Friedrich Avemarie (pedagogue)

Friedrich Avemarie (born June 20, 1893 in Grube Messel ; † November 22, 1980 in Bad Vilbel ) was a German educator and theologian.

Life

Friedrich Avemarie was the son of the carpenter and master craftsman August Avemarie (* 1859) and his wife Louise (* 1860). In 1897 the family moved to Darmstadt . Avemarie had nine siblings, four of whom died in early childhood.

From 1902 to 1911 he attended the Neue Gymnasium in Darmstadt. He then did a one-year educational course for school trainees. In 1912 he passed the pedagogical teacher examination and was accepted into the Hessian school service. From 1912 to 1914 he taught at the preschool of the Ludwig-Georgs-Gymnasium in Darmstadt. During the First World War he was not in military service, but studied in Frankfurt a. M. and Gießen and also worked as an assistant at various schools. In 1917 he received his doctorate in Giessen. In 1918 he then acquired the teaching qualification for the higher teaching post. After a shortened legal clerkship, he taught from 1919 in Darmstadt at the Eleonorenschule and at the seminar for elementary school teachers. Avemarie was influenced by his family and was involved in the pietistic Darmstadt city mission from an early age. He married in 1917 and the couple had four children, two of whom died in Russia during World War II.

From 1929 Avemarie headed a Christian private school in Neukirchen-Vluyn , an initially purely boys' school, which introduced coeducation from 1932/33. In 1931 the school was named "Julius Stursberg School". He was also active in the Christian Social People's Service (CSVD) and from 1930 a member of the Provincial Parliament of the Rhine Province. In 1932 he completed a second dissertation at the TH Braunschweig . As early as 1933 Avemarie became a member of the SS and on May 1st of the NSDAP (membership number 3,489,153), also to protect his school. However, he was also a staunch National Socialist. From 1933 onwards he campaigned vehemently for National Socialist education, which is evidenced by a wealth of relevant publications - many of them published by Beltz-Verlag. In his brochure “People and Family” he also clearly committed himself to “racial hygiene” and “eugenics”. As early as 1933 he published a National Socialist school history book. Avemarie considered Christianity to be perfectly compatible with National Socialism and turned against Alfred Rosenberg's views in his myth of the 20th century , for example .

Avemarie's all too quick turn to National Socialism aroused various critics. In 1935, a party court case was brought against him, but this was dropped in 1937. One month before the November pogroms, Avemarie published his extremely anti-Semitic article “Adolf Stoecker and the Jews” in the magazine “Auf der Warte”.

In 1946 Avemarie was dismissed as headmaster, against which he objected and collected signatures for a discharge campaign. He was initially classified as a "fellow traveler", later as exonerated. In 1949 he was appointed director of studies again. In 1956 he got a job as pastor in Falkenstein , where he stayed until he retired in 1966.

Publications (selection)

• Our young Germany! 12 War considerations for the more mature youth , Hilchenbach: Wiegand [1915] (School and House, Home and Fatherland. Row 1; Issue 4).
• The new German school: on the basis of the educational war literature , Hilchenbach: Neuzeitverlag, Wiegand [1915].
• When God's winds blow ...: God's footprints in the days of the struggle between nations , Hilchenbach 1916. (School and house, home and fatherland. Row 1; Book 5).
• The new German school , Hilchenbach: Wiegand [1916] (School and House, Home and Fatherland. Series 1, Issue 8).
• A thank you from the homeland to their hero sons in enemy country , Bad Homburg: Wiegand [1917] ( online ).
• The revolutionary dogma of "natural" borders in the light of simultaneous German journalism, with special consideration of the pamphlets , Gießen: v. Münchow 1917.
• Horst Wessel , Langensalza: Beltz 1933.
• Benito Mussolini , Leipzig: Armanen-Verlag 1933.
• Friedrich Wilhelm Dörpfeld in his educational theories, Gießen: v. Münchow 1933 (Braunschweig TeH., Diss. Of Nov. 5, 1932).
• Germany's struggle for honor and freedom: from world war to national socialist victory , Giessen: Roth, 1933.
• People and Family , Potsdam: Foundation Publishing House 1933.
• Dietrich Eckhart , Langensalza: Beltz 1934.
• The Bible in School: A Small Collection of School Devotions , Neukirchen, Kr. Moers: Educational Association (1935).
• Holy flames! Germany in its poets, a collection from the literature of the past and present , Langensalza: Beltz [1935] (From German literature and German culture; 469/470).
• Deutsche Werkgemeinschaft: for the national holiday of the German people on May 1st , Langensalza: Beltz [1935].
• The Christian and Honor, [Neumünster]: [Ihloff] [1936].
• Otto von Bismarck: Chancellor and Christ , Gießen: Brunnen-Verlag 1937.

literature

• Bodo Rahn: Friedrich Avemarie: Nazi propagandist and Nazi educator. On the development of a Protestant pietist , Weinheim: Beltz 2020, ISBN 9783779955641 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Friedrich Avemarie: Adolf Stoecker and the Jews . In: Auf der Warte , Vol. 35 (1938), No. 42, pp. 997-1001.