Paul Bode (educator, 1883)

Paul Bode (born August 20, 1883 in Lehrte ; † 1977 ) was a German educator and university teacher .

Life

Paul Bode was born in Lehrte in 1883 during the founding period of the German Empire as the son of the painter Eduard Bode. In the years from 1889 to 1898 he attended the - initially still - six-class elementary school in his hometown, before he first attended the preparatory institute from 1898 to 1900 to prepare for the teachers 'seminar , and then went through the Protestant teachers' seminar in Lüneburg : in September 1903 Bode passed his first teacher examination before teaching from October of the same year to March 1907 as a school trainee at the one-class elementary school in Breetze in the Lüneburg district .

At the time of National Socialism and during the Second World War , Paul Bode was released from the Wehrmacht . From April 1, 1941 and officially until the end of the Third Reich in May 1945, Bode now taught as director and with the title of professor in what was then Lauenburg in Pomerania at the local teacher training institute . However, the pedagogue had already fled the Red Army before , fled on March 9, 1945 with the last transport by ship from the advancing troops of the Soviet Union across the Baltic Sea , specifically via Gotenhafen and Rostock, initially to Schleswig-Holstein . In the same year he went to the city of Dessau in the Soviet occupation zone in Anhalt , where he initially worked as a garbage collector from 1945 to 1947.

In 1947 Paul Bode returned to his hometown of Lehrte, where he initially worked as a worker in a farm. In the middle of the following year, 1948, the war veteran had reached retirement age of 65 years.

During his retirement, according to the Kieler Nachrichten of October 31, 1960, at the University Day 1960 in Kiel , Bode spoke out in favor of sponsoring the dissolved Lauenburg University for Teacher Education in order to "give the former students and professors at the PH Kiel a new home". "Prof. Dr. Paul Bode ”, who lived at Burgdorfer Strasse 56 in Lehrte in 1960 , wrote published articles on history, for example in the Hanover history sheets .

Paul Bode also published in the later years of his life in the series Stadtgeschichtliche Hefte der Stadt Lehrte published by the city administration of Lehrte . There, however, there seems to be a lack of distance to the patriotism of the German Empire as well as the only limited cautiously circumnavigated language and the crimes of National Socialism , when in the posthumously re-published publication in 1979, Development from the Farmer's Village to the City of Lehrte for the period from the First World War, for example:

“In this struggle of the Germans against a world of enemies, the evil came at the end of 1918. After Germany's defeat, the Versailles dictate determined his living space for the future . What that meant was not only noticed by the warriors who had returned to a changed political homeland, 276 had stayed before the enemy, soon, but also every German. Inflation and unemployment brought [...] hardship and concern and prepared the new domestic political changes of 1933 .

The shackling of Germany resulting from the Versailles dictate also resulted in foreign policy tension, which then led to World War II , 1939–45.

[...]
The victorious armed acts by the army and navy in the first years of the war probably kept the enemy away from the German borders [...] "

Fonts (selection)

• Documents on the history of the city of Lehrte , Lehrte: Rumpeltin, 1954
• History of the city of Lehrte (= city ​​history booklets of the city of Lehrte ) Volume 2: Of church and school, of large forests and old courtyards , Hanover: Schlütersche Verlagsanstalt, 1954
• Development from the farming village to the city of Lehrte (= city ​​history booklets of the city of Lehrte , Volume 3), inside title Lehrte's development from the farming village to the city. From the fate of a farming village in the "Great Free" , ed. from the city administration of Lehrte, Hanover: Schlütersche publishing house and printing company, 1979
• Ernst Bödeker, Paul Bode (Red.), Hans H. Götting (Ed.): From the beginnings to the development of the village of Lehrte , Lehrte: Verlag der Bücherstube, 1996

literature

• NN : Prof. Dr. Paul Bode on his 80th birthday , with a bibliography , in: Lauenburger Hochschulnachrichten , No. 11, 1963, pp. 1–27
• Johannes Schwanbeck: Prof. Dr. Paul Bode 80 years , in: Elbing-Kreis , No. 19, 1963, pp. 39–42
• Alexander Hesse: Paul Bode , in the other: The professors and lecturers of the Prussian educational academies (1926-1933) and colleges for teacher training (1933-1941) , print based on typescript, Weinheim: Deutscher Studien-Verlag, 1995, ISBN 978-3 -89271-588-7 , pp. 180f .; Preview on google books ; contents

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Alexander Hesse: Paul Bode , in ders .: The professors and lecturers of the Prussian educational academies (1926-1933) and colleges for teacher training (1933-1941) , print based on typescript, Weinheim: Deutscher Studien-Verlag, 1995, ISBN 978-3-89271-588-7 and ISBN 3-89271-588-2 , pp. 180f .; Preview over google books
2. ^ ^{A b} Karl Knoop: On the history of teacher training in Schleswig-Holstein. 200 years of teacher training from seminar to college of education 1781 - 1981 , Husum: Husum-Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, 1984, ISBN 978-3-88042-238-4 and ISBN 3-88042-238-9 , p. 111 and other .; Preview over google books
3. ^ Historical association for Lower Saxony: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter . 1960, p. 35 ( Preview in Google Book Search).
4. ^ Paul Bode: Lehrte in wartime , in ders .: Development from the farming village to the city of Lehrte (= Stadtgeschichtlichehefte der Stadt Lehrte , Volume 3), inside title Lehrte's development from the farming village to the city. From the fate of a farming village in the "Great Free" , ed. from the city administration of Lehrte, Hanover: Schlütersche Verlagsanstalt und Druckerei, 1979, pp. 110–118; here: p. 113