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Hans Tümmler (born March 12, 1906 in Wernshausen ( Meiningen ), † January 13, 1997 in Essen ) was a German historian , Germanist and high school director.

Life

The son of a Reichsbahn inspector Tümmler graduated from high school in 1924 and studied German, history and Latin in Jena, Berlin and Munich. He received his doctorate from Alexander Cartellieri in Jena in 1928 on the history of the Counts of Gleichen from their origins to the sale of the Eichsfeld (approx. 1000 to 1294) . After the first state examination in 1929 at the University of Jena , he passed the assessor examination with distinction in Weimar in 1931 .

After 1933 he became a member of the NSDAP and the SA . From 1931 to 1937 he worked as a teacher at the Evangelical Oberlyceum, a private school in Essen. He became Gaufachschaftsleiter of the student council of private schools as well as an employee of the Gaustelle for youth literature of the Nazi teachers' association in Gau Essen .

From April 1, 1937, he became a lecturer at the college for teacher training in Frankfurt (Oder) and on October 1, 1938 director of the Goetheschule in Erfurt . From 1940 to 1944, after Moritz Edelmann was called up, he was acting editor of the past and present , the National Socialist magazine for history lessons . In 1944, he completed his habilitation at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg with Willy Andreas as part of the Carl August factory .

In 1948 Tümmler moved back to the British occupation zone in Essen and became a teacher again, from 1957 to 1969 senior director at the Burggymnasium Essen and head of the district seminar for the training of trainee students. In 1962 he became honorary professor of history at the University of Cologne . 1950–1973 he was research representative of the historical commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . 1971–1975 Tümmler was Vice President of the Goethe Society in Weimar. In 1976 he received the Federal Cross of Merit . He was an honorary member and since 1990 honorary senator of the Academy of Non-Profit Science in Erfurt.

Tümmler was a specialist for Goethe and published some writings on it, especially Goethe's correspondence with Christian Gottlob Voigt , also in collaboration with the archivist and historian Wolfgang Vulpius . Under the editor Willy Andreas he edited the political correspondence of Duke Carl August .

Fonts (selection)

  • Goethe in State and Politics: Collected Essays , Cologne, Graz 1964
  • Herzog, Grand Duke Carl August von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach: patron and princely center of the German classical music , Bonn 1989
  • Winding paths. Memoirs , Bochum 1993

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d Harry Waibel : Servants of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 , p. 345.