Ewald Geißler (Germanist)

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Ewald Ludwig Geißler (also written Geissler ; born January 18, 1880 in Dresden , †  February 26, 1946 in Erlangen ) was a German rhetorician and Germanist .

Academic career

Geissler's father, who was also called Ewald, was a professor of chemistry at the Dresden University of Veterinary Medicine . The son attended from 1890 to 1899 the Dresden high school to the holy cross , where he passed the Abitur. He then studied theology and later only German and philosophy at the universities of Heidelberg , Berlin , Leipzig and Erlangen . He learned the theory and practice of the spoken word with the Leipzig professor for performing arts Martin Seydel . During his studies he became a member of the Association of German Students (VDSt) Erlangen. At the University of Erlangen Geißler received his doctorate in philosophy in 1904 , his dissertation dealt with "The empirical self or the people in Fichtian philosophy".

In December 1905 he was appointed lecturer for performing arts at the University of Halle-Wittenberg , where he taught speech training , rhetoric , phonetics and recitation . With this he laid the foundations for the Halle Institute for Speech Studies founded by his successor Richard Wittsack . In 1917, Geißler switched to a position as a lecturer for lecture art at the University of Erlangen. After the First World War , he completed his habilitation in 1925 with Franz Saran in Erlangen for “German language art”, a discipline that at the time included rhetoric, phonetics, metrics , style and aesthetics . Geißler's “Education for High Language”, published in two volumes in 1925 and 1934, is considered to be his main work. In 1932 he became an adjunct professor for German art of speech in Erlangen, and in 1939 he was appointed (full) professor.

Political activities

In 1918/19 Ewald Geißler was head of the Erlangen branch of the German National Youth Association . On March 1, 1928, he joined the Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten , of which he headed the Erlangen branch from 1929 to 1933. During the time of National Socialism , Geissler succumbed to this completely. He joined the Kampfbund for German culture when it was founded. Geißler joined the National Socialist Teachers' Association (NSLB) on May 1, 1933. When the Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten, was transferred to the SA in 1934 , Geissler became SA senior group leader and deputy local group leader. He was also the ideological instructor for SA-Sturm 23 / R19. In 1934 he became a member of the National Socialist People's Welfare (NSV). The Nazi Party he joined in 1937, a member of the Nazi Dozentenbund he was from 1940. The Tübingen German scholar Gerd Simon called Geissler as the "Star-rhetorician of the 3rd Reich".

Language care activities

Ewald Geißler was an active linguist and as such an extraordinary member of the Pegnese Flower Order since 1929 . At the time of National Socialism, Geißler, member of the board of the General German Language Association (ADSV), was regarded as the authority on language and style issues.Together with Erich Gierach, Ewald Geißler therefore worked in the National Socialist sense in founding the German Language Maintenance Office .

Private life

Geißler married Gertrude Voigt, a businessman's daughter, in Berlin in 1906. The couple remained childless. After the end of the Nazi era they committed on 26. February 1946 jointly suicide .

Publications

  • The empirical I or the people in Fichtian philosophy. Inaugural dissertation. Borna & Leipzig: Robert Noske, 1904.
  • Rhetoric. Guidelines for the Art of Speaking. Leipzig: Teubner, 1910.
  • About the art of free pronunciation. Berlin: J. Harrwitz Nachf., 1912.
  • Instructions on the art of speech. Leipzig: Teubner, 1914.
  • What is German? Attempt at self-reflection in the German war. Halle ad Saale: Schroedel, 1914.
  • "The war as a language educator." In: Journal of the General German Language Association 30/1915. Pp. 97-103.
  • The good German pronunciation. Their development, their demands. Halle ad Saale: Niemeyer, 1925.
  • Education in high language. Halle ad Saale: Karras, Kröber & Nietschmann, 1925.
  • The actor. Berlin: Bühnenvolksbundverlag, 1926.
  • Pan-Europe in contemporary German poetry. Langensalza: H. Beyer & Sons, 1930.
  • National freedom and poetry. Langensalza: Beyer, 1931.
  • From the German style. Calls and warnings. In: The Great Duden - style dictionary of the German language. Leipzig: Bibliographisches Institut AG, 1934.
  • "Courses in German Oratory." In: German Academy. Announcements 2/1935. Pp. 360-373.
  • Language care as a race requirement. Berlin: German Language Association, 1937.
  • From the German style. Calls and warnings. Leipzig: Bibliographical Institute, 1937.
  • "Word art as a racial expression." In: National Socialist Education 2/1938. Pp. 65-80.

literature

  • Harten, Hans-Christian & Neirich, Uwe & Schwerendt, Matthias. Racial hygiene as an educational ideology of the Third Reich: Bio-bibliographical manual. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 2006. P. 381.
  • Knobloch, Clemens. Folk linguistic research. Studies on the restructuring of linguistics in Germany between 1918 and 1945. (Series German Linguistics 257) Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2005.
  • Körner, Hans-Michael (ed.). Great Bavarian Biographical Encyclopedia. Volume 1 A-G. Munich: Saur, 2005. pp. 623-624.
  • Law, Claudia. Language advisor and style teaching in Germany (1923–1967). A comparison of language and style in four political systems. (Studia Linguistica Germanica 84.) Berlin: DeGruyter, 2007.
  • Lerchenmüller, Joachim & Simon, Gerd. In the run-up to the mass murder. German studies and related subjects in World War II. An overview. 4th edition. Tübingen: GIFT - Series of publications by the Society for Interdisciplinary Research Tübingen, 2009. P. 71.
  • Simon, Gerd. Chronology Geißler, Ewald. (Sources and literature from the GIFT archive on the subject of "Who and what is why and at whose expense German?"). Tübingen: GIFT - series of publications by the Society for Interdisciplinary Research Tübingen, 2005. http://homepages.uni-tuebingen.de/gerd.simon/ChrGeissler.pdf
  • Irmgard Weithase:  Geissler, Ewald Ludwig. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 158 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Zirlewagen, Marc. Biographical lexicon of the associations of German students. Volume 1. Members A – L. Nordersted: BOD, 2014. pp. 246–248.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Irmgard Weithase:  Geissler, Ewald Ludwig. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 158 f. ( Digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Louis Lange (Ed.): Kyffhäuser Association of German Student Associations. Address book 1931. Berlin 1931, p. 65.
  3. ^ History of the institute , Department of Speech Science and Phonetics, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg.
  4. ↑ See Körner, Hans-Michael (ed.). Great Bavarian Biographical Encyclopedia. Volume 1 A-G. Munich: Saur, 2005. p. 624.
  5. ↑ Gerd Simon: Chronology Geissler, Ewald. In: Who and what is German, why and at whose expense? Society for Interdisciplinary Research Tübingen (GIFT), 2005.
  6. ^ Law, Claudia. Language advisor and style teaching in Germany (19231967). A comparison of language and style in four political systems. (Studia Linguistica Germanica 84.) Berlin: DeGruyter, 2007. p. 28.
  7. ^ Polenz, Peter von. German language history from the late Middle Ages to the present . Volume 3, 19th and 20th centuries. Berlin: De Gruyter, 1999. p. 284.
personal data
SURNAME Geissler, Ewald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Geißler, Ewald Ludwig (full name); Geissler, Ewald (other spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist, rhetorician
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1946
Place of death gain