Carl Cüppers
Carl Cüppers (born September 15, 1920 in Embken ; † September 24, 2008 in Bergisch Gladbach ) was the director of education in the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis and founder of the Bergisch Gladbach school museum - Cüppers collection .
Life
After graduating from high school in 1939, Carl Cüppers was immediately called up for the Reich Labor Service at the Westwall . He then studied pedagogy at the University of Dortmund with a focus on German, music and sports. After passing his first teaching degree, he was drafted into the military, where he was trained as a radio operator and Stuka pilot for the Eastern Front. During his last deployment in the Stuka , he was seriously wounded and lost his right eye. He started his first teaching position in 1945 at the one-class elementary school in Gimmersdorf in the Drachenfelser Ländchen . In 1947 he started a family and had three daughters. Since 1959 he was the principal of the 13-class school in Rheinbach . Here he was adopted on April 13, 1961 for his new path as a school councilor in the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis.
When the school system was reorganized in North Rhine-Westphalia towards the end of the 1960s , extensive building and renovation work was carried out on schools; School furniture, blackboards, books and notebooks were disposed of and new ones purchased. Cüppers began to collect the decommissioned furniture and materials. In the Bergisches Museum for Mining, Crafts and Trades in Bensberg , he first set up a school class in which he also gave lessons "like in the emperor's time". Since at some point there was no longer enough space for the extensive Cüppers collection, the Bergisch Gladbach School Museum - Cüppers Collection - was gradually built in the Katterbach district .
Awards
- Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon 1987
- Rhineland thaler 1991
- Honorary citizen of Bergisch Gladbach since 2000
Fonts
- Knapsack, blackboard, inkwell, a Bergische school story . Gummersbach 1995, ISBN 3-88265-193-8
- Good morning, Fraulein Roggendorf, memories of a Rhenish schoolboy . Bergisch Gladbach 2005, ISBN 3-9809631-3-6
Individual evidence
- ^ Bergisch Gladbach School Museum - Cüppers Collection
- ^ Bergisches Museum for Mining, Crafts and Trades
Web links
- Literature by and about Carl Cüppers in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cuppers, Carl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German director of education and museum founder |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 15, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Embken |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 24, 2008 |
| Place of death | Bergisch Gladbach |