Ernst Krieck

Ernst Krieck.

Ernst Krieck (6 June 1882, Vögisheim – 19 March 1947, Moosburg an der Isar) was a German educationalist who served as the Rector of Goethe University Frankfurt during the Nazi era.[1] He was a professor of pedagogy at the Frankfurt University.[2]

He joined the Nazi Party in 1932 and served with the National Socialist Teachers League before in 1934 working with the Sicherheitsdienst. He joined the Schutzstaffel in 1938 and eventually obtained the honorary rank of Obersturmbannführer.[3]

Krieck was a passionate supporter of "German Physics," a nationalist trend which believed that the German people must develop their own scientific philosophy and methods, particularly to avoid the perceived stain of Jewish influence.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Max Weinreich. Hitler's professors: the part of scholarship in Germany's crimes against the Jewish people. Yiddish Scientific Institute-YIVO, 1946. pp. 18.
  2. ↑ J. John Loughran. Developing a pedagogy of teacher education: understanding teaching and learning about teaching. Oxon, England, UK; New York, New York, USA: Routledge, 2006. pp. 149.
  3. ↑ Ernst Klee, Das Personenlexikon zum Dritten Reich. Wer war was vor und nach 1945. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Zweite aktualisierte Auflage, Frankfurt am Main 2005, p. 341
  4. ↑ Holton, G.J. (2000). The Rise of Postmodernisms and the "End of Science". Journal of the History of Ideas 61 (2):327-341 (2000)