Hanswerner Heincke

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Hanswerner Heincke (born May 28, 1905 in Königsberg (Prussia) , † August 24, 1986 in Ratingen ) was a German philologist.

Life

Heincke attended the Collegium Fridericianum . After graduating from high school, he first studied architecture in Graz and Breslau, then German studies, history, art history, religion, folklore and philosophy at the Albertus University in Königsberg . In 1924 he became active in the Corps Hansea Königsberg . With a doctoral thesis with Walther Ziesemer , he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD. Like his father, Paul Heincke (1878–1968), he worked for the Reichskolonialbund in Tragheim . When he was being treated at the Mercy Hospital for a serious illness , he met his future wife (a nurse). As a volunteer lieutenant in the Königsberg flak regiment, he fought in the German-Soviet war and in Denmark. In the post-war period in Germany , he was a youth educator at the Inner Mission in Lower Saxony and cultural advisor at associations of expellees , especially at the East Prussian Landsmannschaft in North Rhine-Westphalia.

With his wife Gertrud he committed himself to work for the displaced people early on in Düsseldorf . From 1954 he was a teacher for German, religion and philosophy; he remained so even in retirement age. Since 1974 he has been editing the Königsberg citizens' letter of the city community of Königsberg. In Duisburg he was in charge of the Museum City of Königsberg . From 1927 to 1985 he wrote 150 books, essays and manuscripts.

See also

Participation in projects

  • Old Prussian biography, NG Elwert Verlag Marburg
  • Inventory of East and West Prussian literature by the East and West Prussia Foundation in Bavaria eV

Honors

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 85/275; 58/194
  2. ^ A b Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon . Flechsig, Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-441-1 , p. 123
  3. ↑ Old Prussian Biography Vol. III, (1975), p. 945
  4. ↑ Heinz Radke: In memoriam Dr. Hanswerner Heincke. Memories of a friend . Königsberger Bürgerbrief 27 (1986) p. 3-4
personal data
SURNAME Heincke, Hanswerner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Königsberg (Prussia)
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 1986
Place of death Ratingen