Johannes Brumme

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Johannes Brumme (born August 6, 1909 in Heukewalde , † September 23, 1967 in Leipzig ) was a German educator , anti-fascist resistance fighter , concentration camp prisoner and school politician in the GDR as well as a university teacher for education.

Life

Brumme was born into a family of teachers. His father was a village school teacher . After attending elementary school in Braunichswalde and the advanced school in Altenburg, Brumme studied pedagogy at the universities of Leipzig and Jena . In 1927 he joined the Socialist Workers 'Youth (SAJ) and the teachers' union . From 1931 he taught as a village teacher in Altenburger Land , until the Nazi rulers banned him from working . Because he illegally against the Nazi regime fought (.. And Others with Walter Wolf ), he was arrested in 1937 and - after an acquittal by the Court of Appeal Jena - as protective custody in the Buchenwald concentration camp abducted. There he barely escaped death while working in the quarry . Brumme taught illegally in the camp as part of the Popular Front strategy of the Communist Active . In February 1944, Hermann Brill, with social democrats ( Ernst Thape , Benedikt Kautsky ), communists (Walter Wolf, Johannes Brumme) and Christian democrats ( Werner Hilpert ), founded an illegal Popular Front committee in Buchenwald. After the liberation, it not only presented the Buchenwald Manifesto , but also published "Resolutions on the new democratic order in Germany" on April 19, 1945, the content of which was fully incorporated in Buchenwald by the first general meeting of the KPD as well as in the manifesto of the democratic socialists .

In April 1945, after the prisoners of Buchenwald concentration camp were liberated by the 3rd US Army , Brumme belonged to the provisional KPD district leadership. In the nationwide anti-Nazi committee , he took over the chairmanship of the Thuringia committee. At first he kept in touch with Hermann Brill, whom the American occupation forces had appointed as the Thuringian government president. After the Red Army marched in , Walter Wolf appointed him to the State Office for National Education, where he campaigned for a democratic school reform . From October 1946 Brumme worked - against resistance from middle-class conservative academic circles - at the University of Jena to reorganize teacher training. At the beginning of 1951 he did his doctorate at the Martin Luther University in Halle with the thesis "Stalin on popular education and upbringing". Subsequently, he was the main advisor for pedagogical faculties in the State Secretariat for Higher Education in the GDR until October 1951. After a stay in a sanatorium in Coswig, Brumme devoted himself to his habilitation thesis on Wilhelm Liebknecht's "Knowledge is Power - Power is Knowledge", which he completed in 1959. In the same year he was a lecturer in the subject "History of Education" at the University of Halle. The attempt to appoint him professor failed due to resistance from the faculty. On April 6, 1960 Grumpy received at the Humboldt University in Berlin the academic degree of Dr. paed. habil. From May 1960 until his release in the summer of 1966 he was a professor with a teaching assignment for "History of Education" at the German University of Physical Culture (DHfK) in Leipzig .

Johannes Brumme had been married to his former fellow student Hilde Klünder since December 1936 . Their son Hartmut-Peter was born in April 1937. After the death of his first wife in 1955, Brumme married the preschool teacher and co- aspirant Gertrud-Marie Fenske in 1956 . From this marriage the children Jenny (* 1958), Sonja (* 1961) and Hans-Henri (* 1963) emerged.

Works

  • Stalin on popular education and upbringing , Berlin 1951.
  • Wilhelm Liebknecht on the education and upbringing of the working people . A study of his pamphlet Knowledge is Power - Power is Knowledge , Ms., Berlin 1959.

estate

The estate of Brummes is kept in the archive of the Library for Research on Educational History in Berlin. Two smaller fragments of the estate are in the archives of the Buchenwald memorial and in the main state archive in Weimar .

literature

  • Günter Hauthal: The "long Hans": Hans Brumme , in: Mario Hesselbarth, Eberhart Schulz, Manfred Weißbecker (eds.): Lived ideas. Socialists in Thuringia. Biographical sketches, Jena 2006, p. 77ff., ISBN 3-935850-37-9
  • Steffen Kachel: A red-red special path? Social Democrats and Communists in Thuringia 1919 to 1949 , = Publications of the Historical Commission for Thuringia, Small Series Volume 29, p. 543

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://bremen.vvn-bda.de/baf/BAF0411.pdf  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Queryed May 17, 2011@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / bremen.vvn-bda.de  
  2. ↑ http://library.fes.de/pdf-files/bueros/erfurt/01921.pdf Query 17 May 2011
personal data
SURNAME Brumme, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trade unionist, school politician, university professor for education
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Heukewalde
DATE OF DEATH September 23, 1967
Place of death Leipzig