Ernst Schneider (Pedagogue)

Ernst Schneider (born October 17, 1878 in Bubendorf , Canton Basel-Landschaft ; † February 16, 1957 in Muttenz ) was a Swiss elementary school teacher , reform pedagogue , psychoanalyst and free economist .

Life

Ernst Schneider grew up in Bubendorf. He attended the Protestant teacher training college Muristalden ( Bern ) and was a primary school teacher at the Innerberg comprehensive school in Wohlen near Bern from 1897 to 1899 . This was followed by a degree in philosophy, psychology and education in Bern and Jena, as well as psychoanalytic training with Oskar Pfister and Carl Gustav Jung in Zurich .

From 1905 to 1916 he was director of the teachers' seminar and head of the Bern- Hofwil Oberseminar . When he was forced to resign by the Bern government in 1916, his psychoanalytic convictions played an essential role, which prompted Sigmund Freud to note in his 15th lecture on Introduction to Psychoanalysis that "in free Switzerland recently a seminar director was on his because of his occupation with psychoanalysis Position was relieved ".

In 1915/16 he helped found the free Swiss free land free money association and was its managing director until 1920. He was the founder and editor of the magazine “Die Freistatt” (later Freiwirtschaftliche Zeitung ).

From 1916 to 1919 he was a lecturer at the “Institut Jean-Jacques Rousseau ” in Geneva , a non-university school of educational sciences. In 1918 he and Fritz Schwarz founded a teacher training center for progressive pedagogy and school reform in Bern under the name “ Pestalozzi - Fellenberg -Haus”. From 1920 to 1928 he was professor of psychology and education at the University of Riga . When he was forbidden to teach in German in 1928, he gave up his professorship and went to Stuttgart, where he opened a psychoanalytic practice.

From 1926 onwards, together with Heinrich Meng, he published the “Zeitschrift für Psychoanalytische Pädagogik” (Journal for Psychoanalytical Education), to whose editorial staff later Anna Freud also belonged. After the 11th year, the Nazis' invasion of Austria put an end to their appearance. In 1929 he founded the "Institute for Psychoanalytic Pedagogy". From 1928 to 1946 he taught at the Institute for Psychological Research and Psychotherapy in Stuttgart, where he opened a psychoanalytic practice. From 1946 to 1957 he worked as a psychoanalyst and therapist in Basel.

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Ernst Schneider was a teacher and pedagogue who dealt with the new currents of progressive pedagogy, free economics and the then new findings of psychoanalysis. This was not welcomed everywhere. In particular, his preoccupation with psychoanalysis was a reason for the Bern government to force his resignation as director of the teachers' college in 1916. In 1928 he was banned from teaching in German in Riga.

“ Shaking the“ sleep of the world ”is always something daring. Those affected do not forgive this. Posterity will make the verification. In my position I felt obliged to deal with what was produced in my field in order to be able to point out what appeared to be significant for the future. For me that meant being free-spirited. (Ernst Schneider) "

literature

Primary literature

• Under the Holderbusch . Presented to second year children. With pictures by Emil Cardinaux . Bern 1913.
• Oh, my nice ring! A reading book for the first year children with pictures by Emil Cardinaux. Bern 1922
• On flowery mats . Bern 1924. With illustrations by Emil Cardinaux.
• From my apprenticeship and traveling years . Bern 1956.

Secondary literature

• Contributions to the history of the Bern State Seminar, The Schneider case , published by the Association of Former Students of the Bern-Hofwil State Seminar
• Kaspar Weber, there is a great longing going through our time . Reform efforts at the turn of the century and reception of psychoanalysis using the example of Ernst Schneider's biography 1878–1957, Bern 1999

Web links

• Literature by and about Ernst Schneider in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry in the person lexicon of the canton of Basel-Landschaft
• Controversial teacher training, from: Beat Junker: History of the Canton of Bern since 1798. Volume III, Tradition and Awakening 1881-1995
• Notes on the history of the Swiss Society for Psychoanalysis (SGPsa)
• Hans-Ulrich Grunder: Schneider, Ernst. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Günter Bartsch : The NWO movement Silvio Gesells. Historical floor plan 1891–1992 / 93 . Volume 1 in the series Studies on the Natural Economic Order . Gauke Verlag für Sozialökonomie: Lütjenburg 1994. ISBN 3-87998-481-6 . P. 88