Hans Siebert (pedagogue)

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Johannes Georg Hans Siebert (born July 20, 1910 in Niedervellmar near Kassel , † April 7, 1979 in Dresden ) was a communist resistance fighter , German educator and university professor at the TH Dresden .

Life

Siebert studied at the PA Kassel from 1930 to 1932 the teaching post as elementary school teacher and completed the teacher examination in 1932 with a thesis on the subject of "Basics of Soviet Education ". At the end of 1931 he joined the KPD . He then worked for the Kassel school authorities in the working-class district of Kassel until February 1933, when he was dismissed without notice for political reasons. He began his illegal political work and had to be in protective and pre-trial detention in the Kassel-Wehlheiden prison and in the Lichtenburg concentration camp near Halle. After his release in August 1935, he worked as a road and farm worker until he emigrated to England in September 1936 for political reasons. He worked as secretary in the Committee for Spanish Refugee Children (approx. 3,000) in London from May 1937 to April 1940. In 1940 he was briefly interned on the Isle of Man . Then, in addition to his work on the board of directors of the Free German Cultural Association, he was union secretary until 1947 and from 1945 co-headed the remaining KPD section in Great Britain. He also headed the committee for German, especially Jewish, refugee children on a voluntary basis. Together with Jürgen Kuczynski, he organized the 1st international conference of anti-fascist scientists in London during World War II, founded it as secretary in 1940 (officially 1942) and, together with Alfred Meusel, headed the Free German University in London. Pedagogically, he distinguished himself from blanket condemnations of the German tradition of education in the manner of Vansittart and at the same time from the social democratic ideas of an idealistic democratic pedagogical reeducation , as it is e.g. B. Minna Specht developed. Siebert wanted to eliminate the socio-economic roots and recommended that the Allies take massive action in the education sector, that is, extensive layoffs.

In September 1947 he returned to Berlin in Germany and became the school clerk in the Central Secretariat, the forerunner of the Central Committee of the SED . At the end of 1948 he moved to the Central Administration for People's Education in Berlin as department head for teaching and education , which at the end of 1949 became the Ministry of People's Education (GDR) . In this function he founded and planned the German Central Pedagogical Institute , whose director he was for a few months until 1950. He ensured a turning away from German reform pedagogy and turning to Soviet pedagogy . Behind Paul Wandel he was considered the second man in the MfV, with good contacts to Kurt Hager .

Then, in the late summer of 1950, he switched to the Volk und Wissen publishing house as a freelancer , because suddenly as a West exile he was not loyal to the line ( Field affair ). The doctoral procedure that has now begun at the HU Berlin with a dissertation on Adolph Diesterweg also met with opposition from Robert Alt and Gerda Mundorf , because he hardly observed the scientific rules. In April 1952 he was appointed professor for pedagogy at the Pedagogical University of Potsdam , before going to the Pedagogical Institute in Dresden in May 1952 as head , which began its service in 1953. In 1959 he went back to the DPZI in Berlin for a few months as head of the teacher training department, which he thought was too low. But his criticism was of little use. At the end of 1960 he was appointed professor at the TH Dresden, Faculty for Vocational Education and Cultural Studies, with a teaching assignment for the history and theory of socialist education, and in 1969 he was renamed Professor for Marxist-Leninist educational theory. At the end of 1970 he retired. He had been a member of the GDR Academy of Pedagogical Sciences since 1970 and received many other awards.

Siebert was born in 1942 with the painter Priscilla Siebert (1917-2020). Thornycroft, sister of Hermann Field who worked in the British Communist Party .

Fonts

  • The case of Professor Huber, 1943
  • The fatal last cartridge , 1943
  • Lenin and the Youth , 1949
  • What are fairy tales? , 1952
  • Adolph Diesterweg: Its importance for the development of upbringing and education in Germany , Berlin 1953
  • Basics of socialist pedagogy , teaching letters 1964 ff

Awards

literature

  • Gert Geißler: Hans Siebert - on the educational history of an emigrated political educator , in: Zeitschrift für Pädagogik 40 (1994) 5, pp. 781–799 [ [1] ]

Web links

Single receipts

  1. ↑ Expert opinion on the dissertation draft. DIPF archive database, 1952, accessed July 15, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Siebert, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Siebert, Johannes Georg Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator and communist resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Niedervellmar
DATE OF DEATH April 7, 1979
Place of death Dresden