Hermann Stodte

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Hermann Stodte (born January 25, 1871 in Gittelde , † September 24, 1939 in Lübeck ) was a German teacher and headmaster.

Life

Stodte grew up as an orphan with relatives and passed his Abitur in Magdeburg. He then studied at the University of Göttingen , where he graduated with a doctorate. phil. from. He passed the state examination for the higher teaching post in 1897.

In 1901 he was brought to the later Johanneum zu Lübeck by the then director Julius Müller as a senior teacher , which at that time was planned by the school policy of the Lübeck state to be converted into a reform high school of the Altona type . Stodte quickly got used to cultural and intellectual life in Lübeck; he became a member of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities and an employee of the Lübeckische Blätter . In 1908 he successfully applied for the position of director of a newly built Frankfurt System Realgymnasium in Strausberg, northeast of Berlin. At this point he gained a great reputation as a school principal and teacher. In addition, he also sought political and civic engagement there and founded the local branch of the German Fleet Association . During the First World War, Stodte served as an officer on the Western Front . When in 1918 the Johanneum in Lübeck was about to succeed the director Müller, who had been in the Lübeck school service for 42 years, Stodte was the preferred candidate of the college and the outgoing director based on the recommendation of Senator Arthur Kulenkamp , who was responsible for the Lübeck high school authorities Stodtes sympathized with German-national basic views, against a large number of competing applicants. Stodte himself became a member of the DNVP in 1919 . From then on, during the Weimar Republic, “education for Germans” became fundamental to the Johanneum's school orientation. The school group of the Verein für das Deutschtum Abroad enjoyed great popularity and the memorial days that were held followed on from the legends of the imperial era. Pedagogically, the Johanneum under Stodte was less willing to experiment than the Oberschule zum Dom under the reform pedagogue Sebald Schwarz or the Katharineum under its director Georg Rosenthal . From 1923, the German Oberschule was established at the Johanneum as a further school branch alongside the Realgymnasium. This mixture corresponded to the zeitgeist of the time and the Johanneum developed under Stodte until 1933 into the school with the largest number of students in Lübeck. As a director, Stodte understood how to de-escalate the political hostility of the extreme political directions.

In 1933, Stodte turned into a staunch National Socialist . During his term of office, the English and French teacher Walter Kramer was dismissed, which was ordered after a denunciation by at least one colleague of the National Socialist Reich Governor for Lübeck and Mecklenburg, Franz Hildebrandt . The teacher was accused of advocating democratic ideals. The very next day, Kramer was "taken on leave" by the National Socialist provisional school councilor Hans Wolff , which in 1933 usually meant his final removal from service. Kramer was desperate about it. He and his wife committed suicide on August 27th. Stodte himself was put into early retirement by the school administration on July 1, 1934 - not because of a lack of National Socialist sentiments, but because he had not pushed through the National Socialist ideas energetically enough at his school. In his writings he emphasized the merits of the National Socialist system.

Stodte's The Foundation of the Reich (Schloeßmann, Leipzig 1933) and the edition of the poems by Walther von der Vogelweide (Eher, Berlin 1937) edited by him were placed on the list of literature to be segregated in the Soviet zone of occupation .

Publications (selection)

  • On the German thought: Ernst Moritz Arndt's legacy. 1920
  • The Prussian girl. Eleanor Prochaska's fateful ways. Berlin: Hayn's heirs 1932
  • The pioneers of National Socialism. Lübeck 1936
  • 150 years of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities in Lübeck. Lübeck 1939.
  • Walther von der Vogelweide - Poems - updated by Hermann Stodte. Berlin 1939.

literature

  • Johanneum zu Lübeck (Ed.), 100 Years Johanneum zu Lübeck , Lübeck 1972
  • Johanneum zu Lübeck (Ed.), Johanneum zu Lübeck - Festschrift for the 125th anniversary celebration , Lübeck 1997
  • Richard Schult: "Tolerance" - "patriotic sentiments", "Germanness" - "Anti-Semitism" - political values ​​education at the Johanneum during the Weimar Republic. in: Johanneum zu Lübeck - Festschrift for the 125th anniversary p. 221–272 (p. 237 ff.)
  • Jörg Fligge : Lübeck schools in the "Third Reich": a study on education during the Nazi era in the context of developments in the Reich area , Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2014, p. 455 ff., P. 984

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line. Lübeck 1925, no.1027
  2. ↑ Richard Schult: "Fatherland Education" - "Germanness" - "Anti-Semitism". Political values ​​education at the Johanneum during the Weimar Republic (with two appendices). In Richard Schult Hrsg .: Johanneum zu Lübeck - From the higher citizen school to the municipal high school. Festschrift for the 125th anniversary . Johanneum Lübeck, Lübeck 1997. pp. 267f.
  3. ↑ Richard Schult: "Fatherland Education" - "Germanness" - "Anti-Semitism". Political values ​​education at the Johanneum during the Weimar Republic (with two appendices). In Richard Schult Hrsg .: Johanneum zu Lübeck - From the higher citizen school to the municipal high school. Festschrift for the 125th anniversary . Johanneum Lübeck, Lübeck 1997. pp. 270f.
  4. ↑ See Stodte's collection of essays Die Wegbereiter des National Socialismus and others.
  5. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-s.html
  6. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-w.html
personal data
SURNAME Stodte, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher and headmaster
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Gittelde
DATE OF DEATH September 24, 1939
Place of death Lübeck