Gerhard Hoch

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Gerhard Hoch, October 2014

Gerhard Hoch (born March 21, 1923 in Alveslohe ; † December 6, 2015 there ) was a German librarian and historian . He distinguished himself in particular by coming to terms with the time of National Socialism in Schleswig-Holstein .

Life

High came from a humble background. Hoch's father Ernst was a painter by profession, Hoch's mother Christine was a pediatric nurse. Gerhard Hoch attended elementary school in Alveslohe. He graduated from middle school in Barmstedt with a middle school leaving certificate . Politically, Gerhard Hoch followed in the footsteps of his father, who had already become a member of the NSDAP in 1930 . Hoch became a member of the German Jungvolk , later in the Hitler Youth , in which he was promoted to squad leader. This engagement had advantages for him. This enabled Hoch to become a teacher despite his relatively low school leaving certificate. After the advocacy of his teachers, the Hitler Youth leadership and the NSDAP local group leader, Hoch was allowed to attend the National Socialist Teachers' Training College in Lunden from 1940 to 1942 , where non-academics who were considered to be ideologically reliable were trained as elementary school teachers. The academic training for elementary school teachers should be abolished with this training. The training took place in barracks in a boarding school, the students wore a special uniform. Special emphasis was placed on ideological training, in which the students should learn, among other things, to underpin the policy of world conquest and the extermination of Jews ideologically. Military sports training and shooting were also a focus of the lessons. At the age of 18, Hoch joined the NSDAP during his time in Lunden (membership application and candidate status 1941). In the spring of 1942, training in Lunden was broken off and Hoch was drafted into the Wehrmacht . He took part in the war in northern Russia and was later transferred to the Rhineland; at last Hoch was a non-commissioned officer.

In 1945, Hoch was taken prisoner by the Americans . He spent the period from April 1945 to spring 1946 in a prisoner-of-war camp in the USA, after which he was interned in England until 1948. Meanwhile, he was able to study theology at a prisoner of war college at Norton Camp in Nottinghamshire . In 1948 Hoch returned to Alveslohe. In 1949 he converted to the Catholic Church in southern Germany and became a Benedictine . From 1950 to 1956 he studied Catholic theology - mainly in the Benedictine monastery of Archabbey Beuron - but also at the University of Würzburg. In 1956/57 he left the order. From 1958 on, Gerhard Hoch worked as a qualified librarian at the University Library in Hamburg , and from 1973 he was head of the Hamburg Teachers' Library at what was then the Institute for Teacher Training (now the library of the State Institute for Teacher Education and School Development). In 1984 Hoch retired.

Hoch married in 1957 and had four sons with his wife. In 1967 the highs moved to Alveslohe. Hoch was politically active in Alveslohe and Kaltenkirchen for several years. He was involved in the German Peace Union (DFU), for which he had run unsuccessfully on the Hamburg state list in the 1965 federal election . During this time, the Kaltenkirchen concentration camp outpost and a death camp for Soviet prisoners of war near Kaltenkirchen were rediscovered . Gerhard Hoch began to research the forgotten history of these institutions and the city of Kaltenkirchen during the Nazi era. This became the book Twelve Rediscovered Years , published in 1980 . Kaltenkirchen under the swastika , which Gerhard Hoch made known nationwide. Hoch's investigation marks the beginning of regional historical research during the Nazi era in Schleswig-Holstein. In 1983, Gerhard and others founded the working group for research into National Socialism in Schleswig-Holstein eV (Akens), which publishes information on Schleswig-Holstein contemporary history (ISHZ) and initiated the long- neglected educational work on the Nazi period in Schleswig-Holstein. In 2000, the Kaltenkirchen concentration camp memorial in Springhirsch was opened with the active help of Hoch. Gerhard Hoch was the honorary chairman of the sponsoring association.

Gerhard Hoch wrote numerous scientific papers that appeared as articles in scientific journals, in compilations and as independent publications.

While Hoch initially found great national recognition, but was attacked in his home region because conservative Schleswig-Holsteiners accused him of "polluting the nest" for his education about the Nazi era and the crimes of that time, Hoch later became a historian who was respected throughout the country. His hometown has also made up with him. Hoch was honored many times.

Awards

Fonts

  • Reich Labor Service in Kaltenkirchen: Dept. 8/73 "Jürgen Fuhlendorf" , Historical Working Group, Kaltenkirchen 1977.
  • Main place of exile: the Kaltenkirchen concentration camp external command : 12 years of Kaltenkirchen found again 1933 - 1945 , Wäser, Bad Segeberg 1979, ISBN 3-87883-002-5 .
  • Twelve rediscovered years: Kaltenkirchen unter d. Swastika. Verl. Roland-Werbung, Bad Bramstedt 1980, reissued 2006, ed. from the supporting association Kaltenkirchen in Springhirsch Concentration Camp Memorial Association, Twelve years recovered: Kaltenkirchen unter d. Swastika. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2006, ISBN 3-8334-4271-9 .
  • The brown synod: a document of church infidelity , Roland-Verlag, Bad Bramstedt 1982, ISBN 3-9800669-1-6 .
  • The Christian way of dealing with history: repression or promise , self-published, Alveslohe 1982.
  • Deported to slave labor: prisoners of war and forced laborers in Schleswig-Holstein , together with Rolf Schwarz, self-published, Alveslohe 1985.
  • A village does sport: 70 years of TUS Teutonia Alveslohe, June 1, 1913 . Self-published, Alveslohe 1985
  • The failure of democracy in rural areas: the example of the Kaltenkirchen / Henstedt-Ulzburg region 1870 - 1933 , Neuer-Malik-Verlag, Kiel 1988, ISBN 3-89029-911-3 .
  • Traces of contemporary history in Kaltenkirchen: 1933 - 1945: A city guide , local union of education and knowledge, Kaltenkirchen 1989.
  • From Auschwitz to Holstein : the ordeal of the 1200 Jewish prisoners from Fürstengrube (concentration camp outside command) , VSA-Verlag, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-87975-513-2 ; Dölling and Galitz, Hamburg 1998, ISBN 3-930802-91-0 .
  • Gustav Meyer: the fate of a Kaltenkirchen teacher , self-published, Kaltenkirchen 1992.
  • Oskar Alexander: from the Kurhaus to the concentration camp , Roland-Verlag, Bad Bramstedt 1994, ISBN 3-9803218-2-7 .
  • Alveslohe and Gut Kaden , Meincke, Norderstedt 1996.
  • The term of office of the Segeberg District Administrator Waldemar von Mohl 1932 - 1945 , Dölling and Galitz, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-933374-92-8 .
  • Ernst Szymanowski-Biberstein . The traces of a pastor from Kaltenkirchen , Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 2009, ISBN 978-3-529-05881-3 .

literature

  • Kaltenkirchen concentration camp memorial association in Springhirsch (ed.): From Hitler Youth leader to Nazi researcher. Gerhard Hoch: Life and work, reception and impact: the Kaltenkirchener Symposium , Kaltenkirchen : Kaltenkirchen in Springhirsch Concentration Camp Memorial Support Association , Kiel : Working Group for Research on National Socialism in Schleswig-Holstein eV (AKENS) 2018 (information on Schleswig-Holstein's contemporary history. Supplement ; 9).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerhard Hoch receives an honorary doctorate from the University of Flensburg In: www.uni-protocol.de
  2. ^ Klaus-Ulrich Tödter: [ Gerhard Hoch died . | Gerhard Hoch died]. In Kieler Nachrichten, Saturday, December 12, 2015
  3. ↑ On Norton Camp, where Jürgen Moltmann also studied, see Klaus Loscher: Study and everyday life behind barbed wire, Birger Forell's contribution to theological-pedagogical teaching in Norton Camp, England (1945-1948) (= Neukirchen theological dissertations and habilitations , volume 12) . Neukirchener, Neukirchen-Vluyn 1997, ISBN 3-7887-1632-0 ( dissertation Augustana University Neuendettelsau 1996).
  4. ↑ Akens short biography of Gerhard Hoch, Schleswig-Holsteinische Zeitgeschichte Heft 35, 1999 and personal information Gerhard Hoch.
  5. ↑ https://idw-online.de/de/news89496

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personal data
SURNAME Up, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German librarian, regional historian and political author
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Alveslohe
DATE OF DEATH December 6, 2015
Place of death Alveslohe , Germany