Walter Voigtländer

Walter Voigtländer (born April 3, 1904 in Chemnitz ; † unknown) was a German educator and employee of the Reich Ministry of Education .

Voigtländer attended a secondary school in Chemnitz until 1923 and became an elementary school teacher at the Dresden Pedagogical Institute of the TH Dresden . From 1926 to 1928 he worked in the Saxon school service, then he studied pedagogy, psychology and philosophy at the TH Dresden and became an assistant to the National Socialist Alfred Baeumler . He received his doctorate from him in 1931 at the TH Dresden on history lessons , especially on the concepts of people and state . He criticized Wilhelm Dilthey's view of community, especially with the arguments of Otto Westphal . The NSDAP member (from May 1, 1933) received a teaching position at the Pedagogical Institute in Dresden in August 1933. From 1934 he worked in the Reich Ministry of Education (alongside Albert Holfelder ), where he became the main consultant in 1935 and Ministerialrat in 1940 with responsibility for the college for teacher training in the Reich Ministry of Education, Office for Science. From 1935 he was also a professor at the Frankfurt (Oder) University for Teacher Training . In November 1933 he signed the professors' declaration of Adolf Hitler at German universities and colleges . In 1934 he became an SS member (1938 Obersturmführer ).

Fonts (selection)

• History education, civic education, political education. The theory of history and history teaching in neo-idealist pedagogy. Diesterweg, Frankfurt am Main 1934 (partly at the same time (revised): Dresden, Technische Hochschule, dissertation, 1931: The terms “people” and “state” in the more recent theories about history and history teaching. ).
• History and education. Basics of political history teaching. Beltz, Langensalza et al. 1934 (several editions).
• The elementary school teacher. Published by the Academic Information Office Berlin in conjunction with the Office for Vocational Education and Management in the German Labor Front. Teaching material center of the Office for Vocational Education and Management in the German Labor Front, among others, Berlin 1938.
• History plan - history book - history teacher. In: Moritz Edelmann (Ed.) Lectures at the Third Reich Conference of the Nazi Teachers' Association for History in Eger from March 30 to April 3, 1939 (= past and present. Supplementary issue 11, ZDB -ID 201572-9 ). Teubner, Leipzig et al. 1939.

literature

• Christian Tilitzki: The German university philosophy in the Weimar Republic and in the Third Reich. Volume 2. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2002, p. 997, ISBN 3-05-003647-8 (also: Berlin, Free University, dissertation, 1999).