Christoffer Wessel Debbe

Christoffer Wessel Debbe (born January 19, 1837 in Bremen ; † March 15, 1912 in Bremen) was a German educator and head of the Debbe School in Bremen.

biography

Debbe was the son of a worker. He attended the Bremen teachers' seminar . In 1861 he became an elementary school teacher , later he passed the examination for the teaching post in secondary schools. He took over the private boys' pre-school founded by Heinrich Graefe in 1854, which provided preparatory lessons for the six-class Graefesche Higher Citizens School (later secondary school ) in Bremen's old town , which was headed by Graefe.

Seal of the secondary school from CW Debbe

The preschool was located at Domsheide No. 15 until 1872. In the 1870s, thanks to Drebbe's drive, it became an independent secondary school with around 600 to 700 students. The Debber School or Realschule CW Debbe  - as it was officially called - moved to Pelzerstraße 9 in the old town in 1872 and expanded to include the neighboring properties 8 and 11. Since 1894, the school was supported by the state with 6,000 marks . In 1897 Debbe sold the buildings in Pelzerstraße to the women's acquisition and training association . His school now moved to Ansgariitorstrasse No. 14 between Am Wall and Kniehauerstrasse . With the limited financial support, Debbe could not pay the increasing teachers' salaries and he negotiated with the state. In 1899, Bremen took over the school, which became a secondary school to the secondary school in the old town and now comprised ten classes, three of which were elementary schools . Debbe retired in 1899. The school became an auxiliary school in 1906 .

Debbe was a member of the General German Teachers ' Assembly and the German Private School Teachers' Association as well as the Friedrich Wilhelm zur Eintracht Lodge . He was a member of the Bremen citizenship for 27 years . He was co-founder and chairman of an agricultural research station that was administered by the Bremen Natural Science Association on behalf of the Prussian government.

He was married to the daughter of the head of the Bremen teacher training college, August Lüben.

literature

• Program of the secondary school of CW Debbe in Bremen . Bremen, 1869–1898 ( digitized version )
• Hinrich Wulff : Debbe, Christoffer Wessel. In: Historical Society Bremen, State Archive Bremen (Ed.): Bremische Biographie 1912–1962. Hauschild, Bremen 1969, p. 99 (col. 1-2).
• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
• Robert Rissmann: History of the German Teachers' Association . Elibron Classics, 2006, ISBN 0-543-90220-X .