Hermann Weimer

Hermann Weimer (born March 19, 1872 in Limburg an der Lahn , † June 13, 1942 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German educator and psychologist .

The son of a photographer Weimer graduated from high school in Darmstadt in 1891 . He studied German , Romance studies , English , theology and pedagogy in Marburg . In 1899 he received his doctorate in Marburg on the Low German poet Johann Lauremberg . In 1902 he published a history of pedagogy in the Göschen Collection for the first time , which has so far reached 19 editions (edited after 1954 by his son Heinz Wiemer, from 1991 by Juliane Jacobi). In 1925 he presented a psychological study on the causes of errors in schoolchildren and opened up a new field of empirical psychology with error psychology. He worked as a teacher and headmaster in southern Hesse, from 1912 to 1927 he headed the Riehl Realgymnasium in Biebrich , until he was appointed lecturer and professor for education and psychology at the newly established Frankfurt am Main Pedagogical Academy in 1927 . At the same time he was its director, in 1932 together with Erich Less . In 1928, after the death of Georg Reichwein , the later Nazi educator Ernst Krieck owed his appointment to the academy to the director Weimer . The academy was restricted in 1932 for financial reasons, which is why Weimer went back to school. He joined the NSDAP . For reasons of age, he was not reappointed, although Krieck had seen rapid growth since 1933. Weimer continued to publish. A very close student in error psychology was Arthur Kießling , who also became a lecturer in Frankfurt. For a long time, both researches hardly met with broader interest, which has since changed.

Weimer is only interested in mistakes that one makes, not those that one z. B. has character. Furthermore, he differentiates between deception, error and error. The latter is an "act that deviates from the right thing against the will of the author" (Weimer), due to the failure of psychological functions, in attention, in thinking or in memory. Once you have recognized this, mistakes can be avoided, especially in school.

Fonts

• Laurembergs joke poems, the type and time of their creation . Inaugural dissertation University of Marburg, Diedr. Soltau in the north, 1899
• History of Pedagogy . GJ Göschen'sche Verlagshandlung, Leipzig 1902 (19th edition by de Gruyter, 1991) ISBN 978-3110122299
• The way to the heart of the student , Beck, Munich 1907
• School breeding , handbook for secondary schools, Leipzig 1919
• Psychology of Errors , Klinkhardt, Leipzig 1925
• Error handling and error evaluation: with an appendix: History and principles of error research, Klinkhardt, Leipzig 1926
• Error prevention and avoidance of errors , Hoch, Düsseldorf 1939

literature

• Wolfgang Althof (Ed.): Worlds of Errors. About making mistakes and learning from mistakes. Leske and Budrich, Opladen 1999, ISBN 3-8100-2343-4 google books online
• Klaus Peter Horn : Hermann Weimer's "History of Pedagogy" 1902–1941. In: Florian Bernstorff, Andreas Lewe, Steffen Schlüter (Ed.) : Contextualization. Festschrift for Alfred Langewand , LIZ, Berlin 2010, pp. 181–206
• Alexander Hesse: The professors and lecturers of the Prussian educational academies (1926-1933) and colleges for teacher training (1933-1941) . Deutscher Studien-Verlag, Weinheim 1995, ISBN 3-89271-588-2 ( limited preview in Google book search).
• Martin Weingardt: Mistakes set us apart: transdisciplinary foundations for the theory and productivity of mistakes in school and the world of work. Klinkhardt, Bad Heilbrunn 2004 (esp. Pp. 42-44) ISBN 3781512762

Web links

Wikisource: Hermann Weimer  - Sources and full texts