Walter Wolf (politician)
Walter Wolf ( born February 27, 1907 in Gotha, † April 2, 1977 in Potsdam ) was a German politician (KPD, SED) and educator.
Life
Walter Wolf put 1928 at the junior high school in Gotha the High School and studied from 1928 to 1931 philosophy, education, psychology and economics and history (Elective ) at the University of Jena. He was a member of the Communist university group and joined the KPD on 1 January 1930. From 1931 to 1938 he worked as an elementary school candidate in Zechau - Leesen ( Altenburg County ), elementary school candidate ( status of a non-scheduled civil servants) and a substitute teacher in Kulm ( county Schleiz ) and worked as an elementary school teacher in Zeulenroda. In order to secure his future career, Wolf took effect on November 1, 1933 after consultation with the illegal Communist Party leadership of the SA Storm 3/19 in Zeulenroda as Sturmmann in and became ideological instructor. From 1 February 1934, he was a member of the National Socialist Teachers Association and became the February 2, 1934 Member of the National Socialist People's Welfare, as of July 1936 as NSI Amtswalter.
In 1938 he was made a trial for " conspiracy to commit high treason" by flying up his illegal activities for the KPD and the planning of sabotage, but the first Criminal Division of the Court of Appeal in Jena said Walter Wolf on 4 April 1938 for insufficient evidence. However, he was placed in "protective custody" in the Buchenwald concentration camp, where he remained until 1945.
Along with Hermann Brill and others, he prepared the draft education policy of emergency measures in the Buchenwald Popular Front Committee.
From 1945 to 1947 he was director of the State Office of Education and Minister of Education in Thuringia. The Faculty of Social Education at the University of Jena in 1945 awarded him an honorary doctorate. Until 1949 he was Head of the Institute of dialectical materialism at the Friedrich -Schiller- University Jena. His attempt to habilitation at the University of Jena, failed due to technical defects. In 1949 he was appointed Professor of Theoretical Education at the University of Leipzig. 1953 to 1972 he was a professor at the Pedagogical University of Potsdam. The Institute for Teacher Education in Weimar ( Swan Seestrasse 11, former "Land Ring House ", 1933-1945 " Darré - house" of the country's peasantry Thuringia) was in GDR times his name.
In 1977 he was awarded an honorary Clasp to the Patriotic Order of Merit in gold.
Writings
- Critique of unreason. To analyze the Nazi pseudo- philosophy, Thuringian Publishing House, Weimar, 1947 ( manuscript 1944 in the concentration camp Buchenwald written )