Franz Bauer (pedagogue)

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Franz Bauer (born May 21, 1910 in Dessau , † March 8, 1986 in Berlin ) was a German school politician , educator and writer .

Life

Bauer was born the son of a social democratic working class family. Between 1925 and 1929 he completed an apprenticeship as a typesetter and later worked as a printer in the social democratic workers' printing house. Bauer joined the Socialist Workers' Youth (SAJ) and later the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). From 1930 to 1933 he was chairman of the SAJ Dessau.

From 1927 he headed the amateur drama group “Rote Fanfaren” in Dessau, which saw itself as political cabaret and, from 1932, also took on the local Nazi giants in public performances. In the play The Pfaffenspiegel they denounced the reactionary Nazi pro-attitude of some Dessauer minister and made the NSDAP - Gauleiter Wilhelm Friedrich Loeper ridiculous.

The Nazi newspaper Anhalter Anzeiger , the Anhaltische Landeskirche and other newspapers outside Anhalt attacked Bauer and the “Red Fanfares” sharply. Even Heinrich Pëus threatened to expel Bauer from the SPD. The Evangelical Regional Church initiated a lawsuit on charges of " blasphemy ".

Following the adoption of the so-called Reichstag Fire Decree February 28, 1933 (after the essential fundamental rights of the Weimar Constitution were, such as the prohibition of restrictions on personal freedom, inviolability of the home set etc. aside) is Bauer shortly after the general election on 5th Arrested March 1933 and later sentenced to 18 months in prison. In 1933/34 he was imprisoned in Coswig prison and was mistreated there. After his release from prison, Bauer went into hiding in Hamburg .

After the war ended in 1945, Bauer returned to Dessau from Hamburg as a KPD member and was trained as a new teacher. He got involved in the development of a “new anti-fascist-democratic elementary school system” and was director of Dessau Primary School IV in Flössergasse from 1950, then from 1951 school council in Dessau. In 1954 he was appointed to the school in Halle (Saale) . From 1956 Bauer studied pedagogy at the Humboldt University in Berlin and then worked from 1959 to 1963 as a city school councilor in Berlin. From 1963 he acted as director of the institute for teacher training "Clara Zetkin" in Berlin .

From 1954 to 1958, Bauer was also the successor to the People's Chamber .

Bauer was buried in the grove of honor of the anti-fascist resistance fighters in the central cemetery in Berlin-Friedrichsfelde . His estate can be found in the archive of the Library for Research on Educational History in Berlin.

Works

Awards

literature

  • Günther Buch: Names and dates of important people in the GDR. 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn 1979, ISBN 3-8012-0034-5 .
  • Werner Grossert: Franz Bauer. From the life and struggle of a Dessau communist . ( On the history of the labor movement in the Dessau district , Volume 3). Commission for research into the history of the local labor movement at the Dessau district leadership of the SED, 1988.
  • Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990 . Volume 1: Abendroth - Lyr . KG Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-11176-2 , p. 31.
  • Wilhelm Kosch (starter), Carl Ludwig Lang (Hrsg.): German Literature Lexicon. The 20th century . Volume 1: Aab - Farmer . KG Saur, Bern / Munich 2000, ISBN 3-908255-01-5 , Sp. 708.
  • Werner Grossert: 1932–2007: A “Red Review” for Dessau . In: TYPISCH links , 17th year, May 2007 (PDF; 769 kB), p. 4.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ For Bauer's "biographical story" see: Dietmar Goltschnigg: Georg Büchner und die Moderne. Texts, analyzes, commentary . Volume 2. Erich Schmidt Verlag, Berlin 2004, pp. 24 and 191–198.
personal data
SURNAME Bauer, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German school politician, educator and writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Dessau
DATE OF DEATH March 8, 1986
Place of death Berlin