Werner Meyer (Pedagogue)

Werner Meyer (* 1899 in Waldshut ; † 1977 in Rüdesheim am Rhein ) was a German teacher , didactic specialist in German teaching, ministerial official and university director.

After graduating from high school in Barmen in 1917 and participating in the First World War for a year, he studied German philology, history and philosophy in Freiburg (Br.), Munich and Heidelberg until he received his doctorate under Karl Jaspers in 1927. He then became a teacher of German, history and ancient languages at the Odenwald School , from 1934 to 1939 together with Heinrich Sachs head of the now so-called “Community of the Odenwald School”. In January 1934, Meyer formulated NS-affine "proposals for setting up the Odenwald School as a rural education home in the National Socialist state" to Max Cassirer, who was still the school owner . NSDAP member since 1937 , drafted into the Wehrmacht in 1939 , legal clerkship in Gera . March 22, 1941-14. October 1945 headmaster of the free school community Wickersdorf , 1944 also local mayor, and 1946 in Altenburg (Th.) . From 1949 to 1954 he was the head of the teacher training institute in Alzey , then he went to the Hessian Ministry of Education as a school councilor in the teacher training department . There he developed concepts for the further academization of teacher training through higher-quality universities for education with the right to award doctorates and more self-administration. In 1958 he became director of the Institute for Teacher Training in the Reinhardswald School, in 1957 at the same time ao. Professor of German and History at the Pedagogical Institute in Jugenheim and in 1958 full professor at the University of Frankfurt am Main as head of teacher training. In 1961 he switched to a full professorship for didactics of German language and literature in Frankfurt. In 1963/64 he took over as President of the Frankfurt University of Education .

Meyer held several positions within the GEW and was a the advisory board of 1963 established the Institute for Youth book research that Klaus Doderer headed.

Fonts

• The basic philosophical situation [= dissertation], Heidelberg 1927
• Prometheus bound by Aeschylus . Translated into German by Werner Meyer, linoleum cuts by Igor v. Jakimow and Ulrich Kroeker, Waldkauzdruckerei der Odenwaldschule, Heppenheim 1931
• The basic philosophical situation: I. The philosophical question; II. The philosophical life; Preparatory path to an examination of the philosophy of Plato and Hegel , Odenwaldschule, Heppenheim 1932
• (Together with Heinrich Sachs): Community of the Odenwald School. Photo report , Heppenheim, Association of the Odenwald School eV (1938).
• The draft of a college for education , in: Die deutsche Schule, 1958, p. 227ff
• Co-author: Modern Literature in Schools , 1967

literature

• Manfred Heinemann: From General Studies to University Reform: The "Oberaudorfer Talks" as a forum for trade union university policy 1950–1968 . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1996 (with biographical data p. 298)
• Rupert Hirschenauer and Albrecht Weber (eds.): Interpretations of Heinrich Böll: Short stories , Werner Meyer for his 65th birthday, Oldenbourg, Munich 1965
• Dennis Shirley: Reformed Education in National Socialism. The Odenwald School 1910 to 1945 , Beltz Juventa, Weinheim 2010, ISBN 978-3-7799-2235-3

Individual evidence

1. ↑ On Werner Meyer and the "Community of the Odenwald School" led by him and Heinrich Sachs see: Dennis Shirley: Reform pedagogy in National Socialism. The Odenwald School 1910 to 1945 , Beltz Juventa, Weinheim 2010, ISBN 978-3-7799-2235-3 ; here pp. 218–231.