Hans Adolf von Brause
Hans Adolf von Brause (born February 23, 1847 in Sagan , Lower Silesia , † February 2, 1928 in Leipzig ) was a German reform pedagogue , rector and chairman of the Saxon Philologists Association .
family
Hans Adolf came from the von Brause family . He was a son of the Prussian government trainee Adolf Friedrich von Brause (1812–1879) and Emmeline geb. Sametzky (1818–1906), and a grandson of General Friedrich August Wilhelm von Brause .
On April 15, 1879, he married Anna Ottilie Beyer (1856–1911) in Artern . The marriage resulted in two sons and seven daughters.
Life
From Easter 1861 to Easter 1869 he attended the grammar school in Görlitz . He then studied philology , German and history at the universities of Halle (Saale) and Berlin . In 1873 he became a member of the Landsmannschaft (later Corps ) Neoborussia Halle .
At Easter 1873 he took over the management of a private school in Artern. At the beginning of November 1876 he left this position in order to sit in on the University of Leipzig . A year later he became vicar for French and German at the I. Realschule in Leipzig and in 1878 passed the state examination before the royal examination board of the university . He received his employment initially as a provisional, from 1881 as a permanent senior teacher at the I. Realschule in Leipzig under director Pfalz. During this time he was granted study visits to Paris and later to French-speaking Switzerland for further training in the French language .
In 1888 he was appointed director of the secondary school in Stollberg by the Saxon Ministry of Culture . In 1892 the Mayor of Leipzig Otto Georgi appointed him director of the 2nd municipal secondary school in Leipzig-Reudnitz . In this position and as chairman of the Saxon Philologists' Association , he was instrumental in the expansion and further development of the higher Latin-free school system in Saxony and all of Germany. Von Brause recognized secondary schools as a suitable means of providing the broad strata of the population affected by industrialization and urbanization with a school education that was appropriate to the requirements of the time.
It was no coincidence that the 2nd municipal secondary school in the east of Leipzig, where the big global companies built their offices and factories, was expanded under his leadership to become one of the largest educational institutions of its kind in Germany with up to 1000 students. Two large and well-equipped gyms as well as spacious physical and chemical experimentation rooms, regular excursions to important industrial companies and educational institutions in the near and far, holiday hikes with historical or scientific objectives and a young, academic teaching staff who was able to develop their educational ideas without schematic compulsion, testified to the successful implementation of educational reform measures under Brause's directorate.
He was a sought-after speaker at the large gatherings of the Latin-free high schools in Germany and was an advisor to many school founders - such as Hugo Gaudig or the rabbi Ephraim Carlebach in setting up the Israelite Higher School . In 1919 von Brause retired from office due to old age, but continued to devote himself to various social projects as head of a poor district and as an orphan's council.
Politically, he became involved in the national liberal camp and tried to remove the ideological rifts between the parties during the Weimar Republic .
Von Brause died in Leipzig at the age of 81 and was buried in the southern cemetery in Leipzig with great public sympathy, including the teachers and students of his school, now named after Wilhelm Ostwald .
Historical photo of the 2nd municipal secondary school in Leipzig-Reudnitz, 1912
Postcard for the 25th anniversary of the school in 1901
Teaching staff 2nd municipal secondary school (seated, 5th from left: director Hans Adolf von Brause), 1913
Tomb of Hans Adolf von Brause and family
Honors
- 1896 professor
- 1903 Order of Albrecht 1st class with crown
- 1909 teacher
- 1915 War Merit Cross (Saxony)
Memberships
- Association of Saxon Realschule Teachers (from 1919 Saxon Philologists Association): 1893–1896 first assessor, 1896–1898 deputy chairman, 1898–1917 first chairman
- Honorary member of the association of former secondary school students in Leipzig-Reudnitz eV
- Member of the Masonic Lodge Balduin zur Linde in Leipzig; since 1881, 1885–1896 in the office of speaker
literature
- Barbara Kowalzik: The Jewish School Work in Leipzig 1912–1933. Böhlau, Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2002, pp. 56, 63f, ISBN 3-41203902-0 .
- Curt Hänel (Ed.): Anniversary publication of the II. Municipal secondary school in Leipzig 1876–1926 . Leipzig 1926.
- Curt Hänel: A Saxon high school man . In: Association newspaper of the associations of former secondary school students in Germany , vol. 5, Leipzig 1918.
- Annual report of the 2nd municipal secondary school in Leipzig for the school years 1894–1916 . Leipzig 1895ff.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 54 , 218
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brause, Hans Adolf von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German reform pedagogue, Realschool director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 23, 1847 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sagan |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 2, 1928 |
| Place of death | Leipzig |