Hermann Schuett

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the German entrepreneur, see Hermann Schütt (entrepreneur) .

Hermann Schütt (born February 3, 1888 in Neuengamme , † November 24, 1973 in Hamburg ) was a German educator and university professor .

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Hermann Schütt was the son of a vegetable farmer. He attended the community school in his native Neuengamme and then the city school in Bergedorf . From 1906 to 1909 he completed training at the preparatory institute of the teachers' college in Ratzeburg . He then went to Hamburg, where he passed the first state examination in 1910 and the second two years later. In 1911 he was approved as a singing teacher for high schools and in teacher training. In April 1913 he got a permanent position and was sworn in. In that year he also acquired Hamburg citizenship . He also played as an organist in the Sankt-Petri-Kirche .

During the First World War , Schütt did military service in 1914/15 and was then considered "fit for garrison service". A year later he was appointed elementary school teacher, and from 1917 taught at the Realschule, in the building of which the Heinrich Hertz School can now be found. The Realschule developed according to the ideas of Alfred Lichtwark to the Lichtwarkschule , of which Schütt belonged to the founding college. Here he taught music and directed the school orchestra. This accompanied performances by the school, which also became known outside of Hamburg.

The concept of the Lichtwarkschule gave music lessons an important role. It was seen as a complement and counterpart to cultural studies, which included the subjects of German, history and religion. The lessons followed the ideas of the youth music movement and the reforms suggested by Leo Kestenberg . Hermann Schütt, who has been responsible for teaching since the school was founded, wanted to convey more than the "usual school singing" and encourage the students to explore the "deeper being of music". The teaching program followed the concepts of the editors Fritz Jöde and Konrad Ameln . In addition to folk and traveling songs, polyphonic music was part of the curriculum up to the time of Johann Sebastian Bach and also newer artists such as Igor Stravinsky . Works by Kurt Weill and Paul Hindemith could be heard at school performances . From 1925 to 1935, Schütt accompanied Fritz Jödes radio programs with a children's choir, which were broadcast on Sundays.

In 1937 the state education authority dissolved the Lichtwarkschule. Schütt switched to the Wilhelm Gymnasium and taught at the Walddörferschule from 1941 to 1945 . Because of his membership in the NSDAP he was considered "slightly incriminated" after the end of the war, but from 1946 on he was able to work in teacher training. He was helped by his former superior Heinrich Landahl , who praised Schütts previous achievements in his new position as school senator. In 1950 he received a call from the University of Music . As a professor he headed the seminar for school music educators until his retirement in 1954 and later taught on behalf of the school.

Hermann Schütt's handwritten memoirs can now be found in the Hamburg School Museum .

family

In 1913 Hermann Schütt married Anne Cordes (* 1890). The couple had three children, the eldest son of whom died at the front during World War II in 1941. After Anne Corde's death in 1943, the educator married Hildegard Himstedt, with whom he had no children. This second wife, 17 years his junior, died in 1949.

literature

• Anne-Kathrin Beer: Schütt, Hermann . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 5 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8353-0640-0 , p. 332-334 .