Carl Dantz
Carl Dantz (born October 3, 1884 in Oldenburg , † August 18, 1967 in Bremen ) was a German educator , school reformer and writer.
biography
education and profession
Dantz was the son of a calculator at Blohm & Voss in Hamburg . There he attended elementary school. In 1899 the family moved to Bremen- Huchting . After finishing school, Dantz attended the Bremen teachers' college until 1906 . He became a teacher in Huchting. Before the First World War he became a member of the SPD and the teachers' association in Bremen. He represented the reform wing in the teaching staff, which advocated a single school and the abolition of religious education . He was a soldier from 1914 to 1918. In 1915 he married his wife Wilhelmine ( Mimi ) Dantz.
After the war, he and his brother Wilhelm became members of the KPD . Dantz worked at the Holzhafenschule ( Nordstrasse ) and the experimental school on Helgolander Strasse until 1933 and represented his reforms in practice. He was released by the Nazis in 1933. After 1945 he became headmaster at the school on Helgolander Strasse . Efforts to win him over as a senior employee of the Senator for Schools and Education, he rejected. In 1952 he was retired .
Wilhelm Dantz (1886–1948), journalist for the Bremer Bürger-Zeitung , 1921–1924 and 1926/27 KPD member of the Bremen citizenship, was his brother.
The writer
Dantz's main work as a writer was the autobiographical novel Peter Stoll , which appeared for the first time in 1925 and then in six editions and was also translated into Russian. In the novel he tells the development of a working-class boy into a class-conscious proletarian . In 1930 he brought the novel Peter Scholl, The Apprentice, Telling About Flegel, apprenticeship and traveling years , as a sequel . out. After 1949 his works appeared in new editions. The children's books from the working class like Wollmieze. A foundling looking for its mother and Vom Glücklichen Stern first published in 1926 and 1927; his book ... but Mommy stayed behind , could only appear after 1945. In addition, he wrote numerous articles on school and educational problems as well as poems and school games ( amateur games ) for children, published by Bärenreiter-Verlag .
Honors
The Dantzweg in the Bremen district of habenhausen is named after him.
Works
- Peter Scholl, A Child's Life , Bremen 1925.
- Wooly puss. A foundling looking for its mother , Berlin 1926.
- From the lucky star , Gutenberg Book Guild , Berlin 1927.
- Peter Scholl the apprentice , Bremen 1930.
- ... but Mommy stayed behind , 1945.
literature
- Dantz, Carl . In: Proletarian Revolutionary Literature 1918 to 1933 . People and Knowledge, Berlin 1970, p. 321. (= contemporary writers 9)
- Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
- Monika Porsch: Bremer Straßenlexikon, Volume 7: habenhausen, Arsten , Schmetterling, Bremen 1999, ISBN 3-932249-04-6 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dantz, Carl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German educator, school reformer and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 3, 1884 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oldenburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | 18th August 1967 |
| Place of death | Bremen |