Heinrich Kraeger

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Alexander August Heinrich Kraeger (born March 12, 1870 in Bremen , † April 11, 1945 in Borgsdorf ) was a German professor of literary history and author. Kraeger published extensively in the völkisch milieu, so u. a. under the pseudonym Erich Ekkehard .

The merchant's son studied from 1889 to 1894 at the universities of Munich, Leipzig and Berlin. In 1893 he traveled to England and in 1894 to America. 1895-1896 he completed his military service with the 107 Infantry Regiment in Leipzig. In 1897 he completed his habilitation at the University of Zurich University, where he taught as a private lecturer. In 1901 he became a lecturer for foreigners at the University of Berlin and in 1902 professor of literary history at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . In the winter of 1906/07 he was on leave and held a course on Germany's art at the University of Chicago .

Around 1910 Kraeger owned a house at No. 5 Rosenstrasse, which the painter Gerhard Janssen later bought.

Kraeger took part in the First World War as a war volunteer and officer in the 135 infantry regiment ; after suffering war injuries, he taught at the main cadet institute .

Kraeger was a member of the German Fatherland Party and in the Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund . He was expelled from the French in 1921. As Prof. a. D. he lived in Berlin. In 1922 he joined the NSDAP and remained a member at least until November 9, 1923. The Berlin German Department succeeded in repelling him as the successor to Max Herrmann .

Under the pseudonym Erich Ekkehard Kraeger was from 1929 to 1931 for Ulrich Fleischhauer U-Bodung publishing an expanded reissue of the original by Philipp Stauff wrote Sigilla Veri out. It was an anti-Semitic encyclopedia in four volumes, which, however, only reached up to the letter P. In the 1930s he was a commissioned lecturer and old Germanist and headed a "völkisch study group" of Germanists at Berlin University . In 1937 he retired.

Kraeger's writings Wittenberg, Weimar, Potsdam (Weicher, Leipzig 1928) and The Future Poet of the World War (Hirt, Breslau 1934) were placed on the list of literature to be discarded in the German Democratic Republic .

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  1. ↑ Blaicher, Glaser: The reception Byron in German criticism (1820-1914); P. 622
  2. ↑ Rosenstrasse 3: E. Döringer, Wilh., Prof., teacher at the Kgl. Art academy; Janssen, Gerhard, professor, painter. Rosenstrasse 5: E. Kraeger, Heinr., Prof., Dr., teacher at the Kgl. Art Academy , address book for the municipality of Düsseldorf 1910, p. 281
  3. ↑ Rosenstrasse 3: E. Döringer, Wilh., Prof., teacher at the Kgl. Art academy; Janssen, Gerhard, professor, painter. Rosenstrasse 5: E. Janssen, Gerhard, Prof., Kunstmaler (No. 3) , in Düsseldorfer address book 1924, p. 248
  4. ↑ Gerhard Kaiser: Border confusions. Literary Studies in National Socialism . Berlin 2008, p. 102.
  5. ↑ Christoph König, Birgit Wägenbaur: Internationales Germanistenlexikon: 1800–1950. A - G;
  6. ^ Armin Mohler , The Conservative Revolution in Germany 1918-1932. A manual , 3rd edition, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1989, p. 217
  7. ^ Marie-Luise Bott: "German Slavic Studies" in Berlin? To the Slavic Institute of the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität 1933-1945. In: Rüdiger Vom Bruch, Christoph Jahr, Rebecca Schaarschmidt (Eds.): The Berlin University in the Nazi Era, Volume 2 . Stuttgart 2005, p. 277.
  8. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1953-nslit-k.html

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SURNAME Kraeger, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German university professor, professor of literary history and author
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH April 11, 1945
Place of death Borgsdorf