Karl Trinks

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Karl Otto Trinks (born August 29, 1891 in Wolkenstein ; † June 1, 1981 in Dresden ) was a German educator .

Life

Karl Trinks' grave in the Dölzschen cemetery

Trinks attended the teacher training college in Stollberg from 1906 to 1912 and initially worked as a teacher in Königstein. From 1914 to 1918 he took part in the First World War as a soldier and from 1919 worked as a teacher in Dresden. From 1922 the teacher was employed at the Dresden experimental school. Trinks was a social democrat and - from 1924 and 1928 also as chairman of the Dresden teachers' association - actively campaigned for a “reform of academic teacher training”. In 1933 he was arrested by the National Socialists for preparing to commit high treason, but released after a short time. He went to Italy and devoted himself to scientific studies at the University of Florence . From 1938 he worked as a private tutor for a family in Dresden.

Trinks worked from 1945 as a teacher training advisor in Dresden and was also appointed director of the city library and the council archive. From 1946 he taught as a professor for theoretical pedagogy and history of pedagogy at the TH Dresden . He became director of the pedagogical seminar and in 1949 founding dean of the faculty of pedagogy and cultural studies. From 1952 Trinks was director of the Institute for Theory and History of Education at the TH Dresden. He retired in 1957 and died shortly before his 90th birthday in 1981 in Dresden. His grave is in the Dölzschen cemetery . Trinks' estate is administered by the university archive of the TU Dresden and the archive of the library for research on the history of education.

Trinks dealt in numerous writings with the "historical and [...] current issues of education". He was a supporter of reform pedagogy , which brought him the charge of revisionism in the GDR .

Fonts (selection)

  • 1925: Self-government as a building law for the new school
  • 1926: linocut and woodcut at school
  • 1933: The social figure of the elementary school teacher
  • 1951: The technique of intellectual work as an academic subject
  • 1951: The educational origins of the technical universities
  • 1954: The educational Weimar

literature

  • Trinks, Karl (Otto). In: Dorit Petschel : 175 years of TU Dresden. Volume 3: The professors of the TU Dresden 1828–2003. Edited on behalf of the Society of Friends and Supporters of the TU Dresden e. V. von Reiner Pommerin , Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-412-02503-8 , pp. 976-977.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Karl Trinks information board (pdf; 529 kB)
  2. ^ Nicole Völtz: Karl Trinks . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
  3. ↑ See estate on bbf.dipf.de ( Memento of the original from July 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bbf.dipf.de
personal data
SURNAME Trinks, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Trinks, Karl Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Selva
DATE OF DEATH June 1, 1981
Place of death Dresden