Hans Thiel

This article deals with the pedagogue and Germanist Hans Thiel. For information on the ophthalmologist, see Hans-Lothar Thiel ; for other people see Hans Thiele .

Hans Thiel (born October 27, 1919 in Hamburg ; † October 10, 2017 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German educator , Germanist , author and patron .

Life

Hans Thiel met his future wife Anneliese (born Jüngst, 1920–2008) already during his school days. He met her as a senior secondary school graduate in grade 11 on the Neroberg in Wiesbaden . Both successfully completed their Abitur.

Hans Thiel then had to do his service in the Reich Labor Service . He was then drafted into the Wehrmacht . As on 1 September 1939 with the invasion of Poland of the Second World War began, he was so badly wounded on his first day of use that he was released from active duty in the Armed Forces. The attending doctor informed him that Thiel had to assume that he would only be around forty years old due to the consequences of the wound. By being released from service in the Wehrmacht, he and his girlfriend Anneliese were able to study German at the Albert Ludwig University in Freiburg im Breisgau . Both were married in 1943 while they were still studying.

Thiel did his doctorate in Freiburg and after the war had a position as a research assistant at the German Institute of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz . In 1950 he accepted a position as a high school teacher in Frankfurt am Main, like his wife, who worked at the Helmholtz School there . From 1944 to 1956 he was officially considered dead because the identification tag of a fallen Wehrmacht soldier was incorrectly deciphered. When this became known to him in 1956, Thiel applied for his death certificate to be deleted.

During his time at Frankfurt's model school , he worked as an author and editor to publish school books for German lessons. His eight editions Our Mother tongue was the defining language book of its time for three decades. As head of the study seminar for grammar schools in Offenbach am Main , he trained more than 80 trainee teachers in German. From 1970 to 1985 he was director of the Frankfurt Helmholtz School. During this creative phase, the specialist journal Discussion Deutsch appeared on his initiative from 1970 . He was a member of the working group that developed the basis for the 1983 German course structure plan for the State of Hesse .

In 1980, while still active as director of the Helmholtz School, Thiel became an honorary member of the Association of Former Helmholtz Students (VEH) founded in 1925 , in whose work he was actively involved until 2016. He published a series of documentary portraits of former students and teachers, including those of the school's Jewish students and teachers who were persecuted and killed by the National Socialists . He made contact with many alumni across continents, often after extensive research into their whereabouts. In addition, he published with the association a documentary on the history of the school and another on that of the association.

Memorial plaque for the Jewish students and teachers of the Helmholtz School who were murdered by the Nazis

In 1989 the couple donated the Anneliese and Hans Thiel Fund for Peace Work , which was made available for students at the Helmholtz School who were committed to this end. The idea for this goes back to Anneliese Thiel. After ten years of activity, the fund donated its accumulated assets to a bronze plaque installed in November 1999, which refers to the persecution of Jewish students and teachers during the time of the Third Reich . It was inaugurated in the presence of Salomon Korn , a former Helmholtz student, chairman of the Jewish community in Frankfurt and vice-chairman of the Central Council of Jews in Germany.

Other activities by Thiel took him to Israel and the USA to visit German Jewish emigrants. The discussions held there led to further historical documentation, for example about the Samson-Raphael-Hirsch School in Frankfurt am Main.

Anneliese and Hans Thiel's marriage resulted in two children, Wolfgang (* 1949) and Ursula (* 1951), who also became teachers. Hans Thiel died at the age of 97, shortly before the age of 98.

Engagements

• Since 1980: Honorary chairman of the Association of Former Helmholtz Students (VEH), Frankfurt am Main
• From 1989 to 1999: Anneliese and Hans Thiel Fund for Peace Work, for students at the Helmholtz School, Frankfurt am Main
• Commission for Research into the History of Frankfurt Jews
• Evangelical parish Langenhain
• Local history and history association Langenhain im Taunus

Works (selection)

• Hans Thiel: The vocabulary of the dialect of Ahrensbök . Dissertation, Philosophical Faculty of the University of Freiburg im Breisgau 1945.
• Hans Thiel, Ernst Zickel (arrangement): Linguistic monuments of the Middle Ages. Middle High German dictionary . In: The silver freight. Hirschgraben-Verlag. Frankfurt am Main 1958
• Hans Thiel: The reading canon of the upper secondary school level of the state of Hessen: Results of a statistical survey . Klett publishing house. Stuttgart 1965
• Hans Thiel, Willi Hopff (Hrsg. + Written): Dictations and style samples from literature and usage prose of the present: For school use . Diesterweg. Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Munich 1967.
• Hans Thiel, Anne Becker (ed. + Collected): Der Lacher: cheerful and satirical short stories by German authors of the present . Diesterweg. Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Munich 1968.
• Hans Thiel, Willi Hopff, Wilhelm Reininghaus: Dictations from German literature: a collection of short texts for spelling, essay and writing. Style exercises . Diesterweg. Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Munich 1969.
• Hans Thiel (Red.): Handouts for the educational plan for the subject German . Hessian Institute for Teacher Training. Fuldatal 1969.
• Hans Thiel (ed.): Reflection on language: conventional and new methods of language description; German, new u. ancient languages . Hessian Institute for Teacher Training. Fulda 1971.
• Hans Thiel (Hrsg.): Reflection on language in German lessons: examples for secondary level (grades 5–13) . Diesterweg. Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Munich 1972. ISBN 3-425-01625-3 .
• Hans Thiel, Hubert Ivo, Valentin Merkelbach (eds.): Methods of literary analysis in the 20th century - Texts and materials for teaching literature - A workbook . Moritz Diesterweg publishing house. Frankfurt am Main 1975. ISBN 3-4250-6209-3 .
• Hans Thiel (Ed.): German lessons in the course system: Suggestions for d. Practice d. newly designed upper secondary school . Diesterweg. Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Munich 1976. ISBN 3-425-01629-6 .
• Hans Thiel (Ed.): Everything went so smoothly: a collection of German short stories since 1950; for upper classes and courses . Diesterweg. Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Munich 1977. ISBN 3-425-06416-9 .
• Hans Thiel (Ed.) Fritz Pratz: Blue Sails: Lyrik u. Ballads for d. 5th to 10th school year . Diesterweg. Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Munich 1979. ISBN 3-425-06010-4 .
• Hans Thiel (ed.): German lessons in grade 11: exemplary courses with selected texts . Diesterweg. Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Munich 1980. ISBN 3-425-01630-X .
• Hans Thiel (Ed. + Editing): Short stories to retell and for other linguistic exercises . Diesterweg. Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Munich 1980. ISBN 3-425-06417-7
• Association of former Helmholtz students (publisher), Hans Thiel: Former members of the Helmholtz School. Brief portraits of teachers and students. Frankfurt am Main 1988.
  Second episode: Frankfurt am Main 1990.
  Third episode :. Frankfurt am Main 1995.
  Fourth episode: Frankfurt am Main 2002.
  Fifth episode: Frankfurt am Main 2008.
• Association of former Helmholtz students (publisher), Hans Thiel: The Jewish teachers and students of the Frankfurt Helmholtz School 1912–1936. Frankfurt am Main 1990.
• Hans Thiel: Erich Klibansky - Germanist and director of Jawne (1900-1942) . In: Discussion Deutsch , 23 (1992) 127, pp. 493-503, ISSN  0342-1589
• Association of former Helmholtz students (ed.), Hans Thiel: History of the association of former Helmholtz students. Frankfurt am Main 1993.
• Hans Thiel: “Jews in Langenhain. A contribution to the history of Hessian rural Jewry ”. Nassau Annals. Volume 108, 1997
• Association of former Helmholtz students (ed.), Hans Thiel: History of the Helmholtz School. A chronicle with 90 illustrations. Frankfurt am Main 2000.
• Evangelical Church Community Langenhain (Ed.), Hans Thiel (Ed.): History of the Langenhainer Church . Evang. Langenhain parish 2000.
• Commission for research into the history of the Frankfurt Jews (ed.), Hans Thiel (edit.): The Samson-Raphael-Hirsch school in Frankfurt am Main: documents - memories - analyzes . Waldemar Kramer Verlag. Frankfurt am Main 2001. ISBN 3-7829-0515-6 .
• Association of former Helmholtz students (ed.), Hans Thiel: Contributions to the history of the Helmholtz school. Frankfurt am Main 2005.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ VEH-Info 92 of December 2003, pp. 2–4, 9th periodical of the Association of Former Helmholtz Students, Frankfurt am Main ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked . Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on: hhsabi77.de (PDF file, 111 kB) 
2. ↑ Helmholtz students sit everywhere ., In: Frankfurter Rundschau, March 13, 2003
3. ↑ Helmholtz Info 200 of November 15, 2004, pp. 13-14. ( Memento of the original from December 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , on: schulserver.hessen.de (PDF file; 970 kB) 
4. ↑ VEH-Info 94 of July 2004, pp. 5-7. Periodical of the Association of Former Helmholtz Students V., Frankfurt am Main ( Memento of the original from December 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , on: vehev.de (PDF file; 111 kB) 
5. ↑ VEH-Info 123 of December 2011, pp. 6-7. Periodical of the Association of Former Helmholtz Students V., Frankfurt am Main ( Memento of the original dated November 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , on: vehev.de (PDF file; 651 kB) 
6. ↑ Helmholtz School memorial plaque (1999) ( Memento of the original from March 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , on: stadtgeschichte-ffm.de  
7. ^ Hans Thiel: The Samson Raphael Hirsch School in Frankfurt am Main. Documents - memories - analyzes . ( Memento of the original from January 26, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. to: juedischesmuseum.de 
8. ↑ Acknowledgments for the bereavement Dr. Hans Thiel  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , at: trauer-rheinmain.de, accessed on December 15, 2017.