Oswald Muris

Oswald Waldemar Muris (* December 7, 1884 in Ludgerstal , Ratibor district , † April 18, 1964 in Wiesbaden ) was a German geographer and geography didactic.

The son of a building contractor attended the Realgymnasium in Ratibor until his Abitur in 1907, studied German, geography and history in Halle, Breslau and Greifswald until he received his doctorate in geography in 1911 and the state examination in 1912. This was followed by teacher training in Beuthen and Ratibor. In Opole and Grünberg he taught as a senior teacher, from April 1918 as a teacher in Opole and from 1920 in Berlin. In 1929 he was appointed professor of geography at the Pedagogical Academy in Hanover, in 1932 transferred to Halle (Saale) , and 1934–1939 professor of educational science and geography and director of the college for teacher training in Dortmund , from 1938 in Frankfurt (Oder) . Since March 1, 1933 Muris was a NSDAP member, SA member, 1934 Gau clerk for geography in the National Socialist Teachers' Union (NSLB) in Gau Westfalen-Süd , 1941 head of the Reich Working Group for Atlases.

Muris followed Eduard Spranger's local history concept and Erich Jaensch's ethnic psychology .

Fonts

• The globe through the ages: a story d. Globes , 1961
• Hansa World Atlas , Berlin 1933 a. ö. until 1955
• Geography and national political education , Hirt, Breslau 1934

literature

• Hans-Christian Harten u. a .: Racial hygiene as an educational ideology of the Third Reich. Bio-bibliographical manual , Berlin 2006
• Henning Heske: And tomorrow the whole world: geography lessons under National Socialism , BoD
• Alexander Hesse: The professors and lecturers of the Prussian educational academies (1926-1933) and colleges for teacher training (1933-1941) . Deutscher Studien-Verlag, Weinheim 1995, ISBN 3-89271-588-2 , p. 530-531 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Web links

• Oswald Muris personnel form in the personnel file of the BIL reviewer in the archive database of the Library for Research on Educational History (BBF)