Heinrich Schecker

Heinrich Schecker (born February 10, 1891 in Sondershausen , † March 27, 1944 in Meseritz ( Brandenburg )) was a German educator and cultural historian .

biography

Schecker was the son of a postal director. He attended high school in Sondershausen. He studied languages ​​and history as well as theology and philosophy at the University of Leipzig and the University of Berlin . During the First World War he served as an artilleryman and he became a lieutenant. In 1919/20 he was a trainee lawyer and assessor in school service in Sondershausen. In 1922 he received his doctorate as Dr. phil. in Leipzig . He spoke Latin, Hebrew , Greek and two other languages. In the scientific field, he is said to have been very speculative.

In 1922 he moved to Bremen and became a teacher at the municipal college for girls (later the Kleine Helle grammar school ). Since 1935 he was the deputy headmaster here. As a historian, he published writings and books on people from the Baroque period , especially on Joachim Neander (1924), Melchior Goldast (1930) and on medical professionals of the time (1931). Often it should have been rather bizarre topics that he dealt with. Since 1939 he suffered from depression and therefore had to be retired in 1943. The war death of his son (1942), the destruction of his house in the war (1942) and the death of his wife (1943) worsened his suffering, so that he had to be placed in the mental hospital Ellen . In 1944 he was transferred to the Obrawalde sanatorium . The official medical record noted a heart disease for his death, although it could also be possible that he fell victim to euthanasia under National Socialism in 1944 .

Works

• The convoy ship "The coat of arms of Bremen" . In: Bremisches Jahrbuch , Volume 31, Bremen 1928.
• Joachim Neander , 1924
• Melchior Goldast , 1930
• Bremen Baroque in Science and Poetry . In: Niedersächsisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte , 1935, p. 80

literature

• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .