Karl Hemprich

Karl Hemprich (born December 17, 1867 in Barneberg , † after 1931 ) was a German educator.

Life

Hemprich was born the eldest of seven children to a miner. From 1873 he lived in Döllingen near Elsterwerda , where his father worked as a foreman in the Elisabeth lignite mine. At the age of 14, he attended seminary preschool in preparation for the teachers' seminary school, the entrance examination of which he passed at the age of 16. In the years 1884 to 1887 he completed his training as a teacher at the Elsterwerda teacher training college and in 1887 took his first job as a teacher in Bennstedt . His teaching work was noticed in the village because, unlike usual, he did not make use of the corporal punishment . In 1890 he also took on the role of cantor and organist . He dealt with the writings of Friedrich Wilhelm Dörpfeld and Johann Friedrich Herbart . Hemprich also dealt with philosophical questions and was instructed by the pastor from Wansleben am See , Otto Flügel . Mediated by Flügel, Hemprich joined the Association for Scientific Education . He passed his second teacher exam, middle school teacher and principal exam. He developed his own curriculum, which was initially not approved and then approved for a year on a trial basis. After a revision, he was largely given a free hand. In his lessons he included the outdoors and the family life of the children. He founded a parent school .

In Bennstedt he met his wife Gertrud Wächter, the youngest daughter of the cantor. After twelve years he left Bennstedt in order to better implement his reform pedagogy elsewhere. So he went to Freyburg (Unstrut) despite the worsening salary . He founded a youth club, campaigned for physical exercise and was involved in youth care . He also published a variety of essays and writings. Hemprich criticized the award of grades. However, he was also open to military training for the youth and the defense against socialist influences desired by the state. When a central office for youth work was established for the administrative districts of Merseburg and Erfurt , Hemprich was appointed head. In this capacity he went to Naumburg (Saale) in 1908 and became the rector of the boys' elementary school there. From 1911 he was a district youth worker . In 1914 he became a senior seminar teacher and was transferred to Merseburg , where he was largely able to devote himself to his role as district youth worker. He also worked in female youth care and also founded a girls' union.

In 1917 Hemprich began to hold the Merseburg courses . He also published the Merseburg papers . In 1919 he acquired the Fischhaus at Gotthardteich Duke Christian , in which he set up a youth home. In another facility, the Old Monastery , he set up a youth hostel , youth workshops and meeting rooms. He also founded country youth homes in Eckartsberga , the Dübener Heide and in Meisdorf in the Selketal . In 1927 a youth hostel he founded near Naumburg was named the Father Hemprich House .

His wife died in 1930. Hemprich moved to Eckartsberga in 1931. There he founded courses for the unemployed.

Works

• What belongs to the youth and the people
• Hiking sheets for the Eckartsberga district
• Spielpeterle and Ratfritze
• How to Form Local Youth Care Committees and Establish Youth Associations , 1912
• Young Germany's closing time , 1913
• Handbook and guide for work in youth care , 1914
• The military preparation of the youth during the mobile state , 1914
• Handbook of instruction, practice and entertainment in youth companies , 1915
• Youth care during the war , 1915
• Basic features of youth education and Youth care for the present and the future , 1916
• German songbook , 1916
• The most beautiful rooms and Board games f. Youth clubs of all kinds , 1918
• The organization of youth care , 1918
• Hermann Löns in the youth club and at popular education evenings , 1919
• Twenty song and folk dances , 1921
• How I got to my parents' school, including leaflets for education d. Children and youth especially about d. sexual education , 1921
• The Merseburg youth home "Herzog Christian" , 1924
• For and against the labor service year and what now? , 1925 (involved)
• Youth movement and youth welfare , 1925 (involved)
• What the course wants , 1926
• About the Precious Nearby , 1926
• Youth and amateur plays , 1926
• Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi and us , 1927
• The leisure time of the active youth in Austria , 1927
• My life is supposed to be a wandering , 1929
• Folk songs , 1931
• Basic features of the curriculum for teaching in free Labor service in the rural youth home Eckartsberga i. Thür. , 1932
• Our defense: circular letter d. Shop steward u. Agent f. apologetic u. Training work in d. Province of Saxony , 1936 to 1938 (editor)
• Hiking books for young people and people (editor)
• On elementary school education: a collection of treatises and Articles from d. Areas d. scientific and practical elementary school pedagogy, d. Child Welfare and Teacher Training (Editor)

literature

• Angela Biermann, Karl Hemprich (1867 – after 1931) district youth worker in Merseburg in the Merseburg district calendar 2017 , editor: Kulturhistorisches Museum Schloss Merseburg, 2016, page 36 ff.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Katja Gimpel: Entry by Karl Hemprich . In: German Literature Lexicon. The 20th century . tape 16 . De Gruyter, 2011. (accessed via De Gruyter Online, December 26, 2018).