Fridolin Friedmann

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Fridolin Friedmann (completely Fridolin Moritz Max Friedmann , also Fridolin Maurice Friedmann ; born June 2, 1897 in Burgkunstadt ; died October 15, 1976 in London ) was a German - British educator .

Life

Fridolin Friedmann was the son of the businessman Louis Friedmann and his wife Rosa, née Oppenheimer, born on June 2, 1897 in Burgkunstadt and baptized as a Protestant. Fridolin Friedmann grew up in Munich , where he lived with his parents at Herzog-Heinrich-Strasse 4 in the Ludwigsvorstadt-Isarvorstadt district. On August 14, 1916, he entered the First World War as a soldier in the II. Replacement Battalion of the Royal Bavarian Infantry Body Regiment (Munich) and was sworn in on September 12, 1916 . On June 16, 1917, meanwhile transferred to the 30th Bavarian Infantry Regiment, he was slightly wounded in his right arm by an artillery shell.

Friedmann studied in Munich, Heidelberg , Cologne and Erlangen and received his doctorate in 1925 with a thesis on Moses Mendelssohn . He began his traineeship for teaching at the Odenwald School and continued it the following year at the Jewish Samson School in Wolfenbüttel . In 1928 he passed the academic teaching examination in Cologne and in 1929 the pedagogical examination in Berlin and received a position as a study assessor in Königs Wusterhausen . In 1932 he switched to the "Jüdische Kinder- und Landschulheim Caputh" founded by Gertrud Urlaub the previous year as director .

Friedmann, who in Caputh was very committed to ensuring that the students could experience Jewish learning content not only cognitively but also emotionally, also wrote two plays for the students: Schaul and David and Joseph and his brothers . It was here that he made the acquaintance of Sophie Friedländer and Hilde Jarecki , with whom he often worked when he emigrated.

In 1937 Fridolin Friedmann went to teach at the Jewish High School in Berlin , which was directed by Bruno Strauss , but also taught on weekends in Caputh . His successor as headmaster was Ernst Ising .

After the November pogroms in 1938 , Fridolin Friedmann accompanied several child transports to England and in 1939 he stayed there in exile, where he initially taught in a Zionist agricultural camp.

After the end of the war Friedmann took care of surviving children from the concentration camps. The historian Martin Gilbert reports on this in detail in his book They Were the Boys . After Gilbert Friedmann worked from October 1945 to 1946 as a supervisor and teacher at the Wintershill Hall reception camps near Southampton and Millisle Farm . One of his protégés at Wintershill Hall , Alec Ward, remembers him: “There was a great personality there. His name was Dr. (Ginger) Friedmann, who was our protector, mentor and dear friend, whose memory I will cherish for the rest of my life. ”In 1946, Anna Essinger brought Fridolin Friedmann to work as director of the Herrlingen country school home she had founded in 1926 and to England in 1933 transferred rural school home Bunce Court School . He became a British citizen here on October 11, 1947. However, the continuation of the school failed in 1948. Friedmann went to the private school Carmel College , founded in 1948 , in Greenham in West Berkshire and after moving to Wallingford , and stayed there until his retirement in 1961. At London's Leo Baeck College held in the period after that he still lectured on the history of Judaism.

Fonts

  • A text by Fridolin Friedmann and his two plays are printed in the book by Hildegard Feidel-Mertz and Andreas Paetz (see below):
    • Schaul and David. A game for school performances . Performed in 1935, 1936, 1937 (Hildegard Feidel-Mertz and Andreas Paetz, pages 187–205). The piece is preceded by two photos from the 1937 performance. A picture with the theater group from 1935 can also be found in the book by Joseph Walk.
    • Joseph and his brothers. A game for youth performances . Performed in 1934 (Hildegard Feidel-Mertz and Andreas Paetz, pages 206–222, including two photos)
    • Landschulheim Caputh , in: Jüdische Rundschau , November 10, 1933
  • (as translator) Ernest A. Gray: When Tiberius was Emperor in Rome ...: A Roman mercenary in the Holy Land. [Author. Translated from d. Engl. By F. M. Friedmann. Sign. by Gustel Koch] Stuttgart: Franckh 1962

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  1. ↑ a b c War log rolls 1914-1918: Volume 4162, War log roll Volume 7, Bavarian Main State Archive Munich, Department IV War Archive, p. 40
  2. ↑ Hildegard Feidel-Mertz; Andreas Paetz: A Lost Paradise , 1994, p. 21
  3. ^ War log rolls 1914-1918: Volume 2245, War log roll 2nd company, Volume 1, Bavarian Main State Archive Munich, Department IV War Archive, p. 222
  4. ↑ a b Hildegard Feidel-Mertz; Andreas Paetz: A Lost Paradise , p. 332
  5. ↑ Hildegard Feidel-Mertz; Andreas Paetz: A Lost Paradise , p. 21
  6. ↑ See "Scriptures"
  7. ↑ Hildegard Feidel-Mertz; Andreas Paetz: Ein Lost Paradies , p. 21. Unfortunately, the authors express themselves imprecisely and speak elsewhere (p. 332) of the private Reform Realgymnasium in Berlin . At the time of Friedmann's change, there was actually the secondary school of the Jewish Community in Berlin , which had been newly founded and approved in Marchstrasse in 1936. Due to official harassment, she started teaching on Wilsnacker Straße. The school worked according to the curriculum of a reform high school. (Jörg H. Fehrs: From Heidereutergasse to Roseneck. Jewish Schools in Berlin 1712-1942, Edition Hentrich Berlin, 1993, ISBN 3-89468-075 - X, pp. 277–281)
  8. ↑ a b Martin Gilbert: They were the boys , p. 351 ff.
  9. ↑ There are few sources about Wintershill Hall, but Martin Gilbert gives a good impression of the work there. Further information about Wintershill Hall can be found at:
    Eli Pfefferkorn: The Müselmann at the Water Cooler , section Quo Vadis? (downloadable);
    Tony Kushner: Journeys from the Abyss. The Holocaust and forced migration from the 1880s to the present . Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, 2017, ISBN 978-1-78694-062-9 , pp. 182 ff .;
    Tony Kushner, Katharina Knox: Refugees In An Age Of Genocide. Global, National and Local Perspectives during the Twentieth Century , Frank Cass, London and Portland (OR), 1999, reprinted 2001, ISBN 0-7146-4783-7 , pp. 201 ff., Online: Chapter The Final Stages of the Holocaust on google books
  10. ↑ Alec Ward: Memories ( Memento of the original from October 1, 2017 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. . "There was one outstanding personality. His name was Dr. (Ginger) Freedman who was our guardian, mentor and dear friend, whose memory I shall cherish for the rest of my life. " @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / hmd.org.uk
  11. ↑ London Gazette . No. 38128, HMSO, London, November 21, 1947, p. 5504 ( PDF , accessed October 10, 2013, English).
  12. ^ A Brief History of Carmel College . For more information on the institution, also known as “Jewish Eton”: Chaim Bermant: The Jewish Eton . The school, which closed in 1997, hit the headlines again in 2015 because a former teacher was convicted of pedophile assaults. Loughlan Campbell: Pedophile ex-teacher at Oxfordshire boarding school jailed for 19 years , Oxfordshire Guardian, October 23, 2015. There are articles in the WIKIPEDIA-EN about Carmel College and its founder, Rabbi Kopul Rosen.
  13. ↑ Joseph Walk: Jewish School and Education in the Third Reich , before p. 107
personal data
SURNAME Friedmann, Fridolin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Friedmann, Fridolin Moritz Max (full name); Friedmann, Fridolin Maurice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-British reform pedagogue
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Burgkunstadt
DATE OF DEATH October 15, 1976
Place of death London