Erich Lehmenick

Erich Lehmenick (born January 19, 1898 in Jena ; † November 17, 1984 in Bad Salzuflen ) was a German educational scientist and reform pedagogue .

He received his doctorate in 1926 under Herman Nohl at the University of Göttingen with a thesis on the theory of formal education. In 1942, he completed his habilitation at the University of Gießen with Otto Friedrich Bollnow . From 1926 to 1928 Lehmenick was a teacher at the Landschulheim am Solling and in 1930 was appointed to the Pedagogical Academy in Kiel . In the same year he argued with Wilhelm Hartnacke about the inheritance of talent and the consequences for the school system, whereby he advocated open scope in the development of talent.

After the handover of power to the National Socialists , he signed the declaration of professors at German universities and colleges to Adolf Hitler in November 1933 . He was a member of the Nazi teachers' association and from 1937 also of the NSDAP . During World War II he served as a military psychologist .

From 1946 to 1966 he taught psychology and education at the University of Education in Göttingen. From this position he participated in educational reform school experiments.

Fonts

• The theory of formal education , Göttingen 1926
• Priority as a didactic category , Giessen 1942

literature

• Jürgen Reyer: Eugenics and Pedagogy. Educational science in a eugenized society , Weinheim and Munich 2003, p. 140
• Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 . , P. 363.