Max Oettli

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Max Oettli, approx. 1945

Max Oettli (born January 28, 1879 in Wigoltingen ; † December 5, 1965 in Steckborn ) was a Swiss educator .

family

He was the son of Johann Heinrich Oettli and Mathilde Oettli, née Zollikofer. His father was the head of the Kalchrain forced labor facility and administrator of Altenklingen Castle . His half-brother was the much older Protestant theologian Samuel Oettli (1846–1911). In December 1905 Max Oettli married Natalie "Tata" Kirpichnikova from Kharkiv . The couple had six children, one of whom was Marie-Louise "Mascha" Oettli (1908–1997). In 1930 the couple divorced.

education

Max Oettli studied natural sciences at the Eidgenössisches Polytechnikum in Zurich and received the subject teacher diploma in 1902. At the University of Zurich he did his doctorate on the ecology of the rock flora of the Alpstein.

Professional development

From 1902 to 1921 Oettli worked as a natural history teacher at the Glarisegg Rural Educational Home . He encouraged students to carry out scientific experiments themselves in class and published a book on this in 1919 entitled Das Forscherbuch . He was a member of the youth literature commission of the Swiss Teachers' Association.

In the spring of 1921 the family moved to Vers-chez-les-Blanc near Lausanne. Max Oettli took over the management of the Swiss Central Office for Combating Alcoholism in Lausanne until 1947 . He founded the office of the Association for the Education of Tobacco Dangers and was in charge of the Anti-Alcohol Association.

In the meantime, however, also documented that Max Oettli as a teacher of biology and chemistry at least 1928 to 1931 educational reform boarding school school by the sea of Martin Luserke on the North Sea island of Juist has worked.

Works

  • Contributions to the ecology of the rock flora. Investigations from the curfist and sentis area . Dissertation University of Zurich. Raustein, Zurich 1905
  • Try living plants. For 12-14 year old students of all types of school . BG Teubner Verlag, Leipzig 1914
  • The researcher book. Suggestions for observations and experiments , Rauscher & Cie., Zurich 1919
  • School experiments on digestion. Suggestion for teaching in middle schools . Fischer, Freiburg 1919
  • Try living bacteria. Instructions for working independently . Franck, Stuttgart 1919
  • with Hanns Günther and E. Rust: Progress. Scientific and technical yearbook. In a generally understandable presentation with special consideration of Switzerland . Rauscher & Cie., Zurich 1920
  • Explanations of the brandy initiative . Swiss office for the spirits initiative (ed.), Lausanne 1921
  • Full must instead of fermented must. Overview of current methods of keeping fruit juices fresh . Anti-Alcohol Publishing, Lausanne 1924
  • Apples. An activity book for nature and people lovers. Suggestions for peace-time work with apples and pears . Franck Verlag, Stuttgart 1925
  • What to do with the cherries We eat them . Swiss Central Agency for Combating Alcoholism (Ed.), Lausanne 1926
  • Alcohol production and consumption as an economic problem . Gutzwiller, Zurich 1927
  • For the Swiss fruit . National publisher against the schnapps danger, Zurich 1927
  • Plums. Try mold and yeast. P. Haupt Verlag, Bern 1928
  • Happy ways to sobriety. Try yeast and mold . Neuland-Verlag, Berlin 1929
  • Appetizing and unsavory. Attempts and reflections on the appreciation of the fruit . A. Francke AG, Bern 1930
  • The abstinence movement in Switzerland . Swiss. Headquarters for fighting d. Alcoholism (Ed.), Schwabe, Lausanne 1935
  • Inheritance in Biology Class. Suggestions for dealing with hereditary hygiene issues in upper middle school classes . Hygiene Commission of Switzerland (Ed.), A. Francke AG, Bern 1944
  • Try vitamins . In: Healthy Youth. Booklet 16. Swiss Association of Abstinent Teachers (ed.), Bern 1946
  • Conviction. Experiments and advice for public health education . Neuland publishing company, Hamburg 1960
  • with Roman W. Brüschweiler, Anton Kottmann, Fritz Senft: History of the community Wettingen . Baden Verlag, Wettingen 1978

literature

  • Erich Kessler: In memory of Max Oerttli-Porta (1903–1985). In: Badener Neujahrsblätter, 61st year, 1986, pp. 135-140, online .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Photo: Max Oettli and Natalie Kirpitschnikowa (parents of Marie-Louise Oettli) before the wedding, December 1905 . In: Swiss Social Archives. On: bild-video-ton.ch
  2. ^ Oettli, Marie-Louise (1908–1997) . In: Swiss Social Archives. From: findmittel.ch, accessed on April 14, 2017
  3. ↑ Hans-Ulrich Grunder: Max Oettli. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . August 27, 2009. Retrieved April 14, 2017 .
  4. ^ Teachers at the school by the sea, winter 1928/29. In: Information sheet about the school by the sea on the North Sea island of Juist, 1928, p. 13
  5. ^ Teacher at the school by the sea, winter 1929/30. In: Information sheet about the school by the sea on the North Sea island of Juist, 1929, p. 13
personal data
SURNAME Oettli, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss educator
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Wigoltingen
DATE OF DEATH December 5, 1965
Place of death Steckborn