Herbert Kirrinnis

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Herbert Kirrinnis (born October 2, 1907 in Eydtkuhnen , East Prussia , † August 8, 1977 in Essen ) was a German high school teacher and historian .

Life

Kirrinnis' parents were the post office man Max Kirrinnis and his wife Erna nee. Block from Ragnit . Because of his father's transfers, he attended five schools in the province of East Prussia . In 1928 he passed the Abitur at the Hindenburg secondary school in Königsberg . He studied geography , history and modern languages at the Philipps University of Marburg and the Albertus University of Königsberg . After he had passed the examination for teachers in secondary schools in 1932, he taught at the Herzog-Albert-Mittelschule in Tilsit from 1933 .

In 1934 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD . In the same year he married Herta Sauvant , a Huguenot from Gumbinnen . The marriage had six children. In 1938 he took the examination for the higher teaching post. After training as a student trainee in Tilsit and Königsberg, he passed the exam to become a student assessor in Berlin in 1939 . During the Second World War he served as an artilleryman in the army (Wehrmacht) from 1939 to 1941 . Most recently he was Lieutenant d. R. The flight and expulsion of Germans from Central and Eastern Europe in 1945–1950 took him and his family to the Ruhr area after long trials , including Wanne-Eickel . Most recently he was director of studies in Essen.

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As a regional historian of East Prussia , he dealt with the history of the districts in the Gumbinnen district and the Allenstein district and the cities of Eydtkuhnen, Ragnit, Schirwindt , Gumbinnen and Goldap . He wrote about the landscapes of the Neidenburg district , the Treuburg district and the Pillkallen district as well as the Memelland . He examined the renaming of Lithuanian parishes during the Nazi era . On his study trips he was drawn mainly to Florence and Rome , Brittany and Normandy and the northern Netherlands .

His biographical publications were directed at geographers and naturalists such as Walter Geisler , Nikolaus Creutzburg , Emil Wiechert , Siegfried Passarge , August Petermann , Gustav Nachtigal and Erich von Drygalski . He also commented on the relationship between Nicolaus Copernicus , Immanuel Kant and Johann Georg Hamann to geography. With Prof. Schultze (Jena) he worked on the district boundaries in Thuringia .

As a recognized chess player , he published 20 of his own games.

Publications

  • Russian population figures at the end of the 18th century according to the tables by Johann Friedrich Storch, Riga 1795. In: Geographische Zeitschrift 1944.
  • Vilna . In: Journal of Geography 1944.
  • History of the Friedrichsschule zu Gumbinnen . Holzner, Würzburg 1963.
  • The government building at Gumbinnen . Prussia 2 (1964), p. 23.
  • A Königsberg high school diploma from 1878 in Bremen . In: Preußenland 3 (1965), p. 22.
  • with Willi Bonczek: Historical Atlas of the City of Essen . Essen 1966.
Reviews
East Prussia under Polish and Soviet administration. East Germany under foreign administration 1945–1955 , vol. 1.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e f Obituary Leo Juhnke (1980)
  2. Dissertation: Tilsit, the border town in the German east . Tilsit 1935.
  3. Thomas Maier (2006)
  4. Prof. W. Bonczek, Gumbinner's classmate from Kirrinnis, was the property manager of Essen