Walter Schulze (teacher)
Walter Schulze (born August 5, 1903 in Braunschweig ; † November 3, 1980 there ) was a German teacher and adult educator.
Life
After attending secondary school, Schulze studied at the teachers' college from 1919 to 1924 . He taught in Schöningen and later in Braunschweig at a secular school . In 1923 he became a member of the SPD and the Free Teachers 'Union of Germany, a socialist alternative to the German teachers' association founded in Gotha in 1919 . After the state elections in September 1930, the Bürgerliche Einheitsliste (BEL) formed a coalition government together with the NSDAP in the Free State of Braunschweig. In April 1931, the National Socialist Education Minister Anton Franzen dismissed a number of teachers, including Walter Schulze, from civil service because of their political opposition to National Socialism. Walter Schulze went to Hamburg as a teacher after a stopover at the police school in Berlin. In 1943 he came to occupied Denmark as a soldier. In Hamburg and later as a soldier in Denmark, he worked in illegal groups that were preparing to help build a more stable democracy after the Hitler regime had been eliminated. Before the end of the war, he went into hiding with German political emigrants in Copenhagen. "After the end of the Third Reich, he worked for a few years for cultural support and the initiation of a democratization process in the refugee camps under Danish administration."
Act
In 1948 he returned to Germany. He became rector, school councilor and finally personal advisor to the Lower Saxony minister of education Richard Voigt . Taking up the internationalism of the labor movement and influenced by his experiences in Danish national education, he founded the Sonnenberg International Working Group in 1951, supported by friends from Germany and Denmark . From 1951 to 1973 he was its chairman and from 1955 general secretary. The International House Sonnenberg in the Upper Harz near Sankt Andreasberg was inaugurated as an educational and meeting place .
Honors
- 1968: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1971: Carl von Ossietzky Medal for the International Sonnenberg Working Group
- Great Cross of Merit of the Lower Saxony Order of Merit
literature
- Kurt Neumann: International educational work. Basics and requirements. Braunschweig: Georg Westermann 1968
- Henriette Riskær Steffensen: Walter Schulze (1903–1980). In: Dähnhardt, Nielsen (Ed.): Exile in Denmark. German-speaking scientists, artists and writers in exile in Denmark after 1933. Heide: Westholsteinische Verlagsanstalt Boyens & Co. 1993, pp. 655–658.
- Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 .
- Almuth Rohloff: Walter Schulze. In: Reinhard Bein (ed.): Braunschweiger personalities of the 20th century, Volume 2, Braunschweig: döringDruck 2012, pp. 240–243
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. Almuth Rohloff: Walter Schulze. In: Reinhard Bein (ed.): Braunschweiger personalities of the 20th century, Volume 2, Braunschweig: döringDruck 2012, p. 240f.
- ^ Kurt Neumann: International educational work. Basics and requirements. Braunschweig: Georg Westermann 1968, p. 142
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schulze, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th August 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Braunschweig |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd November 1980 |
| Place of death | Braunschweig |