Johannes Alt

Johannes Alt (born June 7, 1896 in Nuremberg ; † unknown (after 1940 )) was a German specialist in German .

The son of a master wood turner and later factory director attended elementary school in Nuremberg from 1903 to 1907 and the secondary school there from 1907 to 1915 , which he graduated with the final exam. From 1915 to 1918 he took part in the First World War. He was awarded the Iron Cross, 2nd class. On April 4, 1918, he was seriously wounded, resulting in 50% war damage .

After Alt had been enrolled since the winter semester 1916/17, he studied German philology , art history and philosophy in Munich , Heidelberg and Berlin from the winter semester 1918/19 . He received his doctorate in Munich in 1922 under Hans Heinrich Borcherdt and Franz Muncker on the development of Jean Paul from 1780–1790 . After the financial ruin of his parents during the inflation , Alt worked from 1924 to 1934 as a private teacher and lecturer at the CH Beck publishing house in Munich, among other things on the new editions of Alfred Bieses German literary history .

On August 7, 1933, Alt joined the SA , in which he achieved the rank of SA senior troop leader in 1935 . In the same year he became a member of the Nazi teachers' association and the Reich Association of German Writers , from which he was accepted into the Reich Chamber of Literature . In 1937 he became a member of the NSDAP .

In 1934, Alt completed his habilitation through Grimmelshausen and Simplicissimus with Walther Brecht in Munich. Until 1936 he taught as a private lecturer for modern German literary history at the university there . In 1936 he took over a full professorship at the University of Würzburg , which he owed primarily to the advocacy of the NS-Gaudozentenbundführer . The University of Würzburg was to be brought on a National Socialist course and Alt's National Socialist commitment was to be recognized. However, his position in the faculty turned out to be difficult.

In his work during National Socialism , Alt argued racially . He was a member of the research advisory board of the Reich Institute for the History of the New Germany and recommended that the German-language Jewish literature be used as a starting point for dealing with racial questions within the research department “Jewish Question”.

On January 17, 1939, Alt was arrested and taken into custody for an offense against Section 175a No. 3 (aggravated fornication with men). On April 26, 1939, he was temporarily suspended. With the sentencing to one year in prison , Alt left the civil service on June 9, 1939. He was expelled from the NSDAP on August 5, 1939. On January 30, 1940, the University of Munich rejected his doctorate. Until March 9, 1940, he served his sentence in the Nuremberg prison . After that his track is lost.

literature

• Magdalena Bonk: German Philology in Munich. On the history of the subject and its representatives at the Ludwig Maximilians University from the beginning of the 19th century to the end of the Second World War. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1995, ISBN 9783428082292 .
• Helmut Heiber: Walter Frank and his Reich Institute for the History of the New Germany. German Verl.-Anst, Stuttgart 1966.
• Christoph König (Ed.), With the collaboration of Birgit Wägenbaur u. a .: Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800–1950 . Volume 1: A-G. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-015485-4 .