Konrad Linder

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Konrad Linder (born May 11, 1884 in Ungstein near Bad Dürkheim , † May 24, 1963 in Münster ) was a German educator and headmaster.

Life

Konrad Linder was the son of wine growers in the Palatinate. He grew up as the fourth of five children in a winery . In Neustadt an der Weinstrasse he attended the humanistic grammar school (today: Kurfürst-Ruprecht grammar school ). After graduating from high school , Linder studied German, Latin and Greek ( classical philology ), first at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and then at the Georg August University in Göttingen , where he also passed the state examination. He completed his legal traineeship in Wilhelmshaven at the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gymnasium (today: Gymnasium am Mühlenweg) and then at the Ilfeld Abbey School in the Harz Mountains . Linder married in Breslau in 1911. The marriage has two children. The son, Fritz Linder , was a doctor and surgeon . Konrad Linder worked as a teacher in Breslau and then in Nuremberg for over 30 years.

The years in Wroclaw

From 1910 to 1924 Konrad Linder was a senior teacher at the Maria-Magdalenen-Gymnasium in Breslau. Then he was transferred to Sagan (Polish Żagań) in Lower Silesia and became the director of the state Catholic grammar school there. After two years he came back to Wroclaw. He was now in charge of the town's evangelical Maria Magdalenen grammar school, which at that time was described as "an excellent high school in Silesia".

In Breslau, Linder was one of the leading secular members of the Confessing Church . Politically, he supported the Christian Social People's Service until 1933 . He succeeded in largely keeping out the influence of the NSDAP and the Hitler Youth on his educational concept. Since Linder wanted to avoid that his grammar school would lose the Christian and humanistic leadership if a follower of the Nazis took his place, he decided in 1937 after consultation with confidants of his college to join the NSDAP. Sons from conservative Catholic families and the sons of a resistance fighter were sent to the grammar school run by Lindner during the war years from 1940 to 1944. The battle for Breslau towards the end of the Second World War marked the end of the Magdalenaum. Linder left the embattled city by bike in February 1945 before it was trapped by Soviet troops.

The years in Nuremberg

The refugee found his family in Nuremberg . Soon after the end of the war he was teaching at the humanistic grammar school in Fürth , where he retired in 1948 as the deputy director.

Linder's close relationship with the Evangelical Church in Nuremberg meant that he was subsequently commissioned with the reconstruction of the Wilhelm Löhe School. This was borne by the Evangelical Church Administration of Nuremberg. With the reopening initiated by Linder, the development of one of the largest Protestant schools in the Federal Republic began, from 400 students when Linder took office in 1949 to around 1,600 students in 1954 when he handed the school over to his successor. The girls were also able to graduate from school with a home economics high school diploma. In addition to the elementary school , Linder also built a branch of commercial school .

Awards

literature

  • Karl Kolde, The Breslauer Magdalenen-Gymnasium in the Third Reich , in: O. Eitner (Hrsg.), The Gymnasium St. Maria Magdalena zu Breslau , Bad Honnef 2003
  • Adalbert Seipolt , years in the headwind. My childhood and youth in the Third Reich , Würzburg, 2003. ISBN 3-429-02547-8
  • Konrad Linder, St. Maria-Magdalena High School in Breslau , Breslauer Nachrichten No. 23, June 1957

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Konrad Linder, Personalblatt der preuß. School authority , library for research on the history of education, Berlin
  2. ↑ cf. Festschrift for the 75th anniversary of the Wilhelm Löhe School , Nuremberg 1976
personal data
SURNAME Linder, Konrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator and school principal
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Ungstein near Bad Dürkheim
DATE OF DEATH May 24, 1963
Place of death Muenster