Peter Zylmann

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Peter Hermann Zylmann (born February 5, 1884 in Leer (East Friesland) , † February 26, 1976 in Rahlstedt ) was a German high school teacher and regional early historian .

Life

After the six-class elementary school in Leer, Zylmann first became an office assistant. After the external school leaving examination in Leer, he studied German, English, geography, philosophy and history in Berlin and Göttingen. From 1912 to 1918 he taught at the German School in Antwerp and as a private tutor with Wilhelm von Mallinckrodt . In 1914 he volunteered as a lieutenant in the 83rd Infantry Regiment , was wounded in 1915 and dismissed in a highly decorated manner. He worked again in Antwerp at the school and as an appraiser for the German military administration. In 1918 he began as a teacher in Leer, was the mentor and friend of Adolf Grimme and met the mayor Emil Helms . He joined the DVP and then the SPD . In close cooperation with the director of the Provincial Museum in Hanover, Karl Hermann Jacob-Friesen , he worked on early Frisian history. In Walle (Aurich) he secured the oldest hook plow , in Moordorf (East Friesland) he determined the location of a golden disc of the sun . In the area of ​​the Brockzeteler Moor he collected large amounts of Mesolithic artifacts. From 1923 to 1928 he headed the Ulricianum grammar school in Aurich . Zylmann founded the Federation of East Frisian Heimatvereine and promoted the all-Frisian movement, which, including the Dutch part, first appeared in 1925 on a “Friesentag” in Jever . In 1930, this resulted in the “ Friesenrat ”, which was supposed to maintain the “common identity” of Frisians.

Then he worked until 1930 in the Prussian Ministry of Culture, which appointed him in 1930 as head of the new Pedagogical Academy in Cottbus . After its closure in 1932, he became headmaster and senior studies director in the city of Wandsbek ( Stormarn district ). During the Nazi era , he had to move to Altona-Blankenese as a teacher. In 1936 he was charged with high treason and was sent to the Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp , but was acquitted. In 1937 he was advised to join the NSDAP , but in 1938 he was forced to retire. In the Second World War he was from 1940 to 1943 as captain d. R. drafted to head prisoner of war camp in France.

From 1945 to 1949 Zylmann headed the Matthias-Claudius-Gymnasium Hamburg again . He also headed the Hamburg Prehistory Association . V. After retirement he worked in East Frisia in local research and became an honorary member of the East Frisian landscape . For this he received the Ubbo Emmius Medal in 1967 .

Fonts

  • East Frisian Prehistory , Leipzig-Hildesheim 1933 (reprint 1972)
  • Low German (Education and Nation) , Leipzig 1935
  • Ethnicity and popular culture , 1940
  • Tjark Ulrichs and his mates: From Baltrums Franzosenzeit , (1938) 5th edition 2012 ISBN 978-3-939870-70-8

literature

  • Detert Zylmann : History of a German Family. From the diaries of my grandfather , Hamburg 2016 (editor is Peter's grandson) ( limited preview in Google book search)
  • Detert Zylmann: Accused of preparing for high treason. Imprisoned in the "concentration camp" Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel , 2017 ( limited preview in Google book search)
  • Alexander Hesse: The professors and lecturers of the Prussian educational academies (1926-1933) and colleges for teacher training (1933-1941) . Deutscher Studien-Verlag, Weinheim 1995, ISBN 3-89271-588-2 , p. 814–815 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Web links

Single receipts

  1. ↑ Genealogy
  2. ↑ Prehistory Association
personal data
SURNAME Zylmann, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zylmann, Peter Hermann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pedagogue and local researcher
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Leer (East Frisia)
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1976
Place of death Rahlstedt