Alfred Stephany

Alfred Stephany (born August 16, 1899 in Borbeck , † February 23, 1975 in Münster ) was a German pedagogue , classical philologist and school director .

Life

As the son of pastor Hermann Alfred Stephany and his wife Anna, b. This year, Alfred Wilhelm Adolf Stephany grew up with two younger brothers in Essen-Borbeck. He attended the Borbeck elementary school and the old-language grammar school, where he passed the war maturity examination in 1917 . As a soldier, he was taken prisoner by the French during World War I , from which he returned in 1919 with a heart condition. From March to April 1920 he fought in the Ruhrkampf in the Freikorps.

Stephany studied German and classical philology in Münster, Munich and Leipzig. After graduating , he received his doctorate on Sophocles in 1922 .

In 1928 he married the teacher Hedwig Schüler. The marriage had three children.

Act

From 1923 to 1928 he was an assistant at the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Münster . His scientific inclination led him to publish Greek texts, among other things, and to maintain a lifelong relationship with the university, where he held courses in Greek for students from all faculties from 1923 until he was 70.

In 1928 he became a teacher at the Schillergymnasium, from 1930 to 1932 he was a technical assistant at the provincial college in Münster. In the teachers' association he was district student representative II of the Münster-Warendorf district, and since May 1936 Gau clerk for ancient languages, after having become specialist in ancient languages ​​at the state educational district seminar in Münster in autumn 1934. At Easter 1938 he became its director. Since January 1937 he was a member of the Pedagogical Examination Office of the Province of Westphalia , since August 1937 of the Philological State Examination Office Berlin. In 1939 he became director of the Catholic high school Paulinum - although he was Protestant - and prevailed against the candidate of the NSDAP. For civil service reasons , he then joined the NSDAP himself, which was falsified dating back to 1937.

In 1943 during the Second World War he evacuated some school classes from the Paulinum and the Schillergymnasium with around 400 pupils to the Tegernsee to protect them from the bombing and, as the camp manager in charge, ran a regular school (with religious instruction).

After the war he gave up the directorate of the Paulinum, was initially considered charged and was unemployed because of the wrong entry in his personal file that he had left the church. In 1947 he was able to resume teaching.

The guidelines for the re-establishment of the educational goals of the old-language grammar school, which he helped to develop as a board member of the Classical Philology Association, are considered his work.

From 1951 to 1954 he was head of the study seminar and then head of the Schillergymnasium . He made life at his school like that in a large community. In the years that followed, he was in charge of the introduction of co-education , the opening of the old-language grammar school to a modern language branch and the start of an extension to the grammar school, which had to respond to the growing number of students.

Musically interested - among other things he played the piano - he supported the reconstruction and the activities of the Münster theater. He was involved as a presbyter (Church of the Redeemer and Apostles) and district and regional synodal of the Ev. Church of Westphalia. When he said goodbye to retirement in 1965, high school inspector Venske characterized him as a man of the pen, the word and the clever advice.

Awards

• 1914/18: War Merit Cross 2nd Class
• 1969: Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class

Fonts

• Germany article in a Norwegian compilation by Eiliv Skard on Classical Languages, Oslo, Aschehoug 1949.
• Satura Lanx Philologica. Report on the Classical Philology Conference of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia in Lüdinghausen / Westphalia from 10. – 12. January 1949, ed. by Alfred Stephany, Münster, Aschendorff 1949.
• De Sophoclis Trachiniis Quaestiones Chronologicae. Inaugural dissertation to obtain a doctorate from a high philosophical and natural science faculty at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster, Münster 1922.
• (as co-editor): Aschendorff's classic collection
• Text edition of Homer's Iliad, Book I-XII, Münster, Aschendorff 1960.

literature

• Hermann Bücker: Two years at Tegernsee with our boys. Kevelaer 1947.
• Eduard Füller: Kinderlandverschickung. Münster's schools in Upper Bavaria 1943-1945. Münster 2004, pp. 174–197.
• Eduard Füller: "Home of War". The children's country deportation from northern Westphalia during World War II. 3rd edition, Münster 2010.
• Gerhard Kock: "The Führer takes care of our children ...". The children's country deportation in the Second World War. Paderborn 1997.
• Gerhard Hempelmann: Obituary for Alfred Stephany. In: Westfalenspiegel from June 1975.
• Heinrich Krefeld : Obituary for Alfred Stephany. In: Bulletin North Rhine-Westphalia in the German Classical Philological Association (DAV) , 33rd year 1975, issue 1 (from March 1975).
• Otto Leggewie : Obituary for Alfred Stephany. In: Bulletin of the German Association of Classical Philologists , 18th year 1975, issue 2, p. 2.
• Reiner Stephany, "Pastor Alfred Stephany (1868-1919) ´". In: "Monthly Issues for Evangelical Church History of the Rhineland", 60th year, Bonn 2011, pp. 323-344.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Reiner Stephany, Pastor Alfred Stephany, p. 323ff.
2. ↑ Kock: "The Führer cares"; Ink pen; Kinderlandverschickung; Pietati: p. 56 and Bücker: two years; on Stephany's own report, cf. there p. 174ff
3. ↑ Münster City Gazette from August 15, 1959.
4. ↑ Münster city gazette of March 31, 1954.
5. ↑ Münster City Gazette of March 29, 1965.
6. ↑ Münsterische Zeitung of December 11, 1969
7. ↑ Münster City Archives, PSK 14500
8. ^ Reference in the catalog of the German National Library: DNB 452093511