Ernst Boehm

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Ernst Boehm (born August 29, 1877 in Rome , † April 26, 1945 in Heyda ) was a German educator .

Life

Ernst Boehm studied history , German literature , philosophy , educational science and geography at the universities of Leipzig and Berlin from 1897 to 1902 . In 1902 he finished his studies in Leipzig with the promotion for Doctor Phil. His dissertation was entitled Studies on the Political Testament of Richelieu. The dispute over authenticity .

After completing his doctorate, Boehm worked as a teacher. In 1905 he became a teacher at the Saxon State High School in Sankt Afra , and in the following year he married Anna Doerstling. He taught until 1918. Then he became a consultant at the War Food Office in Berlin, then at the Saxon Ministry of Economics. Afterwards he acted as press officer of the Saxon state government. In 1919 he was first councilor at the State Chancellery of Saxony, then senior councilor, in which office he worked until 1923.

In 1923 Boehm was made senior director of the Wettiner Gymnasium . There he worked until 1928, when he went to the University of Leipzig as director of the seminar for practical pedagogy and also became director of studies. In the following year, 1929, the university appointed him full honorary professor of education in the Faculty of Philosophy. After the seizure of power by the National Socialists Boehm signed November 11, 1933, the commitment of the professors at German universities and colleges to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi state .

In the period from 1922 to 1932 Boehm belonged to the Masonic lodge To the three swords and Astraea to the green diamond . Because of this fact, he went into early retirement in 1938 , referring to the German Civil Service Act from the previous year. At the age of 67, he died of suicide in 1945 .

From 1906 to 1910 Boehm belonged to the German Conservative Party , then to 1918 to the NLP . He then joined the DVP , from which he left in 1931. In that year he became a member of the DNVP , to which he belonged until the self-dissolution in 1933.

Fonts

  • The dispute over teacher training. Critical to the academic study of Saxon elementary school teachers in: The higher school in the Free State of Saxony. Volume 8/9. Radebeul 1926.
  • Unified school and high school. Lecture given in Dresden on September 27, 1919 at the founding meeting of the Saxon Philologists' Association. Dresden 1920.

literature

  • Richard Seyfert : The dispute of Dr. Ernst Boehm against academic teacher training. A defense letter. Leipzig 1926.
  • Ronald Lambrecht : Political dismissals in the Nazi era. Leipzig 2006, pp. 47/48.

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personal data
SURNAME Boehm, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 1945
Place of death Heyda (Falkenhain)