Theodor Steche

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Albert Theodor Steche (born December 4, 1895 in Leipzig ; † April 1945 ) was a German professor of German studies and a personality of the Esperanto movement.

Life

Steche was born in Leipzig in 1895 as the son of the chemist and entrepreneur Albert Steche . He attended the humanistic Thomas School in Leipzig until 1914 . After that he was drafted into military service. He suffered severe injuries and was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd Class, the Knight's Cross 2nd Class of the Albrecht Order and the Silver Friedrich August Medal . Most recently he served as a reserve officer ( lieutenant in the reserve).

After the First World War he studied chemistry and was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD. During his studies in 1920 he became a member of the Gottinga gymnastics club in Göttingen. From 1923 to 1928 he was an assistant at the Institute for Crop Production at the University of Göttingen . From 1928 to 1931 he then studied German in Göttingen. From 1934 to 1939 he was a fellow of the German Research Foundation . In 1936 he completed his habilitation at the University of Greifswald . From 1939 to 1945 he was a private lecturer for Germanic languages and older German literature. He submitted u. a. Proposals for spelling reform .

On July 1, 1932, he became a member (later of the Reich leadership) in the Combat League for German Culture . A year later, on May 1, 1933 , he joined the NSDAP . He wrote u. a. for the Völkischer Beobachter , the Deutsche Kultur-Wacht and the Völkische Kultur . Steche belonged to the Esperanto movement and tried to combine National Socialism and Esperantism. On behalf of Alfred Rosenberg , he unsuccessfully tried out the synchronization of the German Language Association . Steche committed suicide in April 1945.

Fonts (selection)

chemistry

Linguistics

  • New ways to pure German. Wroclaw 1925.
  • Linguistics and world auxiliary language. Lecture for the 20th German Esperanto Congress. Hamburg 1931.
  • The German spelling. Standstill or Improvement? Wroclaw 1932.
  • The lower case in the German print font. Berlin 1933.
  • Vikings discover America. The Old Icelandic Reports. Hamburg 1934.
  • Old Germania in the geography book of Claudius Ptolemy. Leipzig 1937.
  • German prehistory and early history. Berlin 1938.
  • The raven battle poem, the book of Bern and the development of the Dietrichsage. Greifswald 1939.
  • German tribal lore. Berlin 1942.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gottlieb Tesmer, Walther Müller: Honor roll of the Thomas School in Leipzig. The teachers and high school graduates of the Thomas School in Leipzig 1912–1932. Commissioned by the Thomanerbund, self-published, Leipzig 1934, p. 23.
  2. ^ Gerhard Boldt: History of the gymnastics club Gottingo-Normannia zu Göttingen 1875-1975. Göttingen 1975, p. 261.
  3. ^ A b Fritz Tschirch : Pre- and early history of the Greifswald university German studies. In: Festschrift for the 500th anniversary of the University of Greifswald . Volume 2. Greifswald 1956, p. 194.
  4. ↑ Hanno Birken-Bertsch, Reinhard Markner: Spelling Reform and National Socialism. A chapter in the history of the German language. (= A publication of the German Academy for Language and Poetry ) Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2000, p. 25.
  5. ↑ Gerd Simon : Europagedanke and Sprachpolitik 1933–1945. ( PDF ) p. 6.
personal data
SURNAME Sting, Theodor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Steche, Albert Theodor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist and Esperantist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th December 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH April 1945