Fritz Heiligenstaedt

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Fritz Heiligenstaedt (born September 3, 1887 in Roßleben , † March 5, 1961 in Braunschweig ) was a German teacher , pedagogue , school director and ministerial official . He was organizationally involved in the book burning in Hanover .

Life

After attending the monastery school in his home town of Roßleben (Unstrut), Fritz Heiligenstaedt studied ancient languages ​​and German in Halle (Saale) and Leipzig . From 1912 to 1921 he was a teacher at the Leibniz School in Hanover , from 1921 to 1927 director of the grammar school and secondary school in Goslar . In 1927 he returned to Hanover as senior director of studies and head of the Leibniz School . Since 1919 he was at the head of the Hanoverian advisory center for the public library system of the provincial administration of the province of Hanover , he also served as the deputy head of the municipal evening school in Hanover. In 1933 Fritz Heiligenstaedt was involved in organizing the book burning in Hanover . So he reported to the “Combat Committee” that the public libraries subordinate to him had been “cleaned” and added a letter from his advice center to the libraries, which among other things said: “To be removed is under all circumstances: (...) instructive and entertaining literature which undermines the moral and religious foundations of our popular life ”. In the magazine "Volksbücherei und Volksbildung in Niedersachsen" published by him , Heiligenstaedt published an extensive "black list" with the authors and titles that had to be sorted out: primarily communist and Marxist literature, " asphalt literature ", which he believed was mostly Jewish representatives be Emil Ludwig , Lion Feuchtwanger , Heinrich Mann , Alfred Doblin , Arnold Zweig and Stefan branch - as well as books that "distort the war experience or draw down, especially Remarque also Bertha von Suttner , Leonhard Frank " . After 1933 he was also head of group S (theater community) of the NS cultural community in Hanover. In 1937 he switched to the Reich Ministry for Science, Education and National Education in Berlin as a senior school officer and head of the Reich Office for Public Libraries . None of this was an obstacle to his post-war career when he was head of the education department in Bad Sachsa from 1951 to 1956 .

Works

  • German letters from Gellert to Romanticism . For school use ed. and explained by Fritz Heiligenstaedt. Paderborn: Schöningh 1914. (Schöningh's editions of German classics. Erg.-Vd. 11)
  • The development of the Association for Public Libraries in Hanover . In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , 1920.
  • Hanover school leader. Guide through the higher, middle and technical schools of the city of Hanover . (With Ludwig Wülker). Hanover: Schulze 1928.
  • The public library as a municipal educational institution . Hanover: Advice center for public libraries in the province of Hanover 1930.
  • Home schools and boarding schools in the Federal Republic and in Berlin, a directory . Göttingen: Schwartz 1957. From the 4th edition 1962 continued by Konrad Bärwinkel (later with Sabine Hättasch). 12., rework. 1994 edition.

literature

  • 125 years of Leibniz School Hanover. A grammar school under the sign of the reforms from 1874 to 1999 . Edited by the Leibniz School. Red .: Ulrich Junghanns (among others). Hanover: Leibniz School 1999, p. 254.
  • Carola Schelle: The book burning in Hanover . In: Date of barbarism. Notes on the book burning in 1933 . Edited by Nils Schiffhauer and Carola Schelle. Hannover 1983, pp. 55-63, here pp. 58f.
  • Anke Dietzler: Book burning in Hanover on May 10, 1933 . In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter . 37 (1983), pp. 99-121 (here p. 115, note 85).
  • Schmidt, Kurt: The Heiligenstaedt era . In: Bad Sachsa Education 1891–1966. Development and guidance . Ed .: Waldheimschule Pädagogium Bad Sachsa. Written: Edith Goepfert. Bad Sachsa 1967, pp. 9–19 (does not go into his work between 1933 and 1945).
  • Article by Fritz Heiligenstaedt on the 'sorting out' of books from the public libraries of the province of Hanover in the journal: Public library and popular education in Lower Saxony . Volume 13 (1933), issues 1/2 and 3/4.
  • Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , pp. 229-230.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ All information on the biography according to: 125 years Leibniz School Hanover. A grammar school under the sign of the reforms from 1874 to 1999. Edited by the Leibniz School. Red .: Ulrich Junghanns (among others). Hanover: Leibniz School 1999, p. 254.
  2. ^ Carola Schelle: The book burning in Hanover. In: Date of barbarism. Notes on the book burning in 1933. Edited by Nils Schiffhauer and Carola Schelle. Hanover 1983, pp. 55 - 63, here pp. 58f. and Hannover in the word
  3. ↑ Public library and public education in Lower Saxony . Volume 13 (1933), issues 1/2 and 3/4
personal data
SURNAME Heiligenstaedt, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Rossleben
DATE OF DEATH March 5, 1961
Place of death Braunschweig