Ulrich Peters (pedagogue)

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Ulrich Peters (* July 12, 1878 in Langenhanshagen , Pomerania ; † October 21, 1939 in Bad Salzuflen on a cure; full name: Ulrich Adolf Friedrich Johannes Peters ) was a German historian, educator and head of the Kiel University for Teacher Training . He was the main representative of a German history didactics .

Life

Ulrich Peters was a son of the landlord Heinrich Peters. After attending preschool from 1885 to 1888 and high school, he studied theology, history and philosophy in Greifswald, Erlangen, Bonn and Berlin from 1897. From 1903 to 1904 he was vice principal at the city school in Woldegk , from 1905 as a grammar school teacher in Frankenhausen , moved to Hamburg and received his doctorate in Greifswald in 1909 in medieval history under Ernst Bernheim . From 1914 he served in the army during the First World War until he was wounded in 1916.

In Hamburg he taught first at the Johanneum , then at the Wilhelm Gymnasium , where he set up a German secondary school in 1920 , a high school train with the subjects German and history as the core. From 1924 he became a university assistant with the pedagogue Gustaf Deuchler and in 1925 he switched to the Hamburg teacher training institute. From 1926 Peters headed the Pedagogical Academy in Kiel as a result of a reorganization of the Prussian elementary school teacher training . There he became a professor in 1928. After the National Socialists came to power , it was converted into a college for teacher training (HfL).

The head of the university represented a “German-based pedagogy” and “ ethnic education”, which he saw supplemented by the National Socialist ideas of a “national political and racial education” (1933). Following Wilhelm Dilthey , he saw understanding above all as an experience of wholeness and an intuition. In doing so, he distanced himself from a rational understanding and prepared the ground for National Socialist education .

Director Peters and the biology lecturer Paul Brohmer welcomed Hitler's appointment as Chancellor together with National Socialist students in January 1933 by hoisting the swastika flag over the building. On May 1, 1933 , Peters joined the NSDAP and agreed to the "personnel changes" that resulted from the law for the restoration of the civil service . Peters signed the confession of professors at German universities and colleges to Adolf Hitler in November 1933 .

The theologian Albrecht Peters (1924–1987) was his son.

Fonts (selection)

Peters was from 1925 editor of the magazine for German education and from 1927 to 1934 co-editor of " Die neue deutsche Schule ".

  • On the redesign of history lessons , lecture in Göttingen, Diesterweg Frankfurt / M. 1924
  • Methodology of history teaching in higher educational institutions. 1928.
  • with Walther Hofstaetter: Specialized Dictionary of German Studies , Teubner, Leipzig 1930

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . 2nd edition, Vol. 7, KG Saur, Walter De Gruyter, ISBN 978-3-598-25037-8 , p. 756.
  2. ↑ Alexander Hesse: The professors and lecturers of the Prussian Pedagogical Academies (1926-1933) and universities for teacher training (1933-1941). Deutscher Studien Verlag, Weinheim 1995, ISBN 3-89271-588-2 , p. 566.

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personal data
SURNAME Peters, Ulrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Peters, Ulrich Adolf Friedrich Johannes (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Langenhanshagen , Pomerania
DATE OF DEATH October 21, 1939
Place of death Bad Salzuflen