Otto Witte (pedagogue)
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
- Literature by and about Otto Witte in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature about Otto Witte in the state bibliography MV
Individual evidence
- ↑ See the entry of Otto Witte's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal
- ^ 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 | |
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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 |