Georg Fraustadt

Georg Fraustadt (born November 1, 1885 in Grimma ; † December 7, 1968 in Dresden ) was a German philologist and from 1924 to 1938 the 28th rector of the Grimma State School .

Life

Origin and academic background

The Protestant pastor and church historian Albert Fraustadt , pastor of the Luppa church near Oschatz, was his grandfather. Prepared in Latin by his father Albert Fraustadt ( alumnus Grimensis 1859–1865, pastor of the Dahlen church ), Georg Fraustadt attended the fourth level of the Progymnasium in Grimma and then from 1899 to 1905 the prince's school St. Afra in Meißen . He achieved the Abitur as Primus Omnium .

He then studied classical philology and history in Freiberg and Leipzig . In 1909 Fraustadt received her doctorate ( Encomiorum in litteris Graecis usque ad Romanam aetatem historia , dissertation in Latin, University of Leipzig, 127 pages - to be found in the holdings of the SLUB Dresden ).

After the state examination in 1910 he worked as a teacher in Dresden, Bautzen and Wurzen .

Teacher in Meißen and Rector in Grimma and Dresden

In 1915 he was transferred to the St. Afra School, where he had once been a student. There he worked as a teacher until 1924 he was appointed rector of the Princely School in Grimma.

Fraustadt was committed to the preservation of the Princely School traditions, and so the Princely School in Grimma experienced another heyday despite the difficult post-war situation, also with the new status as a reform high school . With tenacious energy, he ensured a boom in schools, boarding schools, teaching methods and construction matters.

The school was brought into line by the National Socialists in 1936/37. Their intention to transform the state school into a national political educational institution ( Napola ) (as had happened to the state school Pforta in 1935) was probably prevented thanks to Fraustadt's intervention in Dresden.

Fraustadt was a highly educated personality, a deserving educator and a brilliant speaker, which he proved again and again for speeches connected with his rector's office.

After the conversion of the Princely School into a State High School for boys , the Saxon Ministry of Education transferred Fraustadt to Dresden in 1938 - as rector of the State High School in Dresden-Neustadt .

Old age in Dresden

Kurt Schwabe reported in 2010 that he met Georg Fraustadt again on September 14, 1950 (on the sidelines of the celebration of 400 years of the Grimma State School) and learned that he and many other teachers had been dismissed from school under the political GDR conditions and none Found employment in this profession. Fraustadt then worked as a construction worker and as an office secretary for a construction company.

From 1953 onwards, Fraustadt spent his old age actively doing research. This can be seen in the fact that Fraustadt published scientific articles from 1954 - when he was 69 years old - for the State Museum of Mineralogy and Geology in Dresden , where museum director Hans Prescher may have brought him. Georg Fraustadt dealt with the translation and the critical new edition of works by Georgius Agricola - evidence of this can be found in the directory of SLUB Dresden .

The last evidence (with a view to the years of Fraustadt's life) has the Princely School in Meißen on the subject in 1965, at which he was once a pupil and teacher (published in the magazine Das Altertum , Berlin 1965, Volume 11, Issue 4, p. 243 –256; Fraustadt's address is also given there: "8054 Dresden, Heymelstr. 2" ).

Georg Fraustadt was obviously a respected scientist and colleague in his last creative phase in the museum: The college dedicated the Georg Fraustadt commemorative publication to him on his seventy-fifth birthday on November 1, 1960 (90 pages, in the SLUB's inventory ).

Publications by and about Georg Fraustadt

• The Princely and State School St. Augustin zu Grimma in the past and present. 132 pages, with 31 plates. Grimma 1930
• The new Sachsenspiegel - a motley home game. With drawings by O. Walter Lehmann, 14 pages, Dresden 1938 - in the holdings of the Bibliotheca Albertina ( catalog entry )
• Several essays for the Museum für Mineralogie und Geologie Dresden between 1955 and 1965, to be found in the holdings of the SLUB
• Festschrift Georg Fraustadt for his seventy-fifth birthday on November 1, 1960 . Publisher: Dresden, State Museum for Mineralogy and Geology, 90 pages (in the holdings of the SLUB )
• The Meissen Princely School . Scientific article on July 3, 1963, the 420th anniversary of the foundation. Published in the magazine "Das Altertum" , published on behalf of the Section for Classical Studies at the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin by Johannes Irmscher , Volume 11, Issue 4, Berlin 1965, pp. 243-256. In the archives of the Fürstenschüler Foundation in Grimma. Also named on p. 231 in: Perspectives, commemorative publication on the occasion of the re-establishment of the Sankt Afra high school in Meißen , Meißen 2001, ISBN 3-9803364-4-1
• Jonas Flöter: Georg Fraustadt and the Third Humanism. On the educational theory model of the Rector of the Princely and State School St. Augustin zu Grimma . In: Theodor Litt Yearbook 4 , Leipzig 2005, pp. 265–283

Web links

• http://fuerstenschueler-stiftung.de/
• Literature by and about Georg Fraustadt in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gymnasium St. Augustin zu Grimma (ed.): From the electoral state school to the Gymnasium St. Augustin zu Grimma 1550-2000. Beucha 2000, ISBN 3-930076-99-3 , pp. 39-41
2. ^ Jonas Flöter: Georg Fraustadt and the Third Humanism . P. 276 in: Theodor-Litt-Jahrbuch 2005/4 , Leipzig 2005
3. ↑ Kurt Schwabe: The archive of the association of former princely students and his way from Dresden via the old Federal Republic to Grimma in the St. Augustin high school. The further development until 2010. A chronology , pp. 3–4, April 4, 2010. In the archives of the Fürstenschüler Foundation, Grimma.
4. ^ Jonas Flöter: Georg Fraustadt and the Third Humanism . P. 276 in: Theodor-Litt-Jahrbuch 2005/4 , Leipzig 2005