Theodor Bäuerle

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Theodor Bäuerle (born June 16, 1882 in Unterurbach ; † May 29, 1956 in Stuttgart ) was a German educator , administrative officer and politician .

Life and work

Theodor Bäuerle was born on June 16, 1882 as the son of a master saddler in Unterurbach. After attending elementary school in his home community and attending the Latin school in Schorndorf , he completed the Protestant elementary school teacher seminar in Esslingen from 1896 , which he completed in 1901 with the first official examination. Then he was employed as a teacher at the Lerchenrain School in Heslach . From 1904 he worked as a seminar teacher at the Protestant teachers' seminar in Nürtingen , passed the second service examination there in 1907 and worked as a primary school teacher in Stuttgart from 1908. In addition, he made numerous study trips through Germany. After he received his university entrance qualification through a scholarship in 1910, he studied economics, social sciences and philosophy at the Academy for Social and Commercial Sciences in Frankfurt am Main in 1911/12 . He then worked as a senior seminar teacher and head of the seminar practice school at the teachers' seminar in Backnang . Bäuerle had done military service as a one-year volunteer , took part in the First World War as a soldier from 1914 to 1918 and was initially employed as a company commander. In August 1915 he was seriously wounded by a shot in the head on the Eastern Front. As a result, he was transferred to Ludwigsburg as a reconnaissance officer .

Bäuerle, who was concerned with reforms in the adult education system throughout his life, had been managing director of the Association for the Promotion of Popular Education in Stuttgart from 1918 and at the same time managing director of the Association for the Promotion of the Gifted from 1919 together with the Jewish musicologist Karl Adler . He was the initiator and founding member of the Hohenrodter Bund , a discussion group that tried to address basic issues and theory development in popular education during the Weimar period .
After 1933 he came to terms with the National Socialists and was able to continue his work. In 1936, however, the clubs were forcibly dissolved. He then worked as managing director of the Markelstiftung and the Bosch youth welfare service. In June 1942 he was arrested by the Gestapo , but shortly afterwards released from prison at Gottlob Berger's instigation . After the failed assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 , he was arrested again because of his contacts with the resistance group around Carl Friedrich Goerdeler , interrogated several times and released again after twelve days.

After the Second World War , Bäuerle was appointed by the French occupation forces as deputy to Carlo Schmid as deputy country director in the cultural department. Shortly afterwards he was appointed ministerial director. He was also chairman of the working group Der Bürger im Staat and president of the German Adult Education Association . Theodor Bäuerle, who had been suffering from diabetes since the early 1930s, died on May 29, 1956 in a Stuttgart hospital.

Theodor Bäuerle had been married to Klara Gerlach since 1908 . The marriage resulted in three daughters and one son.

politics

After the resignation of Wilhelm Simpfendörfer , Bäuerle, who was close to the DDP during the Weimar Republic , initially took over the provisional management of the Ministry of Culture and on August 21, 1947, became Minister for Culture and Education in the government of the State of Württemberg led by Prime Minister Reinhold Maier -Baden called. During his tenure, he promoted the reinstatement of retired teachers and assistant teachers in order to address the teacher shortage. Furthermore, he tried in vain to tie in with the old forms of popular education of the Weimar period. On January 11, 1951, he resigned from the state government and was replaced as Minister by Gotthilf Schenkel .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Laack 1984, pp. 597ff

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personal data
SURNAME Bäuerle, Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator, administrative officer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Unterurbach
DATE OF DEATH May 29, 1956
Place of death Stuttgart