Bernhard Hell

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Bernhard Hell (born May 2, 1877 in Degerloch ; † March 24, 1955 in Freudenstadt ) was a German reform pedagogue , school founder and author .

Bernhard Hell was born the son of chemist Carl Magnus von Hell (1849–1926). Between 1907 and 1919 he taught in the Free School Community of Wickersdorf near Saalfeld in the Thuringian Forest , founded by Gustav Wyneken , which he also ran from 1914 to 1916 on behalf of Martin Luserke . In 1919 he briefly joined Bernhard Uffrecht's re-establishment of the Free School and Work Community , before teaching in the Landschulheim am Solling in Holzminden until 1930 . On the former site of a Benedictine convent , he founded the Urspring School near Schelklingen in 1930 in order to run it as a non-profit, evangelical and reform-pedagogical rural education home or boarding school.

Hell, who got to know Luserke in Wickersdorf in 1907, kept in touch with them after he himself left Wickersdorf in 1919 after disputes with Wyneken. He attended Luserke's school by the sea on the North Sea island of Juist as part of a study trip with his students from Holzminden in June 1929. In the same year Hell wrote his essay The Evangelical School Community in Holzminden and, together with his wife Else, visited various properties with properties that seemed suitable during the summer holidays that were available for purchase. Only the last object they visited was popular: the former Benedictine convent. In autumn they made the decision to buy the property and found their first employee in Fritz Ehrecke (1896–1946).

The Urspring School Foundation was established on April 2, 1930, and the Urspring School opened on May 2, 1930 . In 1931 Hell was involved in founding the Michaelis Brotherhood as part of the Berneuchen movement . In 1941, Hell resigned as headmaster of the Urspring School and withdrew after there had been increasing conflicts with the National Socialist school authorities due to Hell's Christian attitude and corresponding publications such as the honor and need of the Christian educational school. Ehrecke continued the Urspring School until the end of the war. Hell died at the age of 77.

Publications

  • Ernst Mach's Philosophy - An epistemological study of reality and value . F. Frommanns Verlag (E. Hauff), Stuttgart 1907. OCLC 250093323
  • J. Robert Mayer and the Law of Conservation of Energy . F. Frommanns Verlag (Kurtz), Stuttgart 1925. OCLC 250093071 (Reprint: ISBN 978-3846007068 )
  • as Ed .: Contributions to the dynamics of the sky and other articles . Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, Leipzig 1927. OCLC 488740737
  • Evangelical school community in Urspring near Schelklingen (Swabian Alb) . Höhn, Ulm 1929. OCLC 314953644
  • The Protestant school community - attempt to design a Protestant rural education home . Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel 1930.
  • History of the Urspring Monastery - A contribution to local history . Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel 1935. OCLC 311748572
  • 850 years of Urspring Monastery - Bernhard Hell 100 years . Schelklingen 1977. OCLC 175036063

literature

  • Immo Eberl: Bernhard Hell. In: Bernd Ottnad (Ed.), Baden-Württembergische Biographien , Vol. 1. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1994, pp. 133-134.
  • Karl-Heinz Günther: Bernhard Hell, founder of the Urspring School 1877–1955. In: Robert Uhland (ed.), Lebensbilder aus Schwaben und Franken , Vol. 14. W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1980, pp. 469–502.
  • Else Hell: Life picture of Dr. Bernhard Hell . Seybold-Verlag, Erlangen 1963. 47 pp.
  • Ralf Koerrenz , Dieter Toder (ed.): School as a community - Bernhard Hells school pedagogical writings . Deutscher Studien-Verlag, Weinheim 1996. ISBN 978-3-89271-622-8 .
  • Ralf Koerrenz (ed.): The Protestant school community - attempt to design a Protestant rural education home . Commented by Ralf Koerrenz. (= Pedagogical Reform in Quellen, No. 8, Edition Paidela) Verlag IKS Garamond, Jena 2011. ISBN 978-3-941854-44-4 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Dudek : “That I went my way out of innermost conviction.” - The memories of the Free School Community Wickersdorf in the prison diary of the KPD Reichstag member Ernst Putz (1896–1933) . In: Contributions to the history of the labor movement (BzG), 3 (2011), pp. 91–120, quotation point: pp. 99–100.
  2. ↑ Bernhard Hell: The Evangelical School Community 1930 . On: uni-jena.de
  3. ↑ a b c Urspring School makes history . On: urspringschule.de
  4. ^ Original school - a private evangelical educational home in Baden-Wuerttemberg , November 24, 2009. On: spiegel.de
  5. ^ Logbook of the Schule am Meer Juist, entry from June 4, 1929.
personal data
SURNAME Hell, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German reform pedagogue and author
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Degerloch
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 1955
Place of death Freudenstadt