Fritz Müller (pedagogue)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Fritz Müller (born May 16, 1887 in Hohenstein ; † July 7, 1968 in Karl-Marx-Stadt ) was a Chemnitz social and reform pedagogue.

The name Fritz Müller is mainly associated with the Humboldt Experimental School in Chemnitz, where he led a co-educational and multi-year group, the “Müller Group”.

Live and act

His father was the master watchmaker Julius Eduard Adolf Rudolf Müller (born April 14, 1863 in Kempen ). His mother was Louise Auguste Müller, b. Aurich (born August 29, 1863) in Grüna near Chemnitz .

In 1907 Müller completed the teachers' seminar in Annaberg . He gained his first pedagogical practical experience in Glauchau, from 1910 in the Chemnitz school service. Since the beginning of his teaching activity, he followed the reform pedagogical discussions with interest and sat in on numerous rural education centers. In 1923 Müller was transferred to the Chemnitz Humboldt Experimental School, which from 1921 to 1933 and again from 1948 to 1951/52 developed into a Saxon reform pedagogy stronghold with supraregional awareness - and thus attracted attention at the World Federation Conference of the New Education Fellowship in Locarno in 1927 . Müller shaped the specific reform pedagogical profile for two generations of experimental schools.

Since 1924 he tried out cross-year and coeducational teaching to strengthen the community spirit of the Chemnitz experimental school. To this end, he initiated eight, later ten, multi-year classes and also integrated interested parents selectively into the class.

From the beginning, Müller's educational reform activities also extended to many socio-educational fields of activity.

In 1933 Müller was removed from school service by the National Socialists. Müller participated - unexplained by the Gestapo - in the lodging of Carl Friedrich Goerdeler (1884-1945).

After the end of the Second World War , Müller was immediately appointed headmaster. He initially headed the Ludwig Richter Schools, and since April 1945 the Otto Rötzscher School. At the same time, he was involved in the training of new teachers and, since September 1946, coordinated the unique reopening of the Humboldt Experimental School with a day care center and kindergarten.

1948 was in the GDR , the departure from the progressive education prescribed state in favor of didactic principles on the Soviet model. He himself was not allowed to work on the experimental school work that had started again in 1948. Because he did not allow himself to be captured in the course of political developments in the Soviet occupation zone, he was removed from school service.

From 1948 / 1949 he worked as a social worker for parentless children and young people in Saxon children's homes , before he oversaw the retirement age disabled young people at the Chemnitz Technical Training School until entry.

Fonts

swell

  • Saxon Main State Archives Dresden, State Government of Saxony, Ministry for National Education, Dept. Schools, PA: Fritz Müller;
  • Stadtarchiv Chemnitz, school council inventory, district school council I, Chemnitz experimental schools, B II 17/4; B III 4/1; B IV 10/27; BV 1/3
  • City Council of Chemnitz 1945-90, National Education Office, No. 1247, 1251, 1261, 3155, 3720, 3726, 3743, 4154, 4467, 5440/5441, 6068, 7668, 7931, 9483
  • Fritz Müller estate
  • Historical documents on Saxon reform pedagogy (collection owned by Andreas Pehnke)

literature

  • Andreas Pehnke : "I belong in the child's party!", The Chemnitz social and reform pedagogue Fritz Müller. , Beucha 2002
  • Andreas Pehnke (ed.): Reform pedagogy from a student's point of view , documents from a spectacular Chemnitz school experiment of the Weimar Republic. , Baltmannsweiler 2002
  • Andreas Pehnke: Historical experience on successfully dealing with heterogeneity. In: journal for school development. 7 (2003) 4, pp. 19-27.

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Müller, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German reform pedagogue
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Hohenstein
DATE OF DEATH 7th July 1968
Place of death Karl Marx City