Hans Kallenbach (pedagogue)

Hans Kallenbach (born December 24, 1907 in Offenbach am Main ; † September 5, 1981 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German pedagogue , philologist and academy director. From 1945 to 1972 he was director of the Evangelical Academy in Hesse and Nassau .

Life and activity

Kallenbach was a son of Adolf Kallenbach.

After attending school, Kallenbach studied German , history , art history , religious studies , folklore and philosophy in Frankfurt am Main and Gießen . In 1931 he received his doctorate as Dr. phil .

From 1930 to 1936 Kallenbach was employed in higher education in Hesse. From 1936 to 1945 he was a lecturer for the German language, methodology of German teaching and linguistics at the Prussian University for Teacher Education , from 1941 teacher training institute in Hirschberg in the Giant Mountains . Since 1937 he belonged to the NSDAP . He worked in the department for oral language maintenance in the main department Volkstum of the Culture and Broadcasting Office of the Reich Youth Leadership of the NSDAP.

From 1945 to 1972 Kallenbach was the founder and director of the Evangelical Academy in Hesse and Nassau (Akademie Arnoldshain ). He was u. a. Co-founder of the Evangelical Film Academy and Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation and an employee of Kirchentag President Reinold von Thadden-Trieglaff .

Evangelical Academy Arnoldshain

In 1970 Kallenbach received an honorary theological doctorate from the University of Mainz .

Kallenbach was married to Kate Heise, with whom he had four children.

Fonts

• Georg Forster's Fresh Teutsche Liedlein (= Giessen Contributions to Philology No. 29). Giessen 1931, reprint Amsterdam 1968
• with Erwin Wißmann : Joint education of the sexes at high schools , Frankfurt am Main 1963

literature

• Who is who? 21st edition, 1981, p. 571.
• Lexicon of persons on German Protestantism 1919-1949 , ed. v. Hannelore Braun u. a., Göttingen 2006, p. 128