Friedrich Zingel

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Friedrich Zingel (born February 19, 1877 in Cologne , † November 1, 1943 in Berlin ) was a German educator and writer.

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As the son of the music conductor Ludwig Zingel, he attended the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Cologne up to the senior second, then completed a three-year commercial training and stayed in French-speaking Switzerland and England to perfect his language skills. After graduating from the Sophien-Realgymnasium in Berlin, he studied modern languages ​​and education at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität there from 1903–1906. In 1912 he passed the examination for the higher teaching post and in 1913 the gymnastics teacher examination at the state gymnastics institute in Spandau. In 1915 he was at the Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen with a thesis study on the originality of educational thought Rabelais' Dr. phil. PhD. He then worked as a teacher (teacher) at various higher education institutions in Berlin. In 1931 he wrote the text What the world owes to the Germans , consisting of short biographies of great German scientists and inventors, which were published several times by Koehler & Amelang-Verlag in Leipzig.

He was married to Sieglinde Brodek (born August 12, 1883), with whom he passed away on November 1, 1943 because of her Jewish descent and the threatened deportation . They found their final resting place in the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf .

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