Kurt Koerber

Kurt Körber (born April 12, 1885 in Harzburg ; † December 6, 1957 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German Protestant theologian , historian and educator .

Life

The son of a primary school teacher, Körber, graduated from high school in Magdeburg in 1903. He took both theological exams. In addition, he studied history and religious philosophy in Heidelberg until 1911 and received his doctorate in 1912 under Hermann Oncken . From 1911 to 1925 he worked as a lecturer in several teachers' seminars , first in Usingen , then in Frankenberg (Eder) and finally in Homberg (Efze) . Then he became a teacher in Frankfurt a. M., before he became professor for Protestant religious studies at the new simultaneous Pedagogical Academy in Frankfurt am Main from 1927 . On June 1, 1929, the Prussian Minister of Education, Carl Heinrich Becker, opened the Protestant Pedagogical Academy in Dortmund . The first director of the academy was Kurt Körber, who was also co-editor of the magazine for religious psychology and head of the adult education center . 35 students were enrolled. As early as 1932 Körber went back to Frankfurt and in April 1933 replaced Erich Less as acting director there. When he moved to Weilburg as a college for teacher training on April 1, 1934, he moved there as professor for education, history and civics and as deputy director until 1937 under Friedrich Kreppel . After the war-related closure in November 1939, Körber was again a teacher at the Kaiser-Friedrich-Gymnasium in Frankfurt.

From 1946 he was commissioned to rebuild teacher training in Hesse and until 1951 taught again in Weilburg at the Pedagogical Institute Evangelical Religion and its methodology. He also worked as a student pastor.

Fonts

• The struggle for freedom and unity and the work of Bismarck (1815–1890) , Berlin 1925 (manual contribution for Adolf Bär )
• The question of church property and the Narrow Kaldic League, a contribution to the history of the German Reformation , 1913 [= dissertation]
• The canon law theory of the administration and use of church property and medieval practice , Halle 1912 [= part of the dissertation]

literature

• Alexander Hesse: The professors and lecturers of the Prussian educational academies (1926-1933) and colleges for teacher training (1933-1941) . Deutscher Studien-Verlag, Weinheim 1995, ISBN 3-89271-588-2 , p. 438–439 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Web links

• BBKL