Albert Maier (pedagogue)

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Albert Maier (born March 22, 1873 in Weil ; † June 14, 1961 in Cologne ) was a German headmaster in Cologne, who was dismissed in 1933 for political and racist reasons.

After graduating from high school in Constance in 1893, Maier studied history, German, philosophy and geography in Heidelberg. In 1898 he passed the practical year there, did his military service in 1899 and taught in Vechta , Ettenheim , Beuthen , Essen, Cologne-Nippes (1907–1920) and as headmaster of the Schiller-Gymnasium Cologne from 1920 in Cologne-Ehrenfeld until 1933. 1909 he received his doctorate in Freiburg im Breisgau , in 1912 he was characterized as a high school professor .

Maier was a member of the Cologne city council for the Center Party from 1911 to 1924. In 1917, Hauptmann d. R. in an essay the Catholic, anti-Prussian Joseph Görres as a "genius" bordering on political thinker, "one of the greats and greatest". His school history book, which he presented in 1926 with Ludwig Schirmeyer from Osnabrück , Maier-Schirmeyer , was one of the few republic -friendly in the Weimar Republic . In September 1933 he had to quit school, also because his wife was Jewish (retired April 1934). New editors loyal to the Nazi regime, such as Wilhelm Hack , Walther Hohmann and Wilhelm Schiefer, were forced to revise the widespread history book. After 1945 he published a. a. about the Catholic-Conservative thinker Donoso Cortes and joined the anti-democratic Western movement .

Maier married Else Josephine Neuländer in Breslau in 1904. He died at the age of 88 in his apartment in Cologne-Marienburg .

Fonts

  • The resurgence of "feud" in the 18th century . In: Kluges magazine for German word research. Born in 1908
  • The glossary for the fairy tales of Mylius. A word-historical commentary , Bonn 1909 [= dissertation Freiburg / Br. 1909]
  • Joseph Görres and the eternal value of his political mission , in: Morgenrot (April 1917), pp. 205–225
  • The educational significance of the artistic design of the school building , Cologne-Nippes program 1911
  • with Ludwig Schirmeyer : Textbook of History for High Schools , Diesterweg 1926, etc.
  • Donoso Cortés in the German literature , in: Hochland , 48th year 1940/41 (Nov. 1940) pp. 66–77
  • Donoso Cortes. Statesman and Christ , in: Neues Abendland , 1948, pp. 305–309
  • (Ed.) By Donoso Cortes, Juan: Letters, parliamentary speeches and diplomatic reports from the last years of a life (1849-53) , Bachem, Cologne 1950
  • (Translator and editor) Marcello Zanetti: Venice and Venetia , 2nd edition, Peregrinus, Starnberg 1952

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Single receipts

  1. ↑ a b Death certificate No. 1070 from June 15, 1961, registry office Cologne old town. In: LAV NRW R civil status register. Retrieved June 3, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Stefan Fuchs: "From the blessing of war": Catholic educated people in World War I: a study on the interpretation of war in academic Catholicism , Steiner, Stuttgart 2004, p. 147, note 674 online Maier describes himself in 1917 as "z. Z. as a captain in the field ”and says that it was not until the“ terrible corpse field ”during the World War that the hour had come to understand Görres.
  3. ^ Agnes Blänsdorf: Textbooks for history lessons at secondary schools 1933-1945 , in: H. Lehmann, O. Oexle u. a .: National Socialism in Cultural Studies. Fächer, Milieus, Karrieren , Vol. 1, Göttingen 2004, p. 314ff
  4. ↑ Axel Schildt : Between Occident and America: Studies on the West German Idea Landscape of the 1950s , Munich 1999, p. 44 google-online
personal data
SURNAME Maier, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German headmaster and author
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Because
DATE OF DEATH June 14, 1961
Place of death Cologne