Richard Seyfert

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Richard Seyfert

Hermann Richard Seyfert (born April 20, 1862 in Dresden ; † August 23, 1940 ibid) was a German politician ( National Liberal Party , DDP ).

Life

After he had left the secondary school at the age of 14, Seyfert, who was a Protestant , attended the teachers' seminar from 1876 and was hired as an assistant teacher in 1881. In 1884 he switched to a regular teaching position at the boys' school in Penig and in 1888 became school director in Zwickau . From 1895 to 1897 he studied philology at the University of Leipzig . After completing his studies, he went back to the school service and became school director in Oelsnitz. In addition to his teaching activities, he wrote a dissertation and was awarded a doctorate in philosophy in 1902. In 1903 he moved to Annaberg as a senior seminar teacher , and finally in 1908 to become the seminar director in Zschopau .

In the empire Seyfert belonged to the National Liberal Party . In contrast to most of his party friends, he did not participate in the founding of the DVP in 1918 , but instead joined the DDP .

Seyfert was a member of the state parliament in Saxony from 1908 to 1918 . In 1918 he was Minister of State for a short time. In 1919/20 he was a member of the Weimar National Assembly . From 1920 to 1929 he was again a member of the state parliament in Saxony. In July 1919 was involved in the negotiations on the Weimar school compromise . From October 6, 1919 to December 13, 1920 he was Saxon Minister of Education under the Social Democratic Prime Minister Georg Gradnauer and Wilhelm Buck . He advocated an affiliation of elementary school teacher training to the universities. As chairman of the Association for Labor Education (from 1922) he campaigned for the improvement of handicraft teaching.

From 1923 until his retirement in 1930 he was director of the Pedagogical Institute of the Technical University of Dresden , where he was able to implement his plan for an academic primary school teacher training . His successor in 1931 was Paul Luchtenberg, who was initially non-party and, after 1945, a member of the FDP . Immediately after the National Socialists came to power in 1933, Seyfert's license to teach was revoked, as was Victor Klemperer , who taught at the same institute. Nevertheless, on December 9, 1933, he applied for membership in the NSDAP.

Seyfert was considered one of the leading theorists of elementary school education in the late German Empire and the Weimar Republic , advocating a socially integrative approach. The Richard Seyfert School in Zwickau is named after him.

Others

In 1905, Seyfert was accepted into the Masonic lodge “To the faithful brother heart” in Annaberg. In 1922 he moved to the Dresden lodge to the three swords .

Publications

  • School practice. Elementary school methodology , GJ Göschen'sche Verlagbuchhandlung , Leipzig 1900.
  • Nature observation. Collection of exercises and instructions for regular nature observation in elementary school , Ernst-Wunderlich-Verlag, Leipzig 1905.
  • Human studies and health. Preparations , Ernst-Wunderlich-Verlag, Leipzig 1908.
  • Popular education. Reviews and suggestions , Berlin 1910.
  • Home and the principle of immediacy in teaching , in: Yearbook of the Pedagogical Center of the German Teachers' Association, 1913, pages 1–36.
  • The teaching lesson as an art form - advice and samples for everyday work and for teaching samples , Ernst-Wunderlich-Verlag, Leipzig 1920.
  • School practice - teaching of elementary school lessons , Walter de Gruyter publishing house , Leipzig 1921.
  • General practical education. Handbook of German Teacher Training , 2 volumes, Oldenbourg-Verlag, Munich 1930.
  • Handbook of Teacher Training , 1930 (Ed. Together with Alfred Baeumler and Oskar Vogelhuber)
  • A learner's book of life. Memoirs , Ernst-Wunderlich-Verlag, Leipzig 1935.
  • Work knowledge as an educational tool for the sense of work and working group , Ernst-Wunderlich-Verlag, 1940.

literature

  • Janosch Förster: "Democracy is the great idea that actually supports the people's state." Richard Seyfert as a politician. In: Sebastian Elsbach, Marcel Böhles and Andreas Braune (eds.): Democratic personalities in the Weimar Republic. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2020, ISBN 978-3-515-12799-8 , pp. 119-134.
  • Jutta Frotscher: Richard Seyfert (1862-1940) - Nestor of the academic primary school teacher training in Saxony. In: Johannes Rohrbeck , Hans-Ulrich Wöhler (Ed.): On the way to the university. Cultural Studies in Dresden 1871–1945. Thelem, Dresden 2001, ISBN 3-933592-28-3 , pp. 183-195.
  • Helga Keppeler-Schrimpf: Education is only possible on the basis of nationality. An investigation into Richard Seyfert's popular educational theory as an educational concept of the elementary school. Lit Verlag, Münster 2005, ISBN 3-8258-6537-1 .
  • Helga Keppeler-Schrimpf:  Seyfert, Hermann Richard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , p. 294 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Janosch Pastewka: coalitions instead of class struggle . The Saxon State Parliament in the Weimar Republic (1918–1933). Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2018, ISBN 978-3-799-58462-3 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Keppeler-Schrimpf, Education is only possible ..., p. 134
  2. ↑ List of members of the lodge to the three swords and Astraea to the greening diamond in the Orient Dresden, 1927.
  3. ↑ http://www.schwerterloge.de/beruehmte-freimaurer/
personal data
SURNAME Seyfert, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seyfert, Hermann Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (National Liberal Party, DDP)
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH August 23, 1940
Place of death Dresden