Lauenburg University for Teacher Training

The Lauenburg College for Teacher Training was a state college for teacher training that existed from 1933 to 1945 in Lauenburg in Pomerania .

history

Foundation and development

In Nazi Germany , several colleges for teacher training were founded in smaller towns in 1933, including Lauenburg in Pomerania . The city had been close to the border with the Polish Corridor since 1919 and, like the College for Teacher Training in Schneidemühl, was intended to contribute to the National Socialist national politics towards Poland.

Modern university buildings were quickly erected, including a ballroom with 1,100 seats. The college had a faculty of around 25 professors and lecturers and around 400 students. A total of around 3,000 teachers had been trained there by the end of the Second World War.

The university library comprised around 30,000 volumes, the basis of which was the holdings of the disbanded Pomeranian teachers' seminars . The Wehrmann Library, which contained works on the history of Pomerania , was added later .

Under the first director Franz Kade (* 1893; † 1987), the university emphasized “work in the countryside and the expansion of military education” as a training principle. Accordingly, it also had a motorized airplane and 8 to 10 gliders with which students were trained in glider construction and gliding. Kade was recalled in 1934 for wreaking havoc.

End of college

The university buildings survived the Second World War . Lauenburg belonged to the parts of Germany that came to Poland after the end of National Socialism . The library and the inventory of the physical institute were moved to Warsaw by the Polish state .

After the Second World War, the former teachers and students of the university formed a community of alumni in the Federal Republic of Germany , which among other things published the Lauenburger Hochschulnachrichten .

University professor

1933: Helmuth Kittel , Protestant theologian and religious educator
1934–1937: Rudolf Jürgens , mathematician
1934–1939: Hans Harder , music teacher
1934–1940: Wolfgang Sucker , Protestant theologian
1936–1942: Bruno Müller-Linow , painter and graphic artist
1939–1940: Michael Alt , music teacher

Eminent students

Walter Jahnke , politician (SPD)
Erwin Schwartz , elementary school teacher

literature

Paul Bode: The university in the border town of Lauenburg. In: Pommersches Heimatbuch 2009 . Pommersche Landsmannschaft, Lübeck 2008, pp. 125–128.

Footnotes

↑ The students should be members of the paramilitary SA associations. Kade wanted to form a “shock troop” in order to “mobilize the educational elite of the teaching staff.” Quoted from Robert Döpp Jenaplan pedagogy under National Socialism. A contribution to the end of uniqueness LIT-Verlag, Münster 2003 p. 447f.
↑ Holger Bogs, Walter Fleischmann-Bisten (ed.): Education for dialogue. Path and effect of Wolfgang Sucker. Bensheimer Hefte 105. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2005, p. 179.

[1] The students should be members of the paramilitary SA associations. Kade wanted to form a “shock troop” in order to “mobilize the educational elite of the teaching staff.” Quoted from Robert Döpp Jenaplan pedagogy under National Socialism. A contribution to the end of uniqueness LIT-Verlag, Münster 2003 p. 447f.

[2] Holger Bogs, Walter Fleischmann-Bisten (ed.): Education for dialogue. Path and effect of Wolfgang Sucker. Bensheimer Hefte 105. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2005, p. 179.