Walter Eberhardt

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Walter Eberhardt (born August 11, 1895 in Klotzsche ; † March 11, 1981 in Neuendettelsau ) was a German classical philologist .

Life

Walter Eberhardt studied classical philology from 1914 to 1922 (with interruptions during the First World War ). After the state examination (1922) and doctorate (1923) in Leipzig , he worked as a teacher at the Dresden Kreuzschule and from April 1, 1934 as director of studies at the Dresden König-Georg-Gymnasium .

Eberhardt, who had been a member of the NSDAP since April 13, 1932 , represented the chair of the retired Hermann Schöne at the University of Münster from 1935 . Against the declared will of the Faculty of Philosophy, he was appointed professor and co-director of the Department of Classical Philology at the Institute for Classical Studies on May 26, 1937. Although this appointment was carried out by party offices, Eberhardt kept his subsequent teaching and academic work free from National Socialist ideas (cf. the contribution The Greek Tragedy and the State, which emerged from a public lecture ). During the Second World War , he temporarily replaced his colleague Franz Beckmann , who was drafted into military service.

On December 11, 1945, Eberhardt was dismissed as a university lecturer by order of the British military government . In the denazification completed on August 27, 1947, he was classified as "exonerated". The faculty rejected reinstatement and the desired retirement. Instead, the university management retired him on June 30, 1948. In addition, Eberhardt worked for several years as a specialist at the university library in Münster. He spent his retirement in Pfaffendorf near Bamberg and in Neuendettelsau .

His estate is in the university archive of the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster , copies of letters from Friedrich Klingner to Walter Eberhardt in the Bavarian State Library in Munich .

Fonts

  • De iteratis apud Platonem. Dissertation. Leipzig 1923.
  • Antiquity and us. In: National Socialist monthly books. Volume 6, 1935, pp. 115-127. Was placed on the list of literature to be segregated in the Soviet occupation zone after the end of World War II .
  • The Greek tragedy and the state. In: The ancient world. Volume 20, Issue 2, 1944, pp. 87-114.
  • The interpretation of history by Thucydides. In: Gymnasium . Volume 61, 1954, pp. 306-326
  • The Melierdialog and the inscriptions ATL Ag (IGI² 63+ and IGI² 97+). Reflections on the historical credibility of Thucydides. In: Historia. Volume 8, 1959, pp. 284-314.

literature

  • Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar. 10th edition. 1966, p. 434.
  • Katja Fausser: History in National Socialism. A contribution to the history of the historical institutes of the University of Münster 1933–1945. Berlin 2000, pp. 73ff.
  • Peter Respondek: Occupation, denazification, reconstruction. The University of Münster 1945−1952. A contribution to the history of German-British relations in the education sector after the Second World War. Münster 1995, p. 238ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-e.html