Carl Friedrich Wagner

Carl Friedrich Wagner (* May 4, 1891 in Altona ; † February 10, 1981 in Halstenbek ) was a teacher and reform pedagogue at the Hamburg experimental school Telemannstrasse 10, well-known far beyond Hamburg.

Live and act

The parents were Auguste Wagner, b. Holst (born February 14, 1848 in Altona; † July 30, 1921 in Hamburg) and Theodor August Wagner (born October 2, 1846 in Königsee in Thuringia; † December 6, 1926 in Hamburg). He had eight siblings (Johannes, Arthur, Max, Gustav, Adolf, Bertha, Elsa and Minna). On July 3, 1915, he married Margarethe Kleemann. He had three children with her (Lisa * 1920; Alf * 1921, and Gesa * 1925).

His special merit was the reform of German teaching in the sense of reform pedagogical work lessons. He created the Neue Hamburger Lesewerk , which became known far beyond the borders of Hamburg. This also included a lively theater activity of his students as well as the organization of public school parties.

After finishing school, Wagner decided to become a teacher and in 1906 passed the entrance exam for the Hamburg teachers' college. After his exam, which he passed with good , he became an assistant teacher at the Methfesselstrasse school.

Wagner was drafted in 1914 during the First World War, and in 1915 he was buried in trench warfare in France. His hearing was permanently damaged, and in old age he was almost completely deaf. He was dismissed from military service in 1916 as unfit for use in the war . In the same year he married and passed the examination to obtain qualification for permanent employment at public elementary schools.

In 1919 Wagner applied to teach at the Telemannstrasse experimental school. Wagner systematically collected material for “poetry lessons”, worked on a scientific-theoretical foundation for the methodology of poetry and lecturing lessons, and was active in journalism and politics. From 1925 to 1931 he took over the editing of the fortnightly supplement in Vorwärts: Der Kinderfreund .

Wagner was unfit for military service due to his burial during the Second World War and was retired. During this time he continued to work as a teacher at the experimental school. After the end of the war in 1945, however, the school's educational reform approach could not be continued; Wagner's reforming work was no longer well received in Hamburg's school development. He took early retirement in 1956.

Carl Friedrich Wagner died in 1981.

literature

A very extensive bibliography with information on archives, sources, works, commemorative publications, newspapers, independent sources and secondary literature in the dissertation of

• Adrian Klenner: Reform pedagogy Concrete: Life and work of the teacher Carl Friedrich Wagner - a reform pedagogue at the Hamburg experimental school Telemannstrasse 10, 2002, published: Kovač, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-8300-1018-4 (= Hamburg series of publications on school and teaching history Volume 10, edited by Reiner Lehberger ).

Carl Friedrich Wagner

selection

• • Hein Boller, de Hamburger Buddje, Hamburg 1920
  • Salary and performance (article in: Hamburger Lehrerzeitung, 1st year No. 1, 4th January 1922)
  • My poetry lessons in the experimental school Telemannstrasse 10, (article in Hamburger Lehrerzeitung, volume 3, No. 11, March 8, 1924)
  • My poetry lessons in the experimental school Telemannstrasse 10, (article in Hamburger Lehrerzeitung, Continuation, Volume 3, No. 12, March 15, 1924)
  • We are working with a new reading work: the lecture book (radio lecture, article in: der Schulfunk, 6th year No. 12, June 15, 1932)
  • The new Hamburg reading book for elementary school. The first parts of aloud reading book and lecture book (article in: Hamburger Lehrerzeitung, 11 vol.No. 1 January 1933)

Web links

• Literature by and about Carl Friedrich Wagner in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Birth register StA Altona I, No. 1566/1891
2. ↑ Death register StA Halstenbek, No. 3/1981
3. ↑ Marriage register StA Hamburg 22, No. 266/1915