Friedrich Bloh

Friedrich (Fritz) Wilhelm Gerhard Bloh (born October 23, 1854 in Wardenburg , † June 19, 1941 in Hamburg ) was a German educator .

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Friedrich Bloh attended a school and from 1869 to 1871 a teacher training college in Oldenburg. During the practical vocational training, which he completed in 1874, he worked as an assistant teacher until 1873. He then taught at different schools in the Oldenburg district . In 1879 he passed the examination for the second teaching post. From 1885 he taught at schools in Hamburg, including an elementary school on the Veddel . In 1887 he passed the teaching examination for secondary schools, but continued to teach at elementary schools, especially those for girls. From 1890 to 1904 he worked as a main teacher at the Kampstrasse 60 school in St. Pauli , in the local school commission and in the school synod. He then moved to the girls' school at Erkiastraße 41 in Eppendorf as principal , where he stayed until retirement.

In addition to teaching, Bloh worked in the Society of Friends of the Fatherland School and Education System and wrote numerous articles for the journal Pedagogical Reform . In it he spoke out in favor of the weakest and most complicated pupils and wanted to abolish corporal punishment, introduce school meals, spread welfare education and in return reduce forced education. However, his main interest was the peace movement. In the mid-1890s he co-founded the Egidy movement named after Moritz von Egidy and took over its chairmanship. From 1899 to 1930 he was chairman of the Hamburg-Altona local group of the German Peace Society (DFG), to which he devoted most of his free time. Before and after the First World War , this local group, of which Carl von Ossietzky and Louis Satow belonged, was one of the most active within the movement. In lectures and articles Bloh spoke out against the imperial fleet policy. He campaigned for an understanding between Germans and British and supported the autonomy of Alsace-Lorraine. After retiring in 1921, he continued to be involved in the peace movement.

Bloh joined the SPD in 1919 and worked in the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold in 1926/27 . He saw no possibility of being able to influence the Reichswehr in a social-democratic way. After the SPD had spoken out against the Peace Society in 1931, Bloh left the party. During this time he wrote articles for the bi-monthly publication for pacifist politics , which appeared from 1927 to 1933 as German Future . It served as the main bulletin of the peace movement in Northern Germany and was particularly committed to better communication between Germans and Danes. In it Bloh repeatedly turned against the Patriotic Associations , whose portrayal of the innocence of the Germans at the outbreak of war he regarded as "poisoning". Because he was close to the free thinker movement and was active in the German Menonist Union , Bloh resigned from the Lutheran Church. In the early 1930s he resigned from all public offices due to health problems.

literature

• Helmut Stubbe da Luz : Bloh, Friedrich . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 6 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8353-1025-4 , p. 39-40 .