Simon Bang

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Simon Bang (born May 13, 1855 in Oberdorla ; † June 5, 1928 in Dresden ) was a German high school supervisor and district school inspector who also worked as a non-fiction author of several educational publications.

Life

He was the son of the Oberdorla community shepherd Heinrich Adam Bang and his wife Marie nee Götz, daughter of a landowner.

Simon Bang, who came from a humble background, became an elementary school teacher after attending school. As such, he worked at several village schools in the area of ​​the Bailiwick of Dorla . Bang's request for a transfer as a teacher to the Kingdom of Saxony was taken note of with astonishment by the Prussian school authorities, but was finally approved after a long delay. He initially found a job in Meissen. Most recently when he worked as a district school inspector in Dippoldiswalde and a senior school officer in Dresden. As such, he wrote numerous pedagogical writings, including: Are the objections raised against a historical-pragmatic treatment of the life of Jesus justified? Gotha, 1898.

On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the General Evangelical Lutheran School Association, he gave the keynote lecture Luther, the German cornerstone, cornerstone and gemstone in Dresden . This lecture appeared in print in the school association in the same year.

On the occasion of his 70th birthday, a commemorative publication was published for him in 1925. He died three years later in Dresden.

family

Simon Bang married Martha Christine Damm (1857–1915). The economic politician and later MP Paul Bang (born January 18, 1879 in Meißen; † December 31, 1945 in Hohenfichte) emerged from the joint marriage .

literature

  • GE Wagner (Ed.): Contributions to a life picture of the Dresden high school councilor Simon Bang. To celebrate the 70th birthday . 1925.
  • Dieter Niederstadt: Right-wing economic and social ideas in the Weimar Republic between tension school and National Socialism with special consideration of Paul Bang . Munster 1970.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ GE Wagner (Ed.): Contributions to a life picture of the Dresden high school councilor Simon Bang. To celebrate the 70th birthday . 1925.
  2. ^ High school supervisor Simon Bang has died. In: Deutsche Lehrerzeitung , Berlin, Volume 41, 1928, pp. 325–327.
  3. ↑ Bang, Paul in the German biography
personal data
SURNAME Bang, Simon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German high school councilor, district school director and writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberdorla
DATE OF DEATH June 5, 1928
Place of death Dresden