Johannes Maass

Johannes Maaß (born February 27, 1882 in Dorndorf ; † April 24, 1953 in Giengen an der Brenz ) was a German educator and local politician.

Life

Maaß was born as the son of the innkeeper Hermann Maaß. He first attended the teachers' seminar in Montabaur and then worked as a teacher in Berod . From 1906 he studied in Berlin. Finally in 1909 he came to Biebrich and Wiesbaden as a teacher . There he entered the city council in 1919 as a member of the SPD . In 1920, together with Carl Broglie , he founded the municipal adult education center in Wiesbaden and at the same time took over as director of studies and managing director. When the National Socialists seized power in 1933, Maass was dismissed from all offices in 1933 and placed under police supervision. After the assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler on July 20, 1944, he was taken into custody along with 190 other Wiesbaden residents. Shortly afterwards he was deported from his imprisonment in the Wiesbaden police prison to the Dachau concentration camp .

After the war he returned to Wiesbaden and took over the chairmanship of the local branch of the SPD. He was appointed by the US control government as the school and culture department head of the city.

The name of the Johannes-Maaß-Schule has been reminiscent of the pedagogue since 1960. On November 30, 1967, the municipal authorities of Wiesbaden decided to also name the Kantstrasse, which runs alongside the school, after Maaß.

literature

• Tin, Holger; Schneider-Vetter, Charlotte (ed.): 50 years of the Johannes-Maaß-Schule [Wiesbaden] . Wiesbaden 2009. (This includes a contribution about the life of Johannes Maaß)

Web links

• Literature by and about Johannes Maaß in the catalog of the German National Library
• Part of the estate of Johannes Maaß in the Hessian Main State Archive, Wiesbaden