Karl Lohmeyer (philologist)

Karl Lohmeyer

Karl Lohmeyer (born March 30, 1868 in Falkenhagen (Lügde) , Principality of Lippe , † March 25, 1956 ) was a German high school teacher in Cuxhaven . In the Elbe-Weser triangle he was a distinguished local researcher.

Life

Lohmeyer was the youngest child of an economist and domain tenant in Falkenhagen. He attended the Leopoldinum Gymnasium (Detmold) and studied (probably in Göttingen) classical philology and German . In 1891 he was at the University of Bonn to Dr. phil. PhD. He entered the Hamburg school service and was transferred as a young senior teacher to the Higher State School in Cuxhaven in 1895 . Inspired by his director and later father-in-law Rohde, he found close relationships with the Elbe-Weser triangle and the men from the Morgenstern , including Hermann Allmers . After a few years he was transferred back to Hamburg. In 1905, the Foreign Office made him head of the German schools in Brussels. For decades he promoted and looked after Germans abroad . In his 13 years in Brussels from 1905 to 1918 he published 15–20 papers in connection with German abroad; most of them can be found in the monthly Die deutsche Schule im Ausland . After the First World War he was entrusted with the management of a secondary school in Hamburg, and in 1925 he was elected director by the teaching staff of the Cuxhaven School.

Like no other, he dealt with the life and work of Barthold Heinrich Brockes (1680–1747), who resided at Ritzebüttel Castle for six years as bailiff. He also treated Johann Heinrich Voss , the rector of the Latin school in Otterndorf, in a small volume. Lohmeyer proved that Johann Wolfgang von Goethe had the opportunity to graduate from Faust in the February flood of 1825 . Recognized the second part of the tragedy and had Johann Peter Eckermann sent to the Land of Hadeln . Soon after the Second World War, in difficult negotiations with the British military government in Cuxhaven, he succeeded in enabling the Heimatbund of the men from Morgenstern in the country of Hadeln to develop freely.

“As the head of the Hadler Group, he developed a lively lecture activity throughout the area, regardless of unfavorable weather and road conditions. He pursued and achieved two goals: to cultivate the idea of ​​home and the love of home in a time out of joint, and secondly, to help the many refugees who have found their way into our area to put down new roots and to give them an understanding of our landscape, which is so completely different with their peculiar culture and history. In doing so, he helped to give them a new home. Perhaps this work of his is the least measurable from person to person, but it is one of the most valuable things he has done as a Morgensterner for our home in more than fifty years of endeavor. "

- Franz Benöhr

Publications

Lohmeyer's publications are compiled in the commemorative publication “Haduloh” on his 80th birthday on March 30, 1948, pp. 6-9.

Annuals of the Men of the Morning Star

• Contributions to the history of the fire guild system in Hamburg's rural area . Vol. 5/6 (1904).
• Literary and other aftermath of the last great storm surge of February 3rd and 4th, 1825 . Vol. 22 (1926).
• Goethe and the Low German coastal landscape . Vol. 26 (1934).
• The castle on the Altenwalder Höhe and the ramparts of the Altenwalder Heide . Vol. 27 (1936).
• Land Hadeln and the University of Göttingen in the 18th century . Vol. 29 (1939).
• Memories of Hermann Allmers . Vol. 30 (1940).

Cuxhaven

In 1938 the Cuxhaven publishing house, Grüter, was published by Bertha Kohfahl-Münker , a homeland book . In it Lohmeyer published:

• From the past of the city of Cuxhaven .
• Dykes and storm surges in our closer home .
• Our coastal landscape as the setting for the last act of Goethe's Faust .
• Stories about the Brockeswald .
• Recruits for the Prussian giant guard in Ritzebüttel in 1736 .
• Cuxhaven as the city by the sea and on the large shipping routes .
• Whaling trip 200 years ago as seen by a poet .

literature

• Haduloh. A festschrift dedicated to Prof. Dr. Karl Lohmeyer, the well-deserved leader of the Hadeler Group in the Heimatbund der Männer vom Morgenstern, on the occasion of his 80th birthday on March 30, 1948 by his friends and admirers. 1948.
• Franz Benöhr: Professor Dr. Karl Lohmeyer and the Morgenstern . In: Jahrbuch der Männer vom Morgenstern 37 1956, pp. 5-6.

Web links

• Literature by and about Karl Lohmeyer in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dissertation: De Dracontii carminum ordine in the Schedae philologae H. Usenero oblatae .
2. ^ WorldCat