Léon Wespy

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Léon Wespy (also: Leon Louis Erneste Wespy ) (born October 18, 1858 in Gotha ; † February 5, 1933 in Hanover ) was a German city ​​school councilor , author and editor . For the emancipation of women in 1908 - still in the German Empire - the teacher and school director, who worked continuously at girls' schools , achieved the recognition of girls' schools alongside those of boys' schools .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1876, Léon Wespy began his studies of philosophy, German and modern languages at the University of Leipzig and graduated from the University of Jena in 1884 with a Dr. phil.

From 1880 Wespy changed places of work as a teacher several times. In 1880 he worked first at the Realschule in Großenhain / Saxony, then from 1881 to 1887 at the Higher Girls' School in Wismar , from 1887 to 1893 at the Higher Girls' School in Wiesbaden and then in Krefeld at the Higher Girls' School there , succeeding "Dr. Buchner ”. On April 1, 1897, he was appointed to Hanover as director of the Höhere Töchterschule I , whose commemorative publication of the “50th anniversary under municipal patronage ” he wrote a few years later.

Wespy took part in the city's "curriculum commission" around 1898, but soon withdrew from the project because "he had not been able to enforce his views there".

In 1903 Léon Wespy was appointed royal school councilor. His "efforts to get the higher girls 'school recognized next to the higher boys' school were successful in 1908".

On April 1, 1910 Wespy was elected to the newly created office of senator and as city school councilor for the higher education system.

At the time of the young Weimar Republic , Wespy published several writings for school use, including a selection of poems by Friedrich Schiller . A few years later he was on 1 April 1926 in the retirement staggered. His successor in the office of the Board of Education elected district head - college educators Gustav Porger .

In 1929 the “Senator a. D. “active for the information center of Prussian cities in school matters , from which the office of the German Association of Cities took advantage.

estate

The Kett estate in the Hannover City Archives contains, among other things, letters from Wespy's role in the curriculum committee .

Wespyhof

The city school board was posthumously honored with the naming of the Wespyhof , which was laid out in 1955 in the Waldheim district .

Fonts (incomplete)

  • Léon Wespy: Festschrift of the secondary school for girls I (am Graben) to celebrate the 50th anniversary under municipal patronage ed. on behalf of the college of the institution, Hanover: Gebrüder Jänecke, 1903
  • Hanover's educational institutions , in Otto Hugo (Red): New Hanover. Festschrift of the Hannoversche Couriers for the consecration of the town hall in 1913 , Hannover: Gebrüder Jänecke, 1913, pp. 54–58
  • Leon Wespy: Education and Science - Present. In: The royal capital and residence city of Hanover , Hanover 1913, pp. 163–180
  • PJ Stahl (pseudonym of Pierre-Jules Hetzel ): Maroussia. D'après une légende de Markowovzok , with notes on school and private use, ed. by Léon Wespy, in the Velhagen & Klasings series collection of French and English school editions, Prosateurs français , edition B, with notes in an appendix, volume 153, Bielefeld; Leipzig: Velhagen & Klasing, 1920
  • Léon Wespy (Ed.): Poems. Selection, for school use / Friedrich von Schiller , in the series Freytag's Collection of German Writings , 5th edition, Vienna: Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky AG, Leipzig: G. Freytag, 1922

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Klaus Mlynek: WESPY, Léon (see literature)
  2. ↑ Compare this information from the German National Library
  3. ↑ a b c Compare the GND number of the German National Library
  4. ↑ Reinhard Feinendegen, Hans Vogt (Ed.): Krefeld - the history of the city , Volume 3: From the French era to the end of the First World War (1794-1918) , Krefeld: der Oberstadtdirektor, 2006, ISBN 3-9808235-2- 0 , p. 272; partly online via Google books
  5. ↑ a b Notes on the Kett estate in the Hannover City Archives , letter from Julius Tietz dated May 5, 1898 and from Wespy dated August 13, 1898, compare Karin Ehrich, Christiane Schröder (ed.): Nobles, workers and ... women life in city and Region Hanover from the 17th to the 20th century , in the series materials on regional history of the Hanover region, Municipal Association Greater Hanover, Volume 1, Bielefeld: Verl. für Regionalgeschichte, Bielefeld: Verlag für Regionalgeschichte, ISBN 3-89534-292- 0 , p. 153; online through google books
  6. ↑ Klaus Mlynek: PORGER, Gustav. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 289
  7. ^ Otto Ziebill: History of the German Association of Cities. 50 years of German local politics , ed. from the German Association of Cities, 2nd edition, Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1956, p. 133; partly online via Google books
  8. ↑ Helmut Zimmermann : Wespyhof. In: The street names of the state capital Hanover , Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung , Hanover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 264
personal data
SURNAME Wespy, Léon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wespy, Leon; Wespy, Léon Louis Erneste
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher, school director, senator, city school council, author and editor
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Gotha
DATE OF DEATH February 5, 1933
Place of death Hanover