Karl Kurz (pedagogue)

Karl Kurz, recorded in 1956

Karl Kurz (born April 24, 1881 in Colmar ; † July 11, 1960 in Bremen ) was a German teacher , physicist and state school supervisor in Bremen.

Life

Kurz was the son of a magazine overseer. He attended elementary school and then the teacher training college in Friedberg (Hesse). He completed his Abitur in 1903 as an external student in Darmstadt . He studied pedagogy, mathematics and natural sciences at the University of Giessen and obtained his doctorate. rer. nat. From 1906 he worked as an assistant for physics at the Technical University of Munich and he completed his habilitation in Munich in 1909 and was then a private lecturer. In 1910 he became a teacher in Göttingen and a little later a senior teacher at the elementary school teacher seminar in Bremen. In the First World War he was a soldier from 1916. He worked as a high-frequency technician but mainly at the military institute for physics in Kiel in the naval inspection of torpedoes and mines. Research into the Barkhausen-Kurz oscillation , i.e. the braking field oscillation of an electron tube, which the physicist Heinrich Barkhausen and he first described in 1917, was important in the context of improving Morse code telegraphy .

In 1919 he got the job of a school inspector in Bremen, in 1921 a school councilor and in 1922 a high school councilor for secondary schools. He was a liberal school reformer. In 1932 he was appointed to the state school board in Bremen. He kept this position even during the Nazi era . In 1937 he therefore joined the NSDAP without holding an office in the party. During this time, he is said to have carried out his function as a state school councilor in a largely objective manner and he was interested in the scientific development in school service as well as in research into physical high-frequency technology.

In August 1945 he was released after the Second World War . In March 1949 he was rehabilitated. 1952 was his formal retirement with effect from 1948. He now brought out various publications and was a member and then honorary member of the Wittheit zu Bremen and a member and later honorary chairman of the natural science association in Bremen.

Works

• Heinrich Barkhausen and Karl Kurz: The shortest shafts that can be produced with vacuum tubes. In: Physikal. Magazine. 21, No. 1, Leipzig 1920, pp. 1-6.

literature

• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
• Ursula Büttner, Angelika Voss-Louis (ed.): New beginning on rubble. The diaries of Bremen's Mayor Theodor Spitta 1945–1947. Oldenbourg, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-486-55938-9 .