Friedrich Heinrich Koehne

Friedrich Heinrich "Fritz" Köhne (born June 27, 1879 in Lesum ; †  August 7, 1956 in Hamburg ) was a German pedagogue and school reformer.

Life

After he had passed his teacher examination in 1899, he got a job as a school administrator in the Burgdammer elementary school. A year later he started his first teaching position in the village of Grohn. In 1904 he applied for a job in Hamburg and became a teacher at the girls' school in Schanzenstrasse. He became a medic in World War I , but was soon retired due to a heart defect. In 1915 he and his friend Heinrich Behnken founded the Eimsbütteler Volksheim on Stellinger Weg. The Volksheim was conceived as a reform of the then still rigid forms of instruction by integrating artistic education.

Koehne was a school reformer. According to Fritz Köhne, the school should be the center of culture. The teacher should not only be a mediator of knowledge, but also a pastor. The involvement of parents should be strengthened through parents' evenings. In 1921 he became a teacher and headmaster at the Telemannstrasse experimental school, where new forms of teaching were to be tried out for the first time. 1922–1927 he was editor of the Hamburg teachers' newspaper . In 1927 he became school councilor for the schools in Hamm, Horn, Veddel and Billwärder Ausschlag.

During the NSDAP time, he joined the party in 1937. According to his own statements, he was forced to do so, otherwise he would have to give up his job. As a school councilor, he was an advocate for many teachers who had problems with those in power. In 1940 he became the deputy high school councilor for elementary and secondary schools in Greater Hamburg. In 1944 he became a high school councilor for elementary schools.

Fritz Koehne School

After the Second World War he was proposed as school senator by the British occupying forces in 1945, but he turned down the office. When he retired in 1949 at the age of 70, Hamburg Senator Heinrich Landahl recognized his services.

Appreciations

On September 13, 1962, the school senator Wilhelm Drexelius gave the school in Marckmannstrasse the name Fritz-Köhne-Schule in recognition of the merits of Köhne . A side street of Marckmannstraße was named Köhnestraße.

literature

• Hartwig Fiege: Fritz Köhne - A great Hamburg schoolboy 1879-1956 (1986).