Walther Hofstaetter

Walther Hofstaetter ( completely Walther Martin Christian Hofstaetter; born July 27, 1883 in Munich , † January 3, 1968 in Boll ) was a German school principal and German studies .

Life

Walther Hofstaetter was the son of the then Munich city vicar Albrecht Hofstaetter and his wife Marie Borchert. Until 1902 he attended the Nikolaischule in Leipzig . He then studied at the University of philology to its Germanic doctorate in 1907. During his studies he was a member of the German club students Leipzig . In 1910 he married Käthe Agnes Böttcher. From 1917 Hofstaetter was a senior teacher and from 1922 to 1930 a teacher at the reform-oriented König-Georg-Gymnasium in Dresden . In 1919, supervised Hofstätter there as a German teacher, the War College graduate Erich Kastner's what both would later recount vividly. In 1931 he moved to the Königin-Carola-Gymnasium in Leipzig as senior director . In 1937 he joined the NSDAP .

From 1911 to 1912 Hofstaetter was editor and from 1913 to 1936 editor and co-editor of the magazine for German teaching (from 1920 magazine for German studies ), which he further changed in the direction of German studies . From 1912 he belonged to the German Association of Germanists and published many school books, including a. Parzival . He was co-editor of the successful reader Wagen und Wirken . In the 1930s Hofstaetter published a number of writings on aviation .

From 1945 to January 19, 1950, Hofstaetter was detained by the Soviet secret police of the NKVD with the unchecked accusation of "Bataillonsführer Volkssturm" in special camp No. 4 Bautzen . He then lived with his son in Hainichen in Saxony, later with a daughter in Hamburg, most recently in Bad Boll. He continued to publish readings, some of which are still published today by Reclam Verlag . The yellow Reclam ribbons, which are still widely used today for school reading, go back to his initiative by the responsible editors at the Reclam publishing house.

Fonts (selection)

• Little German Studies: Basics of the German Way of Life , 1923
• Aviation in German and history lessons , 1935
• History of Aviation , 1938
• German language teaching , 1941
• Central and East German writings as an all-German cultural property , 1957

Editing (selection)

• The Germania of Tacitus. Commentary and text , 1910
• German studies , Teubner, Leipzig-Berlin 1917 (digitized version)
• Demands and ways for the new German lessons , Teubner, Leipzig-Berlin 1921
• A millennium of German culture: sources from 800-1800 , 1922/1924, together with Hans Reichmann and Johannes Schneider
• Weighing and working. A German reading and life book , 1920/22, together with Otto Berthold and Rudolf Nicolai
• Non-fiction dictionary of German studies , 1930, together with Ulrich Peters
• From a pure source. German poetry from Hölderlin to the present , 1938, together with Georg Usadel
• Wolfram von Eschenbach: Parzival. School edition, 1939, new edition 1965
• Ehm Welk: The miraculous friendship. The Book of Animals and Man , 1940
• The adventurous Simplicissimus of Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen. A selection of the original text from 1669 , 1954
• Eduard Mörike: The Stuttgart Hutzelmännlein , 1960

literature

• Reiner Blessing: School of National Ethics. Johann Georg Sprengel. The German Studies Movement and the German Association of Germanists. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 978-3631301593 (dissertation).
• Horst Schmidt: Hofstaetter, Walther Martin Christian. In: Christoph König (Ed.), With the assistance of Birgit Wägenbaur u. a .: Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800–1950 . Volume 2: H-Q. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-015485-4 , pp. 787–788 ( limited preview in the Google book search).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Albrecht (Albert) Theodor Hofstaetter (born July 3, 1858 in Augsburg), City Vicar Munich, 1884 Pastor Possenheim (Bavaria), 1887 Pastor and theological teacher at the mission seminar in Leipzig, 1905 Lic. Theol. University of Leipzig, then Dean in Uffenheim, 1909 Consistorial Councilor in Ansbach, later Privy Councilor and Dr. theol. hc
2. ↑ Louis Lange (Ed.): Kyffhäuser Association of German Student Associations. Address book 1931 . Berlin 1931, p. 94.
3. ^ Sebastian Schmideler: Erich Kästner and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - maxims and reflections . In: Ruairí O'Brien, Bernhard Meier (Ed.): The Trojan Horse . Königshausen & Neumann, 2010, p. 42, ISBN 978-3826043871 .
4. ↑ See: Königin-Carola-Gymnasium Leipzig (from 1939: Friedrich-Nietzsche-Oberschule): Teacher and Student Directory , born 1934 / 35–1939 / 40, Leipzig 1935–1940.
5. ↑ Camp journal of the special camp Bautzen, Russian Main State Archives B-GARF 9409/1/546 - No. 4285

Web links

• Literature by and about Walther Hofstaetter in the catalog of the German National Library