Johannes von den Driesch

This article is about the professor from Strasbourg. For the eponymous Johannes von den Driesch (1562–1616) Professor of Canon and Civil Law at the University of Würzburg see Johannes von den Driesch (Waldfeucht)

Johannes von den Driesch (born November 27, 1880 in Strasbourg , Reichsland Alsace-Lorraine , † December 12, 1967 in Aachen ) was a German high school teacher , ministerial official and university teacher .

Life

Driesch studied philosophy , German , Romance studies and history at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg , the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich and the University of Nancy . After he had passed the state examination for the higher teaching post at the Kaiser-Wilhelms-Universität in 1904 , he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD . In 1906 he became a senior teacher in Düsseldorf . From 1910 to 1919 he worked as a district school inspector in Betzdorf and Aachen. Then he headed the Auguste-Viktoria-Gymnasium Trier until 1925 .

In 1925 he was brought to the Prussian Ministry of Culture by Carl Heinrich Becker as a research assistant. As a ministerial advisor, he mainly influenced teacher training . In 1925 he wrote the memorandum The reorganization of elementary school teacher training in Prussia for the later design of the Pedagogical Academies in Prussia. Von den Driesch steered the development of denominational and non-university elementary school teacher training, determined the locations and the selection of lecturers and accompanied the beginnings. In the dispute over the Christian-Simultaneous Pedagogical Academy in Frankfurt / M. the Catholic mediated between the Bishops' Conference and the Ministry.

Driesch asked the teacher to be able to provide “popular education”, pedagogical training, familiarity with the intellectual, religious, moral, technical and artistic educational values, roots in the local people and a high professional ethic. In the teaching subjects, the different educational goods of the "native folk" emerged, to which the Driesch centrally counts religion.

In 1929 he had to give up his office due to illness and after Becker's resignation in 1930 he had to leave the ministry. On February 10, 1931, he became a professor of education at the Catholic Pedagogical Academy in Bonn. He signed the confession of the German professors about Adolf Hitler . In 1937, at the age of 57, he retired for health reasons.

In 1945 he was entrusted with setting up the Pedagogical Academy in Aachen and soon resigned from the post of founding rector due to health and age . In 1946 he retired. He died on December 12, 1967 in Aachen and found his final resting place in Aachen's Westfriedhof .

Fonts

• with Josef Esterhues: History of upbringing and education . Schöningh, Paderborn 1951. u.ö.
• History of charity . Paderborn 1959.

Honors

• Federal Cross of Merit (April 6, 1960)

literature

• Michael Wermke:  Driesch von den, Johannes. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 32, Bautz, Nordhausen 2011, ISBN 978-3-88309-615-5 , Sp. 253-256.

Web links

• Personnel file Prussia
• Original scan of the election call for Hitler’s policy, Nov. 1933. vdD: p. 128, middle column. Text in 5 languages ​​beforehand
• WorldCat

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dissertation: The position of the attributive adjective in Old French .
2. ↑ List of holders of the Federal Order of Merit (Federal President's Office)