Alfred Chicken Houses

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Alfred Huhnhäuser (born June 14, 1885 in Demmin ; † December 23, 1950 in Hambach ) was a German educator and ministerial official.

Life

Alfred Huhnhäuser interrupted his visit to the grammar school in 1900 for an apprenticeship as a locksmith and electrician in Rostock. Then, after graduating from high school in Demmin in 1907, he studied German, Latin and history in Berlin and Rostock , where he also received his doctorate in 1913 under Hermann Reincke-Bloch . He then taught in Rostock, interrupted from military service from 1915 to 1918, which he first spent as a translator in the Rostock port and in Hamburg, and then in the field police again in Rostock. He also translated from Danish and Norwegian, as a lecturer at the University of Rostock from 1918 to 1920, including for the first time the autobiography of Hans-Christian Andersen . From 1922 he worked in Neukloster at the local teachers' seminar as head and director of studies. In Mecklenburg he published the reading book Lebensgut and published on regional history and literature. In Rostock he worked as an opera critic for the Rostocker Anzeiger.

From 1926 he was senior director of studies in Breslau at the School of the Holy Spirit and in 1928 he became a senior school officer in the Prussian provincial college in Koblenz . In several essays he took sides for a modern work lesson with independent student work and relaxed teacher leadership. After the National Socialists came to power, he joined the NSDAP in May and came to Berlin as a ministerial advisor to the Reich Ministry for Science, Education and National Education . In 1935 he was also Reich clerk for the subject of German at the Nazi teachers' association , which he had only joined at the end of 1934, and 2nd chairman of the Society for German Education . He lived in Frohnau in the Aryanized villa of an emigrated Jew.

During the Second World War he was employed in the Reich Commissariat for occupied Norway as head of the School and Education Department. He stayed u. a. as a witness because of the war processes in Norway until 1948, where he had many friends who testified positively for him because he had helped many. He then moved to his daughter in Hull in England and a year later back to Germany via Flensburg in the Rhine Palatinate.

Alfred Huhnhäuser had been married to the teacher Else Schulze since 1913 and had daughters Heidi (* 1914) and Inge (* 1916). Heidi married Alexander Peden from Scots in 1939. The estate includes an unfinished autobiography up to 1928 and correspondence.

Fonts

  • Rostock's sea trade from 1635–1648 . Rostock 1914 (= dissertation)
  • Wilhelm von Humboldt. Letters to a friend . Berlin 1921 (to Charlotte Diede )
  • From the homeland of Fritz Reuter and John Brinkmann. A home book , Diesterweg, Frankfurt / M. 1924
  • Ed. With Carl August Endler , Walter Neumann : Festschrift for Hermann Reincke-Bloch on his sixtieth birthday, presented by his students , Trewendt & Granier, Breslau 1927
  • (Ed.) With H. Tschersig: Contributions to the methodology of history teaching , M. Diesterweg. Frankfurt / M. 1928
  • On the practice of work lessons . 1929
  • On the question of citizenship education , in: Journal for German Education , 1931 (7th year), pp. 496–506
  • National political courses for schoolchildren (memorandum of the High President of the Rhine Province (department for higher education): Diesterweg, 1935)
  • Contributions to the history of Germanness in Norway , 1944 (several contributions)
  • Goethe. Wisdom . Flensburg 1949
  • Translator: Hans-Christian Andersen, The fairy tale of my life ( With Livs Eventyr ), Berlin 1920, ND Salzwasser Verlag 2012 ISBN 978-3846003879

literature

  • Knut Engeler: History Lessons and Reform Education , Berlin 2009, pp. 163–167, ISBN 978-3-8258-1922-4
  • Stephan Sehlke: Pedagogues - Pastors - Patriots: Biographisches Handbuch ; BoD 2009, p. 174
  • Caroline Martin: Memoir and memory: the papers of a prebd.-war German - Alfred Huhnauser, 1885-1950 , 2 Bde., Stirling 2000 (thesis of doctorate)
    • Vol. 1 (with a portrait photo at the beginning)
    • Vol. 2 (documents and pictures)

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personal data
SURNAME Chicken Houses, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chicken Houses, Alfred Hermann Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pedagogue and ministerial official
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Demmin
DATE OF DEATH December 23, 1950
Place of death Hambach