Society of Friends of the Fatherland School and Education System

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The Society of Friends of the Fatherland Schools and Education System is one of the oldest teachers' associations in the world.

The curio house

history

The founding of the company goes back to Peter Breiß , who in 1805 suggested in the Journal Hamburg and Altona that a “Journal for Hamburg schools, their teachers and friends” should be created. Johann Carl Daniel Curio took up the idea and founded the company in Hamburg with Breiß and others in the same year, which Curio took over as chairman. The purpose of the society was to improve the material provision of teachers (income, pension, widow's pension) and the further training of the members.

On November 4, 1911, the office moved into the Curiohaus .

On April 27, 1933, an extraordinary general meeting of the company decided to join the National Socialist Teachers' Association (NSLB). In 1937 the entire assets of the company were transferred to the NSLB.

In 1945 the company was re-established under Max Traeger and Anne Banaschewski . In 1948, under its chairman Wilhelm Festing (1877-1958) , the company joined the newly founded trade union education and science (GEW) as a member and formed the Hamburg regional association in it. Festing's portrait, which originally hung in the Curiohaus, can now be found in the Museum of Hamburg History .

Until 1976, the original name of the society remained in first place, followed by Union of Education and Science, Regional Association Hamburg , then the order was reversed to Union of Education and Science, Regional Association Hamburg, Society of Friends of the Fatherland Schools and Education System . The name has been retained in this form to this day, the GEW sees itself as part of the Society of Friends of the Fatherland School and Education System.

Reading circle

The function of the reading circle was to provide the members with new educational publications. These - initially books, from 1852 only magazines - were to circulate among the members. In 1903 it was dissolved because, in view of the mass of new educational publications as well as the structural difficulties that the circulation of reading material brought with it, it was no longer felt to be in keeping with the times.

Library

After only one year of existence, the Society's library already contained 70 volumes. As in the libraries of other teachers' associations, the first books were almost exclusively acquired through gifts. The first printed catalog from 1828 contains 160 entries. It was not until 1831 that an annual amount was made available which, at least in part, enabled a systematic inventory build-up .

The Hamburg fire of 1842 also destroyed the library. Thanks to donations, however, it was quickly possible to build up a new collection, which again comprised 1,100 volumes in 1845 and grew to 2,500 volumes by 1866. Until the middle of the 19th century it had the most extensive book inventory of all teachers' associations, but after that the interest of the members in the library seems to have decreased. In 1872 only 1430 books are recorded, of which a further 639 volumes should be deleted. "All outdated and all incomplete works, as well as manuals and school books" were removed. For the future it was planned to only purchase works that could not be purchased by the members themselves due to the high price.

In 1887/88 the inventory comprised 1620 volumes again, more than before the separation campaign, and in 1904 there were already 5657 volumes in the library. A member of the library committee made clear the change in the task set compared to the beginnings of the library in a programmatic lecture to the society:

The focus of collecting activities is no longer the direct, practice-oriented literature, but rather scientific training. “The most necessary and most important discipline of a teacher’s library is of course pedagogy, firstly because it is our subject, and then also because it is little or not represented in other libraries.” For this reason, works that “pedagogy as Treat system ". The selection should avoid any one-sidedness “so that the colleagues have the opportunity to compare, examine and choose the best of all ... The most important phenomena in the field of the auxiliary sciences of pedagogy must also be present; Particularly those writings are to be considered here which try to give us information about the mental life of the child. "

But the library lost its importance after 1945, because the further education of the members in the sense of the club's founders has not been an objective in the statutes of the GEW regional association Hamburg since 1951. So there were book sales in the early 1970s, until a new perspective for the library in the form of a newly established foundation was found in the mid-1970s. In 1995 the library was initially given to the Lüneburg University Library . At the beginning of 2001 the handover to the library for research on the history of education took place, on October 11, 2001 the BBF invited to a ceremonial handover event.

Web links

literature

  • Hermann Stoll: History of the Society of Friends of the Patriotic School and Education System in Hamburg. Festschrift for the centenary 1805-1905, Hamburg 1905.
  • Hermann Stoll / Hermann Kurtzweil: Society of Friends of the Patriotic School and Education System in Hamburg 1905 - 1930. On the commemoration of their 125th anniversary on November 3, 1930, Hamburg 1930.
  • 150 years of the Society of Friends of the Patriotic Schools and Education System. Hamburg 1955.
  • Jürgen Bolland: The "Society of Friends" in the change of the Hamburg school and education system, Hamburg undated [1955].

Remarks

  1. ^ F. Kopitzsch: From Johann Carl Daniel Curio, Peter Breiß, the "Society of Friends" and their library . In: Mitteilungsblatt der Bibliothek für Bildungsgeschichtliche Forschung 2002 , no. 1, pp. 10–15.
  2. ^ Franklin Kopitzsch: Breiß, Peter . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 2 . Christians, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-7672-1366-4 , pp. 67 .
  3. ^ The Curiohaus 1911–1961. A contribution to the history of the Society of Friends of the Fatherland School and Education System in Hamburg . Hamburg 1961.
  4. ^ H. Stoll: Festschrift for the centenary 1805-1905 . Hamburg 1905, p. 249.
  5. ↑ J. Studt: The need to structure our library. In Pedagogical Reform , Supplement to No. 42. 26 (1902).
  6. ^ G. Gehlen: The library of the Society of Friends of the Patriotic School and Education System is taken over . In: Mitteilungsblatt der Bibliothek für Bildungsgeschichtliche Forschung 2002 , No. 1, pp. 7-10; P. Göbel: Address on the occasion of the handover of the GEW library to the library for research on the history of education . In: Mitteilungsblatt der Bibliothek für Bildungsgeschichtliche Forschung 2002 , No. 1, pp. 15-18; Tagesspiegel from October 29, 2001