Heinrich Sahrhage

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Heinrich Hermann Dietrich Sahrhage (born April 21, 1892 in Hamburg ; † May 23, 1969 there ) was a German educator .

Live and act

Heinrich Sahrhage studied at Kiel University and taught from 1915, initially as an assistant teacher, at the secondary school in front of the Holstentor in Hamburg. After completing his doctorate, he was given a permanent position as a candidate for the teaching post, which he held until his retirement in 1957. Sahrhage had a license to teach zoology, botany, chemistry, mineralogy and geography and later worked there as a senior teacher and senior teacher until he retired in 1957. Then he headed the administration of the school camp and took on a teaching position.

Since the beginning of his teaching activity, Sahrhage took up ideas of the reform pedagogy and youth movement, which were pursued at the upper secondary school. He established hiking days and, from 1919, several days for his classes outside Hamburg. He campaigned for a school association that was founded in 1921. In 1922 the association bought an old farmhouse in Hoisdorf , from which a first school camp was built. From 1955 it was called "Dr.-Heinrich-Sage-Heim".

In the following years, Sahrhage developed into the most famous representative of the German school camp movement . In 1925 he became chairman of the Hamburg School Homes Association, founded in 1924, and member of the board of the Reichsbund der Deutschen Schullandheime , for which he worked until 1945. During the Second World War he was school representative and school inspector and, from 1940, was responsible for the organization of the expanded Kinderland sending Hamburg pupils. After the end of the war, he worked with the school authorities to rebuild school campsites in Hamburg.

Sahrhage, who was first chairman of the Association of German School Shelters from 1950 , published several series of publications on the movement of school shelters. He worked in many charitable organizations such as the German Paritätischer Wohlfahrtsverband and the German Youth Health Service . In addition, he took over the management of the Hamburg summer holiday campaign, during which 2500 children from Hamburg were able to spend their holidays in school camps.

Honors

In 1958 Sahrhage received the medal for faithful work in the service of the people from the city of Hamburg and in 1961 the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class for his services to the school camp movement.

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SURNAME Sahrhage, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sahrhage, Heinrich Hermann Dietrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH May 23, 1969
Place of death Hamburg