Wilhelm Lamszus

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Wilhelm R. Lamszus (born July 13, 1881 in Altona , † January 18, 1965 in Hamburg ) was a German reform pedagogue and pacifist writer .

origin

His parents were the Schumacher Christoph Lamszus (1846-1914) and his wife Wilhelmine Stepputat (1850-1928). His father was an active social democrat first in Skungerren (East Prussia) later in Hamburg-Altona.

Life

Wilhelm Lamszus was best known for his anti-war pamphlets. So in 1912 he took The Human Slaughterhouse with him . Images of the coming war anticipated the horrors of the First World War and turned against the militarism of the Wilhelmine era . The book was banned in 1915. A new edition that came out in 1919 together with Das Irrenhaus , in which Lamszus describes his own experiences in the war, and a foreword by Carl von Ossietzky , achieved large print runs. After the war the work was reprinted several times.

Because of this bestseller , Lamszus was denounced as a “bad German”, “ anarcho-syndicalist revolutionary” and “a fellow without a fatherland ”. He was sent to North Africa with a research assignment on the situation of German members of the Foreign Legion , apparently to remove him from school service. Lamszus published his research results in 1914 in the book The Prodigal Son , before he himself went into the First World War as a soldier.

In 1915 he returned to Hamburg and resumed teaching. Until 1918 he was close to the SPD , in 1919 he joined the newly founded KPD , of which he was a member until 1927.

In addition to his anti-war pamphlets, Lamszus published numerous papers on essay methodology, health and peace education. In the 1920s he was a teacher at the reform school Tieloh-Süd in Hamburg-Barmbek , from 1930 he worked at the Meerweinschule (today GS Winterhude ) in the Jarrestadt . During this time he maintained close contacts with Hans Löhr , whom he helped to get an order for the construction of looms for the Tiehloh school and a substitute position as a works teacher. When Hans Löhr felt threatened because of his political activities at the end of 1930 and left Braunschweig, Lamszus helped him to a teaching position at the Meerweinschule. One of Löhr's students was Greta Wehner , then still Greta Burmester, who was born in the Harxbüttel rural commune , which Löhr helped to found.

After the seizure of power by the Nazis, he was released as one of the first Hamburg teacher. He was not allowed to take on a professorship at the Braunschweig University of Education , which he had had prospects for. From 1933 to 1945 Lamszus lived from his reduced pension and odd journalistic work, which he published under a pseudonym.

In 1945 he did not return to school. For health reasons, he turned down an offer as rector of the Berlin University of Education. Instead, he worked for the Norddeutscher Rundfunk and published on topics related to teacher training and health, which, however, hardly met with any response.

In 1960 the Pedagogical Faculty of the East Berlin Humboldt University awarded him an honorary doctorate.

family

He was married twice. His second wife was Lucia Krahl (1903–1969) in 1926. The couple had two sons and a daughter: Marianne, Hellmut and Olaf.

Fonts

  • The human slaughterhouse. Pictures from the coming war , annotated reprint of the 1st edition from 1912, Weismann Verlag, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-921040-66-3 .
  • The insane asylum: Visions from war , Pathfinder Publishing, Hamburg 1919.
  • The gifted school: A contribution to spiritual rebirth , Westermann, Hamburg 1919.
  • The mound of corpses: Poems during the war , Pandora-Verlag, Leipzig 1921.
  • The prodigal son: A story from the Foreign Legion , G. Westermann, 2nd edition, Braunschweig 1921.
  • The great dance of death: Stories and poems from the war , Hamburger Kulturverlag, Hamburg 1946.
  • Pedagogical amateurs or born educators: cultural reform through teacher selection , Hamburger Kulturverlag 1948.
  • The secret of health: self-liberation from the misery of illness , Wenk, Hamburg 1950.
  • Poison gas over us , 1932 manuscript, published 2006.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Wolfgang Emmerich :  Lamszus, Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 472 f. ( Digitized version ).
  2. ^ Wilhelm R. Lamszus: The human slaughterhouse . Pictures of the coming war . Edited by Johannes Merkel and Dieter Richter. Weismann, Munich 1980; the same: the human slaughterhouse. Pictures of the coming war . Nabu Press, 2013; the same: the human slaughterhouse. Visions of war. First and second part Donat Verlag, 2014.
  3. ↑ Andreas Pehnke : We feel horror . In: Die Zeit vom August 2, 2012 ( online , accessed December 8, 2014).
  4. ^ Hans Löhr: curriculum vitae from October 15, 1929 , in: Günter Wiemann, Hans Löhr and Hans Koch - political hikes , Vitamine-Verlag, Braunschweig, 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-033763-5 , pp. 25-26
  5. ^ Günter Wiemann, Hans Löhr and Hans Koch - political walks , p. 44
personal data
SURNAME Lamszus, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lamszus, Wilhelm R.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German reform pedagogue and pacifist writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Altona
DATE OF DEATH January 18, 1965
Place of death Hamburg