Walter Friedländer

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Walter A. Friedländer (born September 20, 1891 in Berlin ; died December 20, 1984 in Oakland ) was a German social worker . He emigrated to the USA via Paris in 1933 and then taught at the University of California at Berkeley .

biography

Walter A (ndreas) Friedländer was born as the eldest son of Hugo and Ernestine (Lichtenstein) Friedländer. His father belonged to the German peace movement. Walter Friedländer was the nephew of the SPD chairman and member of the Reichstag and Hugo Haase , who left the SPD and co-founded the USPD in 1917 and became its chairman in the same year. After graduating from high school in 1909, he studied law , philosophy and sociology at the universities in Munich and Berlin from 1910 to 1914 and was active in the Socialist Student Union. In 1914 he met Li Bergmann and the couple married in 1919. Their daughter Dorothee emerged from the marriage. In 1920 Friedländer received his doctorate. phil. at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin, joined the Association of Resolute School Reformers , became a youth judge and then went into business as a lawyer in Berlin. In 1921 he became a city ​​councilor for the USPD and head of the Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg youth welfare office . He was a lecturer at the Berlin welfare school of the Arbeiterwohlfahrt and published on youth law .

After the handover of power to the National Socialists in 1933, he emigrated to Switzerland in March and from there to Paris in June, where he was active in the Matteotti Committee in refugee aid and also in the Association of German Migrant Teachers . In 1937 he received, on the recommendation of John Otto Reinemann (* October 10, 1902 - † January 6, 1976), an invitation to the University of Chicago and an entry visa for the USA for himself and his family. He was a lecturer at the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago until 1943. In 1943 he became an American citizen and in 1944 he joined the Council for a Democratic Germany . During his professorship for social welfare from 1949 to 1959 at the University of Berkeley, he took leave of absence at the suggestion of Otto Suhr . He traveled to Berlin on a Fulbright scholarship and taught at the Free University in Berlin and published again in Germany. Friedländer retired in 1959. From 1959 to 1960 he held a visiting professorship at the University of East Lansing in Michigan and from 1967 teaching positions in Cologne, Berlin and Münster. He was active as a journalist and participated in numerous international congresses on youth law and social policy.

Honors

Fonts

  • (Ed.): Basic concepts and methods of social work . Luchterhand, Neuwied 1974, ISBN 3-472-52005-1
  • (with Paul Oestreich and others): Human education . J. Schwetschke, Berlin 1921.
  • School reform and youth law . E. Schwetschke, Berlin 1922
  • Principles of youth law . (= Decided school reform issue 27), Verlag Ernst Oldenburg, Leipzig 1924
  • The educational tasks of the youth welfare office . M. Hensel, Berlin 1927.
  • (with Adele Schreiber and others): The child's book . Academic German Publishing House, Leipzig 1930
  • (with Earl D. Myers): Child Welfare in Germany Before and After Naziism . University of Chicago Press, 1940.
  • Helene Simon . A life for social justice . Bonn: Arbeiterwohlfahrt Main Committee, 1962
  • (with Henry S. Maas et al.): Concepts and Methods of Social Work . W. Carter, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs NJ 1958; 2nd edition 1976

literature

  • Hans Pfaffenberger : Friedländer, Walter , in: Hugo Maier (Ed.): Who is who of social work . Freiburg: Lambertus, 1998 ISBN 3-7841-1036-3 , pp. 187f.
  • Siegfried Mielke (Ed.) With the collaboration of Marion Goers, Stefan Heinz , Matthias Oden, Sebastian Bödecker: Unique - Lecturers, students and representatives of the German University of Politics (1920-1933) in the resistance against National Socialism. Lukas-Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-86732-032-0 , p. 371 (short biography).
  • Karl-Heinz Füssl: Alice in Wonderland: The German-speaking Emigration after 1933 in Case Studies , in: Karl-Heinz Füssl: German-American Cultural Exchange in the 20th Century. Education - Science - Politics , Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 2004, ISBN 3-593-37499-4 , pp. 133-168 (for Friedländer's work in post-war Germany also Chapter 8: Cultural exchange in the nexus of educational and social reform: Outlook in the 1980s pp. 237-279).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Martin Biebricher: A forgotten pioneer - Walter A. Friedländer's contributions to youth welfare reform and professional development of social work . In: Andreas Markert u. a. (Ed.): Social work and social economy - contributions to a field in upheaval . Festschrift for Karl-Heinz Boeßenecker. Lit-Verlag, Münster 2008, ISBN 978-3-8258-0494-7
  2. ^ Karl-Heinz Füssl: German-American cultural exchange in the 20th century , p. 160
  3. ↑ Hildegard Feidel-Mertz / Hermann Schnorbach : teachers in emigration. The Association of German Teacher Emigrants (1933–39) in the traditional context of the democratic teachers' movement , Beltz Verlag, Weinheim and Basel, 1981, ISBN 3-407-54114-7 , p. 229
  4. ^ German digital library: John Otto Reinemann, lawyer
  5. ^ Karl-Heinz Füssl: German-American cultural exchange in the 20th century: education, science, politics . Campus, 2004, ISBN 978-3-593-37499-4
  6. ^ Matthias Willing: The Preservation Law (1918-1967): A legal historical study on the history of German welfare . Mohr Siebeck, 2003, ISBN 978-3-16-148204-5
personal data
SURNAME Friedländer, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Friedländer, Walter A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social pedagogue
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 20, 1984
Place of death Oakland (California)