Ernst Lindenborn

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Ernst Rudolf Lindenborn (born June 7, 1891 in Sonneberg , † September 23, 1964 in Berlin ) was a German high school teacher and pedagogue as well as a Protestant clergyman and author. From 1923 to 1948 he was a teacher at the French grammar school in Berlin and from 1948 to 1956 first rector of the Berlin University of Education .

Life

Career

Ernst Lindenborn, son of in Rotterdam making export merchant Jean Lindenborn († 1919) and his wife, Louise, spent his youth in Frankfurt , Rotterdam and Antwerp , where he passed his matriculation examination in 1911 at the General German school, a secondary school , whose history he Published as a scientific paper in 1929. He made up the Latinum and Graecum at the Luisengymnasium in Berlin . He then began studying architecture at the Technical University of Charlottenburg , but from the spring of 1912 studied German philology , history, philosophy and theology at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin.

War participation

When the First World War broke out , he volunteered and was a soldier in a Reserve Infantry Regiment and later a Landsturm unit on the Western Front from 1914 to 1918 . It was in March 1916 Sergeant and on 20 April 1917, the Iron Cross awarded II. Class and served most recently at a stages auxiliary battalion .

Pedagogue

After the war, he entered the Prussian school service in 1919, finished his studies and completed the subjects German , religion and Hebrew in May 1920. He then spent the seminar year at the Schiller Realgymnasium in Charlottenburg . Additional exams in philosophy (1921) and history (1922) followed. After years as a trainee lawyer in Berlin and assessor in Eberswalde , his headmaster from Antwerp days, Bernhard Gaster, brought him to the French grammar school in Berlin, where Lindenborn received his permanent position in October 1926 and was appointed to the faculty and taught until 1948.

During the time of National Socialism he did not take an active part in the resistance , but gave many of his students political support through his humanistic orientation. For example, he repeatedly used the writings of the Weimar Classics and the example of the Huguenot persecution in France to encourage his students to think independently and to encourage them to take a critical stance on National Socialism . For example, in a geography class at the end of 1942, Lindenborn once explained the strategic and symbolic significance of Stalingrad and conveyed to his students his doubts about a victory in the current battle and an imminent end to the war. These statements quickly spread among students and colleagues. Lindenborn was banned from teaching and staying at the house for 14 days on the same day, but was then able to continue teaching without restrictions.

Some students later remembered their teacher with great gratitude and appreciation. B. Dieter Claessens , Hartmut von Hentig , Albert Otto Hirschmann and Hans Schwab-Felisch .

Immediately after the end of the war, together with his colleagues Heinrich and Koch, he collected the remaining or returned students and taught them in the French Cathedral until the grammar school was re-approved as a school under the direction of Kurt Levinstein.

During the last few years as a teacher, he was already teaching in close cooperation with Wilhelm Blume as a lecturer in didactics of the French language . When the students moved to the American sector to protest against communist indoctrination , he set up the University of Education in Berlin-Lankwitz as acting rector , where he continued to work as a didacticist until 1956 .

Church work

Lindenborn was connected to the Reformed Church through his mother Luise, née Raps, and entered the Berlin congregation in 1931, but remained a rather passive member during the Nazi era. He had close ties to the Confessing Church and completed his theological studies during the war years . In July 1945 he was appointed as priest ordained and took over the Huguenot Louis City Paroisse in Berlin-Mitte . In November 1949 Lindenborn was one of the founding members of the Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation in Berlin.

In December 1961, Lindenborn inaugurated the Coligny Hall of the Reformed Congregation in Halensee .

Honors

On the occasion of his 70th birthday in July 1961, he was honored with the Great Cross of Merit of the City of Berlin.

Fonts (selection)

  • History of a German school abroad (Antwerp). Arise, rise, fall . Wolfenbüttel 1929
  • Faithfulness. Festival for the 250th anniversary of the Edict of Potsdam . Berlin 1935
  • Résister, Huguenot fate . Paul Spengler Publishing House, Berlin 1939
  • Duration and change. Festival for the 250th anniversary of the French grammar school . Berlin 1939
  • Small Calvin Breviary .
  • Coligny. The swordtail of God. A life in pictures . Quadriga-Verlag, Berlin, 1985
  • Essays in The German Huguenot. Journal for the members of the German Huguenot Association
  • Various articles in Church News for the French Reformed Congregation in Greater Berlin and in Die Huguenot Church. Monthly publication of the Consistory of the French Church in Berlin

literature

  • Christin Grohn-Menard: Watch out for the alleys, look for the stars. Ernst Rudolf Lindenborn, educator and pastor (1891–1964) . Bookmundo Direct 2019, ISBN 978-9-463865-08-1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ursula Fuhrich-Grubert: Huguenots under the swastika: Studies on the history of the French Church in Berlin 1933–1945 . De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1994, pp. 757-579 ( here: p. 575 in the Google book search).
  2. ↑ Christin Grohn-Menard: Watch out for the streets, look for the stars. Ernst Rudolf Lindenborn, educator and pastor (1891-1964) . bookmundo.de, ISBN 978-94-6386-508-1 , p. 127 f .
personal data
SURNAME Lindenborn, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lindenborn, Ernst Rudolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pedagogue and first rector of the Berlin University of Education
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Sonneberg , Thuringia
DATE OF DEATH September 23, 1964
Place of death Berlin