Karl Krüger (teacher)
Karl Heinrich Krüger (born April 4, 1907 in Horn , † February 25, 1997 ) was a German high school teacher , textbook author and history didactician . As a teacher, since 1961 as a senior teacher and professional manager , he was until 1972 the school Leopoldinum in Detmold operates.
Life
As a student, Krüger belonged to the Evangelical Union and the Stahlhelm . During his studies in 1926 he became a member of the Marburg Burschenschaft Rheinfranken . In 1932 he received his doctorate at the University of Rostock and appeared there against the NSDStB . He began teaching in Detmold in 1937 and therefore joined the NSDAP . From 1940 to 1945 he served in the Wehrmacht . After a denazification process , he was immediately reinstated in Detmold. In 1969 he joined the CDU .
Together with other conservative history teachers, he re-founded the Association of History Teachers in Germany in 1949 and was on the board until 1972. In Lippe he was also a functionary of the philologists' association . In 1950 he began to write school books as an expert on the Middle Ages . He wrote successful textbooks for the middle and upper grades of grammar school, especially at Ernst Klett Verlag . In 1956 he became a member of the Germania Saarbrücken fraternity .
Fonts (selection)
- History of the West from the early Germanic period to 1648 . Stuttgart 1951 ( historical teaching work for the middle classes , many editions, illustration ; edited new edition of the "Pinnow" from the Weimar Republic in BG Teubner Verlag ).
- Geography. Safari-Verlag, Berlin 1962 (well-illustrated overview work on the states of the world with fluent texts).
literature
- Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 7: Supplement A – K. Winter, Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8253-6050-4 , pp. 601-603.
- Paul Leidinger (Hrsg.): History lessons and history didactics from the Empire to the present . Klett, Stuttgart 1988.
- Wolfgang Hasberg , Manfred Seidenfuß (ed.): Modernization in transition: History didactics and history lessons after 1945. Lit, Berlin 2008, p. 229 ff. ( Online ).
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kruger, Karl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Krüger, Karl Heinrich (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German teacher and history teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 4, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | horn |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 25, 1997 |
| Place of death | Detmold |