Walter Ackermann (pedagogue)

Walter Ackermann (born June 11, 1889 in Eisenach , † April 21, 1978 in Wiesbaden ) was a German educator .

Life

Walter Ackermann attended grammar school in Coburg from 1899 to 1908 and then studied philosophy, mathematics and physics in Lausanne (1908), Berlin (1908–1909) and Göttingen (1909 / 10–1914) until 1914 . Here he learned, in his own words, "the greatest progress in my spiritual development" from the philosopher Leonard Nelson , whose circle he joined.

In 1914 he was able to take his state examination and obtain his doctorate before he was sent to the front as a war volunteer in an infantry air force. He lost his left hand here in 1917 during a reconnaissance flight.

In 1919 he became assistant to the sociologist Franz Oppenheimer in Frankfurt , a friend of Nelson's; After Nelson's early death, from 1929 onwards, together with Nobel Prize winner Otto Meyerhof and Nelson's long-time colleague Minna Specht, until 1937, Volumes 5 and 6 of the treatises of the New Fries' School were published , Nelson and the mathematician Gerhard Hessenberg and initially also the physiologist Karl Kaiser began to publish as a new series from 1904 , but had stopped in connection with the consequences of the First World War around 1918.

With the pedagogue Otto Haase (1893–1961) from the Nelson district, Ackermann attempted in vain to found a school by the sea in Binz on Rügen , so that he initially worked at the Lietzsche Landerziehungsheim Schloss Bieberstein until his assessor examination in 1922 was. After a brief engagement at the Hochwaldhausen Mountain School in Vogelsberg , he entered the civil service in Thuringia and worked as a teacher at the Greiz School in Vogtland .

In 1928 he moved to Berlin and began working on the Scharfenberg island school farm in Tegeler See . After Hitler came to power in 1934, he went to a boys' school in Charlottenburg and was subsequently transferred several times within Berlin because of his “half-barren” wife and alleged “defensive disintegration”. In 1943 he therefore retired at his own request and moved to Freiburg im Breisgau .

After the collapse of the Third Reich , he was appointed lecturer in philosophy at the University of Education in Göttingen, which opened in 1946, and was appointed professor there in 1946 - “as the third former Scharfenberg teacher alongside Blume and Ziegelmayer”.

After his retirement in 1954 he was granted a long evening of life.

literature

• Dietmar Haubfleisch: Schulfarm Insel Scharfenberg, micro-analysis of the reform-pedagogical teaching and upbringing reality of a democratic experimental school in Berlin during the Weimar Republic . Lang, Frankfurt et al. 2001.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ What is meant is the Jakob Friedrich Fries Society.
2. ↑ Minna Specht was a co-founder of Nelson's IJB / ISK and then head of his Walkemühle educational home .
3. ↑ Haubfleisch p. 972.