Fritz Brather
Fritz Brather (born November 29, 1880 in Unternbibert ; † May 20, 1945 ) was a German educator , writer and local researcher .
Life
Brather, who came from a family of teachers, attended grammar school in Ansbach , and studied English and Romance languages from 1901 to 1906 at the universities of Erlangen , Munich , Grenoble and Edinburgh . After various private jobs, he went to the municipal secondary school in Frankenhausen in 1910 , where he became director in 1916. In 1930 he founded the Thomas Müntzer Festival. In 1944 he left the school service, one of the reasons was the national socialist idea of his divorced wife's “ half-Jewish ” descent.
His written estate is now in the Thuringian State Archives in Rudolstadt . A street in Bad Frankenhausen was named after him.
Works
- School hikes: A destination for intellectual, artistic and moral enrichment on hiking tours. Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1922.
- with Karl Lütge : Harz and Kyffhäuser: Ein Heimatbuch (= Brandstetter's small home books. Vol. 4). Brandstetter, Leipzig 1926.
- Images from Frankenhausen's past. Werneburg, Bad Frankenhausen 1930.
- (ed.) with Leonhard Strickel: Bridal procession in spring. After the portrait of the same name by Ludwig Richter (= Das neue Spiel. Vol. 3). Strauch, Leipzig undated (1930).
literature
- Finding aid from the Fritz Brather (1911–1945) estate. (PDF; 38 kB) on thueringen.de, Thuringian State Archive Rudolstadt (with short biography).
Web links
- Literature list in the online catalog on stabikat.de of the Berlin State Library
- Literature by and about Fritz Brather in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brather, Fritz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German educator, writer and local researcher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 29, 1880 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Underbibert |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 20, 1945 |