Heinrich Prove

Heinrich Pröve (* August 1892 in Wathlingen ; † December 1967 in Celle ) was a German regional historian and school councilor in the district of Celle .

Pröve studied German and history to become a teacher in Göttingen and received his doctorate there in 1929. phil. In 1928 he founded the first city ​​archive in Celle and in 1930 was appointed professor of history at the Pedagogical Academy Altona under Erich Less , which was closed again in 1932 due to financial difficulties. From 1934 to 1945 he was a school councilor in the district of Celle and again from 1949 to 1957 when he created a middle school concept for the district. He was also the long-time head of the district library . He wrote numerous essays on local history and published several German language books and reading books for teaching purposes (1939, 1941, 1950). The reading book you are calling your people! was clearly Nazi-oriented: a preface by Hitler's foreword and all the books were divided into chapters with Nazi leitmotifs as headings. The editors came from the Nazi teachers' association .

At his instigation, a teacher training institute was opened in Celle. After the war, in 1946 Hans Bohnenkamp appointed him as a lecturer in history at the newly founded Adolf-Reichwein-Hochschule Celle for teacher training. In 1965 he received the Federal Cross of Merit .

There is a Heinrich-Pröve-Winkel in Wathlingen.

Fonts

• Wathlingen: History of a Lower Saxon Village , 1925
• Village and estate in the old Duchy of Lüneburg (studies and preparatory work for the Historical Atlas of Lower Saxony 11), Göttingen 1929
• with Heinrich Kickler a. Walter Schäfer: Your people are calling you! , German reading book for secondary schools, Bielefeld: Velhagen & Klasing; Hanover: Meyer 1939.
• with H. Kickler, Heinrich Luhmann , W. Schäfer: Your people are calling you ! (Class 2, Vol. 2), Velhagen & Klasing: Bielefeld, 1943
• Native language teaching in elementary school , Klett 1950
• with Heinrich Geffert : From speaking to language , 1950
• with Gustav Schmidt (ed.): Our vocabulary , Westermann, Braunschweig 1953
• (Mithrsg.): Home chronicle of the district and the city of Celle , 2nd edition, Cologne 1959

literature

• Rainer Schulze: Troubled Times: Experience reports from the district of Celle 1945–1949 , ( Biographical reports on German history after 1945 , 8) Oldenbourg, Munich 1991.
• Oskar Ansull: Heavens, what a country! County & Literature. A sighting , Celle 2010, p. 62f.
• Joachim S. Hohmann: German Lessons Between Educational Difficulty and Educational Crisis: Looking Back at the Period 1945/46 to 1968 , Lang 1992