William Lottig

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William Lottig (born February 1, 1867 in Hamburg ; † September 12, 1953 there ) was a German reform pedagogue .

Life

After completing elementary school , William Lottig attended the preparatory institute from 1881 , then the Hamburg teachers' seminar for elementary school teachers. In 1887 he passed his first and in 1890 his second teacher examination. In the years up to the First World War he was a teacher at the seminary school Binderstraße 24. He was involved in the Society of Friends of the Patriotic School and Education System and became a proponent of a reform of schools and teaching. Lottig was a member of the Pedagogical Committee of the Society of Friends . In 1908 he formulated his main educational goal for the reorientation of the school: " All the powers of the child are released, nurtured and developed" .

After the November Revolution of 1918, Lottig succeeded in winning his supporters to set up experimental schools. He himself became the headmaster of the Berliner Tor School. Lottig was seen as a role model and was recognized as "Father Lottig" . All coercive measures were rejected at the community school. The educational goal was self-determination and freedom for the students. However, criticism of the experimental schools and tutelage by the school authorities were not lacking. There was a loss of confidence on the part of the school parents, who feared for their children's success in school. In view of the decline in the number of pupils, the Berliner-Tor-Schule did not open any new classes from 1930. However, the lessons for the approximately 100 students remaining at the time were continued.

In October 1918 Lottig joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany and after 1919 became a member of the "Socialist List" on the teachers' council. He was a member of the World Association for the Renewal of Education and a participant in the 1927 World Conference in Locarno . He appeared at reading and cultural evenings organized by the trade unions and social democrats, read from the classics, recited Peter Rosegger , Fritz Reuter and North German poets. After the end of the Second World War , Lottig lived in Einbeck with a niece , as he had been bombed out in Hamburg, before moving back to the Hanseatic city in 1951.

Works

  • Report of the committee for the realization of the Krohnschen "Heimschule" . Hamburg 1919.
  • Our youngest students . Auer, Hamburg 1920.
  • Diaries 1919–1933. In: Dietrich Benner , Herwart Kemper : Source texts on the theory and history of reform pedagogy. Part 2: The educational movement from the turn of the century to the end of the Weimar Republic. Beltz Deutscher Studienverlag, Weinheim 2001, pp. 334–350.

literature

  • Reiner Lehberger : William Lottig . In: Hamburg biography . tape 2 . Christians, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-7672-1366-4 , pp. 263 f .
  • Katja Staats: William Lottig - Hamburg community schools . GRIN Verlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-638-87077-4 .
  • Dietrich Benner, Herwart Kemper: Theory and history of reform pedagogy. Part 2: The educational movement from the turn of the century to the end of the Weimar Republic . 2nd Edition. Beltz, Weinheim / Basel 2009, ISBN 978-3-407-32107-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jürgen Oelkers : Reform pedagogy: a critical dogma story. Juventa, 2005, ISBN 3-7799-1525-1 , p. 124.