Alois Seiler (historian, 1909)

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Alois Seiler (born March 7, 1909 in Horchheim near Worms , † October 7, 1997 in Wiesbaden ) was a German historian and educator .

Life

Alois Seiler studied history, German and English from 1928 to 1932 at the universities of Giessen , Innsbruck and Munich . From 1932 he was a trainee teacher at the Realgymnasium Gießen and the Gymnasium Mainz . 1934 doctorate in Giessen with Theodor Mayer with a dissertation on the Worms Monastery in the Middle Ages . From 1934 to 1938 he taught as Studienassessor at Catholic private schools in Mainz , first at Progymnasium Theresienheim of John missionaries and thereafter until closing 1938 at the Episcopal St.Marienschule . Subsequently, he was a teacher at state schools in Bad Nauheim and Bad Wimpfen until 1939 and a teacher at the private Hermann Lietz School in Haubinda from 1939 to 1941 . In 1941 Seiler was called up for military service. After the end of the war he was a teacher at the grammar school in Worms from 1945 to 1947 . In 1947 he was a founding member of the Society for Middle Rhine Church History . In the same year he was appointed as a lecturer for history and social studies at the Pedagogical Institute in Weilburg / Lahn . In 1961 he was appointed associate professor. From 1961 to 1963 he was an advisor to the central government of the Federal Republic of Congo in Léopoldville on behalf of UNESCO as an expert on teacher training and elementary school issues . At the end of 1963, the Weilburg Pedagogical Institute was relocated to Gießen and renamed the University of Education (HfE). From 1964, Seiler held the temporary chair for didactics of social studies at the HfE Gießen . From 1966 until his retirement in 1973 he was a lecturer for history didactics and social studies at the HfE Gießen.

The literary scholar and journalist Almut Seiler-Dietrich is his daughter.

Fonts

In addition to a small number of contributions to regional history, Seiler has mainly published essays on the pedagogy and didactics of history and social studies lessons. In 1960, Seiler published a documentation about the Nazi dictatorship that was prepared for school lessons under the title Uncomfortable Past . This book had five editions in the same year. The 6th edition was a new edition with the changed title Zeitgeschichte und wir , which was reprinted several times until 1967. In 1972, Seiler finally published a chronologically extended documentary History of Our Time. Reports, documents, pictures, 1917 – present .

Selected publications

  • The Worms Monastery in the Middle Ages (=  Der Wormsgau . Supplement 4). Worms 1936 (Phil. Diss. Giessen 1934).
  • The Worms Wall Building Regulations . In: The Wormsgau . tape 2 (1934/1943) , pp. 22nd f .
  • The wisdom of the villages of Roxheim, Bobenheim, Mörsch, Horchheim, Weinsheim and Wiesoppenheim . In: The Wormsgau . tape 2 (1934/1943) , pp. 297-300 .
  • The possessions of the Hochstift Worms north of the Main . In: The Wormsgau . tape 3 (1951/1958) , pp. 126-131 .
  • Unresolved past. Reports, documents and pictures on our recent history . With the participation of Hans Möbus. Frankfurt am Main / Munich 1960.
  • Alois Seiler, Karl Borcherding: Contemporary history and us. Reports, documents, pictures from the recent past . Munich 1962 (further editions: 1963, 1964 and 1967).
  • What is it really like in the Congo? In: New Africa. Monthly for politics, economy and culture in the new Africa . 6th year, issue 1 (January). Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm 1964, p. 27-28 .
  • Marcel Boogaerts, Martin Bruch, Alois Seiler: Bibliographies on education, politics and history in the Congo-Kinshasa (=  Arnold Bergstraesser Institute for Cultural Studies Research. Materials. Education and Politics in Africa . Volume 7 ). Freiburg im Breisgau 1969.
  • The treatment of the League of Nations in history lessons during the Weimar period . In: History in Science and Education . tape 22 , 1971, p. 193-211 .
  • History of our time. Reports, documents, pictures, 1917 – present . Munich 1972 (new edition: 1978).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans Georg Gundel: History at the University of Giessen in the 20th century . In: Ludwig University - Justus Liebig University 1607–1957. Festschrift for the 350th anniversary . Giessen 1957, p. 222-252 (therein p. 235 and p. 251, note 46).
  2. ^ School history Theresianum Mainz. Retrieved August 28, 2014 .
  3. ^ School history of St. Mary's School. (PDF) Retrieved August 28, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Martina Knichel: The Society for Middle Rhine Church History. History of its 50th anniversary . Mainz 1998, p. 50 f .
  5. ^ Staats-Anzeiger für das Land Hessen , 1961, No. 47, p. 1380
  6. ↑ The HfE Giessen was later incorporated into the Justus Liebig University Giessen .
  7. ↑ Sources on Seiler's life were information from family members and documents he left behind.
personal data
SURNAME Seiler, Alois
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and educator
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Horchheim near Worms
DATE OF DEATH October 7, 1997
Place of death Wiesbaden