Bernhard Uffrecht

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Bernhard Uffrecht in the early 1920s
Bernhard Uffrecht in 1933

Ludwig Rudolf Bernhard Uffrecht (born February 27, 1885 in Haldensleben , † January 24, 1959 in Hanover ) was a German reform pedagogue and author.

Life

The youngest son of the factory owner Heinrich Uffrecht and his wife Anna Schwarz studied after graduating from high school in 1903 from Easter 1903 to March 1911 at the universities in Tübingen , Munich , Strasbourg , Halle and Göttingen, initially psychology , philosophy and education , but later mainly natural sciences . In 1911 he passed the state examination in applied and theoretical mathematics and physics in Göttingen .

Immediately after his exams, Bernhard Uffrecht went to the Free School Community of Wickersdorf as a teacher and stayed there until the end of the First World War , from 1916 to 1917 as the deputy of the school director Martin Luserke, who was fighting in the war . There he met the student Hermine Anita Schiff (1898–1981), known as "Ini", in the comradeship he led. Like Luserke, Uffrecht also had conflicts with the founder of FSG Wickersdorf , Gustav Wyneken .

As a result, Uffrecht decided in April 1919 to found his own country education home , the Free School and Work Community (FSWG). The Wickersdorf teachers Käthe Conrad (* 1893), Bernhard Hell and Gustav Wyneken's sister Elisabeth Wyneken (1876–1959), known as "Tante Lies", were involved. The school was initially housed in the "Jägerhaus" at the entrance to the prince camp in Bensheim - Auerbach / Bergstrasse in southern Hesse . From autumn 1919 to spring 1920 she was accommodated in Ernst Putz's Sinntalhof near Brückenau in Lower Franconia and from Easter 1920 had her seat in the Brandenburg hunting lodge Dreilinden near Potsdam . In the same year Uffrecht married his former student Ini Schiff. From 1922 to 1933, the school home was finally located in the Letzlingen hunting lodge in Saxony-Anhalt .

The Free School and Community work Letzlingen was the opinion of Adolf wrath of one of the most original and above all social of school experiments the Weimar period . The son Ulrich Uffrecht, who was still born at the castle, gave a brief outline of the history and the educational orientation of this school during a lecture in the Letzlingen hunting lodge in 2012 . A comprehensive history of this school experiment is still pending.

In April 1933 the FSWG was closed by the National Socialists . The private assets of Uffrecht and his family were confiscated and he and his wife Ini and three sons Hans Peter, Bernhard Ludwig and Ulrich were housed with his older brother Martin Uffrecht in Haldensleben . Bernhard Uffrecht was banned from working until the outbreak of World War II in 1939 . However, he was allowed to work as a teacher at the Schloss Salem school , with the possibility of revocation every day .

After the collapse of the Third Reich in 1945, the state government of Saxony-Anhalt commissioned him to turn the secondary school in Haldensleben into a democratic model school. After initial successes, u. a. The integration of a boarding school into the school led to deep conflicts with the party and the Soviet occupation authorities , which led to press campaigns against Uffrecht and a brief imprisonment by the NKVD . At the beginning of August 1949, Uffrecht was dismissed without notice; at first he fled alone to the western sector of Berlin . His wife and two of his sons, who were studying at the University of Halle at the time , also fled to the West shortly afterwards.

In 1950 Bernhard Uffrecht was commissioned to inspect home schools for the Lower Saxony state government , but the following years of life were determined by economic hardship and illness.

His son Ulrich Uffrecht, also a physicist and educator, was senior director of studies at the Halepaghen School in Buxtehude from 1971 to 1993 , where in 1976 he established the joint committee introduced by his predecessor Johannes Güthling with the Buxtehude model in everyday school life. Ulrich Uffrecht is also a textbook author and active in the German anti-nuclear movement .

Writings / publications

  • To geometry lessons. In: Wickersdorfer Jahrbuch 1914. Diederichs Verlag, Jena 1914, pp. 34–56.
  • Free school community and abstinence from alcohol. In: Die Freie Schulgemeinde, 4th year, issue 4, Jena, July 1914, pp. 105–108.
  • Dr. Gustav Wyneken. A defense and settlement. , Diederichs Verlag, Jena 1917, 36 pp.
  • The free school and work community. A new type of school. Schwetschke Verlag, Berlin 1921, 30 pp.
  • The Letzlingen Free School and Work Community. In: Franz Hilker (Ed.), German School Trials. Schwetschke Verlag, Berlin 1924, pp. 137–155.
  • Free school and work community. Leaves for exchanging ideas. No. 1, Bernhard Uffrecht (Ed.), July 1925, 32nd p.
  • The idea of ​​the education-free community and its implementation in the Free School and Work Community Letzlingen. In: Alfred Adreesen (Ed.): Das Landerziehungsheim, Quelle & Meyer Verlag, Leipzig 1926, pp. 40–47.
  • Music aesthetics on a mathematical basis . Unpublished manuscript, 1945. In family ownership Uffrecht.
  • Sacred education. Unpublished book manuscript, approx. 1957. In family ownership Uffrecht.

See also

literature

  • Ulrich Uffrecht: The Free School and Work Community Letzingen. A school experiment from yesteryear and its current significance. In: Zeitschrift für Erlebnispädagogik ZfE 1995, Issue 12, pp. 12–30.
  • Ulrich Uffrecht: The Free School and Work Community Letzlingen - their relationship to the youth movement and to the other rural education centers. In: Neue Sammlung, 35 (1995), 1, pp. 89-106

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Uffrecht, Bernhard (1885–1959) . In: Arcinsys Hessen. AdJb inventory N 39. On: arcinsys.hessen.de
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ^ Leonhard Rugel: The higher school of Ernst Putz in the Sinntalhof. In: Annual report of the Franz-Miltenberger-Gymnasium Bad Brückenau , 1987/88 (1988), pp. 124-134.
  4. ↑ The Free School and Work Community Letzlingen . From: gesis.org, accessed December 1, 2014
  5. ↑ On the history of the FSWG at: volksstimme.de, accessed on December 1, 2014
  6. ^ The Letzlingen Free School and Work Community at: gesis.org, accessed on December 1, 2014
  7. ↑ Ulrich Uffrecht, Torsten Poppe: Celestial Mechanics and Space Travel. Mathematical teaching work for high schools. Klett, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-12-732511-8 . Book review by Klaus Mensler.
  8. ^ Viola Roggenkamp: Muzzle for the teacher. Investigations into criticism of the disaster plan. In: Die Zeit from May 18, 1979. From: zeit.de, accessed on December 1, 2014
  9. ↑ Ulrich Uffrecht: The high art of lying. From: anti-atom-aktuell.de, accessed on December 1, 2014
  10. ^ Ulrich Uffrecht: Problems of the search for a nuclear waste repository. Lecture on June 12, 2014 in the adult education center in Buxtehude. Retrieved December 1, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Uffrecht, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German reform pedagogue and author
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Haldensleben
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 1959
Place of death Hanover