Walter Requardt
Walter Requardt (born March 6, 1903 in Bielefeld ; † November 23, 1993 ibid) was a German teacher , Germanist and writer .
Life
Born as the son of a postal assistant, Requardt attended the preparatory institute in Bielefeld-Schildesche in 1917 and the state Protestant teachers' seminar in Gütersloh from 1920 to 1923 , which he completed with the first teacher examination. In the 1920s he was a member of the Wandervogel . From 1923 to 1925 he worked as an employee in an office in Bielefeld. At the same time he was organist at the Johanniskirche in Bielefeld.
From 1925 he studied German and history in Berlin . He subsequently made up his school leaving examination and high school diploma so that he could continue studying. From 1927 he was enrolled in Heidelberg for three semesters , where he became a member of the Frankonia fraternity in 1927 . In 1929 he did his Graecum in Berlin in order to be able to start his dissertation . As a student he published a three-volume Gerhart Hauptmann bibliography in 1931 , which resulted in a lifelong friendship with Gerhart Hauptmann .
In 1934 he went to school and worked in several places in the Mark Brandenburg region in order to finally be able to take his second state examination in Woltersdorf (near Berlin) . In 1937 he became a member of the NSDAP (membership number 4,883,365). During the Second World War he served as a soldier and officer on the Eastern Front . In 1943 he was seriously wounded, from 1945 to 1947 he was a French prisoner of war . During this time he worked as a lecturer at the camp college in the Baccarat officers' prison camp .
In 1948 he became rector of the Melanchthon School in Bielefeld. In 1950 he founded a school camp for them on Spiekeroog , which was named after him in 1972. In 1950 he made in Bielefeld his high-school teacher exam and became 1951 in Hamburg for Dr. phil. PhD . In the period from 1948 to 1960 he organized numerous school and church concerts. From 1960 to 1968 he was a school supervisor in the school inspectorate in Recklinghausen . Then he was a teacher at a vocational school and at a technical high school .
Honors
- Iron Cross 1st and 2nd class
- War Merit Cross
- 1972: Walter-Requardt-Heim Spiekeroog
- 1977: Federal Cross of Merit 1st class and on ribbon
- Silver and gold plaques of honor from the German Parity Welfare Association
Publications (selection)
- Gerhart Hauptmann. Bibliography. 3 volumes. Berlin 1931.
- Erkner in the life and work of Gerhart Hauptmann with special consideration of the novella “Fasching”. Dissertation. University of Hamburg, 1951.
- with Martin Machatzke: Gerhart Hauptmann and Erkner: Studies on early Berlin work (= publications of the Gerhart-Hauptmann-Gesellschaft. Volume 1). Berlin 1980.
literature
- Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 571-572.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Requardt, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German teacher, Germanist and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 6, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bielefeld |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 23, 1993 |
| Place of death | Bielefeld |