Herbert Hahn

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Herbert Hahn (born May 5, 1890 in Pernau , Livonia , Russian Empire , † June 20, 1970 in Stuttgart ) was a German teacher and anthroposophist .

Life

Hahn grew up as the fifth child of city ​​gardener Carl Wilhelm Hahn († 1905), who immigrated from Mecklenburg , and his wife Pauline , who came from Riga , in the old Hanseatic city of Pernau in what was then the governorate of Livonia . German was spoken in the family, Estonian and Russian at school .

From 1907 to 1913 he studied philology in Dorpat , Heidelberg , Paris and Berlin , which he completed with a doctorate in 1921 at the University of Rostock . Hahn first met Rudolf Steiner in January 1909 ; three years later he joined the Theosophical Society . After receiving the Russian teacher diploma in the summer of 1912, he worked as a French teacher at a private school in Mariupol and in 1914 passed the examination to become a high school teacher in Moscow . In September 1913 he married Emely Hasselbach from Ladenburg ; until 1924 four sons were born to them. After the outbreak of war in Germany during his summer vacation in 1914, he became a German citizen and from 1915 did military service as an interpreter.

From 1919 Hahn worked at the first Waldorf School in Stuttgart, first as a French teacher, then from 1921 to 1927 as a class teacher, and finally as a specialist teacher for German and history in the upper level. By Steiner entrusted with the establishment and delivery of the so-called “free Christian religious instruction” (for children without denominational lessons), he also held the first “Sunday sale” in 1920. From 1931 to 1939 he taught at the Vrije School in The Hague .

During the Second World War he was used again as an interpreter and came back to Russia after 25 years. In 1943 he married his teacher colleague Maria Uhland (1893–1978). After the end of the war, he returned to the newly founded Waldorf School in Stuttgart, where he acted as its unofficial director and where he taught until he retired in 1961. Of his literary works, his memories of Rudolf Steiner and - as the main work - Vom Genius Europa , his “sketch of an anthroposophical national psychology ” (original subtitle), can be highlighted. His "Notes from Memory", which he wrote in 1963 about the emergence of the esoteric youth group in 1922, are contained in the volume "From the contents of the esoteric hours - Volume 3" of the Rudolf Steiner Complete Edition.

Works

  • A master of love and other stories, legends, fairy tales. Suhrkamp, ​​Stuttgart 1927.
  • Ways and stars . Poems. Orient-Occident, Stuttgart 1928.
  • The seriousness of playing. A contemporary look at toys and games . Waldorfschul-Verlag, Stuttgart 1929. (Mellinger, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-88069-032-4 )
  • The violinist's awakening and other tales of fate, illness and recovery . Suhrkamp, ​​Stuttgart around 1930. (Mellinger, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-88069-249-1 )
  • Sun at midnight . Poems and sayings. Suhrkamp, ​​Stuttgart undated
  • From Elisabeth the Thuringian, Friedrich, the other and the knights . Heitz, Leipzig around 1932.
  • The Holy Land. Travel pictures and impressions . Urachhaus, Stuttgart 1940. (Mellinger, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-88069-250-5 )
  • Path is gained step by step. Testimonies and poems . Mellinger, Stuttgart 1952. (2nd edition. 1985, ISBN 3-88069-015-4 )
  • Strange fairground people . Legendary tale. Mellinger, Stuttgart 1955. (3rd edition. 1989, ISBN 3-88069-186-X )
  • The golden box. Stories - legends - fairy tales . Mellinger, Stuttgart 1958. (4th edition. 1989, ISBN 3-88069-033-2 )
  • The unfinished. Sketch of a mental image by Friedrich Schiller . Mellinger, Stuttgart 1959.
  • From the source forces of the soul. For religious instruction of the youth . Natura, Arlesheim 1959. (Mellinger, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-88069-150-9 )
  • Rudolf Steiner as I saw and experienced him . Free spiritual life, Stuttgart 1961. (Mellinger, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-88069-247-5 )
  • From the genius of Europe. Characteristic images of twelve European peoples, countries, languages . 2 volumes. Free Spiritual Life, Stuttgart 1963/64. (New edition in 4 paperback volumes 1992)
  • The CV as a work of art. Rhythms, leitmotifs, laws in contrasted biographies . Free Spiritual Life, Stuttgart 1966.
  • Un 'anima cantava - a soul sang. Encounters with Beniamino Gigli . Mellinger, Stuttgart 1966.
  • The path that led me. Life memories . Free Spiritual Life, Stuttgart 1969.
  • Sun in the dewdrop. Contributions to the dietetics of the soul . Mellinger, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-88069-256-4 .

literature

Web links

Commons : Herbert Hahn  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Biographical entry in the online documentation of the anthroposophical research center Kulturimpuls

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rudolf Steiner: From the contents of the esoteric hours. Volume 3, 1913-1914 & 1920-1923. Hella Wiesberger, Martina Maria Sam, Julius Zoll (eds.). Rudolf Steiner Verlag, Dornach 1998, ISBN 3-7274-2663-2 , pp. 399-404.
personal data
SURNAME Hahn, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher and anthroposophist
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Pernau , Livonia , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH June 20, 1970
Place of death Stuttgart