Max Dieckhoff

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Max Dieckhoff (born October 7, 1895 in Bremerhaven , † January 20, 1982 in Potsdam ) was a German ancient historian .

Max Dieckhoff, the son of Hermann Dieckhoff and Hermine geb. Christoffer, attended grammar school in Bremerhaven from 1905 and studied classical philology and history at the University of Jena from the summer semester of 1914 . For the winter semester 1915/16 he moved to the University of Göttingen . In autumn 1917 he interrupted his studies and took part in the First World War. After his return he completed his studies in the summer of 1920 with the examination for the higher teaching post. On May 9, 1923, he was at Max Pohlenz with a dissertation on Thucydides Dr. phil. PhD .

After completing his studies, Dieckhoff worked as a high school teacher in East Prussia, but was released in 1933 for political reasons and taken into " protective custody ". During the Nazi era he worked as an insurance agent, but during the war he taught in Tilsit until 1944 due to a lack of teachers . After the Second World War , Dieckhoff became the director of a secondary school in Wittenberge in 1945 . In 1948 he was also senior councilor in the public education department of the state government of Brandenburg and at the same time took on a teaching position for general history of antiquity at the Brandenburg State University (later University of Applied Sciences Potsdam ), where he was entrusted with a lectureship a little later and from July 1955 to 1962 taught as a professor with a teaching assignment. There he was also director of the Institute for History and Dean of the Faculty of History and Philology. In 1961 Dieckhoff was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze and in 1962 he retired. In 1975 he received the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver.

Fonts

  • Quaestiones Thucydideae . Göttingen 1923 (dissertation, only printed as typescript)
  • War and Peace in Greco-Roman Antiquity , Academy, Berlin 1962 (Lebendiges Altertum, Vol. 10)

literature

  • Prof. Dr. phil. em. Max Dieckhoff 75 years old . In: University of Education Potsdam. Scientific journal . Volume 14 (1970), Issue 1, p. 89 f. (with picture)
  • Lothar Mertens : Lexicon of the GDR historians. Biographies and bibliographies on the historians from the German Democratic Republic. Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-11673-X , p. 170.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date of birth and place of death according to information provided by the family. Mertens (2006) incorrectly uses October 27, 1895 as the date of birth.
  2. ^ Vita of his dissertation Quaestiones Thucydideae . Göttingen 1923, p. 88.
  3. ^ Ingolf Koehler: The teachers during the Second World War. (PDF; 6.7 MB) In: 33rd Tilsiter Rundbrief 2003/2004. Stadtgemeinschaft Tilsit eV, pp. 161–162 , accessed on August 19, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Neues Deutschland , December 4, 1975, p. 5
personal data
SURNAME Dieckhoff, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ancient historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremerhaven
DATE OF DEATH January 20, 1982
Place of death Potsdam