Felix Messerschmid

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Felix Messerschmid (born November 14, 1904 in Untertalheim near Horb ; † March 15, 1981 in Munich ) was a German history and music teacher, educator and educational politician.

Life

Messerschmid was born in Untertalheim as the son of a teacher. From 1911 to 1922 he attended a grammar school in Ulm on the Danube. After studying in Tübingen and Munich and his commitment to the youth movement , especially with Romano Guardini in the Quickborn working group at Rothenfels Castle , he worked as a high school teacher from 1929 to 1958, interrupted from military service from 1940 to 1945. After the Second World War he was a co-founder and first director of the academy for education and instruction in Calw . From 1955 to 1958 he headed the Kepler High School in Ulm . In 1958 he became director of the Academy for Political Education in Tutzing and held this position until he retired in 1970.

During this time he was a presidential member of the German Committee for Education from 1953 to 1965 , from 1953 to 1964 a member of the selection committee of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes , since 1954 a member of the board of trustees of the UNESCO Institute for Education in Hamburg , from 1955 to 1967 Chairman of the Association of History Teachers in Germany and member of the board of the Association of Historians in Germany , since 1957 member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute for Youth Issues in Bonn, from 1958 to 1963 member of the Advisory Board for Inner Leadership at the Federal Ministry of Defense , since 1963 member of the Advisory Board of the Institute for Educational research in the Max Planck Society , finally from 1970 to 1979 member of the advisory board of the Federal Agency for Civic Education .

In his various functions, he advocated strengthening political education and anchoring the subject of social studies / politics in schools, which should complement each other alongside the subject of history. The latter treat the past ( res gestae ), the former the present ( res gerendae ), was his formula for differentiation.

Together with Karl Dietrich Erdmann , he was a co-founder in 1950 and co-editor of the journal History in Science and Education (GWU for short) until 1980 . He also founded the political didactic journal Society - State - Education in 1959 .

Honors

Works

  • Old Truth and New Order: Basic Questions of Upbringing and Education , Stuttgart 1946
  • The educational task of higher schools in today's society: considerations for the framework plan of the German Committee for Education , Munich 1960

literature

  • Charlotte Bühl-Gramer : Felix Messerschmid - Political and historical education: a new beginning through cooperation? , in: Wolfgang Hasberg; Manfred Seidenfuß (Hrsg.): Modernization in transition. History didactics and history lessons after 1945 , LIT Münster 2008 (GVG, Vol. 6), pp. 247–262. ISBN 978-3-8258-1086-3 ( reading sample )
  • Felix Messerschmid , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 33/1981 of August 3, 1981, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 30, No. 172, September 13, 1978.
personal data
SURNAME Messerschmid, Felix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher and education politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Untertalheim near Horb
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 1981
Place of death Munich