Kurt Meyer (Author)

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Kurt Meyer (born February 15, 1945 in Ludwigslust , Mecklenburg) is a German author . He oversees the educational work of the Hermann Lietz schools.

Life

Meyer is a son of Kurt Meyer , SS brigade leader and major general of the Waffen SS.

The family moved several times in the post-war period. Meyer found his school home in 1961 in the boarding school at Hermann-Lietz-Schule Schloss Bieberstein near Fulda. From 1966 he studied German, history and political science in Marburg, Munich and Tübingen. After the first state examination in 1971, he worked as a teacher at the Jakob-Grimm-Schule Rotenburg on the Fulda and as a history director at the study seminar in Kassel. From 1979 to 1984 he was a foreign teacher at the Colegio Andio in Bogotà (Colombia). Today he is a member of the caretakers of the Hermann-Lietz-Schule Schloss Bieberstein and is involved in extra-curricular educational work. He is on the advisory board of the Adam von Trott Foundation in Imshausen near Bebra. The foundation has made it its business to preserve the legacy of Adam von Trott zu Solz , who was executed in the resistance against Hitler. Meyer is married to Brigitte Christ and has three children.

coping with the past

His book, written in 1998, will be tinged when the head is down about his father belongs in a series with the works of Christoph Meckel Suchbild , 1980, Dörte von Westernhagen Die Kinder der Täter , 1987, Niklas Frank Der Vater , 1993 and Martin Bormann Leben gegen Schatten , 1996. While these authors settle accounts with their fathers in a sometimes relentless manner, Kurt Meyer is more cautious. After his retirement, Meyer continued in his book Life is not elsewhere. Biebersteiner years and Hermann Lietz. A re- encounter with his time at the Hermann-Lietz-Schule Bieberstein apart. The book becomes a piece of contemporary history where Meyer discovers that there was no zero hour in 1945 . At the same time, it sheds light on the Bieberstein pedagogues' way of dealing with the past, on their careful attempts at coping with the choice of subject matter and, last but not least, on their liberal education towards independence and taking responsibility for their own lives.

Works

  • Kurt Meyer: People cry when their heads are down . Approaches to my father - "Panzermeyer"; Freiburg 1998, ISBN 978-3-451-26677-5
  • Kurt Meyer: Life is not elsewhere, Biebersteiner years and Hermann Lietz. A re-encounter. Kassel 2016, ISBN 978-3-95978-043-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://stiftung-adam-von-trott.de/avt/adam-von-trott.php accessed June 10, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigslust , Mecklenburg