Heinz Stolte

Heinz Stolte (born March 22, 1914 in Duisburg - Großenbaum , then Huckingen municipality ; † March 2, 1992 in Hamburg ) was a German professor of German studies and didactics .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1932, Stolte studied German, history, Protestant religion, philosophy and educational science at the Universities of Königsberg , Halle and Jena . In Jena he received his doctorate in February 1936. Dr. phil. With his folklore dissertation on Karl May , he not only broke new methodological ground. He was also the first to do a doctorate on Karl May. After two years working as a research assistant was Stolte 1938 the state examination for teaching in secondary schools in German and history and received his doctorate in the following year for Dr. phil. habil.

In Jena, he tried to assert himself against the National Socialist claim to German studies on a racist basis. In 1937 he resigned from the SA . From 1941 to 1944 he was a soldier on the Eastern Front in Russia in the staff service and in a propaganda company . In May 1944 he was able to return to Jena on the basis of an order to maintain the next generation of academics. There he taught as a university lecturer.

During the time of the Soviet occupation zone and the German Democratic Republic , Stolte was appointed extraordinary (1946), later full professor for German studies (1949). In October 1949 he was appointed full professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin . There he resigned his post after half a year (1950) “because of attempted illegal restrictions on his freedom of teaching ” and moved to the Federal Republic of Germany , where he was recognized as a political refugee. There he initially worked as a primary school teacher, business school teacher and lecturer in Hamburg. In 1953 he was appointed to the teaching staff, in 1957 to lecturer and in 1970 to scientific counsel and professor at the University of Hamburg , where he worked until 1976. Stolte maintained an exchange of letters and a. with Lion Feuchtwanger , Thomas Mann , Yehudi Menuhin and Karl Popper .

Stolte had been married to Renate Stolte-Batta (* 1939), graduate business teacher and senior teacher since 1965. He died on March 2, 1992 during heart surgery.

Memberships

• Founding member of the Karl May Society , Radebeul
• From 1962 to 1983: Chairman of the Hebbel Society , Wessenburen
• From 1961 to 1967 member of the board of trustees of Jugend-Europahaus eV, Hamburg
• From 1969 to 1978 board member of the Danish-German Academy, Hamburg

Fonts

• The folk writer Karl May. Contribution to literary folklore. Karl-May-Verlag, Radebeul near Dresden 1936, (At the same time: Jena, University, dissertation, 1936; 2nd edition, reprint of the first edition from 1936. Karl-May-Verlag, Bamberg 1979, ISBN 3-7802-3070-4 ) .
• Short German grammar. Based on the five-volume German grammar by Hermann Paul , prepared by Heinz Stolte , Niemeyer, Halle (Saale) 1949, DNB 454902808 .
• Small textbook on German literary history , Verlag für Handwerk und Technik, Hamburg 1959, DNB 454902875 .
• Ludwig Tügel, the narrator. Holsten-Verlag, Hamburg 1964.
• Friedrich Hebbel. World and work. 4 essays. Holsten-Verlag, Hamburg 1965.
• Friedrich Hebbel. Life and work. Husum Printing and Publishing Society, Husum 1977, ISBN 3-88042-038-6 .
• The difficult Karl May. 12 aspects of a writer's transparency. With a foreword by Claus Roxin . Hansa, Husum 1989, ISBN 3-920421-55-8 .

literature

• Renate Stolte-Batta: The literary scholar Heinz Stolte (1914–1992). Life, work and effect. With a foreword by Hilmar Grundmann. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-631-54104-3 .
• Hans Wollschläger: The twenty-second yearbook. In: Yearbook of the Karl May Society. 1992, ISSN  0300-1989 , pp. 7-9, ( online ).

Web links

• On the history of German studies at the University of Jena in the 20th century (2007)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ cf. The secret of his success. The first doctoral thesis on Karl May. In: Berliner Tageblatt , No. 357, of July 30, 1936.