Hans-Georg Fernis

Hans-Georg Fernis (born August 24, 1910 in Halle (Saale) ; † 1996 ) was a German historian and headmaster.

Life

Fernis studied history, German and Latin in Heidelberg, Berlin and Bonn from 1929 to 1935. He did his doctorate in 1934 under Fritz Kern . After the first state examination in 1935, he did the one-year preparatory service at the Beethoven-Gymnasium Bonn . His habilitation took place in 1942. He worked as an assistant and lecturer at the University of Strasbourg . In 1943 he served in the Wehrmacht as a lieutenant. After 1945 he became a teacher in Rhineland-Palatinate , in 1950 in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse (Haardt). From 1951 he headed the grammar school in Birkenfeld (Nahe) as senior studies director and from 1959 the grammar school at the Electoral Palace in Mainz.

Founded in 1952 and headed the Rhineland-Palatinate State Association until 1974 and was the federal chairman of the Association of History Teachers in Germany from 1967 to 1972 . In his state he strongly influenced the curricula. In 1951, he turned against the treatment of contemporary history in history lessons because an objective historical view was not yet possible. After 1960 he also fought against the integration of history lessons into an integration subject of social studies . Fernis was at the Frankfurt Diesterweg publishing editor and author of popular history textbook for the upper and middle level framework of the story .

Fonts (selection)

• The fleet amendments in the Reichstag 1906-1912 , Stuttgart 1934 (Bonn diss.)
• Never Against the Reich: Swiss Confessions from Six Centuries , Border and Abroad 1942
• The newest time in history lessons (1918-1945) , in: GWU 2, 1951, p. 590 ff
• With Paul Georg Schneider: State law on schools in Rhineland-Palatinate. Commentary , 2nd edition 1979

literature

• History lessons and history didactics from the empire to the present , ed. v. Association of History Teachers in Germany, Paul Leidinger u. a., Stuttgart 1988

Web links

• Hans-Georg Fernis' personnel form in the personnel file of the BIL expert body in the archive database of the Library for Research on Educational History (BBF)
• Literature by and about Hans-Georg Fernis in the catalog of the German National Library