Nikolaus Hans Hockl

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Nikolaus Hans Hockl (born November 23, 1908 in Csatád , Temes County , Kingdom of Hungary , Austria-Hungary ; † November 5, 1946 in Mykolaiv (Nikolajew), Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union ) was a Romanian educator and during the Second World War as head of the Education Office of the German Ethnic Group in Romania is responsible for the German-language school system in the Kingdom of Romania .

Life

Hockl was a member of the Banat Swabian ethnic group . The son of the businessman Johann Hockl and his wife Susanna , née Hensel , attended the German Realgymnasium in Timișoara (German Timisoara ) from 1921 to 1928 . He was a member of the National Renewal Movement of Germans in Romania (NEDR) and the founder of the bananter wandering bird . In the years 1926 to 1928 he gave the German youth movement in the Banat an intellectual and organizational form. Afterwards, Hockl studied philosophy , history and classical philology in Vienna , Marburg and Bucharest from 1928 to 1933 . In Bucharest he received the qualification to teach in higher schools.

From 1933 to 1934 he taught the German language at the Greek grammar school in Bucharest. In 1935, Hockl was appointed representative for labor service and youth issues in the German National Community in Romania under Fritz Fabritius . In 1937 he ran for the Romanian parliament in the constituency of Groß-Kokel . From 1940 to 1941 he was head of the education office of the German ethnic group in Romania . In the summer of 1941 there was an open break between Hockl and his party comrade , ethnic group leader Andreas Schmidt ; as a result he was replaced as head of the education office by Kaspar Hügel . In 1942 he was appointed director of the high school for boys and girls in Reșița (German Reschitza ) until 1943 . He voluntarily followed his wife, who was abducted to the USSR for forced labor in 1945, to a prison camp near Nikolayev, where he died of a heart attack.

Publications

  • Youth on the move , Federal Book of Young Swabians 1925–1930, Bläschke, St. Michael
  • Traunau. The story of a Swabian village , Hatzfeld, 1930
  • Alexanderhausen, 1833 to 1933, as part of a general history of the Banat Swabians , Arad 1933
  • Our people and their ancestors: Historical guide , Lothar Fabritius, with training instructions from Nikolaus Hans Hockl, State Youth Office of the People's Community of Germans in Romania, Hermannstadt, 1937, 40 pp.
  • Service to the community , youth leadership of the Germans in Romania, Sibiu, 1939
  • On the way to the nation. 1934; The German Banat. Its historical-political development and task. Timișoara, 1940
  • German youth education in Romania , Hermannstadt (Sibiu), 1940
  • The German Banat: Its historical-political development and task , Timișoara, 1940, 72 pp.

literature

  • Anton Peter Petri : Biographisches Lexikon des Banater Deutschtums , Th. Breit Druck-Verlag, Marquartstein, 1992, ISBN 3-922046-76-2 .
  • Hans Wolfram Hockl : Uncertain migrations: from war to war, from person to person , Pannonia, Freilassing, 1960, 239 pp.
  • Luzian Geier : Nikolaus Hans Hockl , in the series Kleines NBZ -Lexikon
  • Hans Ewald Frauenhoffer: Memories and Experiences , Gernlinden, 1975

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stephan Olaf Schüller: For Faith, Leader, People, Fatherland or Motherland? - The struggles for German youth in the Romanian Banat (1918–1944). LIT Verlag, Münster 2009, p. 299.
personal data
SURNAME Hockl, Nikolaus Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian pedagogue, head of the education office of the German ethnic group in the Kingdom of Romania
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Csatád , Temes County , Kingdom of Hungary , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH November 5, 1946
Place of death Mykolaiv , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union