Walter Stuhlfath

Walter Stuhlfath (born June 25, 1887 in Schleusenau near Bromberg ; † February 15, 1974 in Niebüll ) was a German historian and geographer , university professor and deputy director of the Flensburg University of Education .

Stuhlfath studied history, Protestant theologian and geography in Berlin and Heidelberg from 1907 and received his doctorate in Heidelberg in 1912 under Karl Hampe in medieval history about Pope Gregory the Great . 1918–1925 Stuhlfath was a teacher and deputy head of the teachers' college in Friedeberg . From 1926 he worked at the Pedagogical Academy in Elbing (1926–30) and Stettin (1930–32). He founded the subject of local studies for East Prussia . He also worked in the school inspectorate in the province of East Prussia . In the Stutthof concentration camp on March 1, 1944, he was one of the lecturers for the SS: "The struggle for the new order of Europe".

After the war he became professor of geography again and from 1949 to 1953 he was vice director of the new Flensburg University of Education. In 1949 he was one of the founders of the Association of German School Geographers .

Fonts

• Youth and first work of Gregory the Great. , Heidelberg 1913 [= Heidelberg dissertation]
• Gregory the Great: his life up to his election as Pope including an investigation of the oldest vitae , Heidelberg 1913
• How the work school became: voices of its champions from four centuries , Osterwieck am Harz 1922
• Popular gymnastics games and joke exercises from all German districts , Beltz 1928
• East Prussia and the Free City of Danzig , Beltz, Langensalza 1931
• German fate: a space u. People's political education book , Beltz 1937

literature

• Alexander Hesse: The professors and lecturers of the Prussian educational academies (1926-1933) and colleges for teacher training (1933-1941) . Deutscher Studien-Verlag, Weinheim 1995, ISBN 3-89271-588-2 , p. 725–726 ( limited preview in Google Book search).