Karl Baumann (pedagogue)

Karl Wilhelm Baumann (born April 19, 1896 in Frankfurt am Main ; † 1957 ) was a German educator and professor for the didactics of natural sciences and mathematics at the Pedagogical Academy in Bonn .

Born as the son of a master cooper and wine merchant, he passed his Abitur in 1914 at the Kaiser-Friedrichs-Gymnasium in Frankfurt . He then served in World War I, most recently as a reserve lieutenant. From 1917 to 1921 he studied mathematics and natural sciences in Frankfurt up to the first state examination. In 1925 he received his doctorate in chemistry from the University of Frankfurt am Main . From 1926 to 1930 he taught in Frankfurt, then he went to the Pedagogical Academy in Bonn to teach mathematics and natural sciences. In November 1933 he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler . After the closure in 1937 he was at the universities for teacher training in Koblenz and Saarbrücken. After 1945 he taught at grammar schools in Frankfurt until 1957.

Fonts

• The surface tension of mercury - the method of drop weights , Frankfurt am Main 1926 (= Diss. 1925)
• Physics and chemistry lessons in the elementary school , Schöningh, Paderborn 1933 (3rd edition 1951)

literature

• René Foellmer: Naturlehre: the development of physics lessons at the elementary schools of the Rhine Province , Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2007
• Alexander Hesse: The professors and lecturers of the Prussian educational academies (1926-1933) and colleges for teacher training (1933-1941) . Deutscher Studien-Verlag, Weinheim 1995, ISBN 3-89271-588-2 , p. 158–159 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Web links

• Karl Baumann's personnel sheet in the personnel file of the BIL expert body in the archive database of the Library for Research on Educational History (BBF)