Rudolf Däbritz

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Stumbling block for Dr. Rudolf Däbritz in Coburg

Rudolf Däbritz (born July 18, 1880 in Grimma , † March 16, 1945 in Würzburg ) was a German classical philologist and grammar school director.

Däbritz was the son of the seminar head teacher (Karl) Hermann Däbritz. He attended the Princely and State School in Grimma and then studied Classical Philology and Classical Archeology at the University of Leipzig . On February 2, 1905 he was at Kurt Wachsmuth and Justus Hermann Lipsius Dr. phil. PhD .

After graduating, Däbritz taught at the Princely and State School in Grimma. In addition, he was also scientifically active: He wrote several articles for Pauly's Realenzyklopädie der Classical Antiquities (RE).

At the First World War Däbritz took part of the reserve as a first lieutenant. He fought on the Western Front, received several awards (on July 31, 1915, he received the Knight's Cross of the Order of Albrecht, 2nd Class with Swords) and survived the 1916 Battle of Verdun .

In 1919 Däbritz was appointed director of the Casimirianum grammar school in Coburg . As a Freemason and because of his commitment to Jewish students and colleagues, he was targeted by the National Socialists after the seizure of power . He was attacked in 1934 with a series of articles in the Coburg national newspaper and was to be deposed by Gauleiter Hans Schemm . Instead, Ministerialrat Hans Bauerschmidt managed to get Däbritz to be transferred to the old grammar school in Würzburg as senior director of studies .

When the Second World War broke out , Däbritz was called up as a major in the reserve by the Wehrmacht and was involved in the attack on Poland with a battalion of state riflemen . After he had prevented the looting of a factory by SS men , they had his political background checked. Däbritz was then made "indispensable" and returned to the old grammar school in Würzburg.

After an air raid on Würzburg on March 16, 1945, Däbritz was killed while firefighting. Along with his household, his manuscript burned lines connecting the ancient world with our time . In 2011, a stumbling block with his name was laid in front of the Casimirianum Coburg high school.

Fonts (selection)

  • De Artemidoro Strabonis auctore capita tria . Leipzig 1905 (dissertation)
  • Why do we learn Latin and Greek? Coburg 1929

literature

  • Festschrift for the 350th anniversary of the Casimirianum Gymnasium Coburg . Coburg 1955
  • Eberhard Däbritz: Dr. Rudolf Däbritz, a teacher personality in the Third Reich. Represented according to documents and reports . In: 425 years Wirsberg-Gymnasium Würzburg . Würzburg 1986, pp. 175-183 (with picture)
  • Hubert Fromm: The Coburg Jews. History and fate . Coburg 1990. 2nd edition, Neustadt bei Coburg 2001
  • Helmut Rix : General meeting on June 12, 1993. Inaugural address . In: Yearbook of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences . Year 1993, pp. 59-62
  • Erhard Roth: The awards of the Knight's Cross 2nd Class with Swords of the Royal Saxon Order of Albrecht in the First World War 1914–1918 . Offenbach am Main 1998, p. 40
  • Joachim Käppner: The family of the generals. A German story . Berlin 2007, p. 85

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kerstin Rindenlaub: Transfer to Würzburg . Digital city memory Coburg.
  2. ↑ Kerstin Lindenlaub: strokes of fate . Digital city memory Coburg.
  3. ↑ Stumbling block for Dr. Rudolf Däbritz, Gymnasiumsgasse 2 . Digital city memory Coburg.
personal data
SURNAME Däbritz, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Däbritz, Hermann Rudolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist and grammar school director
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Grimma
DATE OF DEATH March 16, 1945
Place of death Wurzburg