Hermann Neufert (6 July 1858 in Altstadt near Lüben,

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– 1935 in

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) was a German educator who founded (along with Prof. Dr. Bernhard Bendix) the world's first

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, and the international movement which followed. Neufert visited schools in Lähn and Groß-Glogau, where he graduated his secondary education in 1877. At Silesian Frederick William University he studied

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and

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. In March 1883 he got his

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. In May 1884 he passed an equivalent of today's state examinations, then called ''examen pro facultate docendi''. After a compulsory probationary year between Easter 1884 and Easter 1885 which he served partially at the two secondary schools ''Maria-Magdalenen-Gymnasium'' and ''Johannes-Gymnasium'' at Breslau he started as a regular teacher at the latter. After six years, at Easter 1891 he got a call to ''Städtische Höhere Lehranstalt zu Charlottenburg'' near Berlin which was also a secondary school. He taught there for eight years. On 1 April 1899 he got schools inspector of the city of

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.Franz Kössler: ''Verzeichnis von Programm-Abhandlungen deutscher, österreichischer und schweizerischer Schulen der Jahre 1825–1918. Alphabetisch geordnet nach Verfassern. Band: Naarmann - Nymbach''. Saur, München u. a. 1991. . (in German)

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