Hans Teske

Hans Albert Teske (born May 23, 1902 in Hamburg , † May 1945 in Berlin (missing)) was a German German studies scholar and university professor.

Life

Teske finished his school days in Hamburg with the Abitur and then completed a philological degree at the universities of Hamburg and Heidelberg . He obtained his doctorate in Heidelberg in 1924. phil. From 1925 to 1930 he worked as an assistant on the German legal dictionary . In the summer of 1928 he completed his habilitation at the Philosophical Faculty in Heidelberg with a first draft of the text “Thomasin von Zerclaere. The man and his work ”, which appeared in a revised form in 1933. From 1928 he taught in Heidelberg as a private lecturer.

After the handover of power to the National Socialists , he became a member of the NSDAP in spring 1933 . He was also a member of the SA and the Nazi teachers' association.

At the beginning of October 1934, due to his National Socialist sentiments, he was appointed as a scheduled extraordinary professor for Low German Philology at the University of Hamburg. In this function he succeeded Agathe Lasch, who was dismissed by the Nazi rulers because of her Jewish origin . Teske worked a. a. as archive manager at the Hamburg dictionary , but was supported by the scientifically active Lasch. He became director of the German Department at the University of Hamburg, where he was appointed full professor of German philology as Conrad Borchling's successor in early October 1938 . He taught at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Hamburg together with Emeritus Borchling.

At the beginning of the Second World War , Teske was drafted into the Wehrmacht in September 1939 and served as a special leader in the Netherlands and Belgium . He was appointed professor at the University of Brussels on November 21, 1941 and also published in Flemish. After the end of the Battle of Berlin , Teske was missing in May 1945.

Fonts (selection)

• The penetration of high German written language in Lüneburg , M. Niemeyer, Halle (Saale) 1927 (also dissertation).
• Thomasin of Zerclaere. The man and his work , Carl Winter, Heidelberg 1933 (draft was submitted to the Philos. Faculty of Heidelberg as a habilitation thesis in the summer of 1928).
• Walther von der Vogelweide, the singer of the German Reich , Coleman, Lübeck 1934 (published several times).
• The concept of Volkstum: a lecture , Weiss, Heidelberg 1934.
• People becoming and Guttemplerarbeit , Neuland-Verlag, Berlin 1935. (= The alcohol question in the new Germany issue 5)
• De nederduitsche literatuur , "De Phalanx", Brussels 1942
• Overcoming provincialism in Flemish literature , Verlag De Lage Landen, Brussels 1943. (= publications of the German Institute Brussels 1)
• The occidental saga circles in German poetry of the Middle Ages: 3 lectures , German publisher: Die Osterlingen, Brussels 1943.

literature

• Wolfgang Bachofer, Wolfgang Beck: German and Low German Philology. The Germanic seminar between 1933 and 1945. In: Eckart Krause u. a. (Ed.): Hamburg contributions to the history of science. 3.2: Everyday university life in the Third Reich. The Hamburg University 1933–1945 Part 2: Faculty of Philosophy, Faculty of Law and Political Science. Reimer, Berlin / Hamburg 1991, p. 658 ff.
• Wolfgang Bachofer: Teske, Hans. In: Franklin Kopitzsch , Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . Lexicon of persons. Volume 2, Christians, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-7672-1366-4 , p. 414.
• Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 . P. 620.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Who is it. 10th edition. Edited by Herrmann AL Degener , Berlin 1935, p. 1596.
2. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 620.