Carl Schietzel

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Carl Schietzel (born February 2, 1908 in Hamburg ; † February 15, 1995 there ) was a German educator .

Live and act

Carl Schietzel was born in Hamburg-Eimsbüttel . In his hometown he attended a secondary school . From 1926 he attended the University of Hamburg and completed the training for elementary school teachers established there for the first time in 1926/27. After completing his studies, he taught at the experimental school Breitenfelder Straße in Eppendorf from 1929 . Then he switched to the experimental school Telemannstrasse 10. This school in Eimsbüttel worked very successfully on the principle of a work school , which was maintained by parents and teachers together.

In the summer of 1933 the National Socialists released Carl Schietzel for a short time for political reasons. The pedagogue returned to school and continued to work on a concept that would offer interdisciplinary and topic-oriented teaching on natural history. In addition to teaching, he attended advanced seminars at the University of Hamburg with Wilhelm Flitner . In 1938 Schietzel received his doctorate there with a paper on popular thinking and natural history lessons in elementary schools . The work was reissued in 1948. This can be seen as a sign of Schietzel's endeavors to pursue educational reform approaches even after the end of the Second World War.

During the Second World War , Schietzel spent some time in captivity, from which he was released in April 1945. He then worked briefly at the Department of Education at Hamburg University. From January 1946 Schietzel directed the elementary school Frohmestrasse. For many years he worked closely with Ernst Matthewes, state school supervisor after 1945, and school supervisor Kurt Zeidler. He had a personal friendship with both of them. The teacher repeatedly called for a six-year elementary school to be introduced, which was also carried out in 1949. In 1949 he wrote about the reorganization of the Hamburg school system . In the work published by the school authority, he presented how grades five and six could be redesigned.

In February 1948 Schietzel started teaching at Hamburg University. Here he headed teacher training and in 1964 received a professorship at the Pedagogical Institute. During this time he was committed to the elementary school. He called for the boundaries between different school subjects to be removed and for teachers to be increasingly used as class teachers. He wanted to raise students in such a way that they were prepared “for the demands of a world in which they will live jointly”. His service ended in 1970.

Carl Schietzel was married to Thyra Elisabeth Möller since 1931. The couple had sons Kurt (born 1933) and Wolfgang (born 1937).

Works

Carl Schietzel co-founded the specialist journal Westermanns pedagogical contributions in 1949 , which he co-edited until 1975 and for which he also worked as an author. In the books Paths in the World (1953) and Technology, Nature and Exact Science (1968) he described a new form of interdisciplinary teaching in natural history topics. For this he used the term “ expertise ”, which can be traced back to him. In 1978 Schietzel wrote the autobiographical work School Examples , which shows that the pedagogue followed the principles of reform pedagogy for life.

Together with Otto Wommelsdorff and the draftsman Walter Schröder, Schietzel created a picture map showing Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg. For many years, an excerpt from this could be found in the Hamburg School Atlas for primary schools.

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SURNAME Schietzel, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH February 15, 1995
Place of death Hamburg