Otto Burmeister

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Otto Karl Heinrich Burmeister (born May 7, 1878 in Mühlengeez ; † after 1939) was a German pedagogue and professor at the Rostock Pedagogical Institute, which became a college for teacher training from 1935 .

Life

In 1898 Burmeister passed his Abitur in Güstrow and studied German and English at several universities up to his doctorate at the University of Rostock in 1902 with the dissertation " Nachdichtung und Bühneneinrichtung" from Shakespeare's ›Merchant of Venice‹ . As a senior teacher he taught German and modern languages from 1906 at the large city school in Rostock . In 1927 he became a professor in teacher training for elementary schools at the newly founded Pedagogical Institute , which in 1935 became a college for teacher training . He was a representative of German studies . In 1939 he was briefly transferred to Braunschweig. His academic achievement lay mainly in German language lessons for elementary schools, e.g. B. on the holistic method in reading, and on the Low German language.

From November 20, 1931 he was a member of the NSDAP . In November 1933 he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler . From 1935 he was Gaukulturwart and Gaureferent for teacher training and German studies .

Fonts

  • Course and aim of studying German at the Pedagogical Institute , (1928)
  • Reading book for elementary schools together with Richard Fick u. Otto Lemke On the river of the German language. To develop the High German language in the Low German language area , Diesterweg, Frankfurt / M. 1931 etc.
  • Our primer , Beltz, Langensalza 1936

literature

  • Stephan Sehlke: Pädagogen - Pastoren - Patrioten: Biographical manual on printed matter for children and young people by authors and illustrators from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania from the beginnings up to and including 1945 , book on demand 2009, p. 64

Web links

Single receipts

  1. ^ Hermann Langer: On the training of Mecklenburg elementary school teachers under the swastika (1932-1945) , in Contemporary History regional, 1/2012, p. 75