Wilhelm Wetekamp

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Wilhelm Wetekamp (born September 4, 1859 in Lippstadt , † March 1945 in Berlin ) was a German reform pedagogue and politician ( Free People's Party ). From 1894 to 1903 he was a member of the Prussian House of Representatives . He was a pioneer of nature conservation in Prussia .

Life

Wetekamp studied natural sciences and mathematics as well as French at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin , the University of Jena and the University of Breslau . His teaching career began in Brieg in 1884 and in Breslau from 1887 . He was with Anna Wetekamp, ​​geb. Michaelis married. In 1924 he was retired.

School reformer

As a teacher at the Realgymnasium zum Heiligen Geist in Breslau, he began to get involved in school reform . He became a member of the Association for Education Reform and secretary of his local chapter of Breslau and called for the humanistic and Realgymnasiums summarize and only in the middle and upper secondary school provide special branches for languages and science. In addition, a course selection system should be introduced in the upper level. On his initiative, an adult education center and student workers' courses were founded in Wroclaw .

From 1903 he built the Werner Siemens Realgymnasium (WSRG) in Schöneberg according to the reform pedagogical Frankfurt curriculum . From 1906 he was its director. He set great store by the independent activity of the students and was the first school in Prussia to introduce a student council at the WSRG . In 1903 he was one of the founders of the Esperanto group in Berlin and offered Esperanto lessons as an elective at his school.

He was one of the founders of the Bund für Schulreform from 1908. In 1919 he moved to the Prussian Ministry for Science, Culture and Public Education , where he took over the management of the department for student self-administration.

Politicians and conservationists

He was a co-founder of the Waldeck Club in Breslau. In 1893 and 1898 Wetekamp was elected to the Prussian House of Representatives for the Free People's Party (FVp) in the constituency of Breslau 4 , to which he belonged until 1903. On March 30, 1898, he called for the establishment of state parks in a plenary debate . Following the example of American national parks , the areas should serve "to preserve certain soil and landscape forms, on the other hand to provide places of refuge for the flora and fauna in which they can be found" . This made Wetekamp one of the founders of the German nature conservation movement .

In 1906, the State Agency for the Preservation of Natural Monuments was established in Prussia as the first nature conservation authority . From 1908 to 1923 Wetekamp was honorary managing director of the Brandenburg Provincial Commission for Natural Monument Preservation , which was also responsible for Berlin. B. with the mapping of boulders . The focus was on lake shore and forest protection, which were supposed to secure the recreational areas for the big city. The regional councils issued numerous landscape protection ordinances.

Awards

The Kingdom of Prussia honored Wetekamp with the honorary title of professor in 1906 and on September 19, 1918 with the title of Privy Academic Advisor. He was also an honorary member of the Brandenburgia .

Works

  • School reforms and school reform efforts in the Scandinavian countries . Pressure v. Grass, Barth & C., Breslau 1897 ( digitized version )
  • People's education - people's recreation - people's homes. New ways of promoting it . R. Gaertner, Berlin 1900
  • Self-activity and creativity in education and teaching: with special consideration of the first year of school . Teubner, Leipzig 1908

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mann, Bernhard (edit.): Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives. 1867-1918 . Collaboration with Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh and Thomas Kühne . Düsseldorf: Droste Verlag, 1988, p. 414 (handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties: vol. 3)
  2. ↑ Norbert Jung, Heike Molitor, Astrid Schilling: From the sense of home: attachment, change, loss, design - backgrounds for educational work . Verlag Barbara Budrich, 2013, ISBN 978-3-86388-191-7 ( google.de [accessed on April 30, 2020]).

literature

  • Wetekamp, ​​Karl . In: Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives: 1867–1918 . Droste, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-7700-5146-7 , p. 414
  • Reinhold Kockjoy: The schools and their teachers in ... Schöneberg and Friedenau . o. O. 1958
  • Arne Andersen: Homeland Security. Conservation movement . In: F.-J. Brüggemeier and Th. Rommelspacher: Defeated nature. History of the environment in the 19th and 20th centuries . Beck, Munich 1986, pp. 143-157
  • Reinhard Piechocki: State nature conservation as reflected by its pioneers . Volume I: Wilhelm Wetekamp (1859–1945). Enemy of every effeminacy and slander . In: Nature and Landscape . Volume 81, Issue 1, pp. 46-47
  • Wilhelm Wetekamp's personnel form in the personnel file of the BIL expert body in the archive database of the Library for Research on Educational History (BBF)

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personal data
SURNAME Wetekamp, ​​Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German reform pedagogue and nature conservationist
DATE OF BIRTH September 4, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Lippstadt
DATE OF DEATH March 1945
Place of death Berlin