Salomon Well
Salomon Wohl (* 1818 in Fuchsstadt ; † September 26, 1902 in Marktbreit ) was a German school founder.
Life
Salomon Wohl came to Marktbreit in 1843 as an Israelite religion teacher . He was the successor of Samson Werner, who died in 1842, who in turn had replaced Samson Jonas Berolzheimer, who took office in 1828 and moved away in 1829. His predecessor, Chasan Lazarus Marx, took office in 1794. A relatively large number of citizens of the Jewish faith lived in Marktbreit, but the poorer families in particular had many children, whereas the wealthy had few children. Funding the teacher from the community was therefore problematic. Salomon Wohl obviously decided to also target foreign students to Marktbreit.
Two years after his arrival in Marktbreit, at the same time as the Brussels Trade Institute in Segnitz , Wohl founded the Salomon Wohl'sche Educational and Trade Institute, a kind of business school in which, among other things, modern foreign languages and business subjects and, initially, also the classical languages to prepare for the Transition to high school were taught. In order to be able to have his school recognized by the state, he passed the teacher's examination in the French language in Würzburg . Attached to the school was a boarding school which was attended by students from all over Europe and even from overseas. At times the institute had over 100 students, not all of whom were Jewish. In 1863, Carl Rohr reported in an article in the Allgemeine Zeitung des Judentums about the institute, “that there are around 100 pupils on full board, half of whom belong to Christian denominations, and that what serves its universal direction to the great honor, the the religious needs of the Christian pupils can be as fully satisfied as the strictly religious upbringing of the Israelite pupils. The moral upbringing and catering, combined with the extremely cheap annual fee of 200 florins for lessons, food, lodging and laundry, which is inadequate for the services, is handled with the greatest care and conscientiousness, and love, coupled with rigor, is what is in the unchanging principle of the treatment of the pupils. "
For the year 1870 there are 147 students from twelve countries who were taught by nine teachers.
After retiring from school, Salomon Wohl continued to devote himself to public affairs. In an obituary in the journal Der Israelit on October 6, 1902, his work as a magistrate and as the first religious leader of the community was mentioned. For 19 years he was a religion teacher and cantor, for 36 years he led the religious community.
Salomon Wohl's gravestone in the Jewish cemetery in Rödelsee has been preserved.
The private school he founded was continued by his successors. It still exists today and is now located at Buheleite 20 in Marktbreit.
Further development of the Salomon Wohl'schen Institute
When a new building was due in 1875, Salomon Wohl handed his school over to the teacher Josef Damm, who expanded it into a business school with a preparatory class and the four upper classes of a six-class business school, which taught according to the curriculum of the Bavarian business schools. In 1878 the city of Marktbreit took over the board of trustees for the school, shortly afterwards it was expanded into a six-class commercial school and called the municipal commercial school. The certificate of leaving entitlement to one year volunteer service . In 1897 the school became private again and continued to exist as the Johann Damm Real and Commercial School. From 1906 to 1960 it was taken over by the Köppl family. From 1944 the then headmaster Edgar Köppl was called up for military service and the operation of the private school was suspended until 1947. Over the years, the E. Köppl secondary and commercial school with boarding school became today's state-recognized Leo-Weismantel-Realschule. In 1984 the headmaster at the time, Rudolf Scherer, founded a second private school, the private secondary school of the Bildungswerk Marktbreit, which he also directed until 1986. The Leo-Weismantel-Realschule in Marktbreit and the private Realschule of the Bildungswerk Marktbreit are thus direct successor institutions of the Wohl'schen Institute. While Edgar Köppel was unable to run his private school due to the effects of the Second World War, the school councilor and Marktbreiter mayor Ernst Heywang ran the Marktbreit municipal secondary school from 1946 to 1950, from which the Marktbreit grammar school developed today.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Grave in the Rödelsee Jewish cemetery
- ↑ a b Michael Schneeberger, Jüdische Landgemeinden in Bayern (30), in: Jüdisches Leben in Bayern 117, 2011, pp. 22–29, here p. 25 ( Memento of the original from March 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: Der Archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b c Homepage of the Leo-Weismantel-Realschule Marktbreit
- ↑ a b Gerhard Schröttel, Marktbreit als Schulstadt , in: Frankenland 21, 1969, p. 94-99, especially p. 95 f., Digitized at: frankenland.franconica.uni-wuerzburg.de
- ↑ Allgemeine Zeitung des Judentums , October 27, 1863
- ↑ On the death of Solomon Wohl , in: Der Israelit , October 6, 1902
- ^ Historical yearbooks of the private secondary schools in Marktbreit
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Well, Solomon |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German school founder |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1818 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Fuchsstadt |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 26, 1902 |
| Place of death | Market wide |