Kurt Higelke

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Kurt Theodor Higelke (* 3. June 1900 in Landsberg (Warthe) , † 1959 ) was a German teacher functionaries and Nazi education policy in the Government General .

Life

Higelke passed the elementary school teacher examination in Schwerin an der Warthe in 1920 and became a teacher in Berlin elementary schools. In addition, he made up for his Abitur and studied at Berlin University. In 1931 he was elected to the executive committee of the German Teachers 'Association as a sympathizer of National Socialism and wrote for the General German Teachers' Newspaper . As early as January 1, 1933, he succeeded Carl Pretzel as editor of the teachers' magazine " DDS - Die Deutsche Schule ", in which he wrote ideological articles for National Socialism. At the Julius Klinkhardt publishing house , he became a key advisor for the political direction of the educational book program. In 1936 he was appointed to the Berlin primary school rectorate at the Elbing College for Teacher Education and published racist, anti-Semitic teaching literature together with Ernst Dobers . In 1940 he went to the government of the Generalgouvernement as rector, later government councilor , responsible for elementary schools as head of department in the education, science and popular education department. This was associated with the elimination of higher education for Poland. In the DDS he supported articles that advocated the National Socialist Ostpolitik and the Germanization of Poland. From 1943 he was drafted to the Eastern Front. After 1945 he was interned in Schleswig-Holstein and classified as unencumbered in denazification . From 1947 he taught at the Gammendorf elementary school and tried unsuccessfully to become a school councilor again.

Fonts

  • with Ernst Dobers : Racial Political Teaching Practice. The concept of race in the design of the elementary school subjects. Leipzig 1939.
  • New construction of the elementary school work. Plan, fabric and Gestaltg after d. Guidelines d. Minister of Education v. Dec. 15, 1939. Coll. v. Designed by professionals. 1940 and so on

literature

  • Rainer Bölling: Elementary School Teachers and Politics: The German Teachers' Association 1918–1933. Göttingen 1978 (e-book 2011 - online )
  • Hans-Christian Harten u. a .: Racial hygiene as an educational ideology of the Third Reich. Berlin 2006, p. 400.
  • Georg Hansen: School policy as national politics. Sources on the school policy of the occupiers in Poland 1939-1945. Waxmann, Münster 1994 (esp.p. 242)
  • Werner Brill: Pedagogy of demarcation: the implementation of racial hygiene under National Socialism through special education. Klinkhardt 2011 (especially p. 212f online )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klinkhardt explores his role as a school book publisher under Hitler. In: ntv. May 22, 2009, accessed April 18, 2019 .
  2. ↑ See Federal Archives
personal data
SURNAME Higelke, Kurt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Higelke, Kurt Theodor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher functionary and National Socialist school politician in the Generalgouvernement
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Landsberg (Warta)
DATE OF DEATH 1959