Ernst Wildangel

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Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm Wildangel (born January 22, 1891 in Cologne , † April 6, 1951 in Berlin ) was a German educator , educational politician and resistance fighter. From August 1945 he was City School Councilor of Berlin, from 1948 until his death in 1951 City School Councilor of East Berlin.

Life

Wildangel was born into a Catholic merchant family. From 1910 to 1914 he studied modern philology in Münster, Bonn and Greifswald. He took part in the First World War as an officer and received the Iron Cross First Class. After his state examination in 1919, he worked as a high school teacher. From 1919 to 1923 he was chairman of the Center Party in Mönchengladbach .

In 1924 he broke with the Center Party and the Catholic Church and joined the SPD . As a senior student councilor he worked in Oberhausen, Moers, Wuppertal and Berlin. In 1920 he was suspended from school service because of his journalistic work and in 1930 received a publication ban from the Social Democratic Education Minister of Prussia. In 1930 he joined the KPD . Following the application of various part-time jobs, including as a photographer, took Wildangel 1931 teaching at the educational reform-oriented, by Fritz Karsen led Karl Marx School in Berlin-Neukölln on. In March 1933, shortly before the threat of arrest by the National Socialists, Wildangel fled to Paris, where he was in contact with other German emigrants ( Maximilian Scheer , Rudolf Leonhard ). After the occupation by German troops, he fled Paris to the unoccupied southern France, where he supported French partisans under the code name Pierre Delorme, among other things, with the creation of photos for forged ID cards. After the Wehrmacht occupied southern France, he was arrested by the SS on May 5, 1944 in Toulouse and was imprisoned in the Neue Bremm Gestapo camp and the Berlin Alexanderplatz Gestapo prison until May 1945 .

In May 1945 Ernst Wildangel was commissioned by the Soviet occupation authorities to rebuild the school system and train teachers. He worked with Paul Oestreich and Max Kreuziger to draft and enforce the Berlin Standard School Act. From June 1945 he was head of the teacher training department in the main education office at the Berlin magistrate, and from September 1945, as successor to Karl Sothmann, head of the main education office. In August 1948 he became the City School Councilor of (Greater) Berlin. After the division of the city administration into West and East at the end of 1948, he remained City School Councilor of Berlin until his death on April 6, 1951. On his 60th birthday he was awarded the title of Honored Teacher of the People .

memory

tomb

On April 12, 1951, Wildangel was buried at an honorary funeral, which was attended by 30,000 people, in the Pergolenweg grave complex in the memorial of the socialists at the Friedrichsfelde central cemetery on the instructions of Lord Mayor Friedrich Ebert . The "Ernst Wildangel Oberschule" was named after Wildangel in the GDR. In 1991/92 the Max Planck Oberschule was merged with the “Max Planck” Extended Oberschule (EOS).

Publications

  • together with Maximilian Scheer: L'ecole hitlerienne et l'etranger . Editions de L'Internationale des Travailieurs de L'Enseignement, Paris 1937.
  • together with Otto Winzer : One year of rebuilding the Berlin school system. Report from the conference of teachers at the public schools in Berlin, September 2, 1946 . Das Neue Berlin Verlagsgesellschaft, Berlin 1946.
  • Unified school in Berlin? Held at the general assembly of teachers in Charlottenburg on July 19, 1946 . Berlin 1946.
  • Final report on the Pestalozzi Week conference . In: The new school. Sheets for democratic renewal in teaching and education . Volume 1, Berlin 1946, No. 2, pp. 225-236.
  • together with Paul Oestreich: New School, New Spirit. The fight for the Berlin school reform. Champion for a democratic school reform . Edited by the regional association of Greater Berlin of the SED. Vorwärts-Druckerei, Berlin undated

literature

  • Friedrich Kindel: Ernst Wildangel's fight for the democratic transformation of the Berlin school system . Greifswald (Diss.) 1963.
  • G. Roßmann: Wildangel, Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm . In: History of the German labor movement. Biographical Lexicon . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1970, pp. 483-484.
  • Werner Breunig, Siegfried Heimann , Andreas Herbst : Biographical Handbook of Berlin City Councilors and Members of Parliament 1946–1963 (=  series of publications by the Berlin State Archives . Volume 14 ). Landesarchiv Berlin , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9803303-4-3 , p. 277-278 (331 pages).
  • Maximilian Scheer: Paths of Life in Our Days , Construction Verlag Berlin 1952, pp. 253-254.
  • Joachim Hoffmann : Berlin-Friedrichsfelde. A German national cemetery - cultural and historical travel guide . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-360-00959-2 , pp. 133-134, 243.
  • Michael-Sören Schuppan: Overview of the Berlin city school councils as a source for regional and educational history studies . In: Education and Upbringing , Volume 62, Issue 4 / December 2009, pp. 497–504.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Files of the Landesarchiv Berlin, C-Stocks (East Berlin since 1945), C Rep. 118-01, C. Rep. 120
  2. ↑ Dirk Hubrich: Award list for the honorary title “Honored Teacher of the People” from 1949 to 1989 , accessed on October 27, 2015.
  3. ↑ Ursula Langkau-Alex: Background and founding of the committee for the preparation of a German popular front . Volume 1. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2004, p. 172.
personal data
SURNAME Game fishing rod, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wildangel, Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator, educational politician and resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 1951
Place of death Berlin