Franz Xaver Weigl

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Franz Xaver Weigl (born February 5, 1878 in Preith , Middle Franconia , † November 19, 1952 in Munich ), was a German educator and advocate of the approach of religious and moral crime education. He had a decisive and lasting influence on school development in Bavaria.

Live and act

Born into a family of teachers, he completed teacher training at the Königl from 1891 to 1896. Teachers' training institute in Eichstätt, followed by one-year additional training in Munich at the “Köngl. Central-Deaf-Mute Institute ". He then worked as a special school and elementary school teacher in Munich. From 1905 he was responsible for collecting treatises from the field of education as the editor of the anthologies Pedagogical Time Issues . In 1906 he was elected together with Joseph Göttler to the board of the southern German section of the "Association for Christian Educational Science", which had set itself the task of introducing the results of Christian educational science into school practice . Together with his brother, Weigl founded the Karl May Club in Munich . From 1900 he corresponded actively with Karl May and also visited him in August 1903 in Radebeul .

In 1919 Weigl became a member of the Bavarian People's Party and shortly thereafter was appointed City School Councilor of Amberg. He held this office until 1930. In retirement he returned to Munich and devoted himself to the training of Catholic teachers until his death and was also active in the editorial department of the magazine “Pädagogische Welt”. In 1947 he initiated the educational holiday courses at the Donauwörther Cassianeum, which teachers from all over Bavaria, but also from the other West German federal states, from Switzerland and Austria attended.

The respected schoolboy was one of the initiators and promoters of the labor school movement in Bavaria. He pursued a threefold objective:

On the one hand, the lesson (also by taking up handicrafts) is supposed to prepare the student for his future life; Secondly, the education should start from the reality of life of the student, know his interests, ideals and values ​​and derive measures from this, whereby the intellectual independence resp. The focus is on the education of the pupil and, thirdly, a moral-religious deed education should lead to real moral action and thus introduce it into life .

Weigl was active as a journalist. He had published over 80 books and more than 300 magazine articles. His work “Bildung durch Selbsttun”, first published in 1912, as well as the book “School and Life” and the text “Essence and Design of the Work School” published in 1921 and published in several editions are among his most important main works.

Works (selection)

  • Education through self-action, Munich 1912
  • Formation of attitudes in the subjects, Habelschwerdt 1924
  • The elementary school. Your education and training work, Munich 1931
  • Work school pedagogues, Donauwörth 1946
  • Nature and design of the work school, Paderborn 1949
  • School and Life, Paderborn no year

Literature (selection)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harth-Peter 1991, p. 252
  2. ↑ Harth-Peter 1991, p. 244
personal data
SURNAME Weigl, Franz Xaver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Preith Middle Franconia
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 1952
Place of death Munich