Rudolf Graefenhain

Rudolf Julius Wilhelm Graefenhain (born June 19, 1867 in Harburg , † March 14, 1940 in Hanover ) was a German teacher and prince educator . The author worked for decades among others as director of the council school in Hanover.

Life

Rudolf Graefenhain was the son of a Hanoverian businessman . After graduating from the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Hanover in 1887 , he studied classical philology at the University of Munich and the University of Marburg . During his studies he became a member of the Marburg Burschenschaft Rheinfranken . He graduated with a doctorate in 1891 . In 1909 Graefenhain was appointed professor . From 1894 to 1897 Graefenhain worked in Bückeburg , both as a high school teacher and as a prince educator. In April 1899 he was employed in Hanover, initially as a scientific assistant teacher at Realschule III , and from 1900 as a senior teacher at the Leibniz School .

The Graefenhainweg in Seelhorst highlights the importance of Graefenhain as school director.

While still in the German Empire he became director of the Ratsgymnasium in Hanover on December 1, 1912: The " Graefenhain era " lasted during the First World War and almost the entire Weimar Republic until April 1, 1932. During this time, he wrote his directory of former student of the Ratsgymnasium (formerly Lyceum 1) still alive .

Rudolf Graefenhain was regarded in Hanover in the democratic period of the 1920s and 1930s as a "permanent fixture in the Hanoverian art and culture scene": He was an influential member of the city's art committee formed in 1920, and head of the theater-goers' organization of the "Bühnenvolksbund" for many years. and in 1930 - following Albrecht Haupt - became first chairman of the Hanover Art Association .

Graefenhain was, in the words of his student Georg Schnath, "a man of distinct culture, a great musician and decidedly more of an artist than a schoolboy". Ulrich de Maizière put it in a very similar way : "The director ..., a well-known and respected personality in the city, literarily and musically highly educated, ran the school with tolerance and humor and gave it a special character." On the other hand, it was true he joined the right-wing public in a chorus of outrage that emerged in 1925 over Theodor Lessing's polemic against Paul von Hindenburg . He wrote to the Prussian Ministry of Culture about the former Ratsgymnius: “In this sense, I declare myself completely at one with the efforts of the university youth to eradicate such parasites on the tribe of real Germanness, thank God! Faithful German allways! Signed Prof. Dr. Rudolf Graefenhain. Director of the Ratsgymnasium. ”And Werner Kraft wrote in retrospect in 1969 that he“ admired the teacher very much because of his strict objectivity ”, but:“ Unfortunately he later became a supporter of Hitler. ”

Works

In the Federal Archives is found in the central database discounts EROMM :

Rudolf Graefenhain: Directory of the former students of the Ratsgymnasium (formerly Lyceum 1) in Hanover [as of October 1, 1927], with prefaces by Hermann Augustin, Hermann Burghard, Karl Friedrich Leonhardt and others, Hanover: Helwingsche Verlagshandlung, 1927

Honors

Graefenhainweg in the Hanover district of Seelhorst , which was laid out in 1969, honors the director of studies by giving it its name.

literature

Ines Katenhusen : Art and Politics. Hanover's struggles with modernity in the Weimar Republic. Hahn, Hannover 1998, ISBN 3-7752-4955-9 , passim.
Klaus Mlynek : Graefenhain, Rudolf. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 134.
Klaus Mlynek: Graefenhain, Rudolf. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 228.

Web links

Commons : Rudolf Graefenhain - collection of images, videos and audio files

Rudolf Graefenhain's personnel sheet in the personnel file of the BIL reviewer in the archive database of the Library for Research on Educational History (BBF)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Klaus Mlynek: Graefenhain, Rudolf (see literature)
↑ See Ruth Simolick, Elisabeth Prüssen: Directory of high school graduates 1875–1975. In: 1875-1975. 100 years of Kaiser Wilhelms Gymnasium in Hanover. Self-published, Hanover 1975, pp. 205–227, here p. 205.
↑ Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. Directory of the members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934, p. 152.
↑ ^a ^b ^c see GND number of the German National Library .
↑ Georg Schnath: The old house. Memories of a Hanoverian youth, 1898–1916. Hahn, Hanover 1998, p. 167.
↑ Ulrich de Maizière: In the duty. Life report of a German soldier in the 20th century. Mittler Verlag, Herford 1989, p. 15.
^ Theodor Lessing: Hindenburg. In: Prager Tagblatt , April 25, 1925, p. 3: “According to Plato, the philosophers should be leaders of the people. A philosopher would not take the throne chair with Hindenburg. Just a representative symbol, a question mark, a zero. One can say: better a zero than a nero. Unfortunately history shows that a future Nero is always hidden behind a Zero. "
↑ Quoted from Elke-Vera Kotowski: “Now this unfortunate ghost has also been wiped away” - Theodor Lessing in the spirit of his contemporaries. In: Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte 50 (1998), pp. 195–218, here p. 211.
↑ Werner Kraft to Curd Ochwadt , Jerusalem, September 15, 1969, in: Werner Kraft: Between Jerusalem and Hanover. The letters to Curd Ochwadt. Edited by Ulrich Breden and Curd Ochwadt , Wallstein, Göttingen 2004, p. 113 f., Here p. 114.
^ Helmut Zimmermann : Graefenhainweg. In: The street names of the state capital Hanover. Hahnsche Buchhandlung Verlag , Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 96.

personal data
SURNAME	Graefenhain, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Graefenhain, Rudolf Julius Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German teacher and prince educator
DATE OF BIRTH	June 19, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH	Harburg
DATE OF DEATH	March 14, 1940
Place of death	Hanover

[HBL-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Klaus Mlynek: Graefenhain, Rudolf (see literature)

[2] See Ruth Simolick, Elisabeth Prüssen: Directory of high school graduates 1875–1975. In: 1875-1975. 100 years of Kaiser Wilhelms Gymnasium in Hanover. Self-published, Hanover 1975, pp. 205–227, here p. 205.

[3] Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. Directory of the members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934, p. 152.

[DNB-4] see GND number of the German National Library .

[5] Georg Schnath: The old house. Memories of a Hanoverian youth, 1898–1916. Hahn, Hanover 1998, p. 167.

[6] Ulrich de Maizière: In the duty. Life report of a German soldier in the 20th century. Mittler Verlag, Herford 1989, p. 15.

[7] Theodor Lessing: Hindenburg. In: Prager Tagblatt , April 25, 1925, p. 3: “According to Plato, the philosophers should be leaders of the people. A philosopher would not take the throne chair with Hindenburg. Just a representative symbol, a question mark, a zero. One can say: better a zero than a nero. Unfortunately history shows that a future Nero is always hidden behind a Zero. "

[8] Quoted from Elke-Vera Kotowski: “Now this unfortunate ghost has also been wiped away” - Theodor Lessing in the spirit of his contemporaries. In: Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte 50 (1998), pp. 195–218, here p. 211.

[9] Werner Kraft to Curd Ochwadt , Jerusalem, September 15, 1969, in: Werner Kraft: Between Jerusalem and Hanover. The letters to Curd Ochwadt. Edited by Ulrich Breden and Curd Ochwadt , Wallstein, Göttingen 2004, p. 113 f., Here p. 114.

[10] Helmut Zimmermann : Graefenhainweg. In: The street names of the state capital Hanover. Hahnsche Buchhandlung Verlag , Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 96.