.
  • Gustav Dessin: The narrator August Verleger , in: August Verleger zum Gedächtnis . August 7, 1958, Frankfurt am Main 1958.
  • Edmund Ruhenstroth: August Verleger (1883–1951). Pedagogue, writer and book publisher , in: Gütersloher Contributions to Heimat- und Landeskunde 11/13, 1986, pp. 228-231.

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personal data
SURNAME Publisher, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Varel, Albert (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social pedagogue, writer and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Gutersloh
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 1951
Place of death Frankfurt am Main