Pedagogical Academy Elbing

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The Pedagogical Academy Elbing was a pedagogical academy of the Free State of Prussia , which existed from 1926 to 1933 in Elbing in the province of East Prussia , to which the administrative district Marienwerder belonged. It continued to exist as a teacher training college in Comenius Street until 1941. The building complex at 39 Jana Amosa Komeńskiego Street still exists and is currently used as a technical center.

history

Pedagogical academies have been founded in Prussia since 1926 to train primary school teachers through four semesters of study. They replaced the previous 191 Prussian teachers' seminars . In this context, on April 1, 1926, the Elbing Pedagogical Academy accepted exclusively Protestant students in the building of the former teachers' college (Hindenburgstrasse / Comeniusstrasse). The inaugural speeches were dominated by the revisionist border policy against Poland. A modern extension was completed in 1930.

The founding director was Karl Weidel , appointed professor of education and philosophy from 1927, but left for the new Wroclaw PA in 1929. His successor was initially Wilhelm Friedrich (1881–1958) until 1931 , then Otto Haase in 1932 , whom the Nazi state deposed in 1933 and replaced by folklorist Karl Plenzat . But this too was deposed in 1936 and replaced by the National Socialist Karl Danzfuß .

Georg Morgenstern received another professorship for philosophy in 1926 , followed by Hans Bohnenkamp in 1932 . The regional historian Edward Carstenn taught history from 1926 until the World War I. History and civics were represented from 1931 by the religious socialist Karl Thieme , who was dismissed in 1933. From 1931 to 1934 the psychologist Hildegard Hetzer taught until her dismissal in 1934, the social worker Elisabeth Siegel from 1932 until her dismissal in 1933, Karl Merkel taught practical education until 1933. The social liberal sports instructor Emil Gossow lost his professorship as did the biologist Helene Ziegert. Hans Haffenrichter taught art from 1931 to 1933, Konrad Ameln briefly taught music in 1931.

In music, Karl Danzfuß, who was close to the Nazis, followed suit during the Nazi era . Gerhard Bohne briefly represented Protestant theology before 1933. In 1933 the academy was renamed a college for teacher training , which in 1941 was downgraded to a female teacher training institute . With Werner Radig , Ernst Dobers and Kurt Higelke , as well as the geographer Willi Walter Puls and the biologist Paul Brohmer (from 1940) racist scientists and educators set the tone. Richard Würpel taught art from 1935.

literature

  • Hans-Werner Hoppe: Elbing Pedagogical Academy 1926–1945. In: Prussia as a university landscape in the 19th and 20th centuries Century (= contributions to school history. Vol. 4, conference reports of the Historical Commission for East and West Prussian State Research. Vol. 9). Edited by Udo Arnold , Verlag Nordostdeutsches Kulturwerk, Lüneburg 1992, ISBN 3-922296-66-1 , pp. 105–122, 143–150.
  • 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).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Photograph of the Elbing College for Teacher Training (1940). In: bildarchiv-ostpreussen.de. Retrieved September 16, 2017 .
  2. ↑ History of the streets of Elblag (in Polish). In: PorTel.pl. Retrieved February 9, 2018 .
  3. ^ Photograph of the Pedagogical Academy Elbing (1932). In: picclickimg.com. Retrieved September 16, 2017 .


Coordinates: 54 ° 9 ′ 28.1 ″  N , 19 ° 25 ′ 32.9 ″  E