Ernst Lehrs

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Ernst Lehrs (born July 30, 1894 in Berlin , † December 31, 1979 in Eckwälden ) was a German anthroposophist who worked as a Waldorf teacher, lecturer and writer.

Life

Ernst Lehrs was born in Berlin in 1894 as the son of assimilated Jewish-Protestant parents. He registered at the beginning of the First World War as a volunteer . After the war he studied natural sciences and graduated with a doctorate in 1923 .

Together with a group of friends of students, he discovered anthroposophy in 1920 and had several personal encounters with Rudolf Steiner . The ideas and thoughts of these young people were very much welcomed by Rudolf Steiner, and he responded to their wishes and endeavors on various occasions. So he learned to combine his scientific training with the way of thinking of Goethe, which determined his further research work. The Esoteric Youth Group, founded together with other young people in 1922, was largely based on his and Wilhelm Rath's initiative.

After completing his studies, he was appointed as a high school teacher at the Free Waldorf School in Stuttgart and thus became a teacher - first for schoolchildren and later in adult education. When the National Socialists came to power in 1935, he first emigrated to the Netherlands, where he taught at a Waldorf school, and then to Great Britain. During his internment there he met Karl König in 1940 . His most famous book, Mensch und Materie, was published there as “Man or Matter”.

Since the beginning of his anthroposophical career, he had a close friendship with the philosopher and close collaborator of Rudolf Steiner, Maria Röschl, whom he had commissioned to set up the youth section at the Goetheanum. They married in England in 1939. Their common concern remained the youth and their ways to a principally meaningful life in a materialistic and technical time. In 1952 they both returned to Germany and he worked as a lecturer at the newly founded seminar for anthroposophic curative education in Eckwälden, where he lived until his death in 1979.

Works

  • Man or Matter , London 1951; German: man and matter . Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1953, 3rd A. 1987, ISBN 3-465-00285-7
  • The Rosicrucian impulse in the life and work of Joachim Jungius and Thomas Traherne . Free Spiritual Life (Studies and Experiments 5), Stuttgart 1962
  • From the mind of the senses. On the dietetics of perception . Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1973, 3rd A. 1994, ISBN 3-465-02651-9
  • Spiritual Science, Electricity and Michael Faraday , London 1975
  • Rosicrucian Foundations of the Age of Natural Science , Spring Valley 1976
  • Lived expectation . Mellinger, Stuttgart 1979, ISBN 3-88069-088-X

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical entry in the online documentation of the anthroposophical research center Kulturimpuls
  2. ↑ Lived expectation . Mellinger, Stuttgart 1979, ISBN 3-88069-088-X
  3. ↑ Rudolf Steiner: From the contents of the esoteric hours. Volume 3 (GA 266 C), Dornach 1998, ISBN 978-3-7274-2663-6 .
  4. ↑ Christiane Haid: In Search of Man: The anthroposophical youth and student work in the years 1920 to 1931 with a sketchy outlook to the present - Verlag am Goetheanum 2001 ISBN 978-3-7235-1110-7
personal data
SURNAME Lehrs, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German anthroposophist
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 1979
Place of death Eckwälden