Paul Hildebrandt (pedagogue)

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Paul Hildebrandt (born July 21, 1870 in Berlin ; † November 26, 1948 there ) was a German grammar school teacher, classical philologist , school reformer and Berlin city ​​councilor .

Life

Memorial plaque on the house, Gleimstrasse 49, in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg

Hildebrandt studied classical philology as well as religion and history at the University of Berlin . After receiving his doctorate as a classical philologist in 1894, Hildebrandt worked for almost 30 years in higher education. About half of this time he worked at the Berlinisches Gymnasium Zum Grauen Kloster as a senior teacher .

After the November Revolution of 1918 , Hildebrandt joined the German Democratic Party .

Since 1920 Hildebrandt wrote articles for the Vossische Zeitung , the Berliner Morgenpost and others, devoting himself specifically to school political events, educational questions and aspects of a necessary school reform. From 1923 he headed the “pedagogical office hours” at Ullstein Verlag .

In 1924 he was elected to the Berlin city council as a member of the DDP .

Hildebrandt took over the Luisenstädtische Gymnasium as rector on January 26, 1925 until his retirement on October 1, 1932 . Under his leadership, the grammar school was renamed Heinrich Schliemann grammar school in 1928. He used his field of activity to translate his pedagogical principles into educational practice:

  • He gave his students the opportunity to present their wishes, complaints and complaints - also about teachers - directly to the rector.
  • He allowed the election of student representatives and gave them a broad say in school matters.
  • He introduced career-oriented excursions to companies.
  • He supported the students in the organization of stays of several weeks in the school camp and of holiday trips.

Leisure activities have been created to give his students a stronger bond with their grammar school.

One of his students was Stefan Heym , whom Hildebrandt offered the opportunity to do the Abitur because of an anti-militarist poem, despite being kicked out of his Chemnitz high school.

After his retirement in 1932, Hildebrandt moved to Ramsau near Berchtesgaden with his wife Else Hildebrandt in 1939 . From there he and his wife were deported to the Buchenwald concentration camp or the Ravensbrück concentration camp in December 1943 due to a denunciation by the Ramsau NSDAP local group leader as “hidden opponents of the national state” . While his wife perished in Ravensbrück, Hildebrandt was able to experience his liberation from the concentration camp in 1945 at the age of 74. He moved back to Berlin.

Paul Hildebrandt then made himself available without hesitation in order to build up a democratic education system in Berlin. He worked as a consultant in the main school office and was particularly responsible for setting up libraries for the training of school helpers in Berlin's city districts.

Hildebrandt also worked as a permanent employee of the telegraph and radio in the American sector , where he contributed to the character and content of the new school in a democratic German state. From autumn 1946 until his death in 1948 Hildebrandt was editor of the newly founded illustrated youth magazine Ins neue Leben , which appeared in the British sector of Berlin.

Hildebrandt died in Berlin on November 26, 1948 at the age of 78. In his honor, a memorial plaque was placed on the building of the 11th elementary school, the former Luisenstadt grammar school, in Gleimstrasse 49 in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg on November 26, 2004 .

Publications (selection)

  • Toys in a child's life , Berlin, 1904.
  • How do you make school books cheaper ?, in: Vossische Zeitung, September 27, 1922, first supplement.

literature

  • Erika Petersen: A life for young people . In: The new school . Vol. 1 (1946), p. 213.
  • Professor Dr. Paul Hildebrandt . In: You worked in Berlin. 27 CVs of teachers and educators (…). Memorandum on the occasion of the Congress of Teachers and Educators in Berlin. Pentecost 1952 , presented and compiled by Fritz Opitz, ed. from the Berlin Association of Teachers and Educators. Berlin 1952, pp. 85-88.
  • Klaus Grosinski: Prof. Dr. Paul Hildebrandt - an almost forgotten important Berlin educator. In: school between yesterday and tomorrow. Contributions to the school history of Prenzlauer Berg. Edited by the Pankow district office of Berlin, cultural office / Prenzlauer Berg Museum for local history and urban culture, Schneider Verlag Hohengehren GmbH 2002, p. 416f f.
  • Dietmar Haubfleisch: Scharfenberg Island School Farm . Micro-analysis of the educational reality of reform pedagogy in a democratic experimental school in Berlin during the Weimar Republic (= Studies on Educational Reform, Vol. 40), Frankfurt [u. a.] 2001, ISBN 3-631-34724-3 , p. ( Table of contents ).

Web links

Commons : Paul Hildebrandt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Stefan Heym: Obituary , Fischer Taschenbuch GmbH, Frankfurt am Main 1990.
personal data
SURNAME Hildebrandt, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German high school teacher, classical philologist, school reformer and Berlin city councilor
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 1948
Place of death Berlin