Kurt Meyer (Germanist, 1909)

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Kurt Meyer (1968)

Kurt Meyer (born May 9, 1909 in Leipzig ; † January 18, 1998 in Heidelberg ) was a German teacher of German and grammar school.

Life

Kurt Meyer grew up in Leipzig. As a six-year-old, he contracted an accidental bone marrow inflammation in his shin. After spending a year in hospital in Leipzig, he got to read. The knee remained stiff, the leg shortened. Actually very sporty, he was involved in the Wandervogel . From 1920 to 1929 he attended the Leibniz School in Leipzig . After graduating from high school, he studied German , history and geography at the University of Leipzig from the summer semester of 1929 . He spent the summer semester 1930 at the University of Vienna . His doctoral thesis with Georg Witkowski in Leipzig dealt with the novels by Paul Heyse and Thomas Mann . On August 26, 1933, he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD. In 1934 he passed the state examination for higher teaching post.

Because of his Jewish doctoral supervisor, Meyer was not allowed to attend school during the National Socialist era . After completing his legal traineeship, he went to the Deutsche Akademie in Munich as a lecturer . She sent him to Corfu (1935) and Athens (1937). In 1938 he was appointed head of the center for the German-Greek cultural exchange in Athens. There he represented an evolutionary course. He also represented the German Academic Exchange Service for a number of years. In 1943 he was transferred to The Hague at his own request . After the language courses in the Netherlands had been discontinued, he worked on some manuscripts of planned language textbooks for the Goethe Institute of the Academy in Salzburg . Until the end of the war he held language courses for Hungarian students at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg .

Back in Leipzig after the end of the war, he initially earned his living by writing for Leipzig publishers (translations, text editions, commentaries). Already released for school service by the Americans, the Soviets threatened him with forced labor in the mining industry because he had been in Greece at the time of the German occupation. It escaped her because he had hired the emigrated communist Otto Kielmeyer in Athens. From 1947 Meyer worked as a salaried editor on a three-volume Goethe edition and on the first lexicon of the VEB Bibliographisches Institut . He was also an editor for Paul List Verlag . He left the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and entered the higher education service of the city of Bremerhaven on April 1, 1954. As a teacher , he taught first at the Pestalozzi School , then at the Wilhelm Raabe School and incidentally at night school . In 1959 he was appointed senior student councilor and was entrusted with providing specialist advice on history and social studies for all of Bremerhaven's high schools. In 1971 he was retired at his own request. His guiding principles were Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Thomas Mann throughout his life .

Meyer was involved in the church council of the Christ Church in Bremerhaven- Geestemünde . He was married to the Austrian teacher Anni born in 1938. Haas. In 1977 the couple moved to their daughter in Heidelberg. Almut Agnes Meyer (* 1941) is a PhD in philology and theologian. She was a teacher and manager of the Elisabeth von Thadden School in Heidelberg.

Fonts

  • The novellas Paul Heyses and Thomas Manns. A comparative style study . Fischer, Leipzig 1933 (also dissertation, University of Leipzig 1933).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kurt Meyer: A comparative style investigation. University thesis. University of Leipzig, Leipzig 1933 (dissertation).
  2. ^ A b c d Object database of the Leipzig City History Museum >>  Inventory number: A / 2012/1146: Curriculum vitae Meyer, Kurt Paul. In: museum.zib.de. Leipzig City History Museum , February 5, 1973, accessed on May 22, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b Hagen Fleischer : The German occupation (politics) in Greece and its "coping". (PDF; 206 kB) In: International Symposion: Pre ‐ and Founding History of the Southeast European Society: Critical Questions on Contexts and Continuities. December 16/17, 2013. Carl Friedrich von Siemens Stiftung, Munich. Südosteuropa-Gesellschaft , May 2015, pp. 5, 6 , accessed on May 22, 2019 .
  4. ^ Helmut Hannemann: Dr. Kurt Meyer retired senior lecturer celebrated his 82nd birthday on May 9, 1991 . In: WRS Annual Review 1988/91 . Bremerhaven, S. 88-89 .
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Kurt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meyer, Kurt Paul (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist, high school teacher in Bremerhaven
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH January 18, 1998
Place of death Heidelberg