Walther Neumann

This article deals with the historian Walther Neumann. For other people see Walter Neumann .

Walther Carl Julius Neumann , (born August 8, 1888 in Rostock , † June 13, 1951 in Berlin ) was a German historian and high school director.

Life

After graduating from high school in 1906, he studied in Rostock and Munich. In 1911 he passed the state examination in Latin, Greek and history. In 1913 he received his doctorate with a historical thesis at the University of Rostock . During the First World War he became a first lieutenant in 1918. After the war he first worked at the grammar school in Schwerin, in 1924 he became director of the large city school Rostock , the traditional humanistic grammar school of Rostock. Although he belonged to one of the democratic parties in the Weimar Republic, the National Socialists left him in office in 1933. After 1945 Neumann headed the modern and old language branches of all Rostock high schools as director. In 1948 he was replaced as director by the communist Eggert, but worked as a Latin and Greek teacher in Rostock until he graduated from high school in 1950. He then left Rostock and was transferred to the Academy of Sciences in Berlin . He died in Berlin on June 13, 1951. He also wrote books in the Low German language.

Fonts

• The German elections and the papal claim to power during the interregnum , Berlin 1921.
• Hilly night. A nativity scene , Schwerin 1926.
• The large city school in Rostock in 3½ centuries , Rostock 1930.
• Wi of the fourth. Sauce moon on the Romanian front , Rostock 1935.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See Walther Neumann's first and second matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal

literature

• Fritz Specht: Walter Neumann † , in: Mitteilungen aus dem Quickborn 42, 1951, 5/6, p. 70.
• Stephan Sehlke: Educators - Pastors - Patriots. Biographical handbook on print material for children and young people by authors and illustrators from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania from the beginning up to and including 1945 , 2009, p. 270 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Walther Neumann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature about Walther Neumann in the state bibliography MV
• Walther Neumann in the Low German Bibliography and Biography (PBuB)