Rudolf Lammel

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Rudolf Lämmel (born March 2, 1879 in Vienna , † August 9, 1962 in Zurich ) was a reform pedagogue and writer.

Life

Lämmel grew up in Vienna and Graz , but later acquired Swiss citizenship. From the winter semester 1899/1900 he studied natural sciences in Zurich, where he was a member of the Academic-Technical Table Society of the German-Austrians and the resulting Academic Landsmannschaft of the German-Austrians in Zurich. In 1902 he founded the reform high school in Zurich, which he sold in 1913 in order to raise funds for the establishment of the Hertenstein educational home on Lake Lucerne , in which an educational idea based on the combination of physical culture (dance) and scientific subjects is to be realized. The project failed with the outbreak of the First World War .

After the end of a guest stay at the Odenwald School due to a falling out with its director Paul Geheeb , Lämmel founded the Schillerheim educational home in Mettmenstetten in 1917 , which also failed economically. From 1918 he advocated the establishment of an adult education center in Zurich. Thanks to his pedagogical and educational-political publications, he was employed as a teacher in the Thuringian Ministry of Education in September 1923, but was put on hold in July of the following year due to the economic hardship and his salary was drastically reduced. Since then, Lämmel has been active as a popular science writer and children's book author, and in 1928 he published his programmatic work on modern dance, in which he vigorously opposed the hostility and prudery that he believed to be caused by the tradition of the mind-body dualism of Christianity and also the admission the nudity in dance and gymnastics, especially in education, which he hoped would have a liberating effect on personal development.

In 1933 Lämmel was retired because of his closeness to the Social Democrats due to the law "Restoring the Professional Civil Service" and then returned to Zurich, where he lived with his large family under difficult economic conditions until he was employed as a teacher at the Juventus School and later at the associated evening technical college, where he taught physics until he was 80. In his "Introduction to the Basic Problems of Race Theory" published in 1936, he dealt critically with the National Socialist race theory.

Lämmel was married twice, from 1903 to Sophie Axelrod, from 1917 to Luise Dorothea Frank. The first marriage resulted in two (including the dancer Vera Skoronel ) and the second four (or five) more children.

Works

  • Paths to the theory of relativity , Stuttgart 1921.
  • Die neue Kolonie , 1924. Novel under the pseudonym H. Inführ.
  • Social physics. Natural force, man and economy , Stuttgart 1925.
  • Modern electrical industry , Jena 1927.
  • From naturalists and natural laws , 1927.
  • Galileo Galilei. In the light of the twentieth century , Berlin 1927.
  • The modern dance. A generally understandable introduction to the field of rhythmic gymnastics and new dance , Berlin-Schöneberg no year 1928.
  • Modern science and the cosmos , Berlin 1929.
  • The modern scientific worldview , 1932.
  • The human races. A popular science introduction to the basic problems of race theory , Zurich 1936.
  • Galileo and his age , 1942.
  • Physics for Everyone , 1946.
  • Isaac Newton , 1957.

literature

  • Martin Näf: “We are denied the greatest effect…” Rudolf Laemmel (1879–1962) - reform pedagogue, adult educator, educator. Attempt at a biographical reconstruction . In: Searching for traces. Journal for the history of adult education and popular science, 11th year, 2000, issue 3–4 ( online )
  • Karl Toepfer: Empire of Ecstasy. Nudity and Movement in German Body Culture , 1910-1935. Berkeley 1997 ( online )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Platzer: The short-lived Arminia Zurich . In: Studentica Helvetica 65 (2017), p. 11.
  2. ^ Rudolf Lämmel: The modern dance. A generally understandable introduction to the field of rhythmic gymnastics and new dance . Berlin-Schöneberg n.d. (1928), pp. 9-30; Panel 60; 78f .; 90-95.
personal data
SURNAME Lammel, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Reform pedagogue and writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 1962
Place of death Zurich