Friedrich Solger

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Friedrich Solger (born October 8, 1877 in Berlin ; † November 29, 1965 ibid) was a German geologist , local historian and national pedagogue.

Life

Solger was the son of the secret medical councilor Eduard Solger (1834–1920). He graduated from the Lessing Gymnasium in Berlin, which he graduated from high school in 1894. He then worked as a mining enthusiast at the Breslauer Oberbergamt and passed the mining trainee examination.

Solger finally worked as an assistant at the Geological Institute of the Berlin University and in 1901 as a geologist at this institute with Ferdinand von Richthofen as Dr. phil. PhD . From 1901 to 1902 he did his military service as a one-year volunteer with the aim of becoming a reserve officer . From 1904 to 1910 worked as a research assistant at the Märkisches Provinzialmuseum . After completing his habilitation in geology and paleogeology in 1907, he was appointed private lecturer in Berlin . On February 18, 1908, Solger was promoted to lieutenant in the reserve. From 1910 he stayed in China and worked until 1913 as a professor of geology at Peking University . In 1914 he became head of the geological survey at the Chinese Ministry of Trade and Industry in Beijing. In 1914 he wrote a memorandum for an increased cultural and political presence of the German Reich in China. After the outbreak of World War I , he took on as a platoon leader in the III. Sea battalion participated in the defense of Tsingtau . After the city was conquered in November 1914, Solger was captured by Japanese troops and brought to Japan . From April 1917 he was imprisoned there in the Bandō POW camp . He was released in December 1919 and returned to Germany, where he was promoted to Captain of the Reserve and received the Iron Cross 1st Class.

In 1921 Solger was appointed a non-official associate professor of geology at the University of Berlin. From 1923 he held lectures in the study group for scientific local studies. He was co-editor of several writings in the series of art monuments of the province of Brandenburg , published by the Brandenburg Provincial Association , Erich Blunck was the editor .

Solger belonged to numerous interest groups and right-wing organizations during the German Empire and the Weimar Republic. From 1900 he was a member of the Pan-German Association and from 1920 to 1922 of the German National People's Party (DNVP). From 1921 to 1933 he was chairman of the German Association of Non-Ordinaries. From 1925 to 1933 he was a member of the "Association of Völkischer Teachers Germany" and from there in 1933 switched to the Nazi teachers' association. From 1927 to 1933 he was also a board member of the Association of German Universities .

From 1936 Solger was chairman of the Brandenburgia . In 1937 he took the initiative to set up a company museum in what would later become the Rüdersdorf Museum Park . In his publishing activities he increasingly shifted to folkish writings, so that his entry in the Kürschner Scholars' Calendar 1940 was expanded to include the subject of ethnic education . During the time of National Socialism he belonged to the German Faith Movement . He drew with Bernhard Kummer as editor of the writings Nordic Art and German School: Writings on the Nordic orientation of our education based on the sources .

Nothing is known about Solger's denazification . In 1945 he received a teaching position at the Humboldt University in East Berlin on "Geology of Northern Germany and Local History of Brandenburg" and continued to publish. He retired in 1953 and received an award from his university on his eightieth birthday.

Even after National Socialism, Solger was a member of the Society for Geography , the German Geological Society , the Society of Friends of Natural Sciences in Berlin, and in 1962 became an honorary member of the German Quaternary Association and the German Geological Society in the GDR. From 1950 to 1965 he belonged to the State Historical Association for the Mark Brandenburg, where he was made an honorary member in 1961. Solger became a member of the Lawless Society in Berlin in 1954 . Solger lived in West Berlin in the Steglitz district .

Fonts

Geological writings
  • The ammonite fauna of the mongoose limes in Cameroon and the geological age of the latter. In: Ernst Esch, Friedrich Solger, Paul Oppenheim and Otto Jaekel , Foreign Office. Colonial Department: Contributions to the geology of Cameroon. E. Schweizerbartsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart 1904. = Brühl'sche Univ.-Buch-u. Lithography, Gießen 1902. Inaugural dissertation, Royal Prussian Friedrich Wilhelms University.
  • About the origin of the Brandenburg dunes. Habilitation thesis . 1907.
  • Studies on northeast German inland dunes. J. Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1910.
  • as publisher: Dünenbuch. Becoming and wandering the dunes, plant and animal life on the dunes, dune building . Enke, Stuttgart 1910.
  • Geological observations on the Shansibahn . 1914.
  • Art monuments of the Koenigsberg (Neumark) district. Geographical-geological overview, historical introduction, art-historical overview . (= Art Monuments of the Province of Brandenburg. Volume 7, Part 1). Voss, Berlin 1928.
  • The soil of Lower Germany after its last glaciation . D. Reimer, Berlin 1931.
  • The formation of the north-east German soil forms during the Ice Age. (= German primeval times. Volume 3). D. Reimer, Berlin 1935.
  • The primary streams of Brandenburg . Special print from the monthly issue Brandenburgia. Volume 48, 1939.
  • The Rüdersdorfer rocks and their time of origin.
  • Geography lessons. Geology in memory images. People and Knowledge, undated
  • Geology in memory images. People and knowledge, Berlin 1948. Learning and teaching: methodical writings for learning teachers
Volkish writings
  • Will to live . Lot of 3 booklets, undated
  • Homeland and ancestral blood. A reminder of the "Lectures on local history" given in the Bando camp from January 1918 to June 1919 . Printed in the camp printing house of the POW camp, Bando 1919.
  • The educational value of paleontology . Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1933. in: Education .
  • Community in responsibility for life. In: German homeland. Booklet 1
  • Of the essence of true popular education. In: German homeland. Issue 6
  • History as proof of the life of the peoples. Lebenswille series, volume 5. Deutsche Heimat, Berlin undated
  • Home as a unit of life . Berlin, Neudamm 1934.
  • with Wilhelm Hauer and others: Basic lines of a German religious instruction: with main draft for a curriculum of the German religious movement . K. Gutbrod, Stuttgart 1934
  • Nordic education. Writings for appropriate youth education from Nordic responsibility, directed by v. Univ. Prof. Dr. Friedrich Solger . Nordic style & German school. Row B. Adolf Klein, Leipzig 1937.
  • The supra-personal life. Becoming conscious in the thought of home . German homeland, Berlin 1959.
  • Loyalty as the core point of supra-personal life. Self-published, Gernsbach / Braun-Ditzen 1973.

literature

  • Eberhard Faden: Friedrich Solger. 1877-1965. In: Yearbook for Brandenburg State History. Volume 18, 1967, pp. 142-147.
  • Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon on National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , p. 162.
  • Wilhelm Martens: For Friedrich Solger's eightieth birthday. In: Scientific journal of the Humboldt University of Berlin / Mathematical and natural science series. Volume 7.4, Berlin 1958.
  • Rolf Parr : Interdiscursive As-Sociation: Studies on literary-cultural groupings between Vormärz and Weimar Republic. Niemeyer, Tübingen 2000, ISBN 3-484-35075-X .
  • Solger, Friedrich. In: Klaus Neitmann (ed.): The archive of the regional historical association for the Mark Brandenburg. Peter Lang , Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-631-59324-0 , p. 86 f. ( online at Google Book Search ), edited by Peter Bahl .
  • Bruno Stephan: On the 100th birthday of our former honorary member Friedrich Solger. In: Bulletin of the State Historical Association for the Mark Brandenburg. 1978, issue 1, p. 6 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon on National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , p. 162.
  2. ↑ a b Rolf Parr: Interdiscursive As-Sociation: Studies on literary-cultural groupings between Vormärz and Weimar Republic. Tübingen 2000, p. 343f.
  3. ↑ a b c Solger, Friedrich. In: Klaus Neitmann (ed.): The archive of the regional historical association for the Mark Brandenburg. Frankfurt am Main 2009, p. 86 f.
  4. ↑ a b Hartmut Walravens: A German research institute in China , at the University of Hamburg
  5. ↑ Friedrich Solger . In: Gerhard Lüdtke (Hrsg.): Kürschner's German learned calendar . Founded by Joseph Kürschner . 6th edition. De Gruyter, Berlin 1941, OCLC 257208936 , p. 801-802 .
  6. ↑ Friedrich Solger . In: Gerhard Oestreich (Hrsg.): Kürschner's German learned calendar . Founded by Joseph Kürschner . 7th edition. De Gruyter, Berlin 1950, OCLC 257209326 , p. 1970 .
  7. ↑ a b c Friedrich Solger . In: Werner Schuder (Ed.): Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar . Founded by Joseph Kürschner . 10th edition. De Gruyter, Berlin 1966, OCLC 257208474 , p. 2351 .
personal data
SURNAME Solger, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Solger, Fritz; Solger, F .; Solger, Friedrich Ernst Adalbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist and local historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 29, 1965
Place of death Berlin