Otto Scharnweber

Otto Scharnweber (born October 6, 1907 in Uetersen ; † July 7, 1980 in Kiel ) was a German teacher and art educator.

Life

Scharnweber was born as the son of the preparation teacher and later senior government and school councilor Otto Scharnweber and his wife Maria (née Heitmann ). From 1914 to 1923 Scharnweber attended the seminar practice school and the secondary school in Bad Segeberg . In 1926 he made his Abitur at the municipal high school in Bad Oldesloe and attended the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg in the summer semester . From 1926 to 1929 he studied at the Staatliche Kunstschule in Berlin-Schöneberg and at the Städtisches Werklehrerseminar Berlin. Scharnweber was a guest student at the Berlin University at the same time . On June 29, 1928, he passed the works teacher examination and on July 19, 1929 the artistic examination for teaching at secondary schools in Berlin. This was followed by a degree in German, art history and philosophy at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . Subsequently, Scharnweber worked at various schools in Schleswig-Holstein until he passed the pedagogical examination with a “good” in 1932. From April 1934 to May 1935 was Scharnweber as Studienassessor at the National Political Educational Institute in Berlin-Spandau and acquired in July 1934, a military sports camp SA assumed terrain sports school " Lockstedter bearing " the SA Sports Badge . In January 1935 he became a member of the SS and subsequently a trainer in the 40th SS standard in Kiel. From 1937 Scharnweber member of the National Socialist Teachers Federal and the Nazi Party , as well as a lecturer and teacher at the School of Teacher Education and the Teacher Training Institute in Kiel. When the universities were closed, they entered the Wehrmacht (1937). In 1940 he worked as a clerk in the Inspection German Home Schools headed by SS-Obergruppenführer August Heissmeyer in the Reich Ministry for Science, Education and National Education in Berlin and was appointed Hauptsturmführer in the SS main office on January 30, 1942, Obergruppenführer Heissmeyer. On April 1, 1944, he was appointed senior student councilor and transferred as a scientific assistant to the inspection of German home schools in Berlin.

In 1941 Scharnweber was in the SS-Battalion “Kirkenes” in Finland, formed from the SS-Totenkopfverband , and from October 1944 as Hauptsturmführer of the 5th SS-Panzer-Division “Wiking” . On May 12, 1945, Scharnweber, coming from the Eastern Front , fell into American captivity and was later interned . On October 12, 1948, Scharnweber was classified in category V (exonerated) by the main denazification committee in Schleswig and from 1949 he worked as a primary school teacher, senior teacher and art teacher in Kiel. In 1972 he was retired. Scharnweber died in Kiel in 1980 at the age of 72.

Literature and Sources

• Alexander Hesse: The Professors and Lecturers of the Prussian Pedagogical Academies (1926-1933) and Universities for Teacher Training (1933-1941) , pages 641-642 (Weinheim 1995)
• NSDAP district of Kiel - Office for Educators - NS teachers' association: Yearbook Volume 3 1937/38, pages 46–47