Friedrich Berger (educator)

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Friedrich Berger (born June 4, 1901 in Archshofen , † April 14, 1974 in Künzelsau ) was a German National Socialist educator and philosopher.

The blacksmith Berger attended the Archshofen elementary school and was trained as an elementary school teacher at the Künzelsau teacher training college from 1916 to 1922. Then he taught in Korntal and took the supplementary examination for the Abitur in Ulm in 1926 . He is said to have belonged to Jakob Wilhelm Hauer's League of Kings at an early age . From 1924 to 1928 he studied pedagogy and philosophy in Tübingen up to his doctorate with Karl Groos . There he completed his habilitation with Oswald Kroh after working as assistant to the Kant editor Erich Adickes († 1928). The post-doctoral thesis from 1931 dealt with Herder's image of man and human education, whereby Berger wanted to recognize a specifically German and ethnic anthropology in Herder, on which the cultural achievements were based. From 1934 to 1937 Berger was professor for theoretical pedagogy (folk anthropology) next to Willy Moog at the TH Braunschweig , then professor for educational sciences at the Bernhard Rust University for Teacher Training (HfL) in Braunschweig. Although himself a philosopher, he advocated the receding of philosophical reflection behind a folkish pedagogy, which resulted in deletion in teacher training. As director of the Braunschweiger HfL from 1938 he tried to implement this. In 1938 the SS- affiliated German religious scholar Jakob Wilhelm Hauer tried to bring him back to a teaching chair in Tübingen.

Berger had been a member of the SA since October 1933 as a Sturmbannschulungsleiter, since 1934 in the SS (membership number 269.706), since 1937 a member of the NSDAP (membership number 4.137.043) and other organizations such as Lebensborn and the Nordic Society . For the Nazi teachers' association he was regional training manager in the southern Hanover-Braunschweig region . He also belonged to the programmatic core group of Jakob Wilhelm Hauer's German Faith Movement, in which he also held offices after 1945.

When the HfL closed in 1942, Berger became head of the elementary school teacher training department in the Reich Ministry. At the end of 1944 he was called up by the Waffen SS and he was taken prisoner by the British for a year.

After the Second World War, Berger taught in Baden-Württemberg as a teacher at the vocational school in Künzelsau and at the state vocational educational institute in Stuttgart. In 1956 he co-founded the Free Academy in order to allow ideological questions to be discussed independently , which he headed as president from 1961 to 1968. It was a continuation of the NS-affiliated working group for free religious research and philosophy von Hauer.

Fonts

  • The transcendental foundations of perception. Leipzig 1928 (= partial print of the Tübingen dissertation 1928).
  • Body education as human education: an educational-psycholog. Study. Langensalza 1931.
  • Human image and human education: The philosophical-pedag. Anthropology JG Herders. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1931.
  • People and race as the basis and goal of German education. Stuttgart 1936.
  • Race, worldview and upbringing. In: Jakob Wilhelm Hauer (Ed.): Faith and Blood. Contributions to the problem of faith and race. Karlsruhe 1938 (lecture at the conference in Blankenburg April 15-18, 1938).

literature

  • Klaus-Peter Horn: Educational Science in Germany in the 20th Century. 2003, p. 190.
  • Christian Tilitzki : The German university philosophy in the Weimar Republic and in the Third Reich. Volume 1, Berlin 2002, pp. 205-208.
  • Horst Junginger: From philological to national religious studies: the subject of religious studies at the University of Tübingen from the middle of the 19th century to the end of the Third Reich. Steiner, Stuttgart 1999.
  • Nicole C. Karafyllis: Willy Moog (1888-1935): A life of a philosopher. Freiburg: Alber 2015, chap. 2.7.
  • Article FB In: Uwe Wolfradt u. a. (Ed.): German-speaking psychologists 1933–1945: Ein Personenlexikon. Springer, Wiesbaden 2015, p. 33 f.