Franz Mockrauer

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Franz Mockrauer (born August 10, 1889 in Berlin , † July 6, 1962 in Stockholm ) was a German philosopher and adult education center director.

Study and job

In addition to classical philology, Mockrauer also studied philosophy, psychology and pedagogy at the universities of Freiburg, Kiel and Berlin and received his doctorate in 1914 on Arthur Schopenhauer . From 1919 he worked as a lecturer at the adult education center in Dresden and was its managing director from 1923 to 1933.

He was involved in the founding of the Reich Association of German Adult Education Centers and was involved in board work alongside Reinhard Buchwald . In 1931, at a joint working meeting of the German School for Folk Research and Adult Education and the Reich Association in Prerow, Mockrauer played a major role in the formulation of the Prerow formula, which summarized realistic goals for adult education.

Exile and post-war Germany

Franz Mockrauer was of Jewish origin and emigrated to Denmark in 1933 and to Sweden in 1937, where he found employment in adult education. There he worked on a committee for the democratic reconstruction of Germany and accompanied the rebuilding of adult education in Germany from emigration in an advisory capacity.

After the second edition of the book Das Schicksal der Volksbildung in Deutschland (1936) by Werner Picht appeared in 1950 , there was a first review of popular education work in the Weimar Republic . Mockrauer intervened in the heated debate between Picht and Fritz Borinski in the magazine Volkshochschule im Westen . He informed the public about Picht's propaganda activities for the High Command of the Wehrmacht: There is some evidence that "the author was not so far removed from the world of ideas of National Socialism ..."

Memberships

Fonts (selection)

  • Basics of moral teaching. Practical suggestions for our schools. Jena 1919. (Diederichs Tat leaflet 34.)
  • The beginnings of philosophy. 4 lectures. Heinrich, Dresden 1920.
  • Some comments on Dr. Werner Picht's book about German national education. In: Adult Education Center in the West. Volume 3, No. 12, March 1952. Special supplement
  • Swedish adult education and the state. Klett, Stuttgart 1962.

literature

  • Edith Glaser: What is new about the “New Direction”? For adult education after the First World War. In: Anette Schmidt (Red.): 75 years of Volkshochschule Jena: 1919 to 1994. Hain Verlag, Jena 1994, ISBN 3-930215-05-5 .
  • Fritz Laack : The interlude of free adult education . Klinkhardt, Bad Heilbrunn 1984, ISBN 3-7815-0543-X .
  • Josef Olbrich: History of adult education in Germany. Leske, Opladen 2001, ISBN 3-8100-3349-9 .

Web links

References and comments

  1. ↑ Chronicle of the Volkshochschule Dresden e. V. ( Memento of the original from November 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.vhs-dresden.de
  2. ^ A b Franz Mockrauer. ( Memento of the original from October 21, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Short biography  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.die-bonn.de
  3. ↑ "Prerow Formula, a - if you compare it with the guiding principles of the Reichsschulkonferenz of 1920 and the provisional guidelines of the Hohenrodter Bund of 1923 - document held in a sober language in which those words - working group, popular education, national community, culture - with those who emphasized the new at the beginning of the Weimar Republic were consciously avoided. ”Glaser (1994), p. 133.
  4. ↑ Adult Education Center in the West. 3rd volume no. 12; P. 7.
  5. ↑ Laack (1984) p. 519 f.
personal data
SURNAME Mockrauer, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and head of adult education center
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH July 6, 1962
Place of death Stockholm