Carl Diercke

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Carl Diercke
Diercke memorial plaque at the fountain in Kyritz
Memorial plaque on the house, Bundesplatz 12, in Berlin-Wilmersdorf

Carl Diercke (born September 15, 1842 in Kyritz , Ostprignitz district ; † March 7, 1913 in (Berlin-) Wilmersdorf ; full name Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Diercke ) was a German educator and cartographer . The well-known Diercke School Atlas comes from him , which was initially continued by his son Paul Diercke and is now published as the Diercke World Atlas by the Westermann printing and publishing group in Braunschweig .

Life

Carl Diercke was born as the son of the innkeeper and brewery owner Carl Friedrich Daniel Diercke and Louise Dorothee. Müller born. After the father's untimely death, the mother married a previous teacher. Since the family moved frequently, the boy attended schools in Kyritz , Salzwedel and Berlin .

After graduating from high school, Diercke completed a teacher training course in Berlin from 1860 to 1863 , where he passed his examinations to teach chemistry , French , geography , geometry , Latin , natural history , pedagogy and arithmetic between 1863 and 1865 . His professional career began in 1865 as a private teacher in Riga , which was then part of the Russian Empire . He stayed there until 1869, before he was appointed to Berlin as a seminar teacher in 1870.

In Berlin he met Hermine Marie Ottilie Lucas, whom he married in 1871. Eight children emerged from this connection, including the son Paul Diercke . In 1873 Diercke was transferred to Stade as a seminar teacher and one year later was appointed director of the royal teachers' seminar there for elementary school teachers . His interest and favorite subject became geography and he began to draw his own maps, which were clearly laid out and therefore particularly suitable for children.

Diercke's success led to an appointment as director of the teachers' college in Osnabrück in 1885 . In addition, the Prussian Ministry of Spiritual, Educational and Medical Affairs appointed him a government and school council. From 1899 to 1908 he held the office of school director in Schleswig , where he was appointed secret councilor in 1904 .

In 1907 his wife Ottilie died and was buried in Schleswig. In 1908 Carl Diercke retired and was awarded the Hohenzollern House Order 3rd class on this occasion . In the same year he moved to the then still independent town of Wilmersdorf , where he died at the age of 70. At his request, he was buried in Schleswig-Friedrichsberg on March 11, 1913.

One of his descendants who are still alive today is Arnold Willemer .

Publication of the first German school atlas and the consequences

Diercke World Atlas : Cover of the 10th edition, Braunschweig 1887

In 1875 he won over the publisher Georg Westermann from Braunschweig for the printing of a corresponding textbook. Because Diercke had been thinking about developing an atlas suitable for school lessons for some time . In addition, he therefore made contact with the Leipzig cartographer Eduard Gaebler , who spent several years mapping the countries and doing everything precisely. In 1883 the school atlas was finally published for all parts of the world . However, the work was large and due to its square format it did not fit into the school satchels that were common at the time. An intensive revision of the new textbook finally led from the 1890s to a change to a portrait format with the dimensions 23 × 36 centimeters. Generations of schoolchildren used the Great Diercke in geography classes from 1895 .

How versatile Diercke was and how openly he was to new discoveries is shown by the fact that he founded a scientific-geographic association in Stade in 1882.

From 1893 until his death, Diercke was the editor of the entire atlases and map program of Westermann Verlag, including the first Diercke wall maps of Brandenburg and Palestine , which were created in 1903.

For the 125th anniversary of the first edition, a complete revision of the Diercke World Atlas was published in 2008, supplemented for the first time by a digital atlas on the Internet and an online globe.

Dierckes Atlas 1883 until today

Diercke's Atlas has been revised in various ways to this day, but the number of editions was retained at least until the 189th edition (1975). In addition, special editions, e.g. B. with regional reference, known.

  • Carl Diercke: School atlas for higher education institutions. 1st edition, Westermann, Braunschweig 1883.
    The original edition was revised in 1895 and continued until the 47th edition.
  • Carl Diercke (edit.): Lange-Diercke elementary school atlas. Edition for the Grand Duchy of Hesse . Georg Westermann, Braunschweig 1906.
    (Commission publisher for Hessen: Emil Roth, Gießen) ( digital copy at the University and State Library Darmstadt)
  • Paul Diercke (edit.): Diercke Atlas for higher educational institutions. 48th, revised edition, Westermann, Braunschweig 1911.
    ( Digitized at the University and State Library in Düsseldorf )
    The revision by Paul Diercke was revised in 1931 and then remained essentially unchanged until the 82nd edition.
  • Richard Dehmel (arr.): Diercke World Atlas. 83rd, revised edition, Georg Westermann Verlag, Braunschweig 1950.
    Dehmel's revision was adapted in 1957 and then continued until the 184th edition.
  • Ferdinand Mayer (arr.): Diercke World Atlas. 185th, revised edition, Georg Westermann Verlag, Braunschweig 1974, ISBN 3-14-100500-1 .
  • Diercke World Atlas. Westermann Schulbuchverlag, Braunschweig 2008, ISBN 978-3-14-100700-8 .

literature

Web links

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  1. ↑ a b Christa Jankowiak, Johannes Jankowiak: Do you know the 'Diercke'? In: Brandenburg. Not just sand and heather. Stapp Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-87776-573-9 .
  2. ^ Website: Diercke-Online Globus
personal data
SURNAME Diercke, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Diercke, Carl Friedrich Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator and cartographer
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH Kyritz
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 1913
Place of death Berlin-Wilmersdorf