Paul Hoffmann (pedagogue)

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Paul Hoffmann (born July 29, 1887 in Klinge , Lausitz ; † 1975 ) was a German educator, politician ( DDP , CDU , SED ) and Lord Mayor of Greifswald .

Life

Paul Hoffmann completed his training as a primary school teacher . He later became a seminar teacher and in 1928 a school councilor in Greifswald. Until 1929 he was a member of the DDP . He was probably dismissed from school in 1933 because he had been working as an insurance agent since 1933 . During the Second World War , Hoffmann served from 1944 as a sergeant in a prisoner-of-war main camp .

After the end of the Second World War he was returned to school service. In June 1945 he was co-founder and chairman of the founding assembly of the regional association of the Democratic Party, which was renamed the CDU in September 1945 . In July 1945 he was appointed Lord Mayor of Greifswald at the suggestion of the Antifascist Action Committee, to which several members of the former Greifswald NKFD belonged. He participated in the reopening of the University of Greifswald . After arguments with party chairman Reinhold Lobedanz , he left the CDU and joined the SED in June 1946. In the same year he had taken on a teaching position for educational reform movements at the university. In May 1947 he became a ministerial director in the Ministry of Popular Education of Mecklenburg . In 1948 Hoffmann became a professor of education in Greifswald. In 1950 he received his doctorate from the University of Greifswald . He was the dean of the Faculty of Education. After his retirement in 1954, he took over the chairmanship of the organizing committee for the 500th anniversary of the University of Greifswald in 1956. The university made him an honorary senator .

Paul Hoffmann wrote more than 100 essays and writings on educational issues as well as a primer in 1926 .

His daughter was married to the doctor and scientist Gerhard Mohnike .

Fonts (selection)

  • Now let's go! A happy start for the boys and girls of the Waterkant. 1926.
  • The current crisis in school reform. Overcoming it through the synthesis of experience and work lessons. 1927.

literature

  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 4334 .
  • Hoffmann, Paul. In: Stephan Sehlke: Pedagogues - Pastors - Patriots. Biographical handbook on print material for children and young people by authors and illustrators from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania from the beginnings up to and including 1945. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2009, ISBN 978-3-8370-9497-8 , p. 170.
  • Hoffmann, Paul. In: Berit Olschewski: "Friends" in enemy territory: Red Army and German post-war society in the former Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz 1945–1953. BWV, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-8305-1690-3 , p. 505.
  • Klaus-Peter Horn: Educational science in Germany in the 20th century: on the development of the social and technical structure of the discipline from initial institutionalization to expansion. Julius Klinkhardt, Bad Heilbrunn 2003, ISBN 3-7815-1271-1 , p. 98.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Jeanette Michelmann: Activists from the very beginning. The Antifa in the Soviet zone of occupation. Böhlau, Cologne 2002, ISBN 3-412-04602-7 , p. 342
  2. ^ Günter Ewert, Ralf Ewert: Gerhardt Katsch - Personal impressions of life in post-war Germany. (= Internal medicine at Greifswald University. Issue 8) Greifswald 2015, ISBN 978-3-86460-304-4 , p. 23.
personal data
SURNAME Hoffmann, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator and politician (DDP, CDU, SED)
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Klinge (Wiesengrund) , Lausitz
DATE OF DEATH 1975