Gustav Adolf Riecke

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Gustav Adolf Riecke, portrait by F. Schlotterbek (1849). Caption: “Not a republic, not a monarchy - freedom is the longing of the peoples. That state constitution is the best which realizes this longing for the people and the like. clear, without support u. Fiction Satisfies. Appearance or non-appearance - that is the question now. GA Riecke. "

Gustav Adolf Cornaro Riecke (born May 19, 1798 in Altstuben , Kingdom of Hungary ; † January 8, 1883 in Esslingen am Neckar ) was a Protestant clergyman and educator from Württemberg.

Life

Gustav Adolf Riecke was born in Altstuben in Slovakia, which was then part of the Habsburg Kingdom of Hungary, as the son of pastor Victor Heinrich Riecke and is the offspring of the Riecke family from Württemberg . He looked after the German-speaking Protestants in the region from Brno . Gustav studied theology at the Tübingen Abbey from 1815 to 1820 and then went on an educational trip through Germany and Switzerland, during which he met Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, among others . From 1822 to 1824 he was a repetitionist at the monastery in Tübingen. In 1824 he became a deacon and head of a private school teacher seminar in Besigheim . He married Auguste Stockmayer in Stuttgart on May 12, 1825 (* September 9, 1805 in Stuttgart, † February 3, 1893 Esslingen) daughter of the Württemberg landscape secretary Friedrich Amandus Stockmayer (* October 13, 1760 in Stuttgart, † February 2, 1837). Riecke became pastor in Gutenberg in 1828, pastor and chief inspector of the orphanage in Weingarten in 1832 .

From 1838 to 1851 Riecke was rector of the teacher training seminar in Esslingen, at that time the only state training facility for elementary school teachers in the Kingdom of Württemberg . He is considered to be one of the most important educators of his time and in 1840 was a co-founder of the Württemberg elementary school teachers' association, which, among other things, campaigned for the removal of church influences in elementary schools.

In 1849/50 Riecke belonged to the constituent state assemblies in Stuttgart for the upper office district of Esslingen (2nd Chamber of Deputies). In 1851 he was forcibly transferred to the parish of Loffenau because of his anti-state and democratic sentiments . His successor as rector of the teachers' college was Karl Christoph Stockmayer . After his retirement (1871), Riecke settled again in Esslingen, where he died in 1883.

Works

literature

  • Folker butcher: Gustav Adolph Cornaro Riecke. School policy and school pedagogy at the time of the Vormärz and the revolution of 1848/49 . Jena 2014

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Altstuben or Unterstuben, Slovak Dolná Štubňa, district of Bad Stuben in today's Slovakia ( rodokmen.com )
  2. ↑ His father gave him the third first name Cornaro out of respect for the macrobiotic Luigi Cornaro ( ADB article on Heinrich Riecke ).
  3. ↑ More details on Friedrich Amandus Stockmayer in the German biography : Stockmayer, Württemberg family
personal data
SURNAME Riecke, Gustav Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Riecke, Gustav Adolf Cornaro (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Protestant clergyman and educator from Württemberg
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1798
PLACE OF BIRTH Altstuben, Slovakia
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 1883
Place of death Esslingen am Neckar