English Translation

9.2 + Prof. Dr. Emil Lehmann I Bo Anton Krauß On the 18th fogging, the 60th birthday of Emil LeH= man was celebrated in Dresden in a festive event.From the same coffee, the leader Emil Lehmann awarded the Goethe Medal for Art and Science, the German Foreign Institute in Stuttgart, the silver plaque in recognition of the celebration of great services. The friends of Emil Lehmann in the whole of the German Reich, but especially we Sudeten Germans, welcome this well-deserved honor. We are aware of what Emil Lehmann has done for our people in the most difficult time in the aim-conscious striving and un-reidhspeotekter in Bohemia and Moravia. Aechio des Stootsekretães in tiresome work. When, in 1918, the enemy-power slogan of Versailles, which surpassed all expectations in the worst sense, became known, he at first had a crushing effect on us Sudeten Germans. But it did not take long for us to have the unshakeable will to live on and to do everything possible to spread the shameful bonds and to experience a new rise of our people once united with the rich. But both in the rich and with us all people thought that a resurgence could only take place through a complete transformation of our entire people in thought and life. Therefore, as in the liberation wars at the beginning of the 19th century, along with the politicians, the folk educators came. And there it was Emil Lehmann, who showed us ways in our spiritual struggle. In word and deed, he advocated the idea that the whole people must return to themselves. However, this can only be achieved through a popular formation covering all strata, in which it is not the mediation of artless knowledge that matters, but rather an education to the community of the people from the blood and ground roots. In this book Emil Lehmann designed the term He im a t = Bildung. as he explained in his book "Seimat und Bildungsgg25". "Heimatbildung" is also the name of the journal founded by Emil LeH= mann in 1919, around which his employees gradually gathered. Emil Lehmann comes from both parents from Nollendorf in the northern Erzgebirge, childhood and gymnasium years he lived in Turn and Tepliz-Schönan. The basic ideas of his later great educational tasks arose from the experience of his closer homeland, in which already strong counter-sats twilight originally healthy people's life and the industrial decline resulting from the rising, all-life-influenced industry, by jeopardy and concealment.