Walter Zimmermann (pedagogue)

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Walter Zimmermann

Walter Zimmermann (born April 10, 1892 in Bremerhaven , † February 13, 1968 in Nordenham ) was a German teacher and school councilor in Bremerhaven.

Life

Zimmermann graduated from elementary school in Bremerhaven. From 1906 to 1912 he attended the preparatory institute and the teachers' college in Bederkesa . As a teacher he taught at the German school in Philippopel in Bulgaria in 1917/18 . Since 1917 he was an active member of the teachers' association. He wrote educational essays and books. He was also involved in the youth work of the Mayor Smidt Memorial Church. In 1919 he became a preparation teacher at the Oberlyzeum in Geestemünde . From 1922 to 1936 he was a teacher at the Alt-Geestemünder girls' school. At the Uhland School in Deichstrasse he became a teacher in 1936 and provisional headmaster in 1938 . In 1944 he also took over the provisional management of the Pestalozzi School in Bremerhaven . Politically conservative, he did not join the National Socialist German Workers' Party . He protected the former members of the Socialist Youth of Germany - The Falcons (and the Guttempler ) and finally the church youth of the Great Church.

School council

In 1945 the military government in the American zone of occupation appointed Zimmermann to be the provisional school councilor of Wesermünde for town and country. In 1945 he founded the educational seminar at the Uhlandschule (the later Deichschule) to train primary school teachers. By 1947, 1,400 applicants had registered for this municipal training facility. 10% were accepted and trained in five courses. Formal criteria in the previous education were not decisive. The 125 graduates gave 16 hours per week and noticeably reduced the teacher shortage . In 1948 the Bremen University of Education took over the duties of the educational seminar. On June 7, 1946, Zimmermann was elected to the City School Council. After the state of Bremen was formed in 1947 and a city constitution for Bremerhaven was passed, there was an overlap of competencies between the school supervisory officer Zimmermann and the honorary city councilor Walter Ballof , who had been in office since 1948 , social democrat and department head for schools and youth care. These conflicts led to Ballof's impeachment by the American military government in May 1949. After Ballof's rehabilitation, Zimmermann was given leave of absence by the Bremen Senate in November 1949 . From 1954 the Bremerhaven magistrate and the Bremen Senator for Education Willy Dehnkamp argued about Zimmermann's civil service and salary status. Zimmermann was released from service in 1954 and retired on January 17, 1957. From 1954 to 1961 he therefore taught on a fee basis at the Humboldt School in Bremerhaven and the Lessing School (Bremerhaven) .

politics

For the German party he was elected to the Bremerhaven city ​​council in 1955 . When it had been converted to the All-German Party in 1961 , Zimmermann was elected chairman of the parliamentary group .

son

The son Harro Zimmermann (* 1921) was the first director of the Kreisgymnasium Wesermünde .

Publications

  • War Parents Evenings . Neue Blätter 3/1917, pp. 130–138.
  • My first year of school. A report from work . Stader Schulblatt 1/1922, p. 4f .; 2/1922, p. 11f .; 3/1922, p. 21.
  • Treasure chest for school and home. Poems for different school levels . Bremervörde 1922.
  • Weser primer . 1922.
  • From the youth work in our community , in: Commemorative publication for the restoration of the Mayor Smidt Memorial Church . Bremerhaven 1960, pp. 38-47.

literature

  • Hartmut Bickelmann: Bremerhaven personalities from four centuries. A biographical lexicon . Publications of the Bremerhaven City Archives, Vol. 16 (2003), pp. 386–387 (with picture).
  • Herbert Schwarzwälder : The Great Bremen Lexicon , 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .

Web links

Commons : Walter Zimmermann (1892–1968)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ The falcons went to the Gutemplern because they had a similar chasm. The falcons wore a blue shirt with a red scarf, the Gutempler a blue shirt without a scarf. So they were "camouflaged".

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinrich Schulte am Hülse: Pedagogical Seminar Wesermünde / Bremerhaven 1945–1948 . Bremerhaven 1992.
  2. ↑ Heinrich Schulte am Hülse: Ballof and Zimmermann , in: Hartmut Bickelmann (Ed.): Constitution, Administration and Democracy. Contributions to the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the Bremerhaven city constitution . Bremerhaven 1997, pp. 87-120
personal data
SURNAME Zimmermann, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator and school councilor in Bremerhaven
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremerhaven
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 1968
Place of death Nordenham