Ludolph von Beckedorff

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Georg Philipp Ludolph Beckedorff (from 1840 von Beckedorff , also Georg Philipp Ludwig von Beckedorff ; born April 14, 1778 in Hanover ; † February 27, 1858 in Grünhof , Regenwalde district ) was a Prussian conservative publicist , educator , ministerial official and landowner.

Life

Beckedorff was born the son of a clerk in simple circumstances. After studying theology and medicine at the universities of Jena and Göttingen and receiving his doctorate in 1799, he worked as a doctor. In Berlin he joined the Deutsche Tischgesellschaft , before which he gave a farewell speech on June 18, 1811, in which he was openly anti-Semitic: “We are waging war against the Jews, against a breed that ... the state, into science, into art, into society ... tries to sneak in, to force in and to force in. ”He called for the exile of the Jews. From 1811 to 1818 he was tutor to the Hereditary Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg, Alexander Carl , in Ballenstedt .

He became known as a publicist through his “appeal to German youth over the corpse of the murdered Kotzebue ” in 1819. In 1821 he wrote a counterpart to the Süvern School Bill of 1819. The Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III. appointed him to the supervisor of the public elementary school in the Ministry of Education. He was the conservative opponent of the liberal school reformers who succeeded Wilhelm von Humboldt , whom he accused of adhering to the principle of equality in education too much. Instead, he insisted on the different education of the social classes and professions and thus became the ancestor of the structured school system and the popular elementary school with denominational characteristics. The state educational mandate has its limits on the rights of the churches and the educational rights of parents. The diversity of the provinces should also be taken into account, which in Prussia, from the Rhine province to the eastern provinces, led to very different school attendance. In 1825 he became government representative at the University of Berlin .

His conservative inclinations brought about his conversion to Catholicism in 1827. Therefore, he had to give up public office in Berlin and acquired the Grünhof estate in the Regenwalde district in Pomerania, to which he retired.

The Secret Higher Government Council and Knight of the Guelph Order was rehabilitated in 1840 by the new King Friedrich Wilhelm IV and raised to the nobility. In 1842 the king appointed him President of the new Prussian State Economics College . Beckedorff created a center of Catholicism in Pomerania in Grünhof. In February 1849 he was elected to the Prussian House of Representatives for the Münster constituency.

Beckedorff's son Friedrich von Beckedorff (* 1818, † 1893) became an officer in the Prussian army and rose to lieutenant general.

Quotes

Above all, however, the spirit that masters itself among the lower working classes and the daily growing degeneration of the servant relationship would like to contribute very little to the recommendation of a mode of education which starts from the principle of a uniform, general human formation of the whole nation, and even the same to apply compulsorily, but thereby infallibly only bring about an equality of demands and claims and to the highest degree make those indispensable subordination in social relations, without which no human association can exist, more difficult and confusing, indeed would have to finally abolish and destroy.
The school should know God and his will, and learn to love, honor and obey as much as possible.

Fonts

  • To the German youth. About the body of the murdered August von Kotzebue . Hanover 1819 ( urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb00048264-7 ).
  • Yearbooks of the Prussian elementary school system . Berlin 1825-1829.
  • Catholic truth, words of peace . 4 volumes. 1840-1846.
  • Collected agricultural writings . 2 volumes. Berlin 1849-1851.

literature

  • Franzjörg Baumgart: Between reform and reaction, Prussian school policy 1806-1859 . Darmstadt 1990, p. 92 ff.
  • Hans Brunnengräber: Ludolph von Beckedorff: an elementary school teacher of the 19th century . Düsseldorf 1929.
  • Wolfgang Knauft: Ludolph von Beckedorff. Prussian politician, landlord in Western Pomerania and bridge builder between denominations. In: Wichmann-Jahrbuch des Diözesangeschichtsverein Berlin 58/59 (2018/2019) NF 15, pp. 191–220.
  • Fritz Fischer:  Beckedorff, Georg Philipp Ludolph von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 709 ( digitized version ).
  • Adolf Meyer: Ludolph von Beckedorff (1778-1858) . In: Hans Scheuerl (Hrsg.): Klassiker der Pädagogik I. 2nd ed. 1991, pp. 270–282.
  • Emil Julius Hugo Steffenhagen :  Beckedorff, Ludolph von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 219 f.

Footnotes

  1. ^ Emil Julius Hugo Steffenhagen :  Beckedorff, Ludolph von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 219 f.
  2. ↑ a b Beckedorff, Herr von. In: New Preussisches Adels-Lexicon or genealogical and diplomatic news from the princely, counts, baronial and noble houses residing in the Prussian monarchy or related to it, with the indication of their ancestry, their property, their coat of arms and those that emerged from them Civil and military figures, heroes, scholars and artists; edited by an association of scholars and friends of patriotic history under the board of Baron L. v. Zedlitz-Neukirch , second supplement to the first and second edition. Containing corrections and supplements since 1839. In addition to an appendix about the status of the cathedral collegiate and fräulein monasteries, as well as about status elevations and medals of the most recent times. Reichenbach Brothers, Leipzig 1843, pp. 6-7; Digitized via Google books
  3. ^ Theodore Ziolkowski : Berlin. Rise of a cultural metropolis around 1810 , Stuttgart 2002, p. 236f
  4. ^ Heinrich Berghaus : Land book of the Duchy of Pomerania . Part II, Volume 7. Berlin and Wriezen 1874, p. 725 ( online ).
  5. ↑ quoted from Herwig Blankertz : The history of pedagogy . Wetzlar 1992, p. 134.
  6. ↑ Quotation from Baumgart: Between reform and reaction. P. 96.
personal data
SURNAME Beckedorff, Ludolph von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beckedorff, Georg Philipp Ludolph von (full name); Beckedorff, Georg Philipp Ludolf von; Beckedorff, Ludolph; Beckedorff, Ludolf; Beckedorff, Georg Philipp Ludolph; Beckedorff, Georg Philipp Ludolf; Beckedorff, Georg Philipp Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian conservative journalist, educator, ministerial official and landowner
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1778
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 1858
Place of death Grünhof , Regenwalde district