Walther Niekerken

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Walther Niekerken (born February 16, 1900 in Tötensen , † November 9, 1974 in Hamburg ) was a Low German philologist .

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Walther Niekerken received a school education at a nine-grade middle school in Hamburg-Harburg . He then visited a preparatory institute and a teachers' seminar in Nordheide. During the First World War he had to do short military service. In 1919 he passed the first teacher examination. He then worked for eight and a half years as a teacher at elementary schools in Harburg and the Lüneburg Heath . During this time he worked on his dissertation on Das Feld and his order in Low German . From 1928 he studied German, English and French philology and philosophy. In December 1933 he obtained his doctorate. phil. with Conrad Borchling and Agathe Lasch . He then worked as Conrad Borchling's assistant at the Germanic Seminar at the University of Hamburg and, from 1936, as a lecturer at the University for Teacher Training in Hamburg. Although he was called up as a police officer during the Second World War , on October 1, 1943, he was appointed associate professor at the University of Hamburg - a chair that was originally intended for Agathe Lasch, who was murdered in 1942.

Although he had been a member of the NSDAP , the SA , the Kampfbund für deutsche Kultur and the Reichsbund für Volkstum und Heimat and had been a speaker for the party, Niekerken remained a professor at Hamburg University after the end of the Second World War after being briefly ousted. The reason for this were numerous positive assessments that students and colleagues had given him. From the winter semester 1945/46, Niekerken was the most important teacher for Low German philology at the school. In disputes with Ulrich Pretzel and Hans Pyritz , he managed to keep the subject at the university, which earned him great services to the subject and the recognition of his students. Niekerken's service ended with his retirement on March 31, 1968.

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  1. ^ Ernst Klee : Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 435.
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SURNAME Niekerken, Walther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Low German philologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Killing
DATE OF DEATH November 9, 1974
Place of death Hamburg