Willi Schohaus

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Willi Schohaus (born January 2, 1897 in Zurich ; † June 22, 1981 there ) was a Swiss educator .

Schohaus grew up in Zurich and was based in the Ruhr area. From 1917 to 1918 he was in German military service and in 1919 a member of the Spartakusbund in Berlin .

After studying humanities in Zurich and Basel , he received his doctorate in 1922 at the University of Bern . Under the influence of Paul Häberlin , Schohaus began to deal with psychoanalysis and received his doctorate with a thesis on the theoretical foundations and the theoretical position of psychoanalysis .

Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi was a great role model for Schohaus . Schohaus founded a reformatory and was a seminar teacher at the Thurgau teachers seminar in Kreuzlingen and its director from 1928 to 1962. He discovered and promoted the artistic talent of the then seminarist Anton Bernhardsgrütter .

Schohaus was an advocate of internal school reforms ; For him, the quality of schools depended “on the spirit of the teacher”. His best-known writings include Shadows over the School of 1933 and Education for Humanity from 1969. Shadows over the School appeared in several editions in English under the title The dark places of education . Schohaus' estate is in the Thurgau State Archives .

literature

  • Thurgauer Zeitung , March 17, 1962.
  • Obituary. In: Thurgauer Jahrbuch , 1982 ( e-periodica )
  • Hermann Alfred Schmid : 150 years of the Thurgau teachers' seminar in Kreuzlingen. R. Mühlemann, 1983.
  • Gerhard Frick: Willi Schohaus: Education through encouragement and with authority: image of life based on memories, letters and other documents. Annual journal of the alumni of the Kreuzlingen seminar. K. Thalmann, 2000.
  • Gerhard Frick: Flashback to Willy Schohaus. In: Thurgauer Jahrbuch . Volume 77, 2002, pp. 94-104 ( e-periodica.ch )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Erich Trösch: Schohaus, Willi. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
personal data
SURNAME Schohaus, Willi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss educator
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH June 22, 1981
Place of death Zurich