Johann Helbig (pedagogue)

Johann Helbig (born April 11, 1889 in Hamburg , † August 10, 1965 in Vienna ) was a German educator , headmaster and association official.

Life

Johann Helbig was the son of a carpenter. After completing the teachers 'seminar at Steinhauerdamm in Hamburg from 1904 to 1910, he taught as an assistant teacher at a boys' elementary school in Billwerder until 1913 . At the age of 22, he passed the school leaving examination as an external student at the Johanneum School of Academics . He then studied mathematics and physics at the University of Kiel . Due to the First World War , his graduation was delayed until 1921. Then he worked for two years at the teachers' college in his hometown and from 1924 at the Realschule in Alstertal , which he headed from 1927 to 1933.

Since Helbig did not want to become a member of the NSDAP or the NSLB , the National Socialists withdrew him from running the school on August 20, 1933. They also denied him promotions. Helbig forcibly switched to the upper secondary school / high school for boys Uhlenhorst . At the end of the Second World War he taught in a Kinderlandverschickung camp in Bavaria.

In 1945 Helbig was rehabilitated. He initially returned to the high school for boys Uhlenhorst as acting head . From 1945 to 1947 he headed the school in the Alstertal, which had been converted into a high school. He chaired the advisory committee for teachers in secondary schools and participated in denazification proceedings in this position. In 1947 Helbig took over the school supervision as a civil servant for 18 months. Since he rejected the six-year elementary school, school senator Heinrich Landahl did not appoint him to the high school board. Instead, he headed the Matthias-Claudius-Gymnasium from 1948 until his retirement in 1955 .

From 1945 to 1947 Helbig chaired the student council for high schools and in 1947 was deputy chairman of the Society of Friends of the Patriotic Schools and Education System . In these positions, he advocated shortening the two years of entry into high schools. Due to several years of internal quarrels, he left the company. With the support of the majority of the student council, on November 15, 1949, he set up the association of teachers at scientific secondary schools in Hamburg . He achieved the greatest success in professional political work in 1954 when the nine-year high school was re-established, for which he had fought hard in public.

Helbig left the club he founded in 1955 due to internal disagreements. After retiring in 1955, he took on academic positions at various schools. Johann Helbig died unexpectedly in August 1965 while on vacation in Vienna.

literature

• Uwe Schmidt : Helbig, Johann . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 2 . Christians, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-7672-1366-4 , pp. 184-185 .