Herbert Freudenthal

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Herbert Freudenthal

Herbert Freudenthal (born July 9, 1894 in Hamburg , † December 1, 1975 in Lüneburg ) was a German educationalist, history didactician and folklorist .

Life

Freudenthal, son of a showman , graduated from the Hamburg teachers' seminar from 1909 to 1914 after attending school. During the First World War he did military service as a volunteer. After the end of the war he was discharged from the army in January 1919 and was awarded the Iron Cross 1st class .

He passed the second state examination as a primary school teacher in 1920 and worked as a teacher in Hamburg until March 1927. In addition to his job, he studied educational sciences , folklore and history at the University of Hamburg and received his doctorate in 1927 with the dissertation : Fire in German Faith and Customs . Then he was a teacher trainer in Hamburg. From April 1929 he was appointed professor of folklore and history at the Pedagogical Academy in Kiel and moved to Halle (Saale) in 1933 . His preoccupation with folklore topics such as will- o'-the-wisps or fireclay flowed into a standard work.

Freudenthal joined the NSDAP in 1933 and at that time was Hauptsturmführer in the SA . At the time of National Socialism he made a steep career. From 1933 onwards, as the successor to the deposed Julius Frankenberger, he was in charge of the teacher training college, which was moved from Halle to Hirschberg in Silesia . He published in the sense of National Socialism especially for history lessons . From 1941 he was director of the teacher training institute in Hirschberg . In addition, was from 1934 to 1942 editor of the magazine Die Volksschule des NSLB .

After 1945 he was able to continue his career as a recognized folklorist and museum expert. Freudenthal was denazified in 1948 after a court proceedings and classified as unencumbered. From 1949 he worked as a teacher in Hamburg and in 1960 took up teaching positions at Hamburg University. For the Westermann printing and publishing group in Braunschweig he wrote history textbooks ( Paths to the World ). He influenced the popular education of the elementary school significantly. As a history teacher, however, he held back.

Works

  • Fire in German Beliefs and Customs , Berlin and Leipzig 1931 (standard work)
  • Schoolmaster, youth leader, people educator. Talk to d. Opening ceremony of the university on May 8, 1934 , Beltz, Langensalza 1934
  • Mein Kampf as political folklore of the German present on a racial basis , In: Zeitschrift für Volkskunde NF 6/1935, no. 2, 1935, volume 44, pp. 122-135.
  • Theory of Science of German Folklore , Lower Saxony Heimatbund, Hanover 1955
  • Popular education: concept and shape , Kaiser Munich 1957

literature

  • Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 .
  • Andreas Michler: From historical methodology to folklore - a tried and tested way of academic survival? In: W. Hasberg / M. Seidenfuß: Didactics of history under the grip of National Socialism? , LIT Berlin u. a. 2005, p. 169 ff online version

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Andreas Michler: From the method of history to folklore - a tried and tested way of academic survival? , Berlin 2005, p. 169ff
  2. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee: The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 148.
personal data
SURNAME Freudenthal, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educationalist, history didactician and folklorist
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH 1st December 1975
Place of death Luneburg