Hermann August Kippenberg
Hermann Ludwig August Kippenberg (born September 4, 1869 in Bremen , † January 16, 1952 in Bremen) was a German educator .
biography
Hermann August Kippenberg was the son of the school's founder Carl Friedrich Hermann August Kippenberg (1830–1889) and the headmistress Johanne Kippenberg (1842–1925). He grew up with nine other siblings. He graduated from the old grammar school in Bremen and studied philology at the University of Freiburg , the Friedrich-Wilhelms-University Berlin , the University of Kiel and the University of Leipzig . In 1892 he was promoted to Dr. phil. doctorate based on the study: Robinson in Germany to the island of Felsenburg .
In 1895 he became a teacher at the private Höhere Töchterschule in Bremen, which later became the Kippenberg high school . After his father August Kippenberg died in 1889 and his mother Johanne Kippenberg ran the school for another 15 years, he took over the school management from 1904. At that time the school building was still on Am Wall . In 1909 he was appointed professor. Under his leadership, more and more academics were hired as teachers. In 1912 the school gave up the training of elementary school teachers. After the First World War , the number of students fell due to economic hardship. In 1922 the school lost its private school status and became a public lyceum ; the school management remained with Kippenberg. He retired in 1935.
Shortly after the November pogrom, in December 1938, at a reception, Kippenberg said loudly and clearly, "that the crackdown on the Jews is a great injustice that must be strongly criticized." This statement was reported to a party official who summoned Kippenberg; he willingly confirmed his statement. He was only punished insofar as he was expelled from a leading position in the Volksbund for Germanness abroad .
In 1941 he founded the Goethe Society in Bremen, whose president in Germany ( Weimar ) since 1938 was his brother the publisher Anton Kippenberg (1874–1950).
literature
- Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
- Wilhelm Lührs: Bremische Biographie 1912-1962 , Bremen 1969, p. 270.
Individual evidence
- ^ W. Daniel Wilson: The Faustian Pact. Goethe and the Goethe Society in the Third Reich . DTV, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-423-28166-9 , pp. 194-196 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kippenberg, Hermann August |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kippenberg, August |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German educator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 4, 1869 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bremen |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 16, 1952 |
| Place of death | Bremen |