Gerhard Bergmann (historian)

Gerhard Bergmann (born December 13, 1901 in Potsdam , † missing in January 1945 near Berlinchen ) was a German historian and head of the college for teacher training in Schneidemühl.

Bergmann passed his Abitur in Ostrowo in 1919 and studied history, ev. Theology, German studies and art history in Berlin and Göttingen from 1919 to 1925. In 1926 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on Frederick the Great and England with Arnold Oskar Meyer at the University of Göttingen. He then completed his legal clerkship at the Hildesheimer Andreanum and in Hanover . In the years that followed, he taught in the Hanover area as a study assessor (without a permanent position) at various grammar schools until 1934. He joined the NSDAP in 1933 and took over party offices in the southern Hanover-Braunschweig district . In 1934 he became a lecturer in history at the reopened College for Teacher Training in Hanover, where he became the leader of the Nazi lecturers' association . In 1936 he took on the order to build a new HfL in Schneidemühl on the border with Poland. There he was first provisional director, then in 1937 professor and director of the university, which only trained primary school teachers. Even after the change in training from April 1, 1941, he headed the subsequent teacher training institute as senior director of studies until 1945. He was the superior of Gertrud Ferchland , whom he still tried to find, but who fell victim to euthanasia in 1943 as a professor . In 1942 he became a Gaureferent of the NS teachers' association for teacher training in Gau Pomerania and took over the supervision of all LBA. At the end of the war he was drafted and after fighting near Berlinchen he was missing, later declared dead.

Fonts

• Frederick the Great and England during the Seven Years' War , undated, undated [Göttingen dissertation 1925]

literature

• Alexander Hesse: The professors and lecturers of the Prussian educational academies (1926-1933) and colleges for teacher training (1933-1941) . Deutscher Studien-Verlag, Weinheim 1995, ISBN 3-89271-588-2 , p. 167–168 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

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