Victor Herold

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Victor Herold (born September 24, 1890 in Trieste , † May 25, 1956 in Berlin ) was a German historian and high school director .

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Rudolf Victor Alfred Herold was born on September 24, 1890 in Trieste, which at that time still belonged to the Habsburg Monarchy , as the son of the businessman Hans Herold. After graduating from the Schiller-Realgymnasium in (Berlin-) Charlottenburg in 1909, he studied in Berlin, Munich and Greifswald. At the University of Greifswald , he passed the first teaching examination in history and geography in 1914, and the supplementary examination in German in 1916. After serving as a war volunteer in the surveying department of a field artillery regiment during the First World War, he began his preparatory service at the Kaiserin-Augusta-Gymnasium in Charlottenburg in autumn 1918 , where he passed the pedagogical examination for higher education in Prussia in 1919. He worked as an assessor at various schools in Berlin, Lichterfelde and Tempelhof . After his permanent position as a teacher , he taught 1922-1933 at the secondary school in Berlin-Tempelhof, 1933-1942 at the Chamisso-Gymnasium in Schöneberg and from 1942 on Paulsen-Gymnasium in Steglitz . After the end of the war, Herold returned after a brief activity at the Eckener School in Mariendorf in January 1948 as director of the Realgymnasium in Tempelhof, which was now called the Askanische Oberschule . He held this position until his retirement on March 31, 1956, since 1953 in the rank of senior director of studies .

Victor Herold was married twice. From his first marriage (oo 1922) he had a daughter Christel (* 1925). On May 25, 1956, shortly after his retirement, Herold, who still lived with his family in the principal's apartment, hanged himself in the attic of his former place of work.

Scientific work

In addition to his teaching activities, Herold pursued his historical interests and on July 8, 1920, at the University of Greifswald, he was awarded a doctorate with a thesis on a topic of church history. phil. doctorate (see publications). His copies and excerpts made in various Brandenburg archives from files on the early church visits in the Mark Brandenburg are in part the only survival of original sources that are lost today. Although his records cover a large part of this territory, he only published the Prignitz in several issues up to 1931 part concerned. After the end of the Second World War, he no longer continued his editing activity. It was not until 1963 that the series of publications from his left manuscripts was continued with the publication of visitation farewells to places in the Ruppin district . Currently (2014) Herolds manuscripts on the locations of the Mittelmark are being prepared for publication as part of a project by the Historical Commission in Berlin .

Publications (selection)

  • Contributions to the history of the first Protestant state church visitation in the Mark Brandenburg 1540–1545. (Phil. Diss. Greifswald 1920).
  • For the first Lutheran church visitation in the Mark Brandenburg 1540–45. In: Yearbook for Brandenburg Church History , Vol. 20 (1925), pp. 5–104, 21 (1926), pp. 59–128, 22 (1927), pp. 25–137.
  • The Brandenburg church visitation farewells and registers of the XVI. and XVII. Century . First volume: The Prignitz. Gsellius, Berlin 1928–1931. [= Publications of the Historical Commission for the Province of Brandenburg and the Imperial Capital Berlin, Volume 4]. Second volume: The Land of Ruppin. Inspections Neuruppin, Wusterhausen, Gransee and Zehdenick. From the estate of Victor Herold, edited by Gerhard Zimmermann. Edited by Gerd Heinrich . de Gruyter, Berlin 1963. XI, 489 pp. + 1 ct. attachment. [= Publications of the Historical Commission in Berlin, Volume 6.]
  • The old is sinking - Prenzlau during the Reformation. In: Yearbook for Brandenburg Church History, vol. 35 (1940), pp. 120–162.
  • For the 75th anniversary of the Askanische Oberschule in 1950. Comenius-Verlag, Berlin 1950.

literature

  • Askanische Blätter , June 1958, No. 47 (new series No. 11), p. 1. ( PDF; 645 kB )
  • Askanische Blätter , June 1966, No. 62 (New Series No. 26), p. 2 f. ( PDF; 9.9 MB )
  • Askanische Blätter , December 2001 (New Series No. 77), passim ( PDF; 1.1 MB )
  • Peter Klepper: 125 years of the Askanisches Gymnasium and Askanische Oberschule 1875 to 2000. A chronicle of the school on the 125th anniversary of its existence. Berlin 2000. ( PDF; 197 MB )

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the contribution by Christiane Schuchard from the Landesarchiv Berlin to the conference The Reformation in the Mark Brandenburg on May 11, 2011 in Berlin. ( Conference report ).
personal data
SURNAME Herald, Victor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Herald, Viktor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and grammar school director
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Trieste
DATE OF DEATH May 25, 1956
Place of death Berlin