Karl Wendt (pedagogue)

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Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Wendt , also Carl Wendt (born April 24, 1869 in Grünow , † December 10, 1942 in Neubrandenburg ) was a German educator, headmaster and local history researcher.

Life

In the first half of the 20th century, Karl Wendt developed into perhaps the most important personality in Mecklenburg homeland care in Neubrandenburg.

He was born in the southeast Mecklenburg village of Grünow as the son of the evangelical theologian and pastor Carl Wendt (1837-1911) and his wife Friederike Raeth (1849-1909), a merchant's daughter from Neustrelitz . From 1890 the father was the first pastor to move to the Marienkirche in Neubrandenburg.

Wendt attended grammar school in Neubrandenburg, passed his Abitur at Easter 1887 and then studied theology in Erlangen, Leipzig and Greifswald from 1887. After a period as private tutor, the second theological exam followed in 1894.

Karl Wendt was deeply rooted in the educated middle class of the Vorderstadt Neubrandenburg, in which his grandfather of the same name, Carl Wendt (* 1808) had worked as a locksmith magistrate and (since 1836) a citizen. From 1895 Wendt was chairman of the Neubrandenburger Bildungsverein and tourist guide in the tourist office. He was also an employee of the museum in Treptower Tor , which was under the direction of Ludwig (I.) Brückner . In the same year he was appointed rector of the municipal school in Neubrandenburg. He held the position of rector, later director, until 1934. In 1904 he was with his dissertation Pierre Charron as a teacher with special reference to his relationship with Michael de Montaigne at the Philosophy Faculty of the University of Rostock in Franz Bruno Erhardt Dr. phil. PhD. In 1911 he was appointed to the Grand Ducal Mecklenburg-Strelitz Council. Wendt was one of the initiators for the construction of a lyceum in Neubrandenburg.

In addition to his professional activity, Karl Wendt worked intensively as a local researcher and as a Fritz Reuter researcher. He was a member of the Heimatbund Mecklenburg . As the author of Mecklenburgica, he wrote several books on regional history and numerous articles for the magazine of the Mecklenburg Heimatbund, the Mecklenburgische Monatshefte or Unser Pommerland . His collection of essays “History of the Vorderstadt Neubrandenburg in Individual Representations ” , published in 1922, is the last comprehensive representation of the city's history to this day and has already been reprinted several times.

Karl Wendt was married to Margarethe Caroline Wilhelmine Franziska, born in 1895. Reinhold (* 1869), a merchant's daughter from Neubrandenburg. Three sons are known, including a son of the same name, Carl (1896–1957), who after studying in Berlin and Rostock became Dr. med. dent. has been.

Wendt died at the age of 74. His grave was in the Neubrandenburg old cemetery . His imposing gravestone was only lost in the 1980s when the cemetery was closed and buildings were built.

A Karl-Wendt-Straße in Neubrandenburg has been bearing his name since 2017 .

Fonts (selection)

  • Pierre Charron as a pedagogue with special consideration of his relationship with Michael de Montaigne. (Diss., 1903)
  • History of the Vorderstadt Neubrandenburg in single representations. Moerke, Neubrandenburg 1922
    [Reprints: Göttingen 1984; Steffen, Friedland 2013]
  • History of the Neubrandenburg rifle guild. Meckl.-Strelitzer Verl.-Ges., Neubrandenburg 1926.
  • The gates of Neubrandenburg. (1906) and
  • How Neubrandenburg was founded. (1926) In: Mecklenburg. Journal of the Heimatbund Mecklenburg
  • Neubrandenburg in old and new times. (1925) and
  • From the Bendschneider dynasty. (1928) In: Mecklenburgische Monatshefte
  • Mecklenburg one country - one people. In: Mecklenburg school newspaper. (1933)
  • The Reuterstadt Neubrandenburg and its Reuter collection. In: Our Pommerland (1935)

literature

  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 10713 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 10712 .
  2. ↑ The new girls' school was founded in 1927/28
  3. ↑ matrikel 150/1919 in Rostock Matrikelportal
  4. ^ City of Neubrandenburg, Decision No .: 445/25/17
  5. ↑ For the digitized version see Karl Wendt at Wikisource .

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personal data
SURNAME Wendt, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wendt, Carl; Wendt, Carl Wilhelm Ludwig (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pedagogue, headmaster and local researcher
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Grünow
DATE OF DEATH December 10, 1942
Place of death Neubrandenburg