Josef Heigenmooser

Josef Heigenmooser (* 1845 in Chieming ; † 1921 ) was a German teacher.

Heigenmooser was director of the district teacher training institute for Upper Bavaria. He researched and wrote about school history. He was chairman of the Munich Antiquities Association.

In 1934, Heigenmooserstraße was named after him in the Laim district of Munich . A street in Chieming am Chiemsee is also named after him, Josef-Heigenmooser-Str.

Josef Heigenmooser was born in Chieming am Chiemsee in 1845. In 1864 Heigenmooser graduated from the Freising teacher training college and became an assistant teacher in Hohenkammer and from 1866 to 1868 head of the Chieming school. He took up this position as the successor to his late father, who was also headmaster in Chieming. His other ways led him first back to Freising, then to Rosenheim and Ebersberg, from where he was called to Munich. In 1872 he founded the Kreislehrerinnenseminar in Munich, a training institute for secular teachers. At that time schools were only run by monastic teachers. Heigenmooser gave his teachers the most valuable things for their work in the classroom: proficient pedagogical and methodical knowledge and skills, a high understanding of the cultural role of elementary school and enthusiasm for school. Heigenmooser was a teacher in history, German and geography and until his late retirement at the age of 68 he was the royal director of the district teachers' seminar. He has seen and helped shape a major development in the Bavarian and Upper Bavarian school system since 1864.

Among other things, Heigenmooser wrote a book on the history of pedagogy with a special focus on the introduction of pedagogical teaching in Bavarian schools. The enlightened and humane educator In the course of his life, many other scientific treatises on the history of Bavarian schools and even a guide to school hygiene were written. With these works he was always ahead of his time - even then he was concerned with the harmfulness of alcohol consumption and smoking among teachers and was against the use of “corporal punishment”. On the subject of school penalties, he warned his fellow teachers that humiliations such as "kneeling down" and pinning on "punishment badges" were the wrong approach within school pedagogy. Heigenmooser loved books and built up a considerable collection of publications over the years. The South German Teachers 'Library was born in early August 1896, when Josef Heigenmooser presented his collected works to the general assembly of the Bavarian Teachers' Association. In 1911 the Munich library already owned 16,000 works.

Josef Heigenmooser had a very famous grandson, Alexander Mitscherlich , who died in Frankfurt am Main in 1982 at the age of 74. Mitscherlich was a doctor and psychoanalyst. He taught as a professor since 1946 and was one of the most critical scholars in Germany. A year later he founded Germany's first psychosomatic clinic in Heidelberg, the Sigmund Freud Institute in Frankfurt. In 1969 Alexander Mitscherlich received the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. Famous publications penned by Alexander Mitscherlich are: “The Path to a Fatherless Society”, “The Inability to Mourn”, “The Inhospitableness of Our Cities” and many more. His wife, Margarete Mitscherlich-Nielsen , died in 2012 at the age of 95. Together with their husband, Alexander Mitscherlich, the couple have made a great contribution to bringing the psychoanalysts who were forced into exile during National Socialism back to Germany. In addition, the Mitscherlichs advanced the democratization process in post-war Germany with a critical voice. The book “Inability to Mourn” (1967), written together, was an influential and part of their enduring legacy.

literature

• Hans Dollinger : The Munich street names . 6th, updated edition. Südwest Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-517-08370-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Josef Heigenmooser in the catalog of the German National Library