Franz Wenzlaff

Franz Wenzlaff , completely Johann Michael Franz Wenzlaff (born September 29, 1810 in Märkisch-Friedland, today Mirosławiec ; † February 3, 1888 in Berlin ) was a German pedagogue, school director and professor at the Berlin Building Academy . He was a member of parliament and vice-president of the Mecklenburg parliamentary assembly .

Life

Franz Wenzlaff attended the school in Märkisch-Friedland and the Jenkausche Institute with the associated teachers' seminar near Danzig . In 1834 he was appointed rector of the Löbau city ​​school in West Prussia . In addition to his teaching activities, he prepared for the Abitur, which he passed in 1840 as an external student at the Kneiphöfisches Gymnasium in Königsberg (Prussia) . He then studied mathematics and natural sciences at the Albertus University in Königsberg and at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin until 1844 . In 1844 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD . After taking the exam pro facultate docendi in 1845, he received his first position as an extraordinary teacher at the secondary schools in Königstadt and Luisenstadt . In 1846 he was employed as a full teacher at the Königstädtische Realschule .

He came to Michaelis in Schwerin in 1847 to teach at the newly founded Realgymnasium, the Grand Ducal Realschule (merged with the Fridericianum Schwerin in 1949 under the name Goethe School ).

In the first democratic election in Mecklenburg as a result of the revolution in Mecklenburg (1848) he was elected to the Mecklenburg Assembly of Representatives on October 3, 1848 in the Mecklenburg-Schwerin constituency 18 Schwerin. Here he joined the faction of reform associations, the Left ; the assembly elected him a member of the Constitutional Committee and its vice-president.

After the collapse of democratic aspirations and the dissolution of the Chamber of Deputies as a result of the Freienwalder arbitration award , he left Mecklenburg in 1851 and returned to Berlin. At Michaelmas 1852 he was hired again, first as an extraordinary and at Easter 1853 as a full teacher at the Königstädtische Realschule. Head teacher since 1856 , he was appointed director of the Königstädtische Realschule on February 5, 1869 and was introduced to his office on May 27, 1869, which he held until his retirement on October 1, 1881.

From 1862 he was also a professor at the Berlin Building Academy , where he held lectures on oryctognosia and geognosy until 1868/69 .

Honors

• Royal Crown Order (Prussia) 3rd Class (1881)

Works

• De defoliatione plantarum. Diss. Berlin 1844
• Weather studies, meteorology for the more educated people to teach about weather and air phenomena and to stimulate a more general weather and nature observation presented in an easily understandable way. 2nd edition, Schwerin: Kürschner 1851
• For communication about the secondary school system. Berlin: Petsch 1856 ( school program King City Secondary School)
• The creative instinct in the inorganic. Berlin: Lange 1859 ( school program Königstädtische Realschule)

literature

• Celebration at the introduction of Professor Dr. Wenzlaff in his office as director of the Königstädtische Realschule. Berlin 1869 (Program Berlin Königstädtische Realschule.)
• Obituary, in: School program Berlin Königstädtisches Realgymnasium 1888.
• Franz Kössler: Personal dictionary of teachers of the 19th century. Professional biographies from school annual reports and school programs 1825–1918 with lists of publications. Giessen 2007 full text

Web links

• Literature about Franz Wenzlaff in the state bibliography MV

Individual evidence

1. ^ Julius Wiggers : The Mecklenburg constituent assembly and the preceding reform movement: A historical account. 1850, pp. 64, 65, 75
2. ↑ Chronicle of the Royal Technical University of Berlin: 1799-1899. Berlin 1899, p. 59
3. ^ New Yearbooks for Philology and Pedagogy 52 (1882), p. 176