Friedrich Weigelt

Friedrich Weigelt (born November 16, 1899 in Zduny , Krotoschin district , † July 4, 1986 in Munich ) was a German reform pedagogue and politician ( SPD ).

Life

Friedrich Weigelt attended the preparatory institute in Lissa and then the teachers' seminar in Posen . In 1917 he went into the field as a war volunteer . In 1919 he moved to Berlin , where he joined the SPD the following year. Weigelt was heavily involved in the war seminarist and young teacher movement after the First World War . He wrote numerous essays in the struggle for hiring opportunities for young teachers and in 1925 under the pseudonym "Friedrich Wilhelm" the novel Fritz Wilde, the young teachers and became a member of the Free Teachers' Union of Germany and its successor organization, the Union of German Elementary School Teachers. He was also a member of the working group of social democratic teachers, in which he was a member of the main board from 1932.

Weigelt was inspired by the youth movement and tried to anchor their approaches in school life. From 1920 he taught at the 1st secular school in Adlershof , a boarding school , and from 1922/23 at the Neukölln Rütli School and was able to realize some of his ideas at both institutions. Under the influence of his seminar friend Adolf Koch, he propagated the nude body culture in the elementary school and the independent learning and work of the working class children at the Rütli school. In 1930 he went on a study trip to the USA to find out about school conditions there.

Weigelt, who also tried to expand the reading canon at elementary schools, arranged a school edition of the drama Die Maschinenstürmer with Ernst Toller . In 1933 he was therefore accused of conspiracy with a traitor to the country. A little later he was banned from working after he had been transferred to the 2nd elementary school in Boddinstrasse (Berlin-Neukölln). Weigelt now earned some money as an employee of Jaro von Tucholkas , with whom he had lived in a protective and comradeship marriage since 1931. He also took on extra roles in film and theater productions; Among other things, he worked during this time to earn some money as a double for Harry Piel . There was also work for the Berlin radio .

From around 1943 he lived, separated from his wife, who had gone to Vienna , and together with a friend who was only known by the name "Fräulein Sophia", with the former waiter Richard Schultz (1889–1977), whom he was dating knew the community of their own who used to gather around Adolf Brand .

In the post-war period he lived again with Jaro von Tucholka and initially wrote for social democratic papers in Berlin. In 1949 he became a senior school officer in the main school office. He was close to the Society for the Reform of Sexual Law and continued to move in the circles around Richard Schultz, but did not make this public because of his position. From 1948 to 1955 he was a member of the Berlin City Council and then the Berlin House of Representatives ; At times he was the SPD's school policy spokesman.

In 1962 he retired and moved to Munich . There he volunteered for the Voluntary Self-Control of the Film Industry (FSK) and in the Kuratorium Indivisible Germany and wrote down his memories of Adolf Brand. Weigelt died after a long illness. His estate is in the possession of the Heimatmuseum Berlin-Neukölln .

literature

• Werner Breunig, Siegfried Heimann , Andreas Herbst : Biographical Handbook of Berlin City Councilors and Members of Parliament 1946–1963 (=  series of publications by the Berlin State Archives . Volume 14 ). Landesarchiv Berlin , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9803303-4-3 , p. 274 (331 pages).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Bernd-Ulrich Hergemöller : Mann für Mann: biographical lexicon on the history of love for friends and male-male sexuality in the German-speaking area . LIT Verlag Münster, 2010, ISBN 978-3-643-10693-3 , p. 1238 f.
2. ^ Gerd Radde : School reform - continuities and breaks: The experimental field Berlin-Neukölln. Volume II: 1945 to 1972 . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2013, ISBN 978-3-322-97283-5 , pp. 248-250.