Gerhard Bonwetsch

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Gerhard Walter Traugott Bonwetsch (born April 23, 1885 in Dorpat ; † June 18, 1956 in Detmold ) was a German historian, textbook author and headmaster at the Detmold City High School .

Life

Bonwetsch was the son of the Göttingen theology professor Nathanael Bonwetsch . After graduating from high school in Göttingen in 1904 , he studied history and theology at the Georg August University there and in Berlin . After receiving his doctorate in Göttingen in 1907, he taught at the Gertraudenschule in Berlin-Dahlem and at the Lyceum in Hanover. On May 23, 1912 he married Anna Klara Witzig (born December 15, 1888 in Magdeburg , † October 18, 1946 in Detmold) in Magdeburg, daughter of the businessman Albert Witzig and his wife Klara Müller. Their daughter Katharina was born in Leipzig-Lichtenau in 1913 .

Bonwetsch dealt as a historian with Eastern European history, especially the Volga Germans . The plan of the story for the upper level ( BG Teubner Verlag ), on which he had worked with the historian Franz Schnabel since 1924 , was the most successful history book of the Weimar Republic . In 1950 it was re-edited by Ernst Klett Verlag .

In the Weimar Republic Bonwetsch belonged to the DNVP , during the time of National Socialism he did not join the party and only half-heartedly implemented conditions in several cases. As a religion teacher, he openly showed his evangelical confession. After the Second World War it was 1946 / 1947 MP for the CDU in the appointed parliament of lip . From 1949 to 1955 he was the first chairman of the re-established Association of History Teachers in Germany and as such dealt uncritically with the role of himself and the German teachers in general during the Nazi era.

Works (selection)

  • Collection of historical sources and representations (Volume 5) , Diesterweg, Frankfurt am Main 1914 (digitized version)
  • History of the German colonies on the Volga , Stuttgart 1919
  • Klett's historical teaching work , many editions from 1950
  • The Association of History Teachers in Germany , in: History in Science and Education 4 (1953), pp. 522-525.

literature

  • Elisabeth Günther / Paul Leidinger : Gerhard Bonwetsch (1885–1956). A picture of life. in: Paul Leidinger (Hrsg.): History lessons and history didactics from the Empire to the present. Commemorative publication of the Association of History Teachers in Germany on the occasion of its 75th anniversary. Klett, Stuttgart 1988, p. 286 ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kurt Aland (Ed.): The gloss and decline of the German university, 50 years of German scientific history in letters to and from Hans Lietzmann (1892–1942), reprint, De Gruyter Berlin, New York 1979, p. 1227
  2. ^ Paul Hinneberg (Ed.): Deutsche Literaturzeitung , 37th year, Berlin 1916, p. III (table of contents) .
  3. ^ Marriage certificate Magdeburg registry office No. 454/1912
  4. ↑ Knut Engeler: Geschichtsunterricht und Reformpädagogik, Lit-Verlag, Berlin 2009, p. 44 , with reference to Bonwetsch's GWU contribution from 1953 (see works).
personal data
SURNAME Bonwetsch, Gerhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bonwetsch, Gerhard Walter Traugott (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian, textbook author and headmaster at the Stadtgymnasium Detmold
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Dorpat
DATE OF DEATH June 18, 1956
Place of death Detmold