Rudolf Wiggers

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Rudolf Wiggers (born April 25, 1902 in Hamburg ; † unknown) was a German classical philologist and National Socialist racial ideologist .

Life

Dr. Wiggers: Change of director in Kiel 1966

Wiggers, son of a businessman and senator, studied classical philology and archeology in Rostock . After receiving his doctorate in 1927, he became a teacher in Rostock. From 1930 he worked as a lecturer and lecturer at the University of Rostock . In 1932 he joined the NSDAP and the NSLB . He became a Gau clerk for race issues in Gau Mecklenburg and published in teacher magazines. His “Rassebüchlein” followed the anti-Semitic ideas of Ludwig Ferdinand Clauss . In 1936 he organized a central Gau event on "racial science" in Schwerin with lectures on "racial science" by Clauss.

In 1955 Wiggers became associate professor at the University of Kiel. From 1959 to 1966 he was director of the Kiel School of Academics . He then became the state school director for a year, followed by Erwin Assmann's predecessor as director in 1967 .

Fonts (selection)

  • Contributions to the history of the development of the philosophical myth of the Greeks. Adler, Rostock 1927 (dissertation, University of Rostock, 1927).
  • Werner Dittrich / Erich Meyer, edited for the Gau Mecklenburg v. Rudolf Wiggers: Brief Hereditary and Racial Studies , Breslau 1935
  • Race booklet for the German youth. Beenken, Berlin 1936 (was placed on the list of literature to be segregated in the Soviet occupation zone after the end of the Second World War .).

literature

  • Wiggers, Rudolf. In: Hans-Christian Harten, Uwe Neirich, Matthias Schwerendt: Racial hygiene as an educational ideology of the Third Reich. Bio-bibliographical manual. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-05-004094-7 , p. 492 ( online ; curriculum vitae until 1945).
  • Matthias Schwerendt: Rudolf Wiggers' “Rassebüchlein für die Jugend”: Radical anti-Semitism and ethnic images of the Orient in anti-Semitic readings for National Socialist teaching. In: Wolfgang Benz (Hrsg.): Prejudices in children's and youth literature. Metropol, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-940938-75-6 , pp. 133-159.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kiel School of Academics - 680 years old - Directors ( Memento from November 19, 2004 in the Internet Archive ), website of the Kiel School of Academics.
  2. ↑ Jürgen Fiege: Sprottenkiste: Social history of a youth in Kiel 1945 - 1966. 2018, accessed on July 20, 2019 .
  3. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-w.html
personal data
SURNAME Wiggers, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist and racial ideologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH 20th century or 21st century