Emil Künoldt

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Emil Künoldt (born June 21, 1850 in Großfurra ; † January 8, 1920 in Oldenburg (Oldb) ) was a German teacher at the Evangelical Teachers' Seminar in Oldenburg , which he headed from 1897 to 1919 as director .

Life

Künoldt was the son of a pastor and attended high school in Gotha . From 1872 to 1876 he studied theology , philosophy , philology and German in Leipzig and Göttingen . After completing his studies, in 1877 he joined the teaching staff of the Protestant teachers' college in Oldenburg, where he was to spend his entire professional career until 1919. In 1879 he became the first seminar teacher and in 1886 he was awarded the title of senior teacher . From 1897 he was director of the seminar. At the seminar Künoldt taught in dozierender teaching methods German , history and religion . Due to his services as a seminar director and alongside an official school inspector , the responsible Oldenburg Ministry appointed him in 1906 as an extraordinary member of the Evangelical High School College, in 1911 he was appointed a member of elementary school matters and at the end of 1912 a high school board. Under Künoldt, the seminar was expanded from a four-class to a six-class institution.

From 1902 to 1908 Künoldt was also a member of the Oldenburg city council, was a member of the Gustav-Adolf-Verein and the Oldenburg Literary-Sociable Society, whose chairmanship he took over as president in 1904/05.

In addition, Künoldt was also active as a scientific writer and in 1908, together with Emil Pleitner, published, among other things, a reading book for the upper level of the elementary schools of the Duchy of Oldenburg , for which he also contributed some historical readings.

When the First World War broke out , many students and teachers at the seminar volunteered for military service or were drafted. Künoldt, who refused the war, tried to prevent this, but was ultimately unsuccessful and numerous seminar participants and some teachers died in the war. As a conservative and monarchist who was shaped by the idealism and belief in progress of the beginning of the 20th century, Künoldt could not get over the war disaster with the millions of deaths, the defeat and also the emperor's flight and left on his own, broken by the events physically and psychologically Wish retired from service on July 1, 1919. He did not find the strength to restart teaching at the seminary, which had suffered badly from the war, and he committed suicide on January 8, 1920.

During the war, Künoldt collected field post letters and post cards from both seminar members and former seminarians, now primary school teachers, who were in contact with him. The collection is now in the holdings of the teachers' seminar of the Oldenburg State Archives .

Künoldt was married to Thekla geb. Lange (1856–1920) and had eight children.

Awards

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Steinhoff: The seminar in Oldenburg. In: Karl Steinhoff / Wolfgang Schulenberg (Hrsg.): History of Oldenburg Teacher Training, Vol. 1: The Protestant Seminars , Oldenburg 1979, p. 144. ISBN 3-87358-106-X .
personal data
SURNAME Künoldt, Emil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Künoldt, Diedrich Christian Emil (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Grossfurra
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 1920
Place of death Oldenburg (Oldb)