Hans Oppermann

This article describes the classical philologist, for the district administrator, see Hans Oppermann (district administrator) .

Hans Oppermann (born October 13, 1895 in Braunschweig , † August 28, 1982 in Tübingen ) was a German classical philologist .

Life

Oppermann studied classical philology in Bonn and was in there in 1920 August Brinkmann with a thesis on Greek religious history doctorate . He then worked as a lecturer at the University of Greifswald , where he also received his habilitation in 1926 with studies on the biography of Plotinus . In 1928 Oppermann completed his habilitation at the University of Heidelberg , where he received an assistant position, and in September 1932 he received the title of associate professor. Until 1930 he was more active in the field of Greek studies , only from about 1930 did he turn more to Latin studies . In 1934 he was appointed to Freiburg as an associate professor in succession to Eduard Fraenkel , who had been dismissed because of his Jewish faith , and was appointed full professor in 1935. Oppermann was a staunch National Socialist and from 1937 a member of the NSDAP . Together with the two other representatives of Classical Philology in Freiburg, Hans Bogner and Wolfgang Aly , both also National Socialists, he tried to enforce a system-compliant orientation of the subject. From 1936 to 1937 he was dean of the philosophy faculty. At the end of January 1941, like Bogner, he was appointed to the University of Strasbourg , where he taught until the end of 1944.

After the war, because of his National Socialist past, he was no longer able to work as a university teacher and in 1949 he became a high school teacher at the Christianeum in Hamburg-Altona . From 1954 until his retirement in 1961 he was senior director of studies at the Johanneum in Hamburg and its rector. In 1959 he was reinstated as a professor emeritus in Hamburg .

In the Soviet occupation zone , Oppermann's work Virgil (= On the way to the national political high school , booklet 7. Diesterweg, Frankfurt a. M. 1938) was placed on the list of literature to be sorted out.

Editions (selection)

• Cornelius Nepos . Westermann, Braunschweig 1951
• Bellum Gallicum , C. Julius Caesar . Westermann, Braunschweig 1953
• Wilhelm Raabe . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1970, ISBN 3-499-50165-1 (rowohlt's monographs)
• Julius Caesar. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1992, ISBN 3-499-50135-X (rowohlt's monographs)

Other fonts

• The first battle for Alsace and the creation of the Rhine border. On the 2000 year anniversary of the struggle between Caesar and Ariovistus , 58 BCE, in: Strasbourg monthly books. Journal for the German Volkstum on the Upper Rhine , Ed. Friedrich Spieser , Strasbourg 1942

literature

• Jürgen Malitz : Romanism in the ›Third Reich‹. Hans Oppermann . In: Peter Kneißl , Volker Losemann (ed.): Imperium Romanum. Studies on history and reception. Festschrift for Karl Christ on his 75th birthday . Steiner, Stuttgart 1998, pp. 519-543 (online as PDF , HTML ).
• Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-596-16048-0 .
• Jürgen Malitz: Classical Philology . In: Eckhard Wirbelauer (ed.): The Freiburg Philosophical Faculty 1920–1960. Members - Structures - Networks , Freiburg / Munich 2006, pp. 303–364 ( online, PDF ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans Oppermann in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Malitz p. 308.
2. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-o.html
3. ↑ to the justification of the incorporation of Alsace by the National Socialists into the Reich