Konrad Agahd

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Konrad Agahd (born March 1, 1867 in Neumark , Greifenhagen district , † November 18, 1926 in Berlin-Neukölln ) was a German writer , educator and journalist .

Life

Konrad Agahd was the first of eight children of the main teacher Hermann Agahd (* 1828) and his wife Christine (* 1826, nee Stänicke).

The subject with which Agahd was constantly engaged scientifically was the damage to education caused by the work required of the children. His first important study on the commercial child labor of 3287 Rixdorf children appeared in 1894. During this time (1890–1913) he was a teacher in Rixdorf (today Berlin-Neukölln). Agahd studied child labor in Germany , Sweden , Norway , Northern Italy and Austria .

He published his results in numerous articles , brochures , specialist books and legal commentaries and presented them at congresses and in countless articles for a wide variety of magazines . At the 1902 meeting of the German Teachers' Association, he demanded in addition to the measures already decided in 1898: prohibition of all Sunday work or observance of Sunday rest , prohibition of all employment in health-endangering companies, extension of child protection to commercial work in the house, participation of the teaching staff in implementation and control the required government measures.

In 1891 he married his wife Anna (née Meyer).

The child protection law of 1903, which stipulated the minimum age and working hours, owed his committed care to the children who worked commercially . Home work , herding, harvesting or helping and sideline activities were not recorded because of the stubborn resistance of the East Elbe landowners.

Agahd was within the German teachers next to the Hamburger top teacher Johannes Half the main fighter against child labor . His report sparked violent reactions. According to the wishes of some of his opponents, he should therefore have been transferred to the Polish areas of the German Reich as a punishment. Agahd was a board member of the German teachers' association and the society for social reform. Due to an ear disease he had 46-year-old in the retirement occurred. From this point on he only worked as a writer , especially as a letter uncle in children's and youth magazines (Hansel and Gretel; Jung-Siegfried; Treuhilde) and in youth care and welfare. His motto was: "If you want to destroy bad, you have to put better in its place."

In 1918 he joined the German Educational Council for Orphaned Youth, of which he became General Secretary.

Honorary grave of Konrad Agahd

His grave in the Neukölln cemetery Britz I on Buschkrugallee bears the inscription: “The German children were loved, their work and their life”. It is designated as the honor grave of the city of Berlin (section 14a no. 30/31). In many obituaries he was honored as the "father of child protection" and "father of exploited children".

Fonts

  • Child labor and the law against the exploitation of child labor in Germany . Gustav Fischer Verlag, Jena 1902
  • Teaching staff and child welfare in town and country . Gerdes & Hödel, Berlin 1909

Awards

Naming

School:

  • Konrad Agahd Primary School (Thomasstrasse 39, Neukölln)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Eckhard Hansen, Florian Tennstedt (ed.) U. a .: Biographical lexicon on the history of German social policy from 1871 to 1945 . Volume 1: Social politicians in the German Empire 1871 to 1918. Kassel University Press, Kassel 2010, ISBN 978-3-86219-038-6 , p. 3 ( online , PDF; 2.2 MB).
  2. ↑ Kurt Gassen :  Agahd, Konrad. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 93 f. ( Digitized version ).
  3. ↑ Who was Konrad Agahd? In: agahd.net. Retrieved January 2, 2014 .
  4. ↑ On the origin of this law cf. Collection of sources on the history of German social policy from 1867 to 1914 , III. Department: Expansion and differentiation of social policy since the beginning of the New Course (1890–1904) , Volume 3: Wolfgang Ayaß (edit.): Arbeitserschutz . Darmstadt 2005.
  5. ↑ Agahd, Konrad in the German biography
personal data
SURNAME Agahd, Konrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, educator and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Neumark , Greifenhagen district
DATE OF DEATH November 18, 1926
Place of death Rixdorf