Federation for free school communities

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The Federation for Free School Communities was founded by the reform pedagogue Gustav Wyneken and was influenced by the early youth movement and the life reform movement .

history

The Federation for Free School Communities was founded in 1910 by Gustav Wyneken as an umbrella organization after the latter had fallen out with others in the Free School Community of Wickersdorf, which he founded in 1906 , and was terminated by the ministry.

The umbrella organization was a founding member of the Free German Youth and, in October 1913, co-hosted the First Free German Youth Day on the Hoher Meissner .

In the association magazine Die Freie Schulgemeinde , which has appeared since 1910, Wyneken also deals with the Wandervogel movement and tried to inspire it for his reform ideas. So it was said there in the year of the First Free German Youth Day:

“It is right and good, yes, a necessary act, if the wandering bird, so to speak, weaned the youth from school, weaned them from seeing their world in school, but it is not the ultimate goal. […] The other half of youth emancipation consists in redesigning the school to become the actual place of youth life and youth culture. […] It may seem bold to the representatives of the wandering bird if we coordinate our small school and our association of a few hundred members of their great movement with their thousands of followers. But quite apart from the sympathy of the many around the country, which we have also acquired, we believe, through the thought work that our school system embodies and that does not stand still with us, that we have done so much for the youth that it is for it is time to look for us. "

Publications

From 1910 to 1921, the Federation for Free School Communities published the monthly magazine Die Freie Schulgemeinde. Federal Gazette for Free School Communities , which was published near Diederichs in Jena.

Known members

literature

  • Sigrid Bias-Engels: Between Wandering Bird and Science - On the History of the Youth Movement and Student Body 1896-1920. Edition archive of the German youth movement. Vol. 4. Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik, Cologne 1988. ISBN 3-8046-8709-1
  • Winfried Mogge, Jürgen Reulecke: Hoher Meißner 1913 - The First Free German Youth Day in Documents, Interpretations and Pictures. Edition archive of the German youth movement. Vol. 5. Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik, Cologne 1988. ISBN 3-8046-8723-7

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gustav Wyneken: Wandervogel and Free School Community . From: Die Freie Schulgemeinde, No. 2 of January 1913. Quoted from Werner Kindt (Ed.): Documentation of the youth movement . Volume I: Basic scripts of the German youth movement . Diederichs, Düsseldorf 1963, p. 88 ff.