Bernhard Iversen

Bernhard Iversen (born January 26, 1881 in Munkbrarup , † 1947 in Kiel ) was a German music teacher. He was a professor at the University for Teacher Training in Kiel.

After the preparatory institute and elementary school teacher seminar, Iversen was a seminar teacher for music in Rendsburg from 1908 to 1926 . Then he was appointed as a lecturer and professor (1927) for music education at the new Pedagogical Academy in Kiel , which was a college for teacher training from 1933 to 1941. In 1933 he joined the NSDAP , SA and the Nazi teachers' association , where he became a Gau clerk for music. In November 1933 he signed the professors' declaration of Adolf Hitler at German universities and colleges . He also became the editor-in-chief for musical education of the Nazi teachers' association magazine "Art and Youth". After 1939 he taught first in Hamburg, then until 1943 at the teacher training college in Hanover. Back in Kiel he worked in the education administration and held the Reichslehrgang für Musik in Lunden in 1944 . Discharged by the British, he died of an operation in 1947. Iversen published several songbooks for elementary school.

literature

• Hans-Christian Harten, Uwe Neirich, Matthias Schwerendt: Racial hygiene as an educational ideology of the Third Reich. Bio-bibliographical manual . Berlin 2006, pp. 208, 407.

Web links

• Literature by and about Bernhard Iversen in the catalog of the German National Library