Hellmut Weishaupt

Hellmut Weishaupt , complete Karl Alexander Eduard Franz Hellmut Weishaupt (born October 18, 1895 in Heilsberg , † December 1958 ) was a German educator and member of parliament.

Life

Hellmut Weishaupt attended grammar school in Erfurt until he graduated from high school at Easter 1913. He studied at the universities of Marburg and Tübingen. From August 1914 to January 1919 he served as a volunteer in the First World War in the 1st Grand Ducal Hessian Field Artillery Regiment No. 25 and became a lieutenant and battery leader until 1918 . In 1921 he passed the state examination in Marburg as a high school teacher for the subjects religion, history and German with distinction .

He received his first position as a study assessor in Halle (Saale) . In 1923 he came to the cathedral high school in Lübeck as a teacher under the reform pedagogue Sebald Schwarz . He was a member of the SPD and became a member of the Lübeck citizenship. After the National Socialists came to power , he was forced to retire on April 29, 1933 by the new Senator for Culture, Ulrich Burgstaller , in accordance with Section 4 of the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service .

Weishaupt, who had previously been a frequent speaker at the evangelical Heimvolkshochschule Wislade near Lüdenscheid , decided to study Protestant theology in full . On September 23, 1936, he passed the first and second theological exams in Hamburg on September 16, 1937 , was ordained pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Hamburg state and took over a pastor's position in Hamburg-Barmbek . In the Second World War he did military service again, but was politically not reliable only as a flak fighter. After his pastorate had been destroyed by an air raid in 1942, he experienced the extensive demise of his community in Operation Gomorrah in the summer . He then worked in the care of evacuated Hamburg residents in the Upper Palatinate .

On January 1, 1946, he returned to the Lübeck school service and was appointed senior teacher and director of the Katharineum . On January 1, 1949, he moved to the Schleswig-Holstein Ministry of Education as a senior school officer in Kiel and, in 1953, was also appointed lecturer for didactics in higher schools at the University of Kiel .

Awards

• Iron Cross

Second class February 1916

1st class August 1918

• Hessian bravery medal May 1917

Works

• The Catholic Church of the Present. Leipzig: Quelle & Meyer 1926 (Religious source library)

2nd improved edition 1930

• Evangelical piety in our time. Leipzig: Quelle & Meyer 1927 (Religious source library)

literature

• Hans Heinrich Mandel: Two directors are rebuilding the Katharineum - Hellmut Weishaupt, Walter Schönbrunn. In: Festschrift for the 450th anniversary of the Katharineum in Lübeck 1981. Lübeck 1981, pp. 58–66.

Web links

• Hellmut Weishaupt's personnel sheet in the personnel file of the BIL reviewer in the archive database of the Library for Research on Educational History (BBF)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jörg Fligge : Lübeck schools in the "Third Reich": a study on the education system in the Nazi era in the context of developments in the Reich. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2014 ISBN 978-3-7950-5214-0 , p. 400
2. ^ Günter Brakelmann : History of the Heimvolkshochschule Wislade in the time of the Weimar Republic. In: Yearbook for Westphalian Church History 98 (2003), pp. 217–290, here pp. 257f
3. ↑ almond (lit.)
4. ^ Renate Hauschild-Thiessen: The Hamburg catastrophe of the summer of 1943: in eyewitness reports. Hamburg: Verlag Verein für Hamburgische Geschichte 1993 ISBN 9783923356515 , p. 280ff.

predecessor	Office	successor
Robert Wolfanger	Director of Katharineum Lübeck 1946 - 1949	Walter Schönbrunn