Hans Alfken

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Hans Alfken (born May 3, 1899 in Bremen , † January 2, 1994 in Hanover ) was a reform pedagogue and from 1947 a senior ministerial official in Lower Saxony.

biography

Hans Alfken

As a student with active youth , Hans Alfken sought contact with Heinrich Vogeler and his artistic-life-reforming rural community Barkenhoff near Worpswede . The First World War took him to the front as a volunteer, which shaped his political awareness. In 1918 he made up his Abitur. He studied English literature , German literature and philosophy in Jena , Greifswald and Marburg .

In 1920 he took part in the Reich School Conference as a representative of the Free German Youth , at which he dealt with Georg Kerschensteiner and participated in the establishment of the Association for School Farms (1st chairman Ludwig Gurlitt , 2nd chairman Wilhelm Wetekamp , 1st secretary Hans Alfken) .

After graduating, Alfken taught at the Free School Community of Wickersdorf under Martin Luserke . His concept of a directly experience-oriented didactics is said to have had a lasting influence on him. After a time as a trainee lawyer in Oldenburg, in 1926 he became a teacher at the Kaiser-Friedrich-Realgymnasium (from 1929 Karl-Marx-Schule ) in Berlin-Neukölln , led by the Berlin reform pedagogue Fritz Karsen . This was a forerunner of today's comprehensive schools . There he taught in the worker high school graduate courses and in his advanced classes. In 1927, Alfken joined the KPD against Karsen's advice . In 1933 he was dismissed from school, 1938–1940 arrested for resistance activity (15 months in prison). 1940–45 soldier. During his Berlin years he lived in Britz , Johannisthal and Hohenschönhausen .

In August 1945 he was employed by the British as head of the Bremen employment office. In 1946, Adolf Grimme brought him to the Lower Saxony Ministry of Education as a personal advisor . Alfken joined the SPD. Until 1965 he was head of department in the Lower Saxony Ministry of Culture, responsible for adult education, libraries and sport and from 1949 also for youth care. He was significantly involved in the establishment of the educational association Work and Life and the efforts to establish cooperation between adult education and the university; Co-founder of the Psychotherapeutic Institute for the State of Lower Saxony in Hanover, member of the board of trustees of the Franco-German Youth Office (1962–67).

literature

  • Hans Alfken: The Reichsschulkonferenz of 1920. Critical appreciation and reminiscences. In: The German Vocational and Technical School. Vol. 66, 1970, pp. 840-856.
  • A life for the youth. Mühlenfeld pays tribute to Alfken. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung. dated June 2, 1964.
  • Hans Alfken is 75 years old. In: New Press. Hanover on May 3, 1974.
  • "... we wanted to help create a new society". b: e conversation with Hans Alfken. In: concerns: education. Vol. 17, No. 1, 1984, pp. 72-77.
  • He did not allow himself to be banned from studying. In: New Press. Hanover, May 3, 1989.
  • Horst Leski: School reform and administration. From the standard school program of the Weimar Republic to the school reform programs of the Lower Saxony Ministry of Culture. Oldenburg 1990.
  • Hans-Peter Sattler: Hans Alfken. Ministerial official. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of April 25, 1991.
  • Wolfgang Keim: Hans Alfken. In: Gerd Radde (Ed.): School reform - continuities and breaks. The Berlin-Neukölln test field. Volume II: 1945 to 1972. Opladen 1993, pp. 175-178 (= short biography).
  • Detlef Oppermann: Hans Alfken died. In: Hessian sheets for popular education. Magazine for adult education in Germany. Vol. 44, No. 3, 1994, pp. 277-279.

Web links

Commons : Hans Alfken  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
  • Hans Alfken's estate in the archive of social democracy of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (Bonn)
  • Reference files in the Lower Saxony State Archive / Main State Archive Hanover

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerd Radde (ed.): School reform - continuities and breaks. The Berlin-Neukölln test field . Vol. II: 1945 to 1972. Springer-Verlag, Berlin 2013. ISBN 978-3-322-97283-5 , p. 176
  2. ^ Wilhelm Pieper: Lower Saxony school reforms in the air fleet command: from the Lower Saxony educational center to the IGS Franzsches Feld . Julius Klinkhardt, Bad Heilbrunn 2009. ISBN 978-3781516830 , p. 66
personal data
SURNAME Alfken, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German reform pedagogue
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH January 2, 1994
Place of death Hanover