Karl Hoppe (Germanist)

Karl Hoppe (born October 21, 1892 in Osterwieck , † June 27, 1973 in Braunschweig ) was a German German studies scholar and Wilhelm Raabe researcher.

Life

Hoppe obtained his Abitur in Blankenburg and then studied German, history and philosophy at the universities of Heidelberg , Leipzig and Berlin . In Berlin he was in 1920 with a thesis on Georg Büchner Dr. phil. doctorate and then worked as a teacher for German at the Leipziger Volksakademie . At that time he joined the SPD. He was married to the literary scholar Else Hoppe (1897–1973) since 1921 .

In 1927 Hoppe moved to the TH Braunschweig , where he completed his habilitation in 1929/30 (third attempt). From 1932 to 1961 he was professor of German language and literature there. From 1933 to 1936 he was dean of the cultural studies department, in which his institutional activities went beyond that of a participant.

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , he joined the NSDAP and the Nazi teachers' association in 1933 . Since 1935 he was also a member of the Nazi Lecturer Association and from 1937 to the Nazi Reich Warrior Association . During the time of National Socialism he was the editor of Gottfried Keller's works . In 1939 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht .

After the end of the Second World War , he was returned to the chair in Braunschweig in 1947, which he held until 1961.

Hoppe's research interests were above all in Wilhelm Raabe, whose work he had published in the Braunschweig edition since 1951. From 1957 he was President of the Raabe Society for 14 years , of which he was subsequently appointed Honorary President. He founded the Raabe yearbook in 1960. In 1968 he was awarded the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for his research work. Since 1970 he has been a full member of the Braunschweig Scientific Society .

Works (selection)

Georg Büchner as a socio-political thinker. (= Dissertation University of Leipzig), 1920, OCLC 72888704 .
Spiritual life in Braunschweig at the time of Lessing. F. Vieweg, Braunschweig 1929, OCLC 1388701 .
The young Wieland. In: German Poetry. Volume 8. JJ Weber, Leipzig 1930, OCLC 3701695 .
The legend of Henry the Lion: its origin, its development and its tradition. In: Writings of the Lower Saxony Heimatbund eV, nF Volume 22. Walter Dorn, Bremen 1952, OCLC 36600574 .
Complete Works. Historical critical edition of the works of Wilhelm Raabe. (Braunschweig edition, 20 volumes, 5 supplementary volumes). H. Klemm, Freiburg i. Br., 1951-1994, OCLC 2667950 .

literature

Eberhard Rohse : Hoppe, Karl. In: Luitgard Camerer , Manfred Garzmann , Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf (eds.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon . Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1992, ISBN 3-926701-14-5 , p. 110 .

Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 287 .

Kurt Hoffmeister : Braunschweig writers. Pp. 178-179, Braunschweig 2003.

Biogram in Daniel Weßelhöft: Of hard-working collaborators , activists and perpetrators: the Braunschweig University of Technology under National Socialism . Hildesheim: Olms 2012

A detailed biography of Hoppe, which also describes his denazification process, in Uwe Lammers: Seven Lives : Scientists Biographies at the Cultural Studies Department of the TH Braunschweig under National Socialism. 23 Jan 2015 published in the digital library of the Braunschweig University Library.

Hoppe's work among colleagues at the cultural studies department of the TH Braunschweig, also as dean (1933–1936), describes in detail Nicole C. Karafyllis : Willy Moog : Ein Philosophenleben . Freiburg: Karl Alber 2015, chap. 2.4 and 2.7.

Web links

Literature by and about Karl Hoppe in the catalog of the German National Library
Works by and about Karl Hoppe in the German Digital Library

Individual evidence

↑ Cf. the studies by the Braunschweig scientists Lammers, Weßelhöft and Karafyllis mentioned under literature.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 266.

personal data
SURNAME	Hoppe, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Germanist and Wilhelm Raabe researcher
DATE OF BIRTH	October 21, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH	Osterwieck
DATE OF DEATH	June 27, 1973
Place of death	Braunschweig

[1] Cf. the studies by the Braunschweig scientists Lammers, Weßelhöft and Karafyllis mentioned under literature.

[Klee266-2] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 266.