Erhard Ross

Karl Erhard Roß (born December 20, 1877 in Groß Wolfsdorf , East Prussia , † 1945 in Pillau ) was a German historian and high school teacher in Königsberg i. Pr.

Life

Roß studied German , history and geography at the Albertus University of Königsberg and the University of Jena . In the winter semester of 1898/99 he became a member of the Germania Königsberg fraternity . In 1902 he received his doctorate on The Politics of the Great Elector in the War against France 1672-75 with special consideration of the separate peace of Vossem of June 6, 1673 and the procession to Alsace in the autumn of 1674 for Dr. phil. From October 1903 he did his one year military service.

In 1906 he entered the higher teaching post at the Steindammer Realschule. After taking part in the First World War as an officer , he became a senior teacher at the Hindenburg secondary school in the Weimar Republic . Since 1924 senior director of the suburban secondary school, he succeeded Paul Stettiner's city school council in Königsberg in 1928 . From 1934 to 1945 he headed the Queen Luise School there .

For a long time Roß was chairman of the East Prussian Philologists' Association . He died on the run from the Red Army in Pillau in 1945.

The fraternity Germania Königsberg: Festschrift for their 70th foundation festival . Leutpold 1913.
History of the Königsberg Theater from 1811–1834 . Köslin, 1935.

↑ ^a ^b ^c Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon . Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-441-1

personal data
SURNAME	Ross, Erhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Roß, Karl Erhard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German historian and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH	December 20, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH	Groß Wolfsdorf , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH	1945
Place of death	Pillau , East Prussia