George Philipp Ludolf von Beckedorff
Georg Philipp Ludolph of Beckedorff ( born April 14, 1778 in Hannover, † February 27, 1858 at Grunhof, Regenwalde ) was a Prussian Conservative Journalist, teacher, ministry officials and landowners.
Life
Beckedorff was the son of a writer and came from a humble background. After studying theology and medicine at the universities of Jena and Göttingen and PhD in 1799, he worked as a doctor. In Berlin, he joined the German company at table one, before he gave a farewell speech on 18 June 1811 in which he anti-Semitic appeared openly: "We make war against the Jews, against a brood, which in with wonderful audacity ... to is the state, in science, in art, in society ... sneak intrude, and einzuwängen endeavors. " He called for the banishment of the Jews. 1811 to 1818 he was tutor to the Crown Prince of Anhalt- Bernburg Ballenstedt.
He became known as a publicist by his "Appeal to the German youth over the corpse of the murdered Kotzebue " 1819. Süvernschen to school bill of 1819, he wrote in 1821 a rebuttal. The Prussian king Friedrich Wilhelm III. appointed him overseer of the public elementary school in the Ministry of Culture. He was the conservative opponent to the liberal school reformers in the footsteps of Wilhelm von Humboldt, whom he accused of too much to follow the principle of equality in education. Instead, he insisted on the formation of the different social classes and professions and became the ancestor of the differentiated school system and the popular elementary school with denominational character. Have the state education job its limits. Against the rights of churches and on parental rights The diversity of the provinces was noted that up to the eastern provinces of Prussia resulted in the Rhine Province to a very different school. In 1825 he was representative government at the University of Berlin.
His conservative tendencies caused his conversion to Catholicism in 1827. 's Why he had to give the public offices in Berlin and acquired the estate Grunhof in Regenwalde in Pomerania, to which he retired. It was not until 1840, the new king Frederick William IV rehabilitated him, raised him to the peerage, and appointed him in 1842 as President of the new Prussian state economics college. Beckedorff created in Grunhof a center of Catholicism in Pomerania.
Becke Dorffs son of Friedrich Beckedorff (* 1818, † 1893) was an officer in the Prussian army and rose to lieutenant general.
Quotes
Writings
- Yearbooks of the Prussian elementary schooling, Berlin 1825 - 1829
- The Catholic Truth, Words of Peace