Max Hermann Baege

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Max Hermann Baege (born May 11, 1875 in Jeßnitz ; † 1939 ) was a philologist , psychologist , educator and sociologist .

Life

He was the son of the businessman Hermann Baege and his wife Marie nee Picht. His younger brother was the teacher and local poet Paul Baege .

Baege studied "natural sciences, biology and philosophy". He did his doctorate with Ernst Meumann and worked as a teacher in Berlin and Stettin , where he " got into difficulties in 1903 because of his activities in the free religious movement and his collaboration in founding a social democratic workers' training school ". Baege was a "socialist-minded private lecturer and positivist activist " and "ardent admirer" of Jacques Loeb . In 1906 he was one of the founders of the " Deutscher Monistenbund ". He moved to Berlin, where he worked at the Berlin Workers 'Education School and as a traveling speaker for the Social Democratic Workers' Education Committee, among others .

From 1905 to 1914 he was "Lecturer in Education, Psychology and Sociology at the Free University ", and from 1914 to 1918 at the Humboldt Academy in Berlin.

In 1917 Baege joined the USPD and worked as an assistant teacher in Berlin. In the course of the November Revolution he was appointed by Minister Adolph Hoffmann to the education policy advisory council with the rank of Undersecretary in the Prussian " Ministry for Science, Art and Public Education " in order to initiate a democratic, secular and socially oriented cultural and educational policy. On January 4, 1919, he resigned from office because of the quarrels that led to the Spartacus uprising , but continued his cultural and educational work in the Bund Neue Hochschule . Scientists, teachers and educators willing to reform had organized themselves against the restorative forces in the “Bund Neue Hochschule”, on whose behalf Baege and Siegfried Kawerau published the magazine “ Die Neue Erziehungs ”. In the journal, which appeared twice a month from 1919 onwards, scientific as well as cultural and educational-political articles on the reform of the education system were published. In 1920 the “ Bund decided school reformers ” took over the magazine and Paul Oestreich then replaced Baege as publisher. From 1921 to 1926 Baege was "Director of the Adult Education Center and Professor at the Nuremberg Commercial College" and later worked as a " private scholar in Jena "

Baege became the first director of the Nuremberg Adult Education Center in 1921 , also took over "a professorship for education and philosophy at the Nuremberg Commercial College and created a new psychological and youth studies institute". Among other things, he published works “on the sociology of thinking ”. “In his publications, Baege locates the adult education institution in the field of tension of the democratizing society of the Weimar Republic ”. According to Annette Arend , Baege's concept of adult education was less progressive than that of Robert von Erdberg .

As a socialist and monist in 1931, Baege, "who was one of the pioneers of social marckism even before 1914 , [...] rejected social Darwinist racism as dangerous nonsense".

Monist

Baege advocated a special version of monism :

"So if we remain scientifically incontestable with our monism and want to avoid any aberrations on metaphysical-mystical paths, we have to understand the term monism differently."

- MH Baege

Together with Wilhelm Bölsche , Raoul Heinrich Francé and Bruno Wille , Baege was a member of the federal committee of the German Monist Federation .

When Baege Jacques Loeb reported “ Wilhelm Ostwald's plans to build his own monistic village in the USA , Loeb replied…: 'You know that I am greatly interested in you and your doings'. Iam a little doubtful about the new experiment concerning the monistic village or settlement. Such experiments have repeatedly been tried in America and have proved unsuccessful. I am not so certain that the monks in the monasteries are all very happy; but still, I as an experimenter should certainly not advise against trying social experiments. "

Fonts (selection)

  • How do we know the world? Urania , book addition, 1926, 95 pages.
  • Sociology of thought: pre-scientific thinking. Urania, book addition, 1929, 76 pages.

Baege founded the magazine The New Education .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Short biography in: Jürgen Peiffer : Hirnforschung in Deutschland 1849 to 1974: Letters on the development of psychiatry and neurosciences as well as the influence of the political environment on scientists . Springer , p. 1053. ISBN 9783540406907
  2. ↑ Klaus-Peter Horn : Educational Science in Germany in the 20th Century: On the Development of the Social and Technical Structure of the Discipline from the Initial Institutionalization to Expansion. Julius Klinkhardt , 2003, p. 29. ISBN 9783781512719
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Annette Arend : Between program and practice: the Nuremberg Adult Education Center in the Weimar Republic, taking into account the perspective of participants and lecturers . In: Erlanger contributions to pedagogy . tape 5 . Waxmann Verlag , 2008, ISBN 978-3-8309-7013-2 , 4.2.1 The first director of the Nuremberg Adult Education Center, Max Hermann Baege, and his adult education program, p. 164-179 .
  4. ^ A b Heiner Fangerau : Spinning the scientific web: Jacques Loeb (1859-1924) and his program of international biomedical basic research. Akademie Verlag , 2010, p. 93. ISBN 9783050045283
  5. ↑ Gangolf Huebinger , Rüdiger Vom Bruch , Friedrich Wilhelm Graf (ed.): Idealism and Positivism. Volume 2 of culture and cultural studies around 1900. Franz Steiner Verlag , 1997, p. 249. ISBN 9783515065443
  6. ↑ Kristina Kratz-Kessemeier : Art for the Republic: The Art Policy of the Prussian Ministry of Culture 1918 to 1932. Akademie Verlag , 2008, p. 174. ISBN 9783050043715
  7. ↑ Katharina Neef : The emergence of sociology from the social reform: A specialist history. Campus Verlag , 2012, p. 17. ISBN 9783593397948
  8. ↑ Rita Panesar : Media of religious sense foundation: Der Volkserzieher, the journals of the German Monist Association and the New Metaphysical Review 1897-1936. W. Kohlhammer Verlag , 2006, p. 140. ISBN 9783170190382
  9. ^ Elke Sohn : On the concept of nature in urban concepts: based on the contributions by Hans Bernhard Reichow , Walter Schwagenscheidt and Hans Scharoun on reconstruction after 1945. Volume 30 of the series of scholarship holders of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation . LIT Verlag , Münster, 2008, p. 141. ISBN 9783825897482
  10. ^ Christa Uhlig : Reform pedagogy and school reform: Discourses in the socialist press of the Weimar Republic: source selection from the magazines "Die Neue Zeit / Die Gesellschaft" and "Sozialistische Monatshefte" (1919-1933). Volume 47 of the studies on educational reform . Peter Lang , 2008, p. 449. ISBN 9783631557037
personal data
SURNAME Baege, Max Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Pedagogue, school reformer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Jeßnitz
DATE OF DEATH 1939