Otto Witte (pedagogue)

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Otto Witte (born August 14, 1903 in Prisannewitz ; † March 26, 1997 in Iserlohn ) was a German educator and teacher.

Life

After training as a primary school teacher in Tribsees , Witte studied history, English, psychology and philosophy in Jena and Rostock from 1926 to 1930. He completed his studies with a doctorate to become Dr. phil. from. He worked as a teacher at the grammar schools in Bützow , Wismar and Schwerin . In 1935 he became a lecturer in educational science at the Rostock University for Teacher Education (HfL). B. on National Socialist education for the people and youth . From 1939 he headed the first state advanced course in Mecklenburg for obtaining a university entrance qualification at an HfL. In 1940 Witte was drafted into the Wehrmacht , in 1945 he was taken prisoner by the Soviets, and in 1950 he was released. After the war he was a grammar school teacher in Iserlohn from 1950 to 1968 and had a teaching position at the PH Dortmund. He published more than 100 articles on the history of Mecklenburg and was federal cultural advisor for the Mecklenburg Landsmannschaft . For his services to the displaced and refugees in Westphalia , he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany . Since 1977 he has also been the holder of the Mecklenburg Culture Prize of the Landsmannschaft Mecklenburg.

Fonts (selection)

  • Investigations on Sign Language: Contributions to the Psychology of Language. In: Journal of Psychology. Vol. 116 (1930), pp. 226-308 (dissertation, University of Rostock, 1930).
  • The importance of the Münster humanism for the development of the education system in the Baltic Sea region, especially in Pomerania. 1968.
  • Historical atlas of Mecklenburg , founded by Franz Engel . Map 5: Map of the church structure of Mecklenburg and explanations of the map of the church structure of Mecklenburg around 1500. Böhlau, Cologne 1970.
  • Mithrsg. of the series (with Gerhard Böhmer ): Mecklenburg Memorial Days , from 1973.
  • Mithrsg. of the series: Commemorations of Central Germany , from 1976.
  • Brief outline of Mecklenburg history. Landsmannschaft Mecklenburg 1976.
  • Fritz Reuter and his Westphalian friends . In: Ulf Bichel, Friedrich Minssen, Helmut de Voss (eds.): From the wealth of narration. Fritz Reuter, 1810–1874. Langen-Müller, Munich 1985. ISBN 3-7844-2074-5 . Pp. 226-242.

literature

  • Otto Witte . In: Landsmannschaft Mecklenburg (ed.), The Culture Prize Winners of Landsmannschaft Mecklenburg , 9./10. Episode of the Mecklenburg Memorial Days , Hamburg 1980, pp. 16-17.
  • Otto Witte. In: Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania? The new dictionary of persons. Hinstorff, Rostock 2011, p. 10972 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the entry of Otto Witte's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ^ Hermann Langer: On the training of Mecklenburg primary school teachers under the swastika (1932-1945). In: Contemporary history regional. 1/2012, p. 79 f.
personal data
SURNAME Witte, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Prisannewitz
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 1997
Place of death Iserlohn