Walter Lindemann

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Walter Lindemann (born March 25, 1893 in Halberstadt , † September 18, 1985 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German communist , educator , university professor , politician and activist of the free thinker movement .

Life

Lindemann grew up as the son of a factory owner from Halberstadt and his wife. After graduating from the Halberstädter Domgymnasium in 1911, he studied German and English , history and philosophy in Freiburg , Munich and Marburg . In 1915 he was qualified to teach, and from 1916 to 1918 he was a trainee lawyer in Kassel . On April 1, 1918, he came to the Arnoldischule in Gotha as a senior teacher , and in 1922 he became a teacher .

In 1922 Lindemann was one of the founders of the “Free Teachers Union of Germany” and a member of the “International Educational Workers”. Their German section was based in Gotha and was headed by his wife Anna Lindemann . In Thuringia, the freethinker lessons were particularly successful, which received significant impulses especially in the proletarian family celebrations and especially the youth consecrations . After he published the program brochure of the “Community of Proletarian Freethinkers” in May 1926 with a foreword in which he reported on the unsuccessful program discussion at the Leipzig General Assembly at Easter 1924, this had an accelerating effect on the unification of the two largest German freethinkers' associations, the community of proletarian free thinkers and the "Association of Freethinkers for Cremation " founded in Berlin in 1905 to become the "Association for Freethinkers and Cremation" , which from 1930 called itself the "German Freethinkers Association" and at times had around 700,000 members. This is still active today within the Humanist Association of Germany . Lindemann was also a founding member of the KPD in Gotha.

In 1933 Lindemann was dismissed from his work as a teacher at the Arnoldischule by the National Socialists and robbed of his pension rights and the entire library. In 1935/36 he first worked as a teacher for welfare children on the youth farm in Klein-Bengerstorf in Mecklenburg, then as a private teacher in Bielefeld . After the end of the Second World War , he returned to Gotha with his wife and worked as a senior government councilor in the Thuringian Ministry of Education. In 1948 he was appointed full professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Jena , where he had been teaching since 1946. In 1949 he received a professorship for education at the University of Halle . In 1961 he was awarded the Silver Patriotic Order of Merit .

Others

A street in Gotha is named after Lindemann.

plant

  • The proletarian free thinker movement: history, theory, etc. Practice; Program brochure. Walter Lindemann and Anna Lindemann; Leipzig: Freidenker-Verl. 1926; 82 pages. - Reprint with afterword by Henning Eichberg , Atalas, Münster 1980 (Workers Culture Series, Volume 2)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Ploenus, "... as important as daily bread". The Jena Institute for Marxism-Leninism 1945-1990 , Verlag Böhlau (2007), ISBN 3412200107 , p. 88 ff.
  2. ^ New Germany , October 6, 1961, p. 3
personal data
SURNAME Lindemann, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher, university professor and activist of the freethinker movement
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Halberstadt
DATE OF DEATH September 18, 1985
Place of death Halle (Saale)