Friedrich Heldmann

Friedrich Heldmann (born November 21, 1776 in Margetshöchheim ; † May 24, 1838 in Darmstadt ) was a German professor of commercial studies and cameralistics .

Life

The contemporary biographical handbooks give no information about his training and only very rudimentary information about his professional activities. In 1803 he had become a professor of practical science at the University of Würzburg and in 1804 a mathematics teacher at the grammar school there and head (s) of a "Commerzschule". From 1807 to 1814 he was then professor of action sciences at the canton school founded in 1802 in Aarau and from 1817 to 1819 associate professor for camera studies at the academy in Bern. He lived in Bern until 1821 and then first went to Italy, until he then “privatized” “for a few years” in Mainz and then in Darmstadt, where in 1830 he finally “established a pension institution for young women”. There he also brought out a twelve-volume “Children's Library”. He also died in Darmstadt on May 24, 1838.

Act

It is known from his Würzburg school script that he was educated “in one of the first (action) institutes” in Germany. And from the history of the Würzburg university it can be added that he was a “specialty dealer” before starting his Würzburg activities. So he completed a commercial apprenticeship and probably also worked as a salesman for a few years. But this information does not actually indicate that he was adequately trained for his Würzburg activities. And so we learn from Engelhorn that the Würzburg professors complained as early as 1804 that Heldmann “did not qualify as a teacher at the university”.

Because the Heldmann's “Action Institute” had been graciously granted the “privilege” by the Bavarian government, “that its students, if they had taken samples of their knowledge after a two-year course with them,” were “by all other otherwise prescribed apprenticeship time (in the state of Würzburg that was five years at that time; the author), as well as no less exempt from the previously usual 3 years of traveling, and after only two years of practice for acceptance into the trading stand should be "tried." the Würzburg trade stand to achieve that Heldmann was suspended from his examination work because of "inability (...) also in practical matters" (July 1805), initially without success. In August 1806, Heldmann was then accused of being a “wanton bankrupt and thief”. And just a few weeks later, Heldmann ended his “business activity” in Würzburg with a debt of around 30,000 florins .

"Under pressure mainly from commercial circles", the management of the Aarauer Kantonsschule has - as it believed - the solid technical school representative Heldmann (who must have been a "blender") as a counterweight to the idealistically blinded but "gripping" Rector Ernst August Evers ( 1779–1823) whose views did not correspond to the obvious tendencies and views of his own time. And so, in 1807, two school writings appeared in Aarau that could not have been more different in terms of content:

Evers, Ernst August: About the school education to bestiality: a program for the opening of the new teaching course of the canton school in Aarau. Aarau 1807 (commented reprint Heidelberg 2002 - noteworthy the afterword by Michele C. Ferrari, pp. 50-61, but without reference to Heldmann) and Heldmann, Friedrich: Ueber the education of the youth to the state of action in republican states. A program. Aarau 1807

This spatially concentrated clash of two completely incompatible “concepts” [Clemens Menze (1928–2003) speaks of the “disjunction” of general and vocational education] has not even been registered in the literature on business education, let alone researched. Müller-Wolfer (1883–1970) said [with reference to the mathematics teacher there, Franz Xaver Bonner (1758–1850)] “reassuringly”, “Evers' intentions were the best. But in his zeal he did wrong, and the expression "education to bestiality", with which he attacked previous teachers, was an obvious mistake. "The militant new humanist Evers will have deliberately attacked Heldmann, who was clearly inferior to him intellectually should be!

Feldmann was born in Freiburg i. B. was accepted into Freemasonry and joined the Zur Brudertreue Lodge in Aarau . He published on Masonic history and edited several Masonic magazines.

Works

On the Education of the Young on the State of Action in Republican States. A program. Aarau 1807.

Individual evidence

↑ See the German Biographical Archive. (DBA), I 506, 16–24 and II, 135. Also: New Nekrolog der Deutschen. 16th year 1838 (second part), Weimar 1840, p. 534/35 (here a detailed list of his publications). On Heldmann as a Freemason, cf. C. Lenning: Encyclopedia of the Freemasons together with news about the… secret connections… second volume, Leipzig 1824, pp. 15–42.
↑ not until 1817
↑ retired "as a result of unjust treatment by the government at that time" or according to another source: "for political reasons"
↑ Systematic development of the educational establishments in the new Kurpfalzbaierischen Action Institute in Würzburg. An invitation to the appropriate education of skilled merchants. Würzburg 1805, p. 3.
↑ Werner Engelhorn: The University of Würzburg 1803 - 1848. A contribution to the history of the constitution and institutions. Neustadt / Aisch 1987, p. 149 - Johann Georg Cleminius (1776-1808), who also asked the Bavarian government to be allowed to set up an action institute in Würzburg, also doubts Heldmann's qualifications in his letter of July 20, 1804 . He is concerned with “a simple Kraemer, who was brought up in a city without commerce and factories, who has been a long time ago and who cannot possibly know the subject of the plot in its entirety. But who, as the actual school teacher for children from 10 to 14 years, who are intended for action, may be good ”. [Bayer. Main State Archive Munich, signature M Inn No. 23304 (Friedrich Heldmann)]
↑ Systematic development ... 1805, p. 5.
↑ Engelhorn: The University of Würzburg 1803 - 1848. 1987, p. 149.
↑ This admission is supported by an incident that Bronner considers to be worth passing on: “Heldmann wanted to show his colleagues as a man who knew how to live. For this purpose he invited her to an evening tea. His rooms were nicely lit, the guests were served in pretty vessels and treated with all kinds of refreshments, and finally even with wine. The colleagues watched the festive event with radiant admiration. In view of their modest salaries, they themselves had never dared to give such small parties, but they thought that a financier might better manage the matter. But the bill was more reliable than that of the new guest. He soon forgot how to give such festivals. ”(Quoted from Müller-Wolfer, Th [eodor]: The Aargauische Kantonsschule in the past 150 years. Festschrift. Aarau 1952, p. 32/33)
↑ The new humanists were of the opinion that the profession itself was "dangerous" because it tended to alienate people instead of allowing them to develop (Wilhelm von Humboldt). The aim had to be to delay starting a career as long as possible by attending general schools. Any form of "realistic education" (including vocational training) was to be prevented! Evers saw the accusation of “training to be bestial” based on the fact that vocational schools are all about organizing the accumulation of available, marketable (empirical) knowledge.
↑ Clemenz Menze: On the emergence of the disjunction of general and vocational education and its effect on the educational organization. In: Quarterly journal for scientific pedagogy. Volume 53, Paderborn 1977, pp. 75-89.
↑ Th. Müller-Wolfer: The Aargau Canton School. 1952, p. 33.

personal data
SURNAME	Heldmann, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German economist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	November 21, 1776
PLACE OF BIRTH	Margetshöchheim
DATE OF DEATH	May 24, 1838
Place of death	Darmstadt

[1] See the German Biographical Archive. (DBA), I 506, 16–24 and II, 135. Also: New Nekrolog der Deutschen. 16th year 1838 (second part), Weimar 1840, p. 534/35 (here a detailed list of his publications). On Heldmann as a Freemason, cf. C. Lenning: Encyclopedia of the Freemasons together with news about the… secret connections… second volume, Leipzig 1824, pp. 15–42.

[2] t until 1817

[3] retired "as a result of unjust treatment by the government at that time" or according to another source: "for political reasons"

[4] Systematic development of the educational establishments in the new Kurpfalzbaierischen Action Institute in Würzburg. An invitation to the appropriate education of skilled merchants. Würzburg 1805, p. 3.

[5] Werner Engelhorn: The University of Würzburg 1803 - 1848. A contribution to the history of the constitution and institutions. Neustadt / Aisch 1987, p. 149 - Johann Georg Cleminius (1776-1808), who also asked the Bavarian government to be allowed to set up an action institute in Würzburg, also doubts Heldmann's qualifications in his letter of July 20, 1804 . He is concerned with “a simple Kraemer, who was brought up in a city without commerce and factories, who has been a long time ago and who cannot possibly know the subject of the plot in its entirety. But who, as the actual school teacher for children from 10 to 14 years, who are intended for action, may be good ”. [Bayer. Main State Archive Munich, signature M Inn No. 23304 (Friedrich Heldmann)]

[6] Systematic development ... 1805, p. 5.

[7] Engelhorn: The University of Würzburg 1803 - 1848. 1987, p. 149.

[8] This admission is supported by an incident that Bronner considers to be worth passing on: “Heldmann wanted to show his colleagues as a man who knew how to live. For this purpose he invited her to an evening tea. His rooms were nicely lit, the guests were served in pretty vessels and treated with all kinds of refreshments, and finally even with wine. The colleagues watched the festive event with radiant admiration. In view of their modest salaries, they themselves had never dared to give such small parties, but they thought that a financier might better manage the matter. But the bill was more reliable than that of the new guest. He soon forgot how to give such festivals. ”(Quoted from Müller-Wolfer, Th [eodor]: The Aargauische Kantonsschule in the past 150 years. Festschrift. Aarau 1952, p. 32/33)

[9] The new humanists were of the opinion that the profession itself was "dangerous" because it tended to alienate people instead of allowing them to develop (Wilhelm von Humboldt). The aim had to be to delay starting a career as long as possible by attending general schools. Any form of "realistic education" (including vocational training) was to be prevented! Evers saw the accusation of “training to be bestial” based on the fact that vocational schools are all about organizing the accumulation of available, marketable (empirical) knowledge.

[10] Clemenz Menze: On the emergence of the disjunction of general and vocational education and its effect on the educational organization. In: Quarterly journal for scientific pedagogy. Volume 53, Paderborn 1977, pp. 75-89.

[11] Th. Müller-Wolfer: The Aargau Canton School. 1952, p. 33.