Gustav Bolland

Gustav Adolph Heinrich Bolland (born April 5, 1889 in Hamburg ; † August 14, 1978 there ) was a German educator , historian and publicist .

Live and act

Gustav Bolland came from a family of teachers who had moved from Stade to Hamburg. After completing the teachers' college in his hometown, he taught at the Passman School in Hamburg before the First World War . One focus of this educational institution was on conveying the history of Hamburg, which would shape Bolland's further professional activity. During the First World War, Bolland did military service as an officer and received several awards. He then returned to Hamburg to work as a teacher in Barmbek . Bolland was promoted to middle school teacher and took over the management of several schools. He also taught at the Pedagogical Institute, the Institute for Teacher Training and the Adult Education Center.

In 1937 Bolland joined the NSDAP , but did not take any offices in the party. During the Second World War he served as a captain in Russia until July 1944. During the denazification process , Bolland was seen as politically suitable for running schools. Bolland therefore worked in teacher training until his retirement in 1954.

Gustav Bolland was married to Maria Paula, nee Gaerner. The marriage had two children: Marianne Bolland worked as a teacher like her mother, Jürgen Bolland became director of the Hamburg State Archives.

Works and honors

Gustav Bolland created texts and maps that dealt with Hamburg. Hamburg. Becoming a German City appeared in Berlin and Leipzig in 1938 and 1944 , Hamburg as it was in 1952, a year later in a second edition. In the works that were created at the time of National Socialism , formulations can be found that can be regarded as regime-friendly. Bolland particularly praised the Greater Hamburg Law in a way that can be described as a "Führer homage". Numerous other works, on the other hand, are harmless and solid. Bolland was particularly concerned with the history of Barmbeck and the administration of the Hamburg rural area. He also created registers for the journal of the Association for Hamburg History and for published and unpublished sources of the Hamburg State Archives. From 1926 to 1964 he published the history and homeland papers of the Association for Hamburg History , whose communications he redesigned. From 1931 he was a member of the board of the association, which awarded him a Lappenberg medal in silver in 1934 and accepted him as an honorary member on his 75th birthday. The Hamburg Senate awarded Bolland the medal for art and science in 1964 . On the occasion of the historian's 80th birthday, the Association for Hamburg History dedicated booklets six to eight of the seventh volume of the Geschichts- und Heimatblätter .

literature

• Hans Wilhelm Eckardt: Bolland, Gustav . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 4 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-8353-0229-7 , pp. 56-57 .