Eduard Weitsch

Eduard Weitsch (born May 25, 1883 in Dresden , † July 29, 1955 in Deisenhofen near Munich ) was a German pedagogue, elementary school teacher and theoretician of popular education. He is considered to be the main representative of the New Direction in popular education during the Weimar period .

Live and act

After teaching and studying again, he became director of the Meiningen commercial school in 1913. In 1920 he founded the Heimvolkshochschule Dreißigacker in Thuringia, which had a model character in the Weimar public education.

For Weitsch, the central tasks of adult education were “general lay education”, “education of the conscious citizen” and “parent education”. As a teaching method, he developed the " working group " with Franz Georg Angermann . His motto was: "Be a man and don't follow me!"

Since 1926 he was editor of the magazine "Freie Volksbildung" with Robert von Erdberg and Angermann. In 1930 Weitsch was put on hold by the National Socialists.

He was rather critical of the Hohenrodter Bund , only took part towards the end and helped found the German School , to whose council he was elected in 1930.

In 1933, Drei 30acker was closed.

Honors

1953 Awarded the Federal Cross of Merit (Steckkreuz) on the occasion of his 70th birthday.

Works (selection)

• 1918 What should a German adult education center be and achieve? One program . Jena: Diederichs. Reprint of the first part in: Tietgens (1969)
• 1920 basic questions of the folk high school method . Jena
• 1926 On the technology of adult education courses . In: Freie Volksbildung, pp. 279–300
• 1952 30 acre . The school without a catheter. Educational snapshots from the practice of an adult education center from 1920 to 1933 . Hamburg

literature

• Faulstich, Peter; Zeuner, Christine (2001): Adult education and social engagement: historical-biographical approaches . Edited by: German Institute for Adult Education. Bielefeld: Bertelsmann. ISBN 3-7639-1820-5
• Laack, Fritz (1984): The interlude of free adult education: Hohenrodter Bund u. German School for folk research and adult education in the Weimar era . Bad Heilbrunn / Obb .: Klinkhardt. ISBN 3-7815-0543-X .
• Olbrich, Josef (2001): History of adult education in Germany . Opladen: Leske ISBN 3-8100-3349-9 .
• Tietgens, Hans (ed.) (1969): Adult education between romanticism and enlightenment . Goettingen.

Web links

• http://www.die-bonn.de/doks/faulstich0102.pdf
• http://www1.ku-eichstaett.de/PPF/FGPaed/Basar/Handout%20Eduard%20Weitsch.PDF
• http://www.hausarbeiten.de/faecher/vorschau/148650.html

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Josef Olbrich 2001, p. 446
2. ↑ ibid.
3. ↑ ku-eichstaett.de
4. ↑ The collaboration with v. Erdberg is referred to by Laack as a "forced marriage". Laack 1984, p. 522
5. ↑ Faulstich 2001, p. 233
6. ↑ See Laack 1984, p. 521ff.