Leo Regener

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Leo Regener (born April 9, 1900 in Braunschweig , † September 20, 1975 in Berlin ) was a German school politician , trade unionist and educator . He was director of the GDR's central pedagogical library in Berlin.

Life

Regener attended the State Teacher Training Institute in Braunschweig from 1914 to 1920 and studied general education , psychology and sociology at the Technical University there from 1921 to 1923 . He passed his state examination on July 1, 1926. Until his discharge from school by the National Socialists in 1933 he was a teacher near Braunschweig. In 1936 he moved to Berlin.

Regener joined the Free Socialist Youth in 1916 and the Communist Party of Germany in 1919 . In the same year he began his lifelong friendship with Hans Löhr , who was also from Braunschweig .

In 1920 Regener co-founded the Braunschweig regional association of the Free Teachers' Union of Germany (FLGD) and later a member of the German People's Teachers Union (GDV) . In the latter he was temporarily deputy auditor in the Braunschweig Provincial Association. Regener was a member of the International of Educational Workers, a predecessor organization of the International Trade Secretariat for Teachers . In 1924 he was sent to the Lower Saxony State Committee of International Workers Aid as a representative of the GDV Braunschweig, but had to give up this office due to an objection by the GDV board. For the FLDG, together with Heinrich Rodenstein and Hans Löhr, he wrote the memorandum on the further development of teacher training , as a result of which Adolf Jensen was appointed professor at the TH Braunschweig in 1929 . The Rodenstein-Regener-Löhr trio also appeared together at political events.

After moving to Berlin in 1936, Regener initially worked as a private teacher and later as a publishing bookseller until 1945. He evidently also considered going abroad. Wiemann quotes from a letter from Hans Löhr to Regener of January 15, 1937, in which the latter passed a message from Otto Rühle to Regener. This shows that Rühle wanted to work to find a job as a teacher for Regener in Mexico. However, Rühle was unsuccessful.

In 1946 he took part as a delegate at the unification congress of the KPD and SPD in Berlin and became a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). Regener was also a co-founder of the union of teachers and educators in the Free German Trade Union Federation (FDGB). From 1946 to 1952 he was the department head for teacher training in the main education office in Greater Berlin. Then from 1952 to 1969 director of the Central Pedagogical Library in Berlin, today's library for research on the history of education .

At the suggestion of the Minister of Public Education , Regener was awarded the title of professor on the occasion of his 10th anniversary as director of the Pedagogical Central Library in recognition of his services to the development of socialist education and his achievements in building the library.

Under Regener's direction, the size of the holdings of this library and its branches - German Teachers' Library (Berlin) and Comenius Library (Leipzig) increased considerably. The reconstruction of the Comenius library, which was totally damaged during the World War, also took place during his service. He also succeeded in returning the extensive holdings of the German Teachers' Library that had been relocated to the territory of Czechoslovakia.

Regener was a member of the central board of the teaching and education union, the pedagogical commission of the German Peace Council , the commission for UNESCO work in the GDR, the working committee of the Schwelmer circle founded by Fritz Helling and a full member of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of the GDR .

In addition to Heinrich Deiters , Hans Ahrbeck , Robert Alt and Gerda Mundorf , Regener was also a member of the editorial board of the Diesterweg complete edition.

Fonts (selection)

  • Possibility and necessity of understanding the German teachers and educators . In: Pädagogik 9, (1954), pp. 845f.
  • 80 years of the German teachers' library . In: Pedagogy 10 (1955), pp. 856f.
  • The Bebel telegram. Documentation on school policy in Bremen from 1909 and 1910 . In: Pedagogy 11 (1956), pp. 13-25.
  • The Hamburg school experiment. Wilhelm Lamszus on his 75th birthday . In: Pedagogy 11 (1956), pp. 499–505.
  • Adolf Jensen on his 80th birthday . In: Pedagogy 12 (1957), pp. 78–80.
  • A contribution to school policy developments during the November Revolution . Berlin 1958.
  • The breach of the Potsdam Agreement in West German school legislation . In: Pedagogy 13 (1959), p. 417f.
  • The Central Pedagogical Library . In: teacher calendar 1960/61, pp. 223–226.

Awards

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literature

  • Federal Ministry for All-German Issues (Ed.): SBZ biography . Deutscher Bundes-Verlag, Berlin 1964, p. 276.
  • Wolfgang Stöler: Teachers and Labor Movement. Formation and politics of the first teachers' union organization in Germany from 1920 to 1923 . Volume 2. Verlag Labor Movement and Social Science , Marburg 1978, ISBN 3-921630-12-6 , p. 36.
  • Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990 . Volume 2: Maassen - Zylla . KG Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-11177-0 , p. 690.
  • Petra Gruner: Finding aid on the estate of the pedagogue and education politician Prof. Leo Regener (1900–1975) . Library for Research on Educational History, Berlin 1998.
  • Günter Wiemann: Hans Löhr and Hans Koch - political walks , Vitamine-Verlag, Braunschweig, 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-033763-5 . In addition to many documents on the friendship between Leo Regener and Hans Löhr, the book also contains a lot of material about Regener himself.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Leo Regener's letter of recommendation for Hans Löhr dated May 12, 1960, in: Günter Wiemann, Hans Löhr and Hans Koch - political walks , p. 162
  2. ^ Günter Wiemann, Hans Löhr and Hans Koch - political walks , p. 31
  3. ^ Günter Wiemann, Hans Löhr and Hans Koch - political walks , pp. 34–36
  4. ↑ Günter Wiemann, Hans Löhr and Hans Koch - political walks , pp. 112–113
personal data
SURNAME Regener, Leo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German school politician, trade unionist and educator
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH 20th September 1975
Place of death Berlin