Hans Bauerschmidt

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Hans Bauerschmidt , also: Johann Bauerschmidt (born June 29, 1876 in Stadtsteinach ; † February 25, 1968 in Munich ), was a German pedagogue, Bavarian cultural officer and specialist author.

Life

Hans Bauerschmidt was a son of the saddler Johann Adam Bauerschmidt from Stadtsteinach. From 1895 he attended the “Alte Gymnasium” in Bamberg, where he graduated from high school. In 1897 he began studying philology at the University of Würzburg and joined the “Germania” fraternity . In 1899 he passed the teaching examination in the philological-historical subjects Greek, Latin, German and history. He then did his doctorate with a thesis on the writings of Marcus Tullius Cicero . In 1899/1900 he completed the pedagogical and didactic seminar at the Royal Humanistic Gymnasium in Erlangen . After his military service, which he did as a one-year volunteer in the Royal Bavarian 7th Infantry Regiment "Prince Leopold", he was given the position of assistant at the secondary school in Nuremberg . In 1904 he was transferred to Dillingen an der Donau as a grammar school teacher , in 1907 to the Munich Realgymnasium and in 1913 appointed grammar school professor at the Royal Bavarian Cadet Corps in Munich.

During the First World War , he was first deployed as a first lieutenant and battalion adjutant, then promoted to captain and deputy battalion leader and discharged as a major in the Landwehr at the end of the war. After the cadet corps was dissolved, he took up a position as a classical philologist at the Wittelsbacher Gymnasium in Munich in 1920 . Until 1921 he was on the board of the history teachers association. From February 1 to April 30, 1924, he was in charge of the director of the Maximiliansgymnasium in Munich on behalf of Gustav Landgraf, who had left his post . In addition, he took on tasks on behalf of the Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture . In 1925 he was appointed to the ministry and a few years later took over the management of the Bavarian school system, grammar schools department, with the rank and title of ministerial councilor. Among other things, he was responsible for the history textbooks at secondary schools, but after the National Socialists came to power in 1933, he refused to “rewrite” them in line with the ideology of the regime. However, in 1923 he had opposed the idea that teachers and school inspectors “had to follow the democratic idea of ​​the state”.

From 1945 onwards, he mainly campaigned for the maintenance of the humanistic grammar school. In 1954 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit and made an honorary citizen of his hometown Stadtsteinach. In 1962 he received the Bavarian Order of Merit . Hans Bauerschmidt died as a result of a fracture of the lower leg and was buried in the Bogenhausen cemetery in Munich.

Fonts

  • Results of a comparison between Cicero's writings “De Oratore” and “Orator”. Inaugural dissertation at the University of Erlangen. E. Th. Jacob, Erlangen 1900.
  • Citizenship as part of history lessons. Main points of civic education for history lessons in secondary schools. F. Kornschen, Nuremberg 1911.
  • Citizenship instruction and education. A guide to the various types of school. Lindauer, Munich 1913.
  • Wall map for German citizenship. German Empire. Plate 1. Lindauer, Munich 1914.
  • Guide to Patriotic Education, 1916.
  • Literature report Citizenship Education and Upbringing , in: Past and Present 19, 1929, pp. 169–175.
  • State and Fatherland. Aristotle, Tukydides, Polyos, and others. Greek and Latin texts selected from the treasures of antiquity. Buchner, Bamberg 1938.

literature

  • Personnel file in the Bavarian State Archives, signature: BayHStA Minn 83002.
  • Maria Magdalena Bäuml: cultural policy against the crisis of democracy. The Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture 1926 - 1933. Commission for Bavarian State History 2018.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Annual report on the Maximilians Gymnasium for the school year 1926/27
  2. ^ Hartmut Lehmann, Otto Gerhard Oexle (Ed.): National Socialism in the Cultural Studies. Volume 1. Subjects - Milieus - Careers. Publications of the Max Planck Institute for History. Volume 200. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2004, p. 303 and note 77
personal data
SURNAME Bauerschmidt, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bauerschmidt, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil servant, educator and specialist author
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Stadtsteinach
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 1968
Place of death Munich