Alfred Schmidtmeyer

Alfred Ferdinand Laurenz Schmidtmeyer (born February 24, 1882 in Pilsen , † August 7, 1937 in Bremen ) was a German educator and historian .

biography

Schmidtmeyer was the son of a district school council. He studied at the Charles University in Prague , the University of Vienna and at the Higher Forestry School in Mährisch Weißkirchen and received his doctorate . He moved to Bremen in 1910 and teaches at the Bremen teachers' seminar on Hamburger Strasse. In 1913 he became a senior teacher of mathematics at the advanced school at the same location. In the First World War he served as a soldier. His hobby was Bremen's cultural history. In 1919 he was a co-founder of the Bremen adult education center . For a while he headed the Association for Germanness Abroad and in 1936 wrote a history of the Sudeten Germans . Since he could no longer teach due to his increasing hearing loss, he worked at the Bremen State Archives . Here he wrote many treatises on Bremen's cultural history and he dealt with the city's documents and official books. His works on the Bremen students at foreign universities and on Excise , a municipal tax on consumption , were of fundamental importance .

literature

• Bremische Biographie , 1969, pp. 451-452.
• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .