Karl Hunger (educator, 1889)

Karl Hunger (born October 24, 1889 in Schwabach , † July 26, 1946 in Nuremberg ) was a German specialist in German, educator and teacher.

Life

Karl Hunger was born in Schwabach, Bavaria, in 1889. He began to study German and philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, which he interrupted due to the First World War. Hunger served as Vice Sergeant in the 12th Bavarian Infantry Regiment and was awarded the Military Merit Cross III. Class awarded with crown and swords. Karl Hunger completed his studies with a doctorate. In 1928 he moved to Nuremberg and became a teacher at the Alte Oberrealschule (today Hans-Sachs-Gymnasium Nuremberg ). In 1937 he was promoted to professor.

Karl Hunger died in Nuremberg in 1946.

Create

Karl Hunger's specialty was German lessons, on which he also concentrated his journalistic activities. The "German History of Literature" founded by Joseph Rackl and Eduard Ebner was completely revised and edited by Karl Hunger in 1927. This work was later continued by Leo Krell and Leonhard Fiedler and reissued until 1981. Together with Theodor Langenmaier , he wrote a concise overview of German poetry in 1940, which was quickly followed by a second and third edition. With Professor Clemens Lugowski from the University of Kiel, Karl Hunger published the “ Journal for German Education ”.

Awards

• Military Merit Cross III. Class with crown and swords

Publications (selection)

• Friedrich Schiller, Oswald Spengler and Antiquity , 1921
• Ludwig Börne's political ideas , 1923
• The Bronze Age: The Conquest of Germany by Industry , 1924
• The new German language lesson , 1924
• Fridericus Rex , 1925
• Humanity: Our Classics ' View of Life , 1925
• History for higher education institutions. Antiquity for middle classes , 1926, together with Alfons Huther (1883–1945) a. Georg Rummel.
• The middle age. For middle classes , 1927, together with Alfons Huther.
• German literary history for secondary schools , by Josef Rackl , Eduard Ebner, reworked by Karl Hunger, Carl Koch Verlag, Nuremberg, 1927.
• To reorganize German lessons; a series of lectures , 1938
• Education for language thinking , 1940, together with Friedrich Probst (1898–1966).
• Brief history of German poetry , 1940, together with Theodor Langenmaier , 3rd edition 1944.

Essays

• Education in popular high-level language . In: Journal for German Education. 15th year 1939, pp. 294-305.
• CF Meyers "Jürg Jenatsch" . In: Journal for German Education. 16th year 1940, pp. 63-68.
• Paul Ernsts 'Brunhild' and 'Chriemhild' In: Journal for German Education. 17th year 1941, 33.

As editor

• Koch's school library for German studies , since 1924
• Germanic Life in Icelandic Stories , 1924
• Master Martin the Küfner and his journeymen from ETA Hoffmann, 1925
• Journal for German Education Vol. 15 - 18 together with Clemens Lugowski
• The Robbers by Friedrich Schiller, 1940
• Luise Millerin, Cabal and Love by Friedrich Schiller, 1943

literature

• Headcount of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , summer half year 1915
• Didactics of history under the grip of National Socialism? , ed. v. Wolfgang Hasberg and Manfred Seidenfuss, LIT Verlag, 2005, ISBN 3825887677
• Nonfiction and Popular Knowledge in the 20th Century Paperback , ed. v. David Oels and Andy Hahnemann, Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt, 2007, ISBN 3631561326