Karl Weidel

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Karl Weidel (born May 10, 1875 in Schrimm (Warthe) ; † October 14, 1943 in Magdeburg ) was a German pedagogue , university professor for religious education and provost .

Life

Weidel was the son of an accountant and, after high school in Breslau, attended the University of Breslau , where he studied Protestant theology , philosophy and German . In 1899 he was qualified to teach religion , Hebrew and German . At the end of 1900 he joined the candidate convent at the Magdeburg monastery Our Dear Women and worked there until 1902. After the examination for the teaching post at secondary schools, Weidel worked from 1902 to 1918 as a senior teacher and professor and from 1914 on the pedagogy of the monastery “Our Dear Women” . In 1903 he received his doctorate in Breslau with a dissertation on mechanism and teleology in the philosophy of Lotze . Since 1918 director of studies and later senior director of studies, he headed the Magdeburg Luisen School , a girls' college, until 1926 . During this time he took care of the urban public education system, which included the adult education center , the Volksbühne and the university weeks of the "Association of Academic Associations". For many he was his Goethe known -Lectures, which he held in the community college.

In 1926 he was initially entrusted with the provisional management of the Pedagogical Academy in Elbing and there in 1927 appointed Academy Director and Professor of Pedagogy and Philosophy. From 1929 to 1932 he acted as director and professor for education at the Pedagogical Academy in Breslau and in 1931/32 as chairman of the "Association of Teachers at the Prussian Pedagogical Academies". After the academy was closed , he returned to Magdeburg in 1932 as director of the United Cathedral and Monastery High School.

During this time he came closer to the völkisch - nationalistic positions of the German Christians . He resigned from the school in 1937. He wanted to strengthen the importance of the monastery. On his initiative, a trainee center for religious teachers was set up in the monastery as early as 1935. Weidel was considered to be a "model teacher".

He retired in 1937, but returned to the cathedral and monastery high school with the beginning of the Second World War and the associated shortage of teachers. In 1939 he declared his collaboration with the Institute for Research and Elimination of the Jewish Influence on German Church Life . Weidel belonged to various academies and scientific societies.

Works

  • Jesus and Paul . 1907.
  • Jesus' personality . 1908.
  • Pessimism and religion . 1909.
  • Worldview and religion . 1916.
  • Goethe's Faust. An introduction to his understanding . 1922.
  • The Monastery of Our Dear Women in Magdeburg . 1925 (with Hans Kunze).
  • German worldview. A book for self-determination . 1925.
  • Germanness and antiquity . 1928.
  • Sturm und Drang . BG Teubner, Leipzig 1928.
  • The new teacher training in Prussia . K. Stenger, Erfurt 1928.
  • The elementary school teacher . Trowitzsch & Son, Berlin 1929.
  • Germanism and Christianity. Their tension and their balance in German intellectual history . Böhlau, Weimar 1937.

editor

  • Johann Amos Comenius: A selection from his educational writings . Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld, Leipzig 1932.
  • Martin Luther: To the councilors of all cities in Germany that they should set up and maintain Christian schools . Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld, Leipzig 1931.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Prolingheuer: We went astray ; Cologne 1987; P. 151.

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personal data
SURNAME Weidel, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pedagogue, university professor for religious education and provost
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Schrimm (Warta)
DATE OF DEATH October 14, 1943
Place of death Magdeburg