Georg Amsel

Georg Amsel (born November 24, 1862 in Schweidnitz , † after 1949 ) was a German teacher and stenographer .

Life

He was the son of a teacher and had evangelical ancestry. After attending high school in Swidnica Georg Blackbird studied at the University of Breslau and received his doctorate in 1886 for Dr. phil. He then worked as a trial candidate and as an assistant teacher. He worked at the Schweidnitz grammar school from 1888 to 1891 before moving to the cadet corps in Lichterfelde near Berlin, where he stayed until 1899. Georg Amsel then moved to Oranienstein until 1902 . From this time he was a teacher in Bensberg and from 1912 senior teacher in Groß-Lichterfelde , which in 1920 became part of Groß-Berlin . Georg Amsel was professor and retired in 1922.

Georg Amsel was chairman of the Reichsbund and the teachers' examination committee for unified shorthand. He was also a member of the historians' committee of the Reichsdeutsche Armbrüderliche Vereinigung , which existed until the end of the First World War.

In 1949, at the age of 87, he lived in Buchenberg in the Black Forest with his son Hans-Georg.

Works

He wrote several textbooks of the Stolze-Schrey shorthand and the standard shorthand, some of which appeared in the Göschen Collection .

family

Georg Amsel had been married to Marie nee Gebhard, a merchant's daughter from St. Petersburg , since 1894 . In addition to two daughters, their son Hans-Georg Amsel emerged from their marriage.

Honors

In the cemetery of the Buchenberg district of the municipality of Königsfeld in the Black Forest there is a plaque with the inscription in memoriam Professor Georg Amsel .

literature

• Herrmann AL Degener : Degeners Who is it? , Berlin 1935, p. 21.

Web links

• Entry of Georg Amsel in the Kalliope network

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Monthly Issues, Volume 90, Issues 7–12, 1949, p. 96.
2. ↑ shorthand. Textbook of Simplified German Stenography , 2nd edition, Leipzig, 1904.
3. ↑ Space is running out in the cemetery .