Franz Joseph Niemann

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Franz Joseph Niemann (born September 11, 1879 in Brilon , † March 31, 1957 in Sankt Goarshausen ) was a German reform pedagogue .

Life

Franz Joseph Niemann was born in Brilon / Westphalia in 1879 as the youngest of four children of a brewery owner. After attending grammar school there, he went on to study philology at the universities of Marburg and Münster . In 1905 he worked for a year as a teaching assistant at the University of Montpellier / southern France.

After three years as a senior teacher at the Royal High School in Essen , he became a city school inspector in Saarbrücken in 1910 at the age of 31 . In 1912 he became director of the new Saarbrücken middle school for girls - the Cecilienschule. Later he took over the Saarbrücken boys' middle school. In the years that followed, the Cecilienschule was annexed to a number of advanced facilities, all of which were under Niemann's direction. Together with the college of secondary schools, he worked out a curriculum that was published in 1921 (work plan and working method of the Saarbrücken secondary schools) and received attention far beyond the borders of Saarbrücken. The core point was learning in life circles and linking the individual subjects.

In 1924, Niemann became director of the foreign department at the Berlin Central Institute for Education and Teaching under the direction of Ludwig Pallat . In 1925 the Foreign Office appointed him Reich Commissioner for the establishment of the German department at the International School Exhibition in Florence. The German department received the gold medal of honor. In 1930 Niemann was the editor of language courses with records for self-teaching in French and English.

In 1930 the Hessian President Bernhard Adelung Niemann was able to win over the establishment of an institute for international education with a German educational show, an international educational show, an exhibition of teaching materials and a home of nations on the citadel in Mainz . At the end of 1933, he was deprived of the institute's leadership for political reasons. The Institute for Ethnic Education became the Rhein-Mainische Site for Education (Citadel Mainz) .

During the Second World War he tried out his Logophon method while teaching German in various POW camps. The focus of the Logophon method was learning the colloquial language of the neighboring people. In doing so, Niemann orientated himself on language acquisition of the mother tongue by specifying ready-to-use sentences that were spoken in choir and often repeated in small variations. Until his death in 1957, Niemann devoted himself to further developing his foreign language method .

Fonts (selection)

  • The establishment of a boys' secondary school in the city of Saarbrücken . Publishing house Bock and Seip, Saarbrücken 1916
  • Work plan and working method of the Saarbrücken secondary schools , Gebr. Hofer Saarbrücken 1921, together with Gotthard Lichey
  • French for Germans - Language teaching with records - Polydor-Didakt , Verlag der Organon GmbH Berlin 1930, together with Claude Grander
  • The Home of Nations in Mainz - Thoughts and Prospects New Year's Eve 1930 , Mainz publishing house
  • Guide through the Lehrmittelhaus Germany , Mainz Institute for International Education 1931
  • We speak German - This is how foreigners learn to speak German , Verlag de Gruyter Berlin 1941
  • German songs in the method Logophon , Verlag de Gruyter Berlin 1941
  • German sentence structure tables - Method Logophon , Verlag de Gruyter Berlin 1941
  • German speech book - We drive, we drive , Verlag de Gruyter Berlin 1941

Literature about Franz Joseph Niemann

  • Christfried Röger: The Cecilienschule zu Saarbrücken - An attempt at school reform by Franz Joseph Niemann in the years 1912 - 1924, (Institute for Regional Studies of the Saarland 1965)
  • Marcel Jans: A revolution in language teaching in: Promotion of language and foreign language teaching in schools in the Neustadt district in 1945, Freiburg State Archive B 726/1 No. 1885
  • Nikolaus Maaßen: Franz Joseph Niemann - a revolutionary champion for the middle school in: magazine "Die Realschule", September 1959 pp. 197–202
  • Hanns Maria Lux : That was Niemann - memories of the school reformer's years in Saarbrücken, in: Unser Weg 1912 - 1962; Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the Saarbrücken Girls' Middle School, Saarbrücker Druckerei and Verlag 1962

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christfried Röger: The Cecilienschule zu Saarbrücken - An attempt at school reform by Franz Joseph Niemann in the years 1912-1924 , (Institute for Regional Studies of Saarland 1965)
  2. ↑ Anna Keller: The “Niemann Days” in Basel in: Zeitschrift die Mittelschule No. 17 1922
  3. ↑ Marcel Jans: A revolution in language teaching in: Promotion of language and foreign language teaching in schools in the Neustadt district in 1945 , Freiburg State Archive B726 / 1
personal data
SURNAME Niemann, Franz Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German reform pedagogue
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Brilon
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 1957
Place of death Sankt Goarshausen