Bernhard Pein

Bernhard Pein (born October 20, 1891 in Pinneberg ; † April 8, 1970 there ) was a German educator .

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Bernhard Pein was born the son of a liquor dealer in Pinneberg. He attended the Oberrealschule Altona, which he left in 1912 with the final exam. He then studied Romance languages, English, history and philosophy at universities in Freiburg, Erlangen, Heidelberg, Kiel, Jena and Hamburg. During the First World War he fought in France as a reserve lieutenant and battery leader from 1914 to 1918. In 1921 he passed the first state examination for teaching at secondary schools in English and French at Hamburg University. He passed the examination for gymnastics and sports teachers in 1923 at the Prussian University for Physical Education in Berlin-Spandau. After his legal clerkship at the Schleeschule in Altona, he passed the assessor examination there in 1923. In the same year he received an apprenticeship at what is now the Ludwig-Meyn-Gymnasium , which he headed from 1927 as director of studies.

Politically, Pein showed himself to be right-wing extremist early on. In 1919/20 he joined the Orgesch , in 1923 the Young German Order , in which he was involved until 1930. Since August 1, 1932, he was a member of the NSDAP (membership number 1.271.855), whose local group in Uetersen he headed since 1933. From 1932 to 1935 he was a member of the SA and since 1935 a member of the NSLB . As Obersturmbannführer of the SS (membership number 276.798) he received outstanding certificates. In the security service of the SS he worked on a voluntary basis in the Hamburg section and was involved in the office of August Heißmeyer , who, as SS-Obergruppenführer, gave military guidance to students at the National Socialist educational institutions. From May to October 1933 Pein worked as a provisional high school supervisor and provisionally headed the department for higher education, which was subordinate to the President of the Province of Schleswig-Holstein in Schleswig. In November 1933 he went back to Uetersen and took over the management of the National Political Educational Institution in Berlin-Spandau on January 1, 1934.

Although he lacked the necessary qualifications, on June 1, 1938, under pressure from the Reich Ministry for Science, Education and National Education , Pein was appointed professor to head the University of Teacher Education in Hamburg. Reich governor Karl Kaufmann , who preferred Rudolf Peter because of his experience, had not been able to prevent Pein's promotion. Reich Minister Bernhard Rust argued against it that a university director should not only have professional qualifications and be politically correct, but also have "the special characteristics of a leader personality" and should "excel through active engagement in the struggle of the NSDAP".

After the Hanseatic College for Teacher Education was dissolved and the training of teachers was taken over by the teacher training institutes, the Reich Ministry considered sending Pein to the occupied eastern territories. The educator finally found a new job in the school service of the municipal administration. He nominally headed the Wichern School with an attached boarding school and built home schools that were subordinate to the SS. In 1944/45 he served as the acting high school councilor for the teacher training institutes and the pedagogical institute in Hamburg.

After the war ended, the British Military Government released Pein and arrested him in June 1945. The Bielefeld Spruchkammer imposed a fine of 10,000 Deutschmarks on him in 1948 because he was "a member of the SS and was aware of its criminal character". However, due to the served time, the judges considered the fine to have been paid. From 1948 to 1951 Pein took over the management of a language school at the Uetersen Air Base . From 1952 he taught in private schools in Hamburg, taught at the Rackow Business School until 1961 and then at the Jenisch Gymnasium in Nienstedten until 1968 . Shortly before his death, he taught geography, English and French at the grammar school under construction in Thesdorf in 1968/69 .

Publications

• The college for teacher training in Hamburg . In: Hamburger Studentenbuch 1938/39 . On behalf of the Gaustudentenführung Hamburg ed. by Karl Graak . Evers & Hansen, Hamburg 1939, pp. 12-20.
• The German teacher and educator as an educational officer. Lecture by the head of the SS Hauptsturmführer, Prof. Bernhard Pein, on the occasion of the signing ceremony for the young semesters on January 19, 1940 . Hanseatic College for Teacher Training, Hamburg 1940.
  • The German teacher and educator as an educational officer . In: National Socialist Education The movement's only educational journal. Edited by the Reich leadership of the NSDAP, main office for educators. 5, Deutscher Volksverlag, Munich 1940, pp. 152–154.

literature

• Rainer Hering: Pein, Bernhard . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 6 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8353-1025-4 , p. 245-246 .
• Melanie Rixen, Kim-Sophie Schneider: Bernhard Pein - the first Nazi rector of the Ludwig Meyn School . In: Sönke Zankel (Ed.): Uetersen in National Socialism . Schmidt & Klauding, Kiel 2009, pp. 9-22. ISBN 978-3-88312-416-2 .