Felix Wilhelm Behrend

Felix Wilhelm Behrend (born August 22, 1880 in Koenigsberg , † November 16, 1957 in Melbourne ) was a German headmaster and chairman of the German Association of Philologists .

Life

Behrend, son of the Protestant businessman Michael Behrend, passed the Abitur at the Domgymnasium Kolberg . From 1898 he studied civil engineering at the TH Charlottenburg , then from 1902 in Halle adS mathematics and physics up to his doctorate in 1904 with Paul Natorp . Then he completed his legal clerkship in Landsberg (Warthe) and at the Luisengymnasium Berlin . In the First World War he last served as a lieutenant in the reserve and received the Iron Cross . After teaching at various Berlin high schools and working in the Prussian Ministry of Education in 1921/22, he took over as headmaster of the reform pedagogical high school in Berlin-Neukölln in 1925 . He was involved in several math textbooks.

Before the First World War he led the Free Student Movement and was 2nd Chairman since 1919 and 1st Chairman of the German Association of Philologists since 1929. As its representative he took part in the Reich School Conference in 1920 . He was a member of the school policy committee of the DDP and many other educational policy bodies. He was deposed as headmaster in 1933, as a teacher at the grammar school in Berlin-Wilmersdorf and retired at the end of December 1935. On March 25, 1933, he had to resign from the association because he was of Jewish descent and in 1938 he had to emigrate, first to the Netherlands, then to Great Britain. Since 1949 he lived in Australia. The German Philologists' Association made him an honorary member in 1952.

Behrend sponsored the Central Institute for Education and Teaching in Berlin after 1918. Behrend represented his concerns in numerous writings, which resulted in a number of reform proposals in the Philologists Association.

His son is the mathematician Felix Behrend , his daughter the economist  Hilde Behrend .

Fonts

• The position of the secondary school in the system of the unified school (1919)
• The Development of the Secondary School System in Germany (1923)
• Subject and scope of pedagogy (1925)
• Co-author: Working classes in mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology and geography, Leipzig 1927
• with Arthur Morgenstern: Textbook of Mathematics, Intermediate Level, 2 Vols., Hirt, Breslau 1932/33
• Basics of upbringing and educational theory (1949)

Web links

• Biography in the philologist's sheet
• Culture portal west-east
• Personnel form from Felix Wilhelm Behrend in the personnel file of the BIL reviewer in the archive database of the Library for Research on Educational History (BBF)