Bruno Schumacher

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Bruno Schumacher

Bruno Schumacher (born December 2, 1879 in Strasbourg , † March 1, 1957 in Hamburg ) was a German high school teacher and historian who had devoted himself to the history of East and West Prussia.

Life

Schumacher's father Bernhard Schumacher (1847-1896) came from an old East Prussian family and was general secretary in the Prussian army. The ancestors of Schumacher's mother, Emilie Leidreiter, were exiles from Salzburg .

Bruno Schumacher attended the Collegium Fridericianum in Königsberg i. Pr. , Where he passed the Abitur examination in 1898. He then studied Protestant theology and history at the Albertus University in Königsberg . Like Fritz Gause and Paul Stettiner , he was a member of the Hohenstaufen Association in the German Association of Scientists . On November 13, 1902, he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD .

School service

After passing the state examination for higher education in 1903, Schumacher received his pedagogical training at the Friedrichs College in Königsberg. In 1905 he took up a position as senior teacher at this school . Since 1922 director of the Marienwerder high school , he was appointed senior director in 1925 . During the Nazi era , he refused to become a member of a Nazi organization. He returned to Königsberg in 1934 and became headmaster of the Collegium Fridericianum, which he led until the Battle of Königsberg . When he escaped from the burning city, he managed to take a complete copy of the matriculation from 1750 to 1944 with him. On the basis of this copy, he founded an alumni association that is still looked after by the Landfermann-Gymnasium in Duisburg. This association, called “Die Friderizianer”, is in charge of the Professor Schumacher Foundation, among other things, under which prize-worthy student works on East Prussia and Königsberg are awarded with monetary sums every year.

Editor and professor

From 1912 Schumacher published the journal East and West Prussia . His first publication in this magazine dealt with the history of German castles and towns in the Vistula area . From 1923 he was an employee of the Historical Commission for East and West Prussian State Research . In 1937 he received a teaching position for Prussian history at the Albertus University; In 1938 he was appointed honorary professor for his services to Prussian historical research. From 1922 to 1934 he supported the District President Karl Budding in his efforts to revise the Polish Corridor . At the 700th anniversary of Prussia on June 14, 1931, Schumacher gave the speech 700 years of Prussia in the context of German and European history in front of Reich President Paul von Hindenburg in the Marienburg (Ordensburg) . Retired after the war, he settled in Hamburg. From 1946 he taught historical propaedeutics as an honorary professor at the History Department of the University of Hamburg . He also taught at the Johanneum School of Academics . He made contributions to the New German Biography and the continuation of the Old Prussian Biography . In 1952 he became second chairman of the historical commission for East and West Prussian regional research .

Honors

Offices and memberships

Fonts

  • List of books printed up to 1799 , Königsberg 1913.
  • Local history of East and West Prussia with Erich Wernicke and Hans Bittner, Marienwerder 1925.
  • From the history of the city of Marienwerder , 1926.
  • The State of the Teutonic Order in Prussia and its significance for all of Germany , Langensalza 1927.
  • West Prussia in words and pictures: Forays through today's administrative district with Walter Bayreuther, Fritz Braun, Edward Carstenn and Bernhard Schmid , Königsberg 1927.
  • Marienwerder as part of Prussian and German history: Address at the 700th anniversary of the city of Marienwerder on June 4, 1933 , Marienwerder 1933.
  • The German Order in England . Old Prussia. Contributions, Festschrift 1933.
  • The constitutional justification of the acquisition of West Prussia by Frederick the Great and the Teutonic Order . Old Prussia. Researches 11 (1934).
  • Studies on the history of the Teutonic Order-Balleien Apulia and Sicily . Koenigsberg 1942.
  • History of the Friedrichs Kollegium zu Königsberg (Prussia) 1698 to 1945: To celebrate the 250th anniversary of the founding day (11 Aug 1698) , Hamburg 1948.
  • From the history of East Prussia , Leer 1951.
  • The Teutonic Knight Order - its basic ideas and its European mission , Zurich 1952.
  • History of East and West Prussia , Königsberg 1937, new edition Würzburg 1957
  • The castles in Prussia and Livonia , Würzburg.
  • Outline of the history of the Ostmark , Leipzig.
  • Biographies old Prussia. Personalities (Ch. Krollmann: Altpreuß. Biographie) since 1936 and (New German Biography) since 1953.

literature

  • Ernst Opgenoorth : Coming to terms with the past in East Prussian. The late Bruno Schumacher . In: The Prussia as a research task. Festschrift for Udo Arnold on his 60th birthday . Lüneburg 2000, pp. 783-814.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fritz Gause : Bruno Schumacher . Zeitschrift für Ostforschung 6 (1957), pp. 401-403
  2. ^ Dissertation: Dutch settlements in the Duchy of Prussia at the time of Duke Albrecht, 1525–1568 .
  3. ^ Christian Krollmann , Kurt Forstreuter , Fritz Gause : Old Prussian Biography . Volume II, Marburg 1967, p. 647
personal data
SURNAME Schumacher, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German high school and university teacher, historian of East and West Prussia
DATE OF BIRTH December 2, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Strasbourg
DATE OF DEATH March 1, 1957
Place of death Hamburg