Karl Linke

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Karl Linke (born March 3, 1889 in Bennungen , † January 26, 1962 in Berlin ) was a German educator.

Life

After attending the Merseburg Preparatory Institute from 1906 to 1909, he completed the seminar in Weißenfels . He later became a teacher at a village school in the Mansfeld region . After the end of the First World War, his brother Oskar Linke found him a teaching position at the Fermersleber School in the Magdeburg district of Fermersleben .

Linke was one of the founding members of the Magdeburg Working Group of Social Democratic Teachers (ASL) founded in 1919/20 and became one of the leading employees. He was also active in the Federation of Free School Societies in Germany , which was founded in Elberfeld in 1920 . Linke was close to the social democratic ideas for the reform of school education, advocated a separation of church and school and was friends with Adolf Grimme and Kurt Löwenstein , a well-known school reformer from Berlin-Neukölln . In 1924 he became rector of the old town collecting school in Magdeburg.

In 1927 Linke, appointed by Fritz Karsen , took over the management of the eight-level elementary school, which was incorporated into the Neukölln school complex around the "Kaiser-Friedrich-Realgymnasium", which from 1929/1930 was called the Karl Marx School . Linke thus became an important ally for Karsen in the conversion of the “Kaiser-Friedrich-Realgymnasium” into a single school, which could be promoted through this step in organizational and didactic terms.

After the National Socialists came to power, the Federation of Independent School Societies was dissolved and leftists were dismissed from school service. In 1933 he fled with part of the federal cash fortune to France , where Löwenstein and Karsen had also gone into exile . Like his former colleague Walter Damus in Neukölln , he worked at the École nouvelle de Boulogne founded by Karsen in Paris , which was closed again in 1937. In Paris he was also a member of the Association of German Teacher Emigrants .

After the failure of the École nouvelle de Boulogne , Linke returned to Berlin and worked as a representative for school supplies and booksellers. In 1942/43 he lost his apartment in a bombing raid during the Second World War and was evacuated with his family to the Harz Mountains .

After the end of the war he was appointed senior government councilor and head of the school department of the Magdeburg district administration. From 1946 to 1948 he headed the same department in the Ministry of Education of the State of Saxony-Anhalt , headed by Minister Ernst Thape , with its seat in Halle (Saale) . He made sure that various reform pedagogues could work in responsible positions. As early as 1950, however, at the instigation of the Soviet military administration, he was released from his position and appointed as professor at the University of Education in Halle. He fled to West Berlin as early as March 1950. At first he worked as a teacher. In 1951 he became the rector of a school in Wilmersdorf . He got involved in initiatives aimed at school reforms and founded a working group of socialist teachers.

Works

literature

  • Reinhard Bergner: Left, Karl. In: Guido Heinrich, Gunter Schandera (ed.): Magdeburg Biographical Lexicon 19th and 20th centuries. Biographical lexicon for the state capital Magdeburg and the districts of Bördekreis, Jerichower Land, Ohrekreis and Schönebeck. Scriptum, Magdeburg 2002, ISBN 3-933046-49-1 , p. 425 ( article online ).
  • Gerd Radde , Werner Korthaase, Rudolf Rogler, Udo Gößwald (eds.): School reform, continuities and breaks: the test field Berlin-Neukölln. Leske and Budrich, Opladen 1993, ISBN 3-8100-1129-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The reform pedagogue Oskar Linke worked as rector in Magdeburg before 1933 and was city school councilor there after 1945. The Oskar Linke School in Magdeburg is named after him, a community and evening school with a scientific and technical profile.
  2. ↑ A brief historical overview of the Federation of Independent School Societies
  3. ^ Gerd Radde: Fritz Karsen's reform work in Berlin Neukölln. In: Gerd Radde, Werner Korthaase, Rudolf Rogler, Udo Gößwald (eds.): School reform, continuities and breaks: das Versuchsfeld Berlin-Neukölln , pp. 178–179
  4. ↑ Hildegard Feidel-Mertz / Hermann Schnorbach : teachers in emigration. The Association of German Teacher Emigrants (1933–39) in the traditional context of the democratic teachers' movement , Beltz Verlag, Weinheim and Basel, 1981, ISBN 3-407-54114-7 , p. 232
  5. ↑ Reinhard Bergner, MBL, page 425
personal data
SURNAME Left, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Names
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 1962
Place of death Berlin