The new education

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The New Education - a monthly for decisive school reform and free school policy - was founded and published in 1919 by Max Hermann Baege for the “Bund Neue Hochschule” in Berlin.

history

Max H. Baege was a member of the USPD and after the November Revolution of 1918 was appointed to the Prussian “Ministry of Science, Culture and Public Education” as an educational policy adviser with the rank of Undersecretary to initiate the development of a democratic, secular and socially oriented school system. However, the reform efforts met with “determined” resistance from the predominantly conservative and partly openly reactionary civil servants. Because of the dismissal of the Berlin Police President Emil Eichhorn (USPD) by the Council of People's Representatives under the leadership of Friedrich Ebert, Max H. Baege and Minister Adolph Hoffmann resigned on January 4, 1919. Scientists, teachers and educators who were willing to reform organized themselves against the restorative forces in the “Bund Neue Hochschule” and the “ Bund decided school reformers ”, on whose behalf Max H. Baege and Siegfried Kawerau published the magazine “Die Neue Erbildung”. In the magazine, which appeared twice a month from 1919, these organizations received a mouthpiece for scientific, cultural and educational policy discussions and public relations work. As booklet supplements appeared u. a. the "Bulletin of the Federal Decision-Making School Reformer", "Leaflets of the Berlin Young Teachers and Youth Groups in the Union Decision-Making School Reformers", until 1920 "Communications of the Federal New University" and until 1923 the "International Educational Review " and " The Age of Development : a magazine for the Renewal of Education ”(Ed. Elisabeth Rotten ). With the end of the Weimar Republic in 1933, the editors of the magazine, in which mainly cultural and educational ideas of the left-wing bourgeois, social-democratic and communist spectrum were published, were faced with the question of whether and how it should go further. Paul Oestereich had been in protective custody since March 1933 . In July 1933, issue 15 was the last issue. In the course of the conformity , school politicians of the NSDAP decided to dissolve the "Bund decided school reformers" and to rename the magazine to "People through education - magazine for German cultural life". Up to September 1933, 5 issues were published under this title, when the magazine was discontinued. The magazine and its supplements were published by the Berlin publishers Hensel and CA Schwetschke & Sohn as well as by the Karl Zwing publishing house in Jena.

editor

  • 1919–1920 Max H. Baege, philologist, psychologist and Siegfried Kawerau, pedagogue, historian
  • 1920–1923 Paul Oestreich , educator, philologist and Siegfried Kawerau
  • 1924–1925 Paul Oestreich
  • 1925–1926 Paul Oestreich, Hermann Kölling , philologist and Gerhard Danziger , educator
  • 1926–1933 Paul Oestreich

literature

  • Bernhard Reintges: Paul Oestreich and the Bund decided school reformers . Schindele Publishing House, Rheinstetten 1977.
  • Ingrid Neuner: The Bund decided school reformers 1919-1933. Program and implementation . Bad Heilbrunn 1980.