Siegfried Pickert

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Siegfried Pickert (born June 3, 1898 in Glogau , Silesia , † March 12, 2002 in Borchen near Paderborn) was a German anthroposophist and educator . He is considered a co-founder of anthroposophical curative education .

Life

Pickert was born the fourth of six children to a Protestant military pastor. The officer Wolfgang Pickert was his older brother. After graduating from high school in 1916, Siegfried Pickert was briefly a soldier and then began studying German, history, philosophy and education as well as Polish in Posen (Poznań). He continued his studies in Jena and Berlin. At 16 he was already close to the Wandervogel movement and wandered all over Germany. With his turn to the Polish language he consciously set himself apart from his German national-conservative -minded parents.

In Jena he met u. a. Albrecht Strohschein and Franz Löffler . In 1921 he completed an anthroposophical university course in Stuttgart and met Rudolf Steiner there . In the summer of 1923 he deepened his anthroposophy studies at the Goetheanum in Dornach . In September 1923 he took up a position as an anthroposophical curative teacher at the Sophienhöhe youth sanatorium in Jena, which was founded by Johannes Trüper . Encouraged by Steiner, he and Franz Löffler founded their own special educational home in Jena, the Lauenstein, in 1924. There handicapped children were looked after and brought up according to anthroposophical principles. During this time, Pickert corresponded regularly with the doctor Ita Wegman . In 1929 Pickert married Helene Weiß in Jena, with whom he worked closely on the Lauenstein. In 1931, with the help of Swiss friends and Georg Moritz von Sachsen-Altenburg, he acquired Hamborn Castle near Paderborn and relocated his special educational boarding school there. In 1941 the National Socialists closed the facility. It was reopened as a Waldorf School in 1946 . Pickert headed the facility until 1968 and worked there as a lecturer until 1985.

In 1998 Siegfried Pickert was honored with the Federal Cross of Merit.

Trivia

Siegfried Pickert is one of the few people who have lived in three centuries.

Works and literature

  • Siegfried Pickert: 50 Years of the Curative Education Course - Lecture on October 9, 1975 at the Goetheanum . Natura-Verlag Arlesheim 1975
  • Siegfried Pickert: The beginnings of anthroposophical curative education . Dornach 1991
  • Peter Selg: The angel over the Lauenstein. Siegfried Pickert, Ita Wegman and curative education . Verlag am Goetheanum, Dornach 2004, ISBN 3-7235-1209-7
  • Michael Wortmann: We still saw him: Rudolf Steiner - late conversations with contemporary witnesses . Verlag Ch. Möllmann, Borchen 2002, ISBN 3-931156-87-7

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Waldorf Education Worldwide, ed. v. the Friends of Waldorf Education, Berlin 2001, p. 36 (online at freunde-waldorf.de)
  2. ^ Adolf Baumann: Dictionary of Anthroposophy, MVG Verlag 1991, p. 127 (keyword curative education)
  3. ↑ Peter Selg: The angel over the Lauenstein. Siegfried Pickert, Ita Wegman and curative education. Verlag am Goetheanum, Dornach 2004
  4. ↑ schloss-hamborn-chronik.de: The ban by the Nazis
personal data
SURNAME Pickert, Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German anthroposophist and educator
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Glogau , Silesia
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 2002
Place of death Borchen near Paderborn