Pedagogical Academy Frankfurt am Main

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The Pedagogical Academy Frankfurt am Main existed from 1927 to 1934 (renamed in 1933 as a college for teacher training ). The facility was relocated to Weilburg an der Lahn in 1934 .

On May 10, 1927, the Prussian minister of education, Carl Heinrich Becker, opened the " simultaneous " Pedagogical Academy in Frankfurt am Main with a ceremony in the Frankfurt university auditorium without religious orientation, i.e. not only for Catholics and Protestants but also for Jewish students and "dissidents" (non-denominational) , and for students of both sexes who wanted to become elementary school teachers with academic training. The Catholic Church refused this training and refused the students permission to teach Catholic religious education , which in many cases amounted to a ban on employment. The first director was Hermann Weimer , after he retired to school in 1932, Erich Less , who had been transferred from Altona, took over, who was temporarily replaced in May 1933 by Kurt Körber , who had been transferred from Dortmund for political reasons . In 1928, Ernst Krieck, a lecturer, was appointed who more and more openly confessed to National Socialism and was therefore transferred to a sentence in 1931. In July 1931 he gave a speech at a private solstice celebration that ended with the final cry: “Heil dem Third Reich!” A Social Democratic student denounced him, and the new Social Democratic Minister of Education, Adolf Grimme , ordered his transfer to the Pedagogical Academy in Dortmund .

In April 1933, the academy was renamed a college for teacher training (HfL) by the National Socialist Prussian Minister of Education and later Reich Minister of Education Bernhard Rust . From 1934 it was continued in Weilburg under the director Friedrich Kreppel until teaching was closed for war reasons in 1939. The relocation was intended to protect teachers from the influences of a big city and to make them more suitable for teaching in elementary schools. From 1933 onwards, the teaching staff, which had already been thinned out for reasons of economy, was reorganized in the Nazi sense and numerous lecturers such as Marie-Anne Kuntze and Gerda Simons were transferred back to the school . Some professors such as Georg Morgenstern , Hermann Semiller or Walther Schmied-Kowarzik were dismissed in 1933. In 1941 the HfL became a teacher training institute in Weilburg, which no longer accepted high school graduates, but only trained school assistants. It existed until 1945. In 1946 the newly founded Pedagogical Institute Weilburg emerged from it.

College of Education 1961–1967

In the 1960s, according to the Hessian law of 1960 and the establishment in the summer semester of 1961 in Frankfurt am Main (and Gießen ) for elementary school and secondary school teacher training, there was a college for education , which first took up the Jugenheim Pedagogical Institute in 1961-63 , then in 1967 the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main was integrated as a department for educational science and should be housed in the AfE tower . Her taught, among other things Ludwig Neundörfer (Chairman), Heinz-Joachim Heydorn , Hans-Michael Elzer , Thomas Ellwein and Hans Meyer . From 1963/64 Werner Meyer, close to the GEW, was president. Until 1967 only prospective high school teachers could study at the University of Frankfurt.

literature

  • Alexander Hesse: The professors and lecturers of the Prussian educational academies (1926-1933) and colleges for teacher training (1933-1941) . Deutscher Studien-Verlag, Weinheim 1995, ISBN 3-89271-588-2 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  • Michael Wermke (ed.): The denomination of elementary school teacher training in Prussia. A contribution to the school struggle in the Weimar Republic . (= Studies on Religious Education. Volume 6). Leipzig 2016, ISBN 978-3-374-03922-7 .
  • Karl Dienst: Between science and church politics: on the importance of university theology for the identity of a regional church in the past and present. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-631-58365-4 .