Heinrich Eildermann

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Arnold Heinrich Eildermann , also Heinrich Eildermann and Heinrich Arnulf Eildermann (born December 10, 1879 in Bremen , † March 8, 1955 in Dresden ), was a German teacher, author and social scientist as well as an activist of the labor movement . He wrote the text for the hymn of the workers' youth movement against the dawn .

Life

Eildermann was the son of a worker and from 1894, following elementary school, attended the Bremen teachers' seminar , where he also worked as a teacher himself from 1900. In the early years of the 20th century he belonged to a group of teachers from Bremen who rejected authoritarian educational methods and the nationalist goals of the school authorities and who advocated school reforms. He founded the Association of Young Teachers , an association of representatives of the left wing of the social democracy in the "Bremen Teachers Association", and worked there a. a. with Johann Knieftogether. In 1907, as a member of the board of the Bremen teachers' association, he signed a petition to the school authorities, which said: "The German normally no longer feels like a subject, but rather as a citizen." Dismissed school service because they advocated the abolition of religious education. The support of the teachers in Bremen for social democracy also accelerated a long-term and Reich-wide political debate, which also aimed to reinstate the dismissed.

Also in 1907 Eildermann wrote the text for the song Dem Morgenrot , which made his name known worldwide in the decades that followed. Eildermann was now a member of the SPD when his text was first published in 1910 as a song of the boys under the pseudonym Heinrich Arnulf . It spread quickly in Germany , also known as The Young Guard . In 1922 it was translated as the anthem of the Komsomol , the youth organization of the CPSU .

Still active as a social democrat, after the First World War , Eildermann became a member of the education committee of the Bremen Soviet Republic in 1919 and soon a member of the KPD . After he was investigated for high treason in 1924 , but the proceedings were suppressed, Eildermann stopped teaching and continued to work as a writer and social scientist. In 1927 he made a trip to the Soviet Union . During the Nazi era , he was taken into protective custody twice in 1937/38 .

After the end of the war, Eildermann became a lecturer in sociology at the Dresden University of Technology, which was under reconstruction, and became a member of the SED .

His book Urkommunismus und Urreligion from 1921 was pirated in the West Berlin anti-authoritarian movement of the 1960s.

literature

  • Literature by and about Heinrich Eildermann in the catalog of the German National Library
  • Friedrich Gansberg and H. Eildermann: Our boys. Stories from the city of Bremen. Book decorations by Th. Herrmann. Ed .: Bremen youth publications committee, BG Teubner, Leipzig and Berlin. 1906.
  • Heinrich Eildermann: Urkommunismus und Urreligion: Historically materialistically illuminated , Nabu Press, 2011 (reprint of 1921, 400 pages, German), ISBN 978-1245831512 .
  • Federal archive, Foundation archive of parties and mass organizations of the GDR: Heinrich Eildermann. Personal and biographical matters, memoirs, articles and manuscripts on school policy and philosophical problems as well as on prehistory and early history, correspondence, etc. a. on the history of the Bremen teaching staff and on the Bremen labor movement.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archive of the PDS  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / archiv2007.sozialisten.de  
  2. ↑ Michael Zachcial: Dem Morgenrot gegen (1907-2007) , volksliederarchiv.de, December 19, 2007, accessed on December 27, 2015
  3. ↑ GEW Bremen ( Memento of the original from February 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gew-hb.de
personal data
SURNAME Eildermann, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eildermann, Arnold Heinrich (full name); Eildermann, Heinrich Arnulf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher, author and social scientist as well as an activist of the labor movement
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH March 8, 1955
Place of death Dresden