Ludwig Schirmeyer

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Ludwig Schirmeyer (born November 19, 1876 in Osnabrück ; † October 10, 1960 there ) was a grammar school professor in Osnabrück and a local historian .

Life

Schirmeyer was the son of a Medizinalrates, was in 1895 at the School Carolinum in Osnabrück , where he a student connection belonged, the High School . He then studied German, history and geography in Freiburg im Breisgau , Göttingen and Heidelberg . He became active in the local corporations of the Cartel Association of Catholic Student Associations (KV) Brisgovia (Freiburg), Winfridia (Göttingen) and Palatia (Heidelberg). After his doctorate as Dr. phil. In the summer of 1899 with Paul Fridolin Kehr in Göttingen about the late Carolingian Emperor Lambert von Spoleto , he passed his legal traineeship in November 1900. After the first probationary year in Göttingen and the second probationary year at the Carolinum grammar school in Osnabrück, Schirmeyer was qualified for school service. He stayed as a pedagogue at the Carolinum, where he became a scientific assistant teacher in 1902, a senior teacher in 1903, a grammar school professor in 1914 and a senior teacher in 1926 and a deputy director. Although he resigned from school at his own request in 1938, the beginning of the Second World War required that teachers capable of military service be drafted. Schirmeyer made himself available as a teacher until the end of the Second World War.

Through his parents' house, Schirmeyer had grown up in the Altosnabrück tradition from his youth; He continued this as part of his numerous club memberships. In addition to the KV, whose Philistine Circle in Osnabrück he headed for several years, he was in the Historical Association of Osnabrück (1912 Deputy Chairman, 1929 Chairman), in the Carolingerbund (an association of former students of the Carolinum grammar school, which he co-founded in 1921), in the Dürerbund and in the Association for Germanness Abroad . The Historical Commission for Lower Saxony appointed him a member in the founding year 1910. With his membership in the Stahlhelm Schirmeyer belonged to the political right, but never to the radical wing. Nevertheless, he was probably positive about the National Socialist “ seizure of power ”. In 1934 the Stahlhelm was transferred to the Sturmabteilung in Osnabrück , which Schirmeyer also joined. Without joining the National Socialist German Workers' Party , he became a councilor in Osnabrück in 1934. Immediately after the Second World War he was given the task of revising his textbook for history lessons. In his publications he dealt with the intellectual history of the 18th and 19th centuries; Particular reference should be made here to his contributions to Justus Möser research. In association organs and other publications, he contributed to keeping alive the memory of important personalities in the region and of episodes from the history of Osnabrück. With that he worked far beyond the Osnabrück area.

He remained friends with the historian Karl Brandi , the painter Franz Hecker and the writer Ludwig Bäte for a lifetime .

His grave is in the Hasefriedhof of his hometown Osnabrück .

Awards

For his service to the cultural life of Osnabrück in the Weimar period and in the post-war years, Schirmeyer received honorary memberships and honorary board positions in the associations in which he worked, several awards, including:

Fonts (selection)

  • Festival of the Emperor Karl. For the eleven centenary of the Carolinum grammar school in Osnabrück (Osnabrück 1904).
  • Georg Ludwig von Bar , “Germany's best French poet”, a role model for Wieland and a friend of Möser's. In: Osnabrücker Mitteilungen 1907.
  • Heinrich August Vezin . A contribution to the cultural and intellectual history of Osnabrück in the 18th century. In: Osnabrücker Mitteilungen 1909.
  • Justus Gruner's share in the German survey , in Osnabrücker Mitteilungen 1916 and 1917.
  • Osnabrück saga book (Osnabrück 1st edition 1920, 4th edition 1967).
  • The Osnabrück region. A historical perspective (Osnabrück 1929).
  • with Albert Maier : Textbook of History for Higher Schools , Diesterweg, (1926 and other).
  • The picture of Möser after new letters. In: Osnabrücker Mitteilungen 1939.
  • Heinrich Westerfeld in memory (ibid., 1941).
  • [Arr. with others:] Justus Möser , Complete Works IV – X (Hanover 1943ff.).
  • Commemorative words on Karl Brandi , In: Osnabrücker Mitteilungen 1947.
  • 100 years of the Osnabrück History and Regional Studies Association (ibid.).
  • Osnabrück and Osnabrücker Land. Historical Perspectives (1948);
  • Justus Möser. In: Merian (Osnabrück 1951).
  • The Carolinum grammar school from its foundation to 1800. In: 1150 years of the Carolinum grammar school in Osnabrück (Osnabrück 1954).
  • On the interpretation of the document of December 19, 804 (ibid.)
  • The most famous teacher of the Carolinum (ibid.).

Literature (selection)

  • Ferdinand Schirmeyer, In Memoriam. Ludwig Schirmeyer. 1876–1960 (Schola Carolina. Bulletin of the Carolingerbund, 1961).
  • Günter Wrede, Ludwig Schirmeyer in memory. In: Osnabrücker Mitteilungen, 1961.
  • Joseph König , Ludwig Schirmeyer. In: Lower Saxony Yearbook, 1961.
  • K.-A. Recker, "... serve my people and my Lord God". The Carolinum grammar school between partial continuity and resistance in the Nazi era. A contribution to the educational history of the city and the diocese of Osnabrück between 1848 and 1945 (Osnabrück 1989).
  • Michael F. Feldkamp : Ludwig Schirmeyer. In: Siegfried Koß, Wolfgang Löhr (Hrsg.): Biographisches Lexikon des KV. 3rd part (= Revocatio historiae. Volume 4). SH-Verlag, Schernfeld 1994, ISBN 3-89498-014-1 , p. 92f.

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personal data
SURNAME Schirmeyer, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Osnabrück
DATE OF DEATH October 10, 1960
Place of death Osnabrück