Otto Haase

Dietrich Otto Haase (born October 8, 1893 in Cologne , † March 19, 1961 in Hanover ) was a German reform pedagogue .

Life

Dietrich Otto Haase was born in the late founding period of the German Empire . His father was the railway secretary Johann Heinrich Haase (1857-1913), son of the farmer Johann Hinrich Haase and the Gesche Lübben. His mother Auguste Dettmering (1863-1940) was a daughter of the section commander Conrad Ludwig Friedrich Dettmering and Sophie Charlotte Leß.

On February 2, 1912, Haase, who at that time lived with his parents at Torstrasse 7 in Hanover, graduated from the Bismarck School in Hanover . From Easter of the same year he began studying philology and theology at the university there in Göttingen, and in 1914 Michaelis went to Berlin to study philology .

From the outbreak of the First World War , the "theologian" initially reported as a volunteer from 4 August 1914 and worked initially in the infantry , then as snowshoers and later in the season of the fighter pilots of Manfred von Richthofen . After Haase had already received the pilot's badge in December 1916 , he was awarded the Iron Cross (EK) Class II in March 1917, the Braunschweig Cross of Merit in June 1917 , and the EK I. Class in August of the same year, followed by the Hohenzollern- House order in December 1917. In the military, which he left as first lieutenant, Haase finally worked until the end of the war in November 1918. In the same year he married Margarete Blohm (* 1897), daughter of the drawing teacher Friedrich Blohm and Johanne Tewes in Hanover .

Also in 1918, Haase resumed his studies of philology in Göttingen in December of that year, where he passed his scientific examination “first level” in the faculties of Philosophical Propaedeutics, German and History on April 30, 1920 with the distinction “with distinction” and the title of Dr. phil. received. Previously, he had already passed his gymnastics teacher exam on March 3rd of that year. Haase had also met the philosopher Leonard Nelson in Göttingen .

Haase began his seminar year in Putbus at the state pedagogy at Easter 1920 , but was only sworn in by Prussia in June of that year .

After graduating and the ability to Higher teacher initially Otto Haase went into the free work of Landerziehungsheime of Hermann Lietz in Haubinda and Bieberstein . Then he tried to found his own reform school in Binz on the island of Rügen , together with Walter Ackermann .

After working at the junior high school in Weimar Haase worked from 1924 in Jena as Head of by the ideas of John Trüper oriented educational method home on the Sophienhöhe.

In 1930 Otto Haase was appointed director and professor at the newly created Pedagogical Academy in Frankfurt (Oder) by the Prussian minister of education Carl Heinrich Becker and on the advice of the cultural politician Adolf Reichwein , after which it was closed in 1932 as head of the pedagogical academy in Elbing in what was then the West Prussian administrative district . But in the following year, 1933, he was after the seizure of power by the National Socialists dismissed for political reasons, after which he decided as a primary school teacher working in Hannover.

Also in Hanover in 1938, Haase founded “a school workshop for prehistory at the local museum”.

During the Second World War , Haase again served as an officer in the Air Force .

Under the British military commanders , Haase was responsible for the reorganization of teacher training and took over the management of the new Hanover Pedagogical Academy . After 1946 he became a Ministerialrat in the Lower Saxony Ministry of Education under Adolf Grimme and was responsible for teacher training. In 1958, he left the ministry as a ministerial director with responsibility for all universities in Lower Saxony.

Fonts (selection)

• Otto Haase, Adolf Grimme: Liberated Spirit. Lectures of the cultural education week in Hanover from September 25-27, 1945 , Hanover: Hahnsche Buchhandlung, 1945
• Natural teaching , by Johannes Kretschmann, revised by Otto Haase, 2nd edition, Hanover: Wissenschaftliche Verlagsanstalt, 1948
• Musical life (= educational library , vol. 19), Hanover: Schroedel
• Pennals, drummers and pachants. 11 stories from the life of the schoolmaster Otto Dietrich , with drawings by Theo Flörke , Hanover [u. a.]: Schroedel Verlag, 1953
• Otto Haase (Red.): The Greifenstein. For the 50th anniversary of the local Alt-Wandervogel group in Hanover on October 4, 1958, Tiergarten (= Greifenstein-Blätter , 4), festival edition, illustrated, Wunstorf: Oppermann, 1958
• Workbooks for teacher training , Schroedel, Hanover

Literature (selection)

• Karl Valentin Müller: Natural and self-selection in modern forced and emergency migrations (from the Institute for Empirical Sociology, Hanover-Bamberg). Prof. Dr. Otto Haase-Hannover on the 60th birthday , Munich: Schick, 1954
• In memoriam Otto Haase , ed. from "Männertreu Hannover" (= leaves from Greifenstein , issue 15), printed as a manuscript, Wunstorf: Oppermann & Leddin, 1968
• Bernhard Schulz:  Haase, Otto. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 382 ( digitized version ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Otto Haase in the catalog of the German National Library
• Otto Haase's personnel sheet in the BIL's personal file in the archive database of the Library for Research on Educational History (BBF)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j} Bernhard Schulz:  Haase, Otto. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 382 ( digitized version ).
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Compare Otto Haase's personal data sheet in the BIL's personal file in the archive database of the Library for Research on Educational History (BBF)