Siegfried Kawerau

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Stolperstein , Bonhoefferufer 18, in Berlin-Charlottenburg

Georg Siegfried Kawerau (born December 8, 1886 in Berlin ; † December 16, 1936 there ) was a German educator and school reformer . He worked as a grammar school teacher in Berlin, was a member of the SPD and the Association of Resolute School Reformers .

Life

Siegfried Kawerau, the son of the Berlin cathedral organist and singing teacher Hermann Kawerau , studied in Berlin and Breslau from 1904 to 1909 . In 1910 he acquired in Berlin qualified to teaching at secondary schools for German, history and Latin, and the work was German rivalry and French power in the 10th century at the Albertina in Königsberg Doctor of Philosophy PhD . From 1911 he was a senior teacher at the upper secondary school of the evangelical community in Bucharest , and from autumn 1913 in Landsberg an der Warthe . With the outbreak of the First World War he had to do military service. In 1915 he was injured near Verdun so that he was no longer fit for military service and returned to Landsberg for school service.

In lectures to teachers' associations, he called for interdenominational upbringing and coeducation . He called for a social empire, the overcoming of confessionalism and the separation of church and state . From the beginning of 1918 he took part in patriotic instruction and from Easter 1919 taught at secondary schools in Berlin. In the course of the November Revolution in 1918, he worked on the reform committee of the Berlin Philologists' Association and, together with Max Hermann Baege, published the magazine Die Neue Erschung in 1919 . In the autumn of 1919 he joined the SPD and the Association of Resolute School Reformers . He was a member of the Reichsschulkonferenz in 1920 and spoke out against Heinrich Schulz and the Weimar school compromise . Disappointed by the developments, he left the working group of social democratic teachers , the Protestant regional church and, for a short time, the Association of Determined School Reformers, for which he worked again from 1921.

From 1921 he was a member of the Charlottenburg district assembly and from 1925 to 1930 city ​​councilor . He published writings on reforming history teaching . In 1927 he became senior director of studies at the Köllnisches Gymnasium until he was arrested in early 1933, released after several months and taken into early retirement on September 1, 1933. He did not recover from the health effects of his imprisonment and died at the age of 50. He found his final resting place in the Old St. Matthew Cemetery in Berlin.

He was friends with Rainer Maria Rilke and had been married to Anna Magdalena since 1911. The marriage resulted in three sons and a daughter.

Honors

On April 9, 2009 , a stumbling block was laid in front of Siegfried Kawerau's former home, Bonhoefferufer 18, in Berlin-Charlottenburg .

Fonts

  • The white paper on school reform. Curtius, Berlin 1920.
  • Sociological Pedagogy. Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1921.
  • The Association of Resolute School Reformers. Becoming and being . (= Decided School Reform Issue 1), Ernst Oldenburg Verlag, Berlin 1922.
  • Old and new history lessons. Decided School Reform Volume 18, Ernst Oldenburg Verlag, Leipzig 1924.
  • Memorandum on German history and reading books, especially since 1923. Hensel & Co., Berlin 1927.
  • Synoptic tables for historical work lessons from the end of the Middle Ages to the present. (with the collaboration of Fritz Ausländer and others) Verlag Franz Schneider, Berlin, Leipzig 1921
  • Synoptic history tables for the period from around 1500-1920 Verlag Franz Schneider, Berlin, 1921
  • The Eternal Revolution - Results of the International History Conference 2.-4. October 1924 , published in 1925, CA Schwetschke (Berlin)

literature

Web links

Commons : Siegfried Kawerau  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Siegfried Kawerau  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alfred Ehrentreich:  Kawerau, Siegfried. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-428-00192-3 , p. 378 f. ( Digitized version ). Incidentally wrong year of birth 1866 in the print version.
personal data
SURNAME Kawerau, Siegfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kawerau, Georg Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator and school reformer
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 16, 1936
Place of death Berlin