Theodor Abbetmeyer

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Theodor Abbetmeyer (also: Theo Abbetmeyer ) (born September 21, 1869 in Lüchow (Wendland) ; † January 5, 1944 in Northeim ) was a German teacher , school director , book author and National Socialist cultural journalist .

Life

Born in Lüchow, Abbetmeyer completed a pedagogical training before he was employed as a teacher in Loccum in 1889 . In 1895 he passed a rectorate examination . A “Theodor Abbetmeyer” with matriculation number 13819 can be verified at the University of Hanover . He studied composition with Johannes Doebber (March 28, 1866 - January 26, 1921) and Richard Metzdorff (June 28, 1844 - April 4, 1919).

From 1904 Abbetmeyer wrote as a freelance worker for various magazines and newspapers.

In 1911 Theodor Abbetmeyer was hired as headmaster of a school in Linden .

In 1921, when the Weimar Republic was still young , he published a work on the Faust theme . Abbetmeyer gave up teaching in 1924, but was not retired until 1925 .

The retiree encountered the avant-garde theater and artist scene in Hanover in the 1920s as a staunch opponent; through it he saw the "fall of the West " dawning. He published his own understanding of art, his reactionary and National Socialist convictions, for example, in his work on Richard Wagner's Lohengrin in 1926 under the title The Grail Empire as a Warrior Against the Fall of the West. The Lohengrin myth following Richard Wagner's "Lohengrin" re-illuminated .

Shortly before he was 60, Abbetmeyer began his studies in 1928, including history, music theory and art history at the University of Göttingen , which he completed in 1931 with his dissertation . On the history of music at the court in Hanover before Agostino-Steffani 1636–1689. An image of artistic culture in the 17th century .

Theodor Abbetmeyer joined the NSDAP as early as 1932 . In the year of the “ seizure of power ” by the National Socialists , he was employed in 1933 as a “ Gaufach advisor for sound art and theater” and in the Lower Saxony daily newspaper published by Gauleiter Bernhard Rust as a full-time editor for the Nazi-propagated cultural policy .

In the same year Abbetmeyer published his work On Modern Theater Unculture about the NS-Gau Süd-Hannover-Braunschweig . On the expropriation of German theater by Marxism and Bolshevism . With special consideration of the conditions in Hanover and with guidelines for the development of true German theater culture .

The "Herr Musiklehrer Th. Abbetmeyer [... still intended] to publish the entire literature of the one- to three-part solo art song as completely as possible and evaluating it", who lives at Egestorffstrasse 4 in Linden. But Abbetmeyer did not fully represent the politics of the National Socialists: In 1935 he was dismissed from all NSDAP offices for “deviating from the party line”.

The former teacher died on April 1st, 1944 in Northeim.

Fonts (incomplete)

  • Richard Wagner Studies. New investigations into the personality and cultural work of the Bayreuth master (in Gothic script ). Hahn, Hanover / Leipzig 1916.
  • Paul Schwartzkopff, Ernst Köhler-Haußen, Theo Abbetmeyer: For the introduction to H. Stahn’s "Faustus redivivus". The fist problem today. FE Bilz (m. A.), Dresden-Radebeul 1921.
  • The Grail Empire as a fighter against the fall of the West. The Lohengrin myth following Richard Wagner's “Lohengrin” re-illuminated. E. Kunter, Heilbronn 1926.
  • On the history of music at the court in Hanover before Agostino-Steffani 1636–1689. An image of artistic culture in the 17th century. Dissertation at the University of Göttingen, 1931.
  • About modern theater culture. On the expropriation of German theater by Marxism and Bolshevism. With special consideration of the conditions in Hanover and with guidelines for the development of true German theater culture. NSDAP of the Gaues Süd-Hannover-Braunschweig, Hannover 1933.
  • Nikolaus von Kues in the mirror of idealism. On the 475th anniversary of the Kusan's death on August 12, 1939. G. Stehncken, Eschershausen 1991.

literature

  • Ines Katenhusen : Art and Politics. Hanover's confrontations with modernity in the Weimar Republic (at the same time dissertation at the University of Hanover under the title Understanding a time is perhaps best gained from her art. In the series Hannoversche Studien, series of publications of the City Archives Hanover. Volume 5, Hahn, Hanover 1998, ISBN 3-7752-4955-9 , p. 572 ff. And a.)
  • Hugo Thielen : Abbetmeyer, Theodor. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 23 and ö .; online through google books .
  • Hugo Thielen: Abbetmeyer, Theodor. 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. 9.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Wilhelm Kosch (greeting): Abbetmeyer, Theo (dor). In: German Literature Lexicon - the 20th Century. Biographical-bibliographical manual. Volume 1: AAB - BAUER. De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston, Massachusetts 2000, ISBN 3-908255-01-5 , p. 1944; online through google books
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Hugo Thielen: ABBETMEYER, Theodor (see literature)
  3. ^ Herbert Mundhenke : The matriculation of the higher trade school, the polytechnic school and the technical university in Hanover. Volume 3: Explanations and Register. Hahn, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-5855-8 , p. 77; online through google books
  4. ↑ Ábrányi, Emil . In: A. Eaglefield Hull; Albert Einstein (Ed.): The New Music Lexicon according to the Dictionary of Modern Music and Musicians . Max Hesses Verlag, Berlin 1926, p. 2 ( archive.org ).
  5. ^ Klaus Mlynek : Rust, Bernhard. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover. P. 532.
  6. ^ Bernhard Schuster (National Socialist cultural community): The music. Organ of the Music Office with the Führer’s commissioner for the supervision of the entire spiritual and ideological training and education of the NSDAP. Volume 3, Part 2, Hesse, Berlin, p. 285; Preview over google books
personal data
SURNAME Abbetmeyer, Theodor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Abbetmeyer, Theo; Abbetmeyer, Th.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher, school director, journalist, nationalist cultural politician in Hanover
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Lüchow (Wendland)
DATE OF DEATH January 5, 1944
Place of death Northeim