Gustav Rüthning

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Gustav Adolf Rüthning (* 2. January 1854 in Havelberg / Prignitz ; † 20 January 1944 in Oldenburg ) was a German high school teacher , school teacher and historian .

Life

Gustav Rüthning was a son of the hat maker Theodor Eduard Rüthning and his wife Katharine Marie geb. Bonebeck from the Brandenburg town of Havelberg. From 1868 to 1873 he attended the Joachimsthalsche Gymnasium in Berlin . He studied history and geography as well as philosophy and ancient languages in Berlin . In 1876 he moved to Halle an der Saale , where he qualified for a higher teaching post in 1879. Rüthning completed his probationary period from 1879 to 1880 at the Royal Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Berlin. In addition to working as a teacher, Rüthning wrote his dissertation " The fortress war and the battles in the German Empire from the beginning of the 10th to the middle of the 13th century " with which he received his doctorate on March 9, 1880 in Halle .

At Easter 1880 Rüthing got a job as a senior teacher at the Oberrealschule in Oldenburg , where he taught history , geography , German and Latin until 1924 . In 1899, Rüthning was first given the title of professor, then in 1920 he was appointed secret councilor and in 1923 he was finally appointed senior teacher . Rüthning has dealt with the history of the Oldenburg region since he took up his first position well into old age , publishing numerous essays, treatises , editions and representations . From 1905 to 1933 he was editor of the Oldenburg yearbook.

Awards and honors

In 1911, Grand Duke Friedrich August awarded him the Golden Medal for Science and Art for his services to Oldenburg historiography . In 1927 a street in Oldenburg was named after him and in 1929 he became an honorary member of the Historical Society of the Artists' Association of Bremen. In 1933 he was appointed honorary chairman of the Oldenburg Association for Archeology and Regional History.

family

Gustav Rüthning had been with Helene Gerhardine Johanne Gätjen (born August 14, 1864 - January 30, 1933), a daughter of the Oldenburg timber merchant Burchard Gätjen and his wife Anna Louise Friederike, born on July 7, 1884. Inhülsen, married. From this marriage two children were born. Son Burchard Rüthning (born September 14, 1885 - † May 6, 1915) died as a lieutenant on the Eastern Front . In memory of his son, Rüthning published 130 war letters from fallen Oldenburgers in the Oldenburg yearbooks from 1915 to 1918, including letters from his son. The daughter Emma Elisabeth Rüthning (born November 5, 1892) had been with Dr. Karl Georg August Friedrich Gabler (born March 27, 1888) married.

Works

Rüthning's works on Oldenburg history are listed in the 1930 Oldenburg Yearbook. After more than ten years of work, Rüthning presented a complete history of Oldenburg in 1911. In 1937 the “People's Edition in One Volume” appeared, and Rüthning also published parts of the Oldenburg document book. A particular merit of Rüthning was the cleaning of the Hamelmann Chronicle from 1599 of falsifications, which he published in 1940 in its original version.

reception

Rüthning had laid the foundations with his extensive source work. For his Oldenburg history he was attested to be a "pious, authoritarian, but emphatically nationalist, endeavored and educated dignity". His contributions to volumes II – VIII of the Oldenburg document book between 1926 and 1935 were due to "subjective cuts and z. T. insufficient regesta ”criticized.

  • Wolfgang Günther judged that Rüthning "had not succeeded in the overall presentation [...]" , " but that his services as a tireless researcher, stimulator and long-time editor of the Oldenburg Yearbook would remain" .
  • Gerd Steinwascher praised Rüthning's meticulous study of the sources, but noted that "the tones of the still moderate second volume from 1911 had tightened compared to the 1937 popular edition" . Rüthning had "placed himself entirely at the service of National Socialist propaganda" and thus established an image that has not yet been corrected. Even if Hermann Lübbing wrote a more objective history of Oldenburg in 1953.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Wolfgang Günther: Rüthning, Gustav Adolf . In: Biographical handbook on the history of the State of Oldenburg . S. 627 f .
  2. ↑ G. Rüthning: The fortress war and the battles in the German Empire from the beginning of the 10th to the middle of the 13th century. Dissertation. Halle 1880. In: German history. Appendix bibliography. TP Verone Publishing House, Nicosia, Cyprus 2017, p. 110. (Reprint from 1909) (books.google.de)
  3. ↑ Gerd Steinwascher: The Oldenburg. Dealing with the history of a European dynasty in a tradition-conscious region . In: Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen (Ed.): Lower Saxony Yearbook for State History . 2014, p. 16 .
personal data
SURNAME Rüthning, Gustav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rüthning, Gustav Adolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German high school teacher
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Havelberg
DATE OF DEATH January 20, 1944
Place of death Oldenburg