Michael Friedrich Oppermann

Michael Friedrich Oppermann (also: Friedrich Oppermann ; born November 13, 1800 in Bremen ; † 1883 ) was a German geographer and educator .

Life

Michael Friedrich Oppermann lived as a child in Aurich in East Friesland for a year and then went to St. Petersburg with his parents . After he was six years old, the family returned to Aurich, where Oppermann attended the aurich Latin school up to the Secunda after elementary school. At the suggestion of a relative, he wanted to learn the trade of a businessman , but initially studied French and English for a year and a half. In his 17th year, he started as an apprentice in a Comptoire in Hamburg , but stayed there only two years since he called his mother because of his urge for a scientific study back to Aurich. There he attended the primary school of the Lyceum for a year and a half , and from 1820 to 1825 he attended first theology at the Göttingen , then also in Berlin , then also the Cameralian and legal “collegia”. After graduating, Oppermann initially got a job as a supernumerar in the tax field. Due to the unfavorable prospects, however, Oppermann soon looked around for another field of activity.

In 1825 Oppermann accepted the position of teacher at the Hanover Lyceum . Around nine years later - at the beginning of the industrialization of the Kingdom of Hanover and in the planning phase for the formation of a municipal vocational school - the city council of Hanover sent the grammar school teacher on a trip to Hamburg and Magdeburg in 1834 to study both the 1768 of Johann Georg Büsch to explore the Hamburg “Handelsakademie” founded as well as the Magdeburg “Handelschule”, which has existed since 1819. Oppermann wrote a detailed "travel experience report" on this in 1835. As a result, the two so-called “commercial school” classes previously integrated into the higher citizen school were formally made independent as the municipal “commercial school”, but remained organizationally as an “accessory” in the higher citizen school. In terms of space, however, the commercial school was assigned to the Lyceum on Mühlenplatz, which later became Friederikenplatz .

Also from 1835 onwards, Oppermann initially worked as the main teacher of the trade section at the new higher middle school. This served as preparation for the profession . It was not until the city's commercial school was founded on October 30, 1837 that the facility became a part-time school, particularly due to the need to acquire merchants or one of their guilds as additional donors. In addition to the director Adolf Tellkampf and three representatives of the guilds, Oppermann now worked as the main teacher of the school, as well as a member of the school commission.

After the school moved to the building of the former Thierbach Institute on Aegidientorplatz in 1847, Oppermann was only appointed inspector of the “commercial school” in 1852 - due to Tellkampf's unpopular supervision - and after it moved to the new school building on Georgsplatz in 1862, he was appointed headmaster appointed.

Under Oppermann's leadership, the until then mostly paralyzing dependency of the “commercial school” on the higher middle school was largely freed. Increasing disagreements with the trade guild, however, hampered Oppermann's far-reaching plans to reform the “trade school”, which suffered in particular from a strong fragmentation of the subjects taught. After the annexation of the Kingdom of Hanover by Prussia , the number of pupils decreased again from 1867 - not least because of the Prussian freedom of trade and the abolition of compulsory schooling for merchants. As a result, Oppermann, who started teaching his students in the school building at Köbelingerstrasse 50 from the year the Reich was founded in 1871, felt a certain resignation. When he retired in 1878, the commercial vocational school lost "its most committed and far-sighted sponsor."

In 1883, the year the pedagogue died, the address book, city and business manual of the royal residence city of Hanover and the city of Linden recorded the school director a. D. "Oppermann, (Mich.) Frdr.", Who had meanwhile been awarded the Prussian Order of the Red Eagle, fourth class , with residence on the second floor of Braunschweiger Straße 5.

Fonts (selection)

Oppermann wrote several articles in the Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste edited by Johann Samuelersch and Johann Gottfried Gruber , as well as:

Report on a trip to Hamburg and Magdeburg for the purpose of exploring the trade schools there (1835)
- in Klaus-Friedrich Pott (Hrsg.): Professional biographies of commercial school teachers of the 19th century or building blocks of an overdue history of commercial full-time schools of the 19th century , Detmold: Eusl-Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, [2015], ISBN 9783940625526 and ISBN 3940625523 , p. 223 -248
About the method of geographic teaching / by MF Oppermann , in: Annual report of the higher citizen school in Hanover 1837/1839 , Hanover: Jänecke, 1839, pp. 3-11
Guide to teaching geography
- First division. Preparatory lessons / by MF Oppermann , Hannover: Hahn, 1839
- Division 1,3: Cursus

literature

Kössler: Personal dictionary of teachers of the 19th century

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Hans-Joachim Wittenberg: From the commercial school to the municipal commercial schools (1837–1956) , 1 .: From the beginnings to the 1st World War , in: 150 years of commercial vocational schools in Hanover, 1837 - 1987 , Publisher: Berufsbildendeschulen 11, 12, 13 and 14 der Landeshauptstadt Hannover, [Hannover]: [Berufsbildendeschulen 11, 12, 13 und 14], 1987, pp. 47–54
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Information in the catalog of the German National Library
^ ^A ^b Adolf Tellkampf: Michael Friedrich Oppermann , in this: The higher citizen school in Hanover described after ten years of existence by the director of the same Prof. Dr. A. Tellkampf . Helwing'sche Hofbuchhandlung, Hanover 1845, p. 71; Digitized version of the Bavarian State Library
^ Address book, city and business manual of the royal residence city of Hanover and the city of Linden , Department I., Part III: Alphabetical directory of authorities and institutions, residents and commercial companies , p. 561; Digitized version of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library via the German Research Foundation

personal data
SURNAME	Oppermann, Michael Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Oppermann, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German educator and commercial school director
DATE OF BIRTH	November 13, 1800
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bremen
DATE OF DEATH	1883

[Portrait-1] Hans-Joachim Wittenberg: From the commercial school to the municipal commercial schools (1837–1956) , 1 .: From the beginnings to the 1st World War , in: 150 years of commercial vocational schools in Hanover, 1837 - 1987 , Publisher: Berufsbildendeschulen 11, 12, 13 and 14 der Landeshauptstadt Hannover, [Hannover]: [Berufsbildendeschulen 11, 12, 13 und 14], 1987, pp. 47–54

[DNB-2] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Information in the catalog of the German National Library

[Höhere_Bürgerschule_1845-3] A ^b Adolf Tellkampf: Michael Friedrich Oppermann , in this: The higher citizen school in Hanover described after ten years of existence by the director of the same Prof. Dr. A. Tellkampf . Helwing'sche Hofbuchhandlung, Hanover 1845, p. 71; Digitized version of the Bavarian State Library

[4] Address book, city and business manual of the royal residence city of Hanover and the city of Linden , Department I., Part III: Alphabetical directory of authorities and institutions, residents and commercial companies , p. 561; Digitized version of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library via the German Research Foundation