Gerd Schimansky

Gerd Schimansky (born August 24, 1912 in Düsseldorf ; † March 5, 2010 in Schwerte ) was a German philologist and educator.

Born in Düsseldorf, Schimansky returned to the East Prussian homeland of his parents as a child . In Königsberg he attended the Royal Hufengymnasium , where Ernst Wiechert was one of his teachers. Schimansky's youth was shaped by the movement of migratory birds . After graduating from high school, he studied German , history and psychology at the Philipps University of Marburg and the University of Vienna . After successfully completing his studies and obtaining a doctorate in 1937 at the Königsberg Albertina , Schimansky worked between 1937 and 1942 as an army psychologist and from 1942 to 1945 as a teacher at the army technical school in Königsberg. The reserve officer was drafted for military service in 1944 and was taken prisoner by the US in 1945. In 1946 he returned from the USA and from then on lived in Schwerte an der Ruhr. In 1947 Schimansky was appointed lecturer at the catechetical office in Haus Villigst , the later Pedagogical Institute of the Evangelical Church of Westphalia , of which he was director from 1964 to 1972. Gerd Schimansky is the brother-in-law of the resistance fighter and pastor of the Confessing Church Ulrich Sporleder (1911–1944).

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SURNAME	Schimansky, Gerd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German philologist and educator
DATE OF BIRTH	August 24, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH	March 5, 2010
Place of death	Swords