Gerd Eilers

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Gerd Eilers (born January 31, 1788 in Grabstede , Oldenburg , † May 4, 1863 in Saarbrücken ) was a pedagogue.

Life

Ehlers grew up as the son of the farmer Johann Diedrich Eilers (1732–1807) in a parental home that was strongly influenced by Christianity and Lutheranism . Because his dream of a career as a lawyer could not be realized for financial reasons, he first completed an apprenticeship as a regional court clerk and learned Latin on his own . Shortly thereafter, he switched to the service of the chairman of the Neuchâtel regional court and then became a clerk in Jever with Bernhard Garlichs, a lawyer . With his support, Eilers attended the Mariengymnasium Jever from 1806 in addition to his work at Garlichs , where he was promoted by Friedrich Christoph Schlosser , who taught at the grammar school from 1808 to 1809. On his advice, he decided to study theology . With financial help from a relative, he studied theology, languages and history in Heidelberg from 1810 to 1812 and moved to Göttingen in 1812 . In Heidelberg he became a member of the Corps Hannovera Heidelberg , in Göttingen a member of the Corps Hannovera Göttingen and from this time kept lifelong contact, in particular with Karl Ludwig Roeck and Heinrich Wilhelm Hayen . After completing his studies, he took up the position of tutor in Frankfurt in 1813 , where in 1814 he met the Bremen ambassador to the Congress of Vienna and later to the Bundestag of the German Confederation and later to Bremen's mayor, Johann Smidt . Through his mediation, Eilers became a teacher in 1817 at the newly founded Bremen Commercial School , which included a grammar school , a commercial school and a pre-school for both. In 1819 Eilers became the director of the newly opened grammar school on the city wall in Kreuznach . Here he married Katharina Hofmann. In 1833 he was appointed school and government councilor in Koblenz and in 1840 he was appointed to the Ministry of Spiritual Teaching and Medical Affairs in Berlin as an "unskilled worker" . Friedrich Eichhorn , whose special confidence he enjoyed, was his superior minister at the time . In 1841 he was promoted to the secret government council and in 1843 to the lecturing council . His area of ​​responsibility also included overseeing censorship . After the outbreak of the Revolution of 1848 had Eilers resign from his post and founded on the manor Frey Imfelde in Halle an educational institution for boys, especially on the sons of conservative , aristocratic landowners were educated. The school initially enjoyed a good reputation. In 1857, however, the school had to close and Eilers retired to Saarbrücken , where he spent the rest of his life and died on May 4, 1863. From 1856 on, Eilers published his memoirs.

Rating

Eilers was often heavily criticized by his contemporaries and classified as pietistic - reactionary . His writings, however, identify him as a devout Lutheran and a conservative official devoted to his minister . In 1844 he brought the seminar director Ferdinand Stiehl to the Eichhorn ministry, who traveled to the schools in the country and wrote a memorandum that partly formed the basis for the reactionary regulations passed in 1854 . His memoirs, along with his other writings, form an essential document on the history of the first half of the 19th century.

Fonts

In school programs :

  • Determination and establishment of the Royal High School in Kreuznach . Letter of invitation to the festivities with which this newly organized higher educational institution is to be opened on November 2nd. EJ Henß, Kreuznach 1819 ( Google Books )
  • A few words about the teaching of history in high schools . In: Invitation to the public exams to be held in the grammar school in 1820 . EJ Henß, Kreuznach 1820
  • Thoughts on the school system . In: Invitation to the… 1821 in the Royal High School in Creuznach taking place public exams . Heinrich Ludwig Brönner, Frankfurt am Main 1821, pp. 3–19 ( digitized version of the Bavarian State Library, Munich)
  • De Anaxagora sententia , Kreuznach 1822
  • Whether one would do well to ban logic from grammar schools as a special subject . In: Invitation to the public examinations to be held in the high school in Creuznach . Heinrich Ludwig Brönner, Frankfurt am Main 1825, pp. 1–19 ( Google Books )
  • About Schlosser's universal historical overview of the history of the ancient world and its culture. Kreuznach 1830

After retiring from politics, he wrote:

  • To assess the Eichhorn Ministry . From a member of the same (Berlin 1849);
  • My walk through life. A contribution to the inner history of the first half of the 19th century , Vol. I-VI. FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1856–61 (Vol. II, 1857 Google Books )
  • Considerations and judgments by Ernst Ludwig von Aster on the political, ecclesiastical and educational party movements of our century (Saarbrücken 1858–59, 2 vols.).

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Gerd Eilers  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinrich Ferdinand Curschmann : Blue Book of the Corps Hannovera zu Göttingen. Volume 1, 1809-1899, Göttingen 2002, p. 274 No. 038.
  2. ↑ see Curschmann, Blaubuch , p. 59, No. 133
  3. ^ Wolfgang Martens: Heinrich Wilhelm Hayen: (1791-1854); the life path of an Oldenburg public servant in Biedermeier , in Oldenburgische Familienkunde Volume 47 (2005) issue 3, pp. 283-380, Oldenburgische Gesellschaft für Familienkunde, Oldenburg 2005
personal data
SURNAME Eilers, Gerd
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eilers, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1788
PLACE OF BIRTH Grabstede , Oldenburg
DATE OF DEATH May 4, 1863
Place of death Saarbrücken