Georg Ernst Hinzpeter

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Georg Ernst Hinzpeter, ca.1907
Grave of GEHinzpeter in the Bielefeld Johannisfriedhof

Georg Ernst Hinzpeter (born October 9, 1827 in Horst / Emscher , † December 28, 1907 in Bielefeld ) was a German educator .

Life

Georg Ernst Hinzpeter was born in Horst / Emscher (today Gelsenkirchen-Horst ) in 1827 as the son of a Bielefeld high school teacher . After finishing school, he studied philosophy and classical philology in Halle and Berlin from 1847 to 1850 . Hinzpeter graduated with a doctorate in both subjects. After becoming private tutor to Prince Wittgenstein and then to the Görtz family , he taught at the Bielefeld Ratsgymnasium for a few years . In 1866 he was appointed tutor of the seven-year-old Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, who later became Emperor Wilhelm II . In 1875 he married Octavie Darcourt, the Prince's French teacher.

Imperial tutor

He held this position until the prince came of age. For the first time he ousted the traditional military educator for a Prussian prince. This was achieved by the mother of Wilhelm II, Crown Princess Victoria . She estimated the rigid educational methods of Hinzpeter to compensate for the perceived her as a deficit physical disability Wilhelm II Hinz Peters -. From today's perspective - rather drastic methods of education, its Calvinist embossed, Spartan, on self-mortification targeting loss hostile education could the unbalanced psyche of the future emperor have contributed.

After Wilhelm II came to power in 1888, Hinzpeter was appointed advisor to the emperor and a secret senior government councilor. From 1904 Hinzpeter was a member of the Prussian manor house . Wilhelm II and his brother attended Hinzpeter's funeral in Bielefeld on January 2, 1908.

rating

Baron Ernst Freiherr von Stockmar , secretary to Crown Princess Victoria, wrote about him: "I see in him the tendency to take things that are true in themselves to the extreme that they are absurd!" Modern historians like John CG Röhl, however, have Hinzpeter partly defended: In retrospect, Wilhelm II, untruthfully, stylized his tutor into a "monster".

Works

  • January 25, 1883, a conversation at the home hearth for the silver wedding day of the Crown Prince couple ; Velhagen and Klasing Bielefeld 1883
  • Kaiser Wilhelm II.: A sketch drawn from nature . Velhagen & Klasing Bielefeld 1888, 5th edition (digitized from ULB Münster)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ John CG Röhl: Wilhelm II - the emperor's youth, page 160
  2. ↑ See Hinzpeter's "advisory activity" collection of sources on the history of German social policy from 1867 to 1914 , section II: From the Imperial Social Message to the February decrees of Wilhelm II (1881-1890) , Volume 1: Basic questions of social policy. The discussion of the worker question on the government side and in public , edited by Wolfgang Ayaß , Florian Tennstedt and Heidi Winter, Darmstadt 2003, pp. 106-109, 262, 446-448, 456, 475, 480, 492, 497, 503, 544 .
  3. ↑ Quoted from Müller, p. 170.

Web links

Commons : Georg Ernst Hinzpeter  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Thomas Güntter: Why Kaiser Wilhelm II traveled to Bielefeld on January 2nd, 1908 in freezing cold. Georg Ernst Hinzpeter: Died in Bielefeld, buried in the Johannisfriedhof (Neue Westfälische Bielefeld January 2, 2017). Retrieved February 19, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Hinzpeter, Georg Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1827
PLACE OF BIRTH Horst / Emscher
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 1907
Place of death Bielefeld