Rudolf Lennert

Rudolf Lennert (born December 5, 1904 in Munich , † May 19, 1988 in Tutzing ) was a German theologian , teacher , educator and university professor .

Life

Rudolf Lennert grew up in a middle-class family in Pirna (Saxony), where he attended elementary school from 1911–1915 and secondary school from 1915–1919. After attending the Fürsten- und Landesschule St. Afra in Meissen 1919–1923, where he graduated from high school in 1923, he studied theology and philosophy in Leipzig from 1923–1927 and in Berlin in 1927/28 . In Leipzig he studied with the theologians Heinrich Böhmer , Johannes Leipoldt , Albrecht Alt , Emil Balla , Horst Stephan , Paul Tillich , Joachim Wach , the historian Johannes Kühn , the sociologist Hans Freyer and the biologist Hans Driesch , in Berlin with the theologians Erich Seeberg and Romano Guardini . In 1927 he passed the first theological exam. The time as assistant at the theological faculty of the University of Leipzig from 1928 to 1931 was followed by a doctorate on Max Weber's theory of religion at the University of Leipzig in 1931 (speakers were Joachim Wach and Theodor Litt ) (the dissertation was published as a book in 1935). From 1931 to 1934 Lennert worked as a teacher at the Marquartstein in Chiemgau and Nordeck Castle in Hesse. In 1933 he passed the examination to become a secondary school teacher, but he was denied entry into the state school service as a "non-Aryan" ("mixed breed 2nd degree"). In 1935 Lennert was a private teacher with the writer Albrecht Schaeffer in Rimsting am Chiemsee. From 1936 to 1938 he found a livelihood for himself and his family (he had married in 1937) as an assistant to an economic advisor, and from 1938 to 1940 he was able to work as economic director of a hospital in Szczecin . After participating in the war from 1940–1945 as an interpreter in a Pomeranian “crew main camp”, he lived in 1945 from an economic advisory activity in Rotenburg (Wümme) , and then from 1946–1947 became the acting director of the Göhrde folk high school . After the second exam for teaching at secondary schools in 1947, he was a teacher at the Johanneum grammar school in Lüneburg from 1947 to 1954 . In 1955 he moved to Berlin: 1955–1960 was deputy director of the State Scientific Examination Office there and taught as associate professor from 1960–1963. Professor, 1963–1971 finally as full professor for school pedagogy and general educational science at the Free University of Berlin until retirement in 1971. Lennert remained a decisive exponent of humanities pedagogy at a time when positivist educational science was gaining ground in Germany under American influence . Well beyond his retirement he was a member of the German Society for Educational Science , founded in 1964 - it also made him an honorary member - and was on the selection committee of the German National Academic Foundation for more than a decade . Lennert was friends with the German-Jewish essayist and poet Werner Kraft (1896–1991) and with the Jerusalem teacher Ernst Simon . Lennert mainly appeared as the author of the educational journals “Denkendes Volk. Sheets for Self-Education ” (Ed .: Adolf Grimme ), “ Die Sammlung ” (1945–1960) and “ Neue Sammlung ” (1961–1986). Rudolf Lennert last lived in Tutzing on Lake Starnberg.

Works

• Max Weber's theory of religion. Attempt to analyze his understanding of the history of religion. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1935 (dissertation University of Leipzig, 1931).
• Interpreter in the prison camp . In: The Collection . Vol. 14 (1959), pp. 75-88.
• Seclusion and secrecy. About some phenomena of inner experience. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1965 (With the printed dedication: " Werner Kraft / thankfully dedicated"). - The book contains numerous articles and essays that were previously published in the journals Denkendes Volk , Die Sammlung and Neue Sammlung .
• About the life of the German language in Jerusalem. In: New Collection . Vol. 6 (1966), pp. 617-627 (about Ludwig Strauss , Ernst Simon and Werner Kraft ).
• Who was Martin Buber ? In: New Collection . Vol. 8 (1968), pp. 473-484.
• The problem of the upper secondary school . Edited by Rudolf Lennert. Bad Heilbrunn / Obb .: Klinkhardt 1971 (Klinkhardt's educational source texts). ISBN 3-7815-0137-X
• “Education” I. On the history of concepts and ideas. In: Theological Real Encyclopedia. In community with Horst Balz (among others). ed. by Gerhard Krause and Gerhard Müller Vol. 6. Berlin, de Gruyter, New York 1980, pp. 569-582, ISBN 3-11-008115-6 .

literature

• Rudolf Lennert. * December 5th, 1904. In: Pedagogy in self-portrayals. Edited by Ludwig J. Pongratz. Vol. 3. Hamburg: Meiner 1978, pp. 150-193. ISBN 3-7873-0445-2 .
• Rudolf Lennert: belonging, self-confidence, foreignness. Memory of a dark time. In: New Collection. Vol. 26 (1986) pp. 381-395.
• Bernhard Schwenk: Address at the funeral service for Rudolf Lennert on May 31, 1988. In: New Collection. Vol. 28 (1988) pp. 433-435.
• Theresia Vennebusch-Beaugrand: The collection - magazine for culture and education. A contribution to German post-war education. Cologne: Böhlau 1993 (studies and documentations on German educational history. 50), p. 75 (the employees of the "collection") and 196 (Lennert's contributions in the "collection"). ISBN 3-412-10092-7
• Klaus-Peter Horn: Educational Science in Germany in the 20th Century. To develop the social and professional structure of the discipline from initial institutionalization to expansion. Bad Heilbrunn / Obb .: Klinkhardt 2003. (In it about Rudolf Lennert: pp. 134–135 and 278–279.) ISBN 3-7815-1271-1 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ All information according to the curriculum vitae in Lennert's Leipzig dissertation print “Die Religionstheorie Max Weber. Attempt to analyze his understanding of the history of religion ”(print: Kohlhammer 1935), p. 59, based on Lennert's autobiography: Rudolf Lennert. * December 5th, 1904. In: Pedagogy in self-portrayals. Edited by Ludwig J. Pongratz. Bd. 3. Hamburg 1978, pp. 150-193 and according to the information in the essay, the v. a. treats his life as a so-called "2nd degree hybrid" during the Nazi era: Rudolf Lennert: belonging, self-confidence, strangeness. Memory of a dark time. In: New Collection. Vol. 26 (1986) pp. 381-395.
2. ^ Curriculum vitae in Lennert's Leipzig dissertation "Max Weber's theory of religion. Attempt to analyze his understanding of the history of religion ”(1935), p. 59.
3. ^ Raul Hilberg: The annihilation of the European Jews. The Complete History of the Holocaust. From the American. by Christian Seeger (among others). Berlin: Olle & Wolter 1982, pp. 53–63 (“Definition”), here p. 58.
4. ^ Lennert: Interpreter in the prison camp. In: The Collection. 14: 75-88 (1959).
5. ↑ DGfE: Honorary Members ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ↑ Kraft dedicated the poem Auf dem Sinai to him . In: New Collection. Vol. 9 (1969) pp. 510f.
7. ↑ See Rudolf Lennert: Greetings to Ernst Simon. In: New Collection. Vol. 9 (1969) p. 195.
8. ↑ Hartmut von Hentig: Reflecting and reflecting. In: New Collection. Vol. 6 (1969), pp. 487–492 (pp. 491f .: Rudolf Lennert as author of the 'Collection' and the 'New Collection').