Fridolin Friedmann

Fridolin Friedmann (fully Fridolin Moritz Max Friedmann, Fridolin Maurice Friedman; born June 2, 1897 in Burgkunstadt, † October 15, 1976 in London ) was a German - British educator.

Life

Fridolin Friedman grew up in Munich and became a soldier in the First World War, where he was slightly wounded. He studied in Munich, Heidelberg, Cologne and Erlangen and received his doctorate in 1925 with a dissertation on Moses Mendelssohn. The clerkship for the teaching profession, he began at the Odenwald School and continued it in the following year at the Jewish Samson school in Wolfenbüttel. In 1928 he took the scientific teaching certificate in Cologne and in 1929 the educational testing in Berlin and got a job as Studienassessor in King Wusterhausen. In 1932 he became director of the boarding school founded by Gertrude holiday last year, " Jewish Landschulheim Caputh ", which offered a " home for the afflicted children " from primarily assimilated, middle- Jewish families after the seizure of power by the National Socialists in 1933 and after the Nuremberg Laws in 1935. Jewish content should be made not only cognitive, but also emotional experience in Friedmann, so he wrote for the student and two plays, Saul and David and Joseph and his brothers. 1937 succeeded him as head teacher Ernst Ising after and he went to the Jewish high school, or the " private secondary school reform " to Berlin, but was still teaching at weekends in Caputh. After the Kristallnacht in 1938, he accompanied several Kindertransport to England in 1939 and remained even in exile.

After the war, he took care of surviving children from the concentration camps. Anna Essinger caught up with him in 1946 as director of her 1926 Founded in Mr. Lingen and 1933, transferred to her to England Landschulheim " Bunce Court School ". On October 11, 1947, he became a British citizen here. However, the continuation of the school had already failed in 1948. Friedmann went to the Founded in 1949, private school Carmel College in Greenham in West Berkshire and after moving in Wallingford, and remained there until his retirement in 1961. At London's Leo Baeck College held it in the time after that lectures on the history of Judaism.

Photo

Photo with the theater group in the school prospectus of Caputh (1935 ), with Joseph Walk: Jewish School and Education in the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main: Hain 1991, p 107

Writings

• Saul and David. A game for school plays. Listed in 1935, 1936, 1937
• Joseph and his brothers. A game for youth performances. listed in 1934
• Landschulheim Caputh, in: Jewish Rundschau, November 10, 1933
• ( as a translator ), Ernest A. Gray: As Tiberius emperor in Rome ...: A Roman mercenaries in the Holy Land. [ Auth. Übers of Engl d by F. M. Friedmann. Drawing. of Gustel Koch] Stuttgart: Franckh 1962