Karl Hoeber

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Karl Hoeber (born February 8, 1867 in Diez , † November 5, 1942 in Cologne ) was a German Catholic journalist and writer.

Life

Hober came from a family of civil servants from Nassau, grew up in Wiesbaden, where he made the learned High School 1887 High School. He then studied philosophy, history, German and also law at the universities of Heidelberg, Freiburg / Breisgau and Strasbourg / Alsace. As a student he joined the Catholic student associations of the KV : Palatia Heidelberg , Brisgovia Freiburg and Frankonia-Straßburg and later became an honorary philistine with several other associations.

In 1891 Hoeber passed the state examination for the higher teaching post in the subjects of German, history and Latin and taught at a grammar school in Strasbourg until he became director of the Imperial Teachers' College in Metz in 1905 . When in 1907 Hermann Cardauns resigned as chief editor (editor-in-chief) of the Kölnische Volkszeitung , he became its successor until 1933.

meaning

As editor-in-chief, Hoeber was a leading head of the Catholic daily press, and he also had a decisive influence on Catholic intellectual life. In 1903, together with Carl Muth , he founded the cultural magazine Hochland , which was supposed to free German Catholicism from its cultural isolation. He worked intensively on publications by the Görres Society , in particular the State Lexicon , and also published in various press organs of Catholic organizations.

Politically, Hoeber was a supporter of the center , which in his opinion should not be a Catholic organization, but a Christian party. Even though from 1914 onwards, like most Germans, he was filled with patriotic enthusiasm, he viewed the later radicalization and the development of National Socialism critically and with great concern. After the National Socialists seized power, he saw "the world of values ​​for which he lived, worked and argued, going under in a world fire".

Hoeber supported the efforts of the association for Germanness abroad , became chairman of its regional association for the Middle Rhine in 1927 and also published about the problems of Germans abroad . He was one of the leading exponents of the Rhine state idea and published authoritative manuals for the Catholic student associations.

Hoeber, who was also a board member of the Cologne Literary Society , was extensively active in literature. In 1894 he published a biography of the poet Friedrich Wilhelm Weber , the third edition of which appeared in 1908. School editions of Latin and German classics were edited by him and provided with comments, he did research on Dante and published Dante translations. In 1930 he wrote a biography about Carl Sonnenschein .

Hoeber was of particular importance to the Cartel Association of Catholic German Student Associations (KV). From 1891 to 1923 he edited the association's journal , Akademische Monatsblätter , which under him had a recognized high standard. In 1900 the manual for KVer, written by Hoeber, appeared. Under the title Morgenrot , he published in 1917 a "field gift for students in the army". Because of his special merits, Hoeber was made honorary philistine of the KV connections Suevia-Cologne, Nassovia-Gießen, Merowingia-Rhineland Cologne and Arminia Bonn (in which Konrad Adenauer was active).

Fonts

as an author
  • FW Weber . Life and poetry . 3. Edition. Schöningh, Paderborn 1908.
  • Contributions to the knowledge of language usage in folk songs of the 14th and 15th centuries . Meyer & Müller publishing house, Berlin 1908 (also dissertation, University of Strasbourg 1908).
  • The German university and higher education system . Kösel Verlag, Kempten 1912 (Kösel Collection; 54).
  • The Association of Catholic Student Associations in Germany . 2nd Edition. VA Tyrolia, Innsbruck 1921.
  • Carl Sunshine . Student leader and city chaplain . Germania book publisher, Berlin 1930.
  • Against the negative criticism of the Catholic daily press . 2nd edition. Verlag Katholische Tat, Cologne 1932.
as editor
  • Dawn. A field gift from members of the Union of Catholic Student Associations . Volksverein-Verlag, Mönchen-Gladbach 1917.
  • Manual for the members of the Association of Catholic Student Associations in Germany . 4th edition. Bachem publishing house, Cologne 1921.

literature

  • Lothar Braun: Karl Hoeber . In: Siegfried Koß, Wolfgang Löhr (Hrsg.): Biographisches Lexikon des KV. 2nd part (= Revocatio historiae. Volume 3). SH-Verlag, Schernfeld 1993, ISBN 3-923621-98-1 .
  • Stephan Fuchs: "On the blessing of war". Catholic educated in World War I. A study on the interpretation of war in academic Catholicism (Contubernium; 61). Steiner-Verlag, Tübingen 2004, ISBN 978-3-515-08316-4 (plus dissertation, University of Tübingen 2002).

Web links

Wikisource: Karl Hoeber  - Sources and full texts
Wikisource: Karl Hoeber  - Sources and full texts (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Martin Schlemmer: "Los von Berlin": the Rhine State efforts after the First World War . Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar, 2007, ISBN 978-3-412-11106-9 , pp. 262 ff . ( google.com [accessed September 13, 2015]).
  2. ↑ Stephan Fuchs: "From the blessing of war". Catholic educated people in World War I , p. 42 ff.
  3. ↑ Joe Hofmann in the Academic monthly sheets 1953/54 p. 53ff
  4. ↑ Deutschtum abroad in the magazine Hochland from February 1931 p. 462ff.
personal data
SURNAME Hoeber, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Höber, Karl; Hoeber, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Diez
DATE OF DEATH November 5, 1942
Place of death Cologne