Peter Adalbert Silbermann

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Peter Adalbert Silbermann (born December 8, 1878 in Görlitz ; † April 1, 1944 in Hollywood ; pseudonym: Peter Olman ) was a German university teacher and founder of the Berlin evening high school, which is now called the Peter A. Silbermann School .

Life

Silbermann grew up as the son of an independent businessman. He obtained his university entrance qualification in 1897 at the French grammar school in Berlin . He then studied German, philosophy, art history and Romance studies. He received his doctorate on May 14, 1902 with a philological thesis on a romantic short story by Ernst Schulze . Immediately afterwards he started teaching adult education and taught at the Business Academy and the University of Applied Sciences in Brno . From 1907 to 1913 he worked as a high school teacher in Berlin and then became director of the German School in Adana . In 1917 he joined the diplomatic service of the Foreign Office .

Silbermann was a co-founder of the Volkskraft-Bund and publisher of Volkskraft. Illustrated weekly since 1919. From 1920 to 1925 he worked on behalf of the Prussian Ministry of Culture for this Volkskraftbund in Berlin. The ministry also took him on in 1925 as adjunct professor for the adult education department . On May 10, 1927, Silbermann founded the Association for the Promotion of the Berlin Evening High School , which began teaching on September 1, 1927 with 115 students in Berlin-Mitte . On June 25, 1930, the Berliner Abendgymnasium was taken over into the administration of the city of Berlin, making it the oldest state-run evening grammar school in Germany.

In 1933 he was dismissed as a Jew without notice and first emigrated to Italy , where he worked as a lecturer at the La Sapienza University in Rome. When his teaching and life opportunities were increasingly restricted there, too, he moved to the USA, where his son was already living.

Fonts

  • 1939: The uncle from America
  • 1936: Stories about Goethe
  • 1935: A girl runs away
  • 1931: Handbook of the Berlin Evening Gymnasium
  • 1930: The Berlin Evening University
  • 1929: For and against the evening university
  • 1927: From New York's high schools.
  • 1922: The German National Republic
  • 1920: On the spirit of community

Editorships

  • Herwarth Walden , Peter A. Silbermann (ed.): Expressionist poetry from the world war to the present. Carl Heymanns Verlag, Berlin 1932.

literature

  • Silbermann, Peter Adalbert , in: Salomon Wininger : Great Jewish National Biography . Volume 5. Chernivtsi, 1931, p. 512

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gangolf Hübinger (ed.): Google Books with an excerpt from writings on politics and cultural philosophy (1918-1923). Volume 15, Walter de Gruyter Verlag, 2002, ISBN 3-11-017157-0 ; Retrieved November 20, 2009.
personal data
SURNAME Silbermann, Peter Adalbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Olman, Peter (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German linguist and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Goerlitz
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 1944
Place of death Hollywood