Hans-Oskar Wilde

The grave of the late Hans-Oskar Wilde (1907–1981) and his wife Hildegard Wilde in the New St. Nikolai Cemetery in Hanover.

Hans-Oskar Wilde (* 21st January 1907 in Berlin , † 6. December 1981 ) was a German Anglist and as Professor of English Literature at the TH Hannover from 1961 to 1963 Rector of the Hannover Technical University .

Life

In 1929 Hans-Oskar Wilde did his doctorate at the University of Breslau under Wilhelm Horn on the subject of The Thought of God in English Literature: The Problem of the Development from Puritan to Romantic Literature . As early as 1932 he completed his habilitation in Breslau on Milton's intellectual history and followed Wilhelm Horn in 1933 as a private lecturer in English philology and assistant to Berlin. In 1934 he took over a professorship in Königsberg . In 1935, at the age of 28, Hans-Oskar Wilde was appointed professor at the University of Göttingen to take over from Professor Hans Hecht (1876-1946), who had been deposed because of his Jewish descent . Wilde's early appointment may also have something to do with his involvement in the SA : He was Rottenführer in SA Standard 1 " Hans Maikowski ". At the first Reichsleistungskampf (RBWK) of the German Student Union (DSt) in 1935/36 he was an English expert together with Wolfgang Schmidt-Hidding , Wilhelm Horn and Hans Galinsky . In 1936 Wilde took part in the IV International Congress of Linguists in Copenhagen . On May 1, 1937, Wilde joined the NSDAP ( membership number 4,610,645). As early as 1937, however, there was a conflict with the Reich Ministry for Science, Education and National Education because Wilde, as dean, was reluctant to carry out the honorary doctorate of the Italian Gino Funaiolis personally ordered by Minister Bernhard Rust . He turned down the call to the University of Kiel in 1938/39, among other things, on the grounds that the Gauleitung was interested in his work in Göttingen. On August 26, 1939, Wilde was drafted as a soldier for military service in the artillery .

In 1941 he successfully applied for a transfer to the University of Poznan , because his own family and the family by marriage came from the region. Wilde never taught in Poznan because of his military service. Wilde was taken prisoner by the Americans on August 17, 1944 and was transferred to the Trinidad ( Colorado ) camp. There he worked for the camp school and published the camp newspaper Our Way .

In the denazification process there were many advocates Wild. Due to the positive denazification, Hans-Oskar Wilde first became a university advisor in the Lower Saxony Ministry of Culture in 1949 and in 1955 was offered a professorship for foreign studies and English studies at the Technical University of Hanover. From 1961 to 1963 he was the rector of the Technical University.

Hans-Oskar Wilde was married to Hildegard Wilde, nee Pischke, and had two sons and a daughter.

Fonts

• The Thought of God in English Literature: The Problem of the Development from Puritan to Romantic Literature , Dissertation University of Breslau, Priebatsch, Breslau 1930
• Milton's importance in intellectual history , Habilitation University of Breslau, Winter, Heidelberg 1933
• Studying England in Göttingen , in: Niedersächsische Hochschul-Zeitung, February 20, 1936, pp. 12–21
• The industrial dialect of Birmingham. Intonation and language variant, tone movement, sound quality and sound quantity , Studies in English Philology, Volume 94, Halle an der Saale 1938
• Request, wish and possibility. The English language and the basics of the English way of life , in: Anglia, No. 63, 1939, pp. 209–390 and No. 64, 1940, pp. 10–105
• England - Weg der Mitte , Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1960. Criticism of the Times Literary Supplement : "It's nice to find out these things about us (Brits), even if everything is wrong."

literature

• Frank-Rutger Hausmann : English and American Studies in the “Third Reich” , Klostermann 2003, ISBN 9783465032304 , p. 213ff.
• Lars U. Scholl: For the best of the English studies, which are particularly cultivated in Göttingen. The Seminar for English Philology , in: The University of Göttingen under National Socialism , Saur, Munich 1998, pp. 391–426, ISBN 3-598-10853-2

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans-Oskar Wilde in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rector's speeches in the 19th and 20th centuries - online bibliography: Hans-Oskar Wilde , accessed on March 18, 2010
2. ↑ Hildegard Pischke: The English industrial revolution as reflected in the German travelogues 1790-1825 , dissertation University of Breslau, Grone, Göttingen 1935
3. ↑ Hans-Wolfram Wilde: The political parties in the constitutional system of Austria , dissertation University of Kiel, 1984, p. 281
4. ↑ Hans-Oskar Wilde: England - Weg der Mitte , in: Der Spiegel from June 15, 1960, accessed on March 18, 2010