Albert Kuntzemüller

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The father Wilhelm Kuntzemüller with his children in his studio (around 1880), Albert Kuntzemüller sitting on the right

August Julius Gustav Albert Kuntzemüller (born May 22, 1880 in Baden-Baden ; † January 6, 1956 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German high school professor and senior high school director as well as a historian who mainly dealt with railway geography and history in his spare time.

Life

Albert Kuntzemüller was born in 1880 as the son of court photographer Wilhelm Kuntzemüller (1845–1918) and grew up in Baden-Baden. Since there was only the Baden-Oos – Baden-Baden railway line - a comparatively insignificant branch line - he had hardly any connection to the railway in his youth. After elementary school, he attended the Hohenbaden grammar school from September 1889 to obtain his Abitur. Then he went to Berlin, where he studied political science. At that time there was already the Berlin Stadtbahn , the Berliner Ringbahn and some suburban trains. They fascinated Kuntzemüller so much that he doubted his career aspirations.

He spent further semesters of study in New Languages ​​and Geography in Freiburg and Heidelberg. In 1902, under the title On the history of the substantiated infinitive in New High German, the doctorate to Dr. phil. After completing the major state examination for higher education, Kuntzemüller taught in Freiburg, Offenburg and Bretten . He left the latter in the school year 1912/13 and went to Mannheim to the Lessing School. In the first year he gave a speech there on the anniversary of the reign of Emperor Wilhelm II. In 1914 he published an article on the role of the Baden railways in the war of 1870/71 in the school's annual report. On April 1, 1915, he changed schools again and became the Realschool Director in Tauberbischofsheim .

During this time he traveled abroad several times, including Great Britain, North America, France, Italy, Iceland, Sweden and Norway. Further trips followed when he received an order from the Chief of Army Railways at the beginning of World War I to study the railways in the occupied territories. So he came to northern France, Galicia , Bukovina and Russia. In 1916 he was drafted into the telecommunications troops and used, for example, to lay telephone lines in the Narew Valley . In the first days of the November Revolution 1918/19 he was appointed as a delegate of his unit to the Warsaw Soldiers' Council.

After the end of the war, he worked in school in Triberg in 1922 before moving to Freiburg in 1925. There he headed the Neuburg Realschule and gave a speech on October 2, 1925 on the occasion of Paul von Hindenburg's birthday . After a few words on Hindenburg, most of his speech focused on the world's first rail line, the Stockton and Darlington Railway . Their maiden voyage had been 100 years old a few days earlier.

Kuntzemüller was the Freiburg district leader of the Reichsbanner , a leading SPD member (1919–1933) and also published many publications in the political field. That is why he was given leave of absence as director of the Rotteck secondary school in 1933 and later retired. It was not until 1945 that he was able to return to work as director of the United Higher Girls' Schools in Freiburg. As a member of the SPD, he supported the founding of the south-western state of Baden-Württemberg according to the party program after the Second World War, and expressed this in the press. In 1948 he retired and from then on concentrated on his great hobby, railway history.

Kuntzemüller had been married to Klara Issel since 1913, with whom he had a son and two daughters.

reception

Rudolf Friedmann , former director of the Karlsruhe Federal Railway Directorate , wrote in his obituary for Kuntzemüller that he had “presented Baden's railway policy in its entirety, subjected it to a critical assessment and, moreover, subjected the eventful history of this railway in war and peace in terms of operational, structural and technical aspects written down in the view of the traffic. "

In January 1952, Kuntzemüller was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon .

Publications (selection)

Kuntzemüller wrote well over 1000 articles, including

  • On the history of the substantiated infinitive in New High German (to have knowledge, to make up for it, to eat) . In: Journal for German Word Research 4, 1902 (dissertation).
  • The wonderland at Yellowstone. A description of Yellowstone National Park (USA); at the same time a contribution to the history of its discovery . Supplement to the annual report of the Grand Ducal Gymnasium Offenburg. Offenburg 1908.
  • The Baden Railways in the Franco-German War 1870/71 . Supplement to the annual report of the Realgymnasium with Realschule / Lessingschule, school year 1913/14. Mannheim 1914.
  • The building history of the Odenwaldbahn Heidelberg-Würzburg In: Archive for Railway Systems 35, 1922,
  • 50 years of the Black Forest Railway . In: Archives for Railways 26, 1923
  • Robert Gerwig and the Gotthard Railway . In: Archives for Railways 27, 1924
  • 50 years of the Kraichgaubahn . On the history of the Karlsruhe, Bretten, Eppingen, Heilbronn railway lines . Bretten 1930.
  • The Renchtalbahn . In: Die Ortenau 1938, pp. 126–140.
  • The Baden Railways 1840–1940 (= Upper Rhine Geographical Treatises 3). Freiburg 1940.
  • For the secular celebration of the Baden State Railway . In: Archiv für Eisenbahnwesen 1940, pp. 673–688.
  • Robert Gerwig - a pioneer in technology . Freiburg 1949.
  • Schaffhausen in the left and right of the Rhine railway traffic . In: Schaffhauser contributions 28, 1951, pp. 202-238.
  • One hundred years of German-Swiss rail traffic . In: Jahrbuch des Eisenbahnwesens 3, 1952, pp. 180–191.
  • The Baden Railways . 2nd, revised and continued up to the present edition. Braun, Karlsruhe 1953.
  • 100 years of Badischer Bahnhof Basel . In: Badische Heimat 34, 1954, pp. 289-298 ( digitized version ).
  • Baden-Württemberg - uniform traffic area . In: Badenerland 1954.
  • Mr. Thomas Turner , teacher of the first Baden engine drivers . In: Badische Heimat 36, 1956, pp. 33–42.

literature

  • Rudolf Friedmann: Obituary for Professor Dr. Albert Kuntzemüller, Freiburg , in: Ekkhart. Yearbook for the Badner Land , Landesverein Badische Heimat , Freiburg 1971, pp. 176–179.
  • Hans-Georg Merz, Klaus-Peter Wilke: Kuntzemüller, Albert August Julius Gustav: pedagogue, railway historian, opponent of the Nazi regime , in: Baden-Württembergische Biographien 2, 1999, pp. 289-292 ( digitized version ).
  • Reiner Haehling von Lanzenauer : Albert Kuntzemüller, the railway historian from Baden-Baden , in: Aquae 2005, ISSN  0175-4858 , pp. 66–71.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Reiner Haehling von Lanzenauer : Albert Kuntzemüller, the railway historian from Baden-Baden. in: Aquae , Baden-Baden 2005, p. 67 ff.
  2. ^ Report of the Realgymnasium with Realschule Mannheim, Lessing School: about the school year ...
  3. ^ Hans Harter: Das Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold in Schiltach , May 2008, accessed on April 2, 2010
  4. ^ A b Jürgen Klöckler: The historian and archivist Otto Feger , in: Abendland - Alpenland - Alemannien , Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 1998, ISBN 978-3-486-56345-0 , p. 195
  5. ↑ Albert Kuntzemüller: Swabian-Alemannic Democracy in: Das Volk from September 4, 1946
personal data
SURNAME Kuntzemüller, Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kuntzemüller, August Julius Gustav Albert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German senior high school director and historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Baden-Baden
DATE OF DEATH January 6, 1956
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau