Hugo Goering

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Hugo Göring (born December 28, 1849 in Berka / Werra ; † after 1935) was a German literary scholar , journalist, theosophist and reformist teacher . At the end of the 19th century, he and William Preyer were among the critics of the German school system. In his program of a “new German school”, he represented a culture-critical, but also nationalistic concept of a school with no grades or exams, which should convey national values.

Live and act

After studying in Jena Goering taught from 1878 to 1882 as an upper secondary school teachers German language at the trade school to Basel . He also taught as a lecturer at the University of Basel , where he completed his habilitation in 1880 with a thesis on Johann Bernhard Basedow . He then lived as a private scholar and writer in various places, preferably in Berlin . From 1883 to 1885, he published an edition of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's complete works in twenty volumes for Cotta Verlag in Stuttgart .

After the death of Wichard Lange , Göring took over the management of the magazine Rheinische Blätter for education and instruction and was in personal contact with Bertha von Marenholtz-Bülow . Along with Hermann Cohn , Carl Schmelzer and William Preyer, he was one of the main members of the General German Association for School Reform “The New German School”, founded in April 1889 . In three years until 1892 he published the magazine Die Neue Deutsche Schule . In 1890 he put in the font Die neue deutsche Schule. One way of realizing patriotic education his concept of a "new German school". Based on the idea of ​​child development in the sense of Preyer's “psychogenesis”, Göring demanded that the dangers of decadence in modern culture should be prevented in a delimited pedagogical space. The general objectives were: “The 'German School' strives above all to cultivate religious convictions, a strict sense of duty, truthfulness and love of the country.” In the educational reform spirit, this should be done without homework, grades and exams. Goering also saw it as an “important factor in social reform” in order to “remove the ground from social democracy and every revolutionary movement” and to contribute to the development of the “state into a desirable military state”. The educational scientist Jürgen Oelkers sees Göring's writing anticipating what Hermann Lietz later conceived as a “ rural education home ”.

Göring was editor of the theosophical magazine Sphinx and in autumn 1894 became president of the German Theosophical Society for a short time . He also published the 30-volume series Theosophical Writings .

Publications

Lessing's life. Cotta, Stuttgart 1881 (double title page)
  • Leibniz as an educator. A contribution to the history of education. In: German sheets for educational teaching. 5 (1878) 1878, pp. 93-96, 101-104, 109-112, 117-120.
  • Sophie Germain. A picture of life from the history of philosophy. F. Wittmer, Basel 1879.
  • JB Basedow's Selected Writings. With Basedow's biography, introductions and notes. H. Beyer & Sons, Langensalza 1880.
  • Lessing's life. Cotta, Stuttgart 1882.
  • (Ed.): Isaak Iselins Pedagogical Writings. In addition to his educational correspondence with Joh. Casp. Lavater and JG Schlosser; to Todessaeculariate Iselins, July 15, 1882. Beyer, Langensalza 1882.
  • (Ed.): Lessing's Complete Works. In twenty volumes. Cotta, Stuttgart 1883 ff.
  • Ludwig Franz Adalbert Wimmer, the Nordic linguist. , Frankf. a. M. 1886.
  • (Ed.): The New German School. Monthly for the establishment of a youth education corresponding to the time requirement. Publishing house and printing company Actien-Gesellschaft (formerly JF Richter), Hamburg 1889–1892.
  • The source of the idea of ​​a "German School." Beyer, Langensalza 1889.
  • Sophie Germain and Clotilde de Vaux. Your life and thinking. Schröter & Meyer, Zurich 1889.
  • The new German school. A Way to Realize Patriotic Education. 2nd Edition. R. Voigtländer, Leipzig 1890.
  • Stage talents among children. Beyer, Langensalza 1894.
  • Education in religious life. Schwetschke, Braunschweig 1895.
  • Franz Hartmann, a champion of theosophy. Schwetschke, Braunschweig 1895.
  • Kuno Fischer as a literary historian. Beyer, Langensalza 1901.
  • From Kuno Fischer's mindset. An obituary of thanks. Beyer, Langensalza 1907.
  • Privy Councilor Dr. Karl Gerster. A biographical sketch. Lüstenöder, Frankfurt a. M. 1914.
  • Humanistic education in Gerhard Budde's "German grammar school". Recommended to the German school authorities and students. Hahn, Hanover & Leipzig 1915.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The German School. Monthly Bulletin 13 (1909), p. 768; Jürgen Oelkers: Reform Education. A critical story of dogma . 4th, completely revised and exp. Ed., Juventa, Weinheim 2005, p. 84
  2. ^ Hinrich Schloen: Development and structure of the work school . Berlin 1926, p. 152.
  3. ^ Jürgen Oelkers: Reform pedagogy. A critical story of dogma . 4th, completely revised and exp. Ed., Juventa, Weinheim 2005, p. 97
  4. ^ A b c Jürgen Oelkers: Reform pedagogy. A critical story of dogma . 4th, completely revised and exp. Ed., Juventa, Weinheim 2005, p. 88.
  5. ^ Helmut Zander: Anthroposophy in Germany. Theosophical worldview and social practice 1884–1945 . V & R, Göttingen 2008, p. 118.
personal data
SURNAME Goering, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar, theosophist and reform pedagogue
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH Berka / Werra
DATE OF DEATH after 1935