Fritz Friedrich

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Fritz Friedrich (born February 25, 1875 in Christgrün ; † 1952 ) was a high school teacher, journalist and conservative history didactician in the German Empire and the Weimar Republic .

Friedrich studied from 1894 to 1899 at the Universities of Lausanne, Berlin and Leipzig. In 1898 he was with the dissertation policy of Saxony from 1801 to 1803. A contribution to the history of the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire Dr. phil. PhD. After completing his studies, he was a grammar school teacher in Schneeberg , from 1906 in Kiel and from 1907 in Leipzig at the Schiller Realgymnasium. At the end of 1918 he became a seminar leader at the University of Leipzig . From 1925 to 1937 he was director of the Nikolaischule in Leipzig .

In 1911 he founded the magazine Past and Present together with Paul Rühlmann . Journal for history teaching and civic education in all types of schools , which he ran as editor-in-chief. Until 1933 he was a leader in the Association of German History Teachers , which published the magazine. The Leipzig group stood in opposition to the Berlin group, which showed more extreme right-wing tendencies. In January 1934 Friedrich lost his position in the magazine.

Fonts

  • Studies on Gobineau: Critique of its importance for science , Leipzig 1908
  • Substances and problems of history lessons in secondary schools , Teubner, Leipzig 1915 (digitized version)
  • The meaning of history lessons, Teubner, Leipzig 1927

literature

  • Jochen Huhn: Fritz Friedrich . In: Siegfried Quandt (ed.): German history didactics of the 19th and 20th centuries. Paths, concepts, effects . Schöningh, Paderborn 1978, ISBN 3-506-99234-1 , pp. 257-279.

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SURNAME Friedrich, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Christgrün in Vogtland
DATE OF DEATH 1952