Karl Danzfuss

Karl Danzfuß (born November 24, 1883 in Klein Rosenburg ; † August 9, 1937 in Elbing ) was a German educator.

The son of an office secretary attended elementary school and the teachers' seminar in Barby until 1904. After three years of military service, he became a teacher in Elsterwerda and from 1910 a seminar teacher in Barby. In addition, he made a scientific training in Posen and began studying pedagogy, psychology and natural sciences in Halle (Saale) in 1914. After military service in World War I , he continued his studies from 1919 and received his doctorate in 1922 at the University of Halle with a dissertation on sound psychology under Theodor Draw . Until 1929 he worked again in Barby before he was appointed professor at the Pedagogical Academy in Dortmund in 1929 . In 1934 he was transferred to the college for teacher training in Frankfurt (Oder) with a teaching assignment for mathematics and education and joined the NSDAP . As early as autumn 1934 he was brought to the HfL Elbing and appointed as director for the dismissed Karl Plenzat the following year . Danzfuß died of heart failure as early as 1937.

At a meeting of the Nazi teachers' association on January 23, 1935, he explained his pedagogical understanding of the National Socialist university, similar to the National Socialist university leaders Herbert Freudenthal in Hirschberg and Max Momsen in Cottbus : Here are

“Only men in the place who embody their National Socialist attitude and convictions in their entire lifestyle. The unworldly scholar who crouches over books in his study is no good, but the youth leader, the political soldier who marches at the head of the youth, who stands with them in the camp community and in them a strong, forward-pressing will, indeed still uses deep and thorough, but lively and action-oriented knowledge. [...] Our students and lecturers stand and work in the SA, the SS, the Hitler Youth, the Jungvolk , the BdM , the Labor Front, the People's Welfare , and vice versa, these associations are guests and employees in the university . "

In his dissertation in 1922, he analyzed the sound perception of simultaneous two and multiple sounds in children and adults. Complacency is perceived differently from person to person. With increasing age, consonances and dissonances are felt more clearly. Likewise, with age, richly structured music is perceived as more pleasant than simple music, and the feeling for tonality increases.

Fonts

• The emotional emphasis of some unanalysed two-chords, second sequences, chords and chord progressions in adults and children , Langensalza: H. Bayer & Sons, 1923.

literature

• Uwe Wolfradt, Elfriede Billmann-Mahecha, Armin Stock (eds.): German-speaking psychologists 1933–1945: Ein Personenlexikon . 2nd Edition. 2017, ISBN 978-3-658-15039-6 , pp. 75 f . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• 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. 226–227 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Single receipts

1. ↑ Karz Danzfuß: Speaking at the group meeting of NSLB , in: The East Prussian educator, 66, S. 311th