Hugo Willrich

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Hugo Willrich (born August 20, 1867 in Kummerow , Regenwalde district , † June 20, 1950 in Göttingen ) was a German ancient historian and teacher.

Origin and upbringing

The son of a Pomeranian manor leaseholder passed his school leaving examination in Greifenberg in 1885 and then studied in Berlin and from 1887 in Göttingen (with Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, among others ), classical philology and history. During his studies he became a member of the Association of German Students in Göttingen and Berlin . After the teaching degree in 1890 and the subsequent military service, Willrich received his doctorate in 1893 with a thesis on the sources of the Catilinarian Conspiracy in Göttingen and qualified there in 1896 for Ancient History.

Career

In the following years he taught at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen as a private lecturer, but was not offered a professorship. In 1904 he went to school and since then has been teaching as a senior teacher (from 1925: senior teacher) at the Royal Gymnasium in Göttingen (now the Max Planck Gymnasium ).

From 1914 to 1918 Willrich took part in the First World War as a reserve lieutenant and was wounded in Flanders in 1914. He continued his teaching activities at the university and in 1917 became a full honorary professor . After Georg Busolt's death , Willrich was in the chair for ancient history for two semesters in 1920/1921. In 1931 he retired.

Political attitude

Willrich, who already showed an anti-Semitic attitude in his first scientific publication, the habilitation thesis on Jews and Greeks before the Maccabeic uprising , became politically active after the First World War, including through polemical newspaper articles against democratic professor colleagues. He was active in the German National People's Party and in 1919 founded an anti-Semitic association for the liberation from the Judenjoch in Göttingen . He was also co-founder of Göttingen chapter of the later in the NSDAP risen German Nationalists protection and Trutzbundes . Willrich did not become a member of the NSDAP, but remained an avowed German national. From 1925 onwards, Willrich supported the student Achim Gercke's plan to create a directory of all German Jews.

family

Willrich had three children, two daughters and the son Wolfgang Willrich , an artist and writer under National Socialism, who played a leading role in the exhibition “Degenerate Art” and the persecution of modern art .The teacher Ingeborg Willrich refused to take the oath on Hitler, was retired without any entitlement to a pension, and continued to be persecuted.

literature

  • Culture Department of the City of Göttingen (Ed.): Göttingen under the swastika. National Socialist everyday life in a German city. Texts and materials. Göttingen 1983.
  • Cordula Tollmien : National Socialism in Göttingen (1933–1945). Dissertation Göttingen 1998, pp. 169, 180, 221, 243 ( online ).
  • Cordula Tollmien: National Socialism in Göttingen. In: Rudolf von Thadden (Ed.): Göttingen: From the Prussian central city to the southern Lower Saxony city 1866-1989 . Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1999, ISBN 3-525-36198-X , pp. 228-229 ( Göttingen. History of a university town . Volume 3).
  • Cornelia Wegeler: "... we say from the international scholarly republic". Classical Studies and National Socialism. The Göttingen Institute for Classical Studies 1921–1962 . Böhlau, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-205-05212-9 , especially pp. 72–83.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Louis Lange (Ed.): Kyffhäuser Association of German Student Associations. Address book 1931. Berlin 1931, p. 248.

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personal data
SURNAME Willrich, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ancient historian and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Kummerow , Regenwalde district
DATE OF DEATH June 20, 1950
Place of death Goettingen