German teachers' association

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The German Teachers' Association (DLV) existed from December 28, 1871 until the National Socialist coordination of teachers' associations in the NSLB in 1933. Its predecessor was the General German Teachers' Association , founded in Eisenach in 1848 , which sought to unite teachers of all types of schools under national democratic principles. However, the German Teachers' Association was able to win almost exclusively elementary school teachers as members. Teachers 'associations from all over Germany joined him by the beginning of the 20th century, and the Bavarian Teachers' Association was one of the last in 1904 . At the beginning of the war in 1914, the DLV had 131,748 members, representing around three quarters of all male elementary school teachers. In the Weimar Republic, too, it was the largest of all teachers' associations, with over 140,000 members. Around 1930, 10 percent of these were female teachers, the majority of whom were organized in their own associations such as the General German Female Teachers Association.

The organ of the association was the "Pedagogical Newspaper" founded in 1872, which in 1919 took over the title of the " General German Teacher Newspaper", which originated from the teachers' movement in 1848 but was discontinued in 1914 .

The best-known functionary was the left-liberal Johannes Tews , as well as Carl Pretzel (father of Sebastian Haffner ), a member of the DDP and Berlin school principal and later Ministerialrat. The chairmen Gottfried Röhl (1904–1925) and Georg Wolff (1925–1933) also belonged to the DDP.

literature

  • Robert Rißmann: The German Teachers' Association in the first 25 years of its existence. Berlin 1896.
  • Robert Rissmann: History of the German Teachers' Association. Leipzig 1908.
  • Carl Pretzel : History of the German Teachers' Association in the first fifty years of its existence. Using Robert Rissmann's history of the German Teachers' Association. Leipzig 1921.
  • Rainer Bölling : elementary school teacher and politics. The German Teachers' Association 1918–1933 (= Critical Studies in History , Volume 32). Göttingen 1978.
  • Sabine Jungk: Primary school reform and advanced training for primary school teachers 1918–1933. A contribution to the social history of the teaching profession using the example of the German Teachers' Association. Frankfurt am Main 1991.

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