Werner Meyer (historian, 1886)

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Werner Robert Julius Alexander Meyer (born July 3 . Jul / 15. July  1886 greg. In Reval ; † 1959 in Potsdam ) was a German high school teacher, Councilor and university professor of modern history.

Life

Education and training

After graduating from high school in June 1905 at the Nikolai-Gymnasium in Reval , Werner Meyer studied in Königsberg from the winter semester 1906/07 . He studied German and history as well as geography at the Royal Albertus University . He interrupted his studies in September 1908 for two years in order to work as a private tutor in his hometown, and continued it in the Prussian royal capital and residence until the end of the winter semester 1910/11. From Königsberg he moved to the university and Hanseatic city of Greifswald at Easter 1911 and he enrolled there. At the University of Greifswald , he received his doctorate in 1912 with a thesis on "Studies on the Stylistic Livonian rhymed chronicle " for Dr. phil. His doctoral supervisor was Professor Gustav Ehrismann (1855–1941). His academic teachings included the geographer Friedrich Gustav Hahn , the historians Otto Krauske , Felix Carl Rachfahl , Franz Rühl and Albert Werminghoff in Königsberg and in Greifswald Ernst Bernheim , Walter Otto , Heinrich Ephraim Ulmann and the art historian Max Semrau and the Germanic medievalist Gustav Ehrismann .

Meyer passed the state teacher examination in March 1913 in St. Petersburg "with distinction". In June 1914 he became a senior teacher at the "Katharinenschule" in the capital of the Russian Empire . The German-speaking Katharinenschule was a grammar school at the Lutheran Evangelical Katharinenkirche in Saint Petersburg. On August 25 of the same year, a decree of the Russian Tsarist Ministry of Education was passed, according to which all subjects in the schools of the Evangelical Lutheran and Reformed Churches could only be taught in Russian from the beginning of the school year 1914/1915.

Captivity in the First World War

Teaching in Russian did not become a problem for the German- and Russian-speaking senior teacher Meyer, but soon afterwards his Prussian nationality . As a German, he and his family were members of an enemy state during the First World War and were interned in Tsarist Russia in Siberia. After his release in 1918 Meyer taught again as a senior teacher, but now at a municipal senior school in Dorpat and he was temporarily in the service of the German Army High Command 8 , School System. He then moved to Germany with his family and came to Potsdam via Berlin .

High school teacher in Potsdam

From October 1, 1920, he initially worked as a teacher on probation at the Realgymnasium in Potsdam until he was able to work as a teacher under German law. His place of work was at the then Kaiser-Wilhelm-Strasse 30 under the head of senior studies director Albert Wüllenweber (* 1875), from the school year 1920/21 until his retirement in 1937. The high school became the "municipal high school for boys" under senior studies director Karl Schröder, while the high school for boys , located at Am Kanal 66, was named " Wilhelm-Frick School" under senior studies director Friedrich Wilmsen , a National Socialist and then an honorary citizen of Potsdam . Werner Meyer was scheduled by the National Socialists to be dismissed as a teacher. However, he defended himself so skillfully that his dismissal was reversed and he was able to remain a teacher at the Potsdam municipal high school. After the Second World War , the former Realgymnasium became the Einsteinoberschule , which was closed in 1950 for political reasons and continues today as the Einstein-Gymnasium Potsdam .

Government councilor / ministerial councilor in the Brandenburg state government

In the first cabinet of Prime Minister Karl Steinhoff he was Councilor in the provincial administration. In the later state of Brandenburg he was Ministerialrat in the Ministry for National Education, Science and Art. On the recommendation of the responsible education officer of the SMA , PS Oreschkow for the province of Mark Brandenburg , Meyer received this position in the provincial administration of Brandenburg in the Soviet occupation zone (SBZ). He carried out administrative activities in the field of popular education under the Brandenburg Minister for Popular Education, Science and Art , Fritz Rücker , most recently under the title of "Ministerialrat". In his field of work he dealt among other things with the supervision of the training of new teachers. After the Brandenburg State University was founded in 1948, Meyer was appointed professor with a full teaching assignment for modern history by the minister of education, Fritz Rücker . At the same time, Professor Meyer became Dean of the Pedagogical Faculty of the Brandenburg State University.

Origin and family

He was the son of the German-Baltic photographer CE Meyer, who owned a studio in what is now the capital of Estonia , and his wife E (r) lwine, née Erdmann. The portrait photographer Carl Eduard Meyer produced studio photos of adults and children, among other things. At the age of almost 28, Werner Meyer married his fiancée , the teacher Edith Marie Adelheid Schulz, on June 9, 1914 . The marriage resulted in several children, including two daughters, Ilse (* 1915) and Karin (* 1919). The son, Hans Werner, called Hanno, was born in Potsdam in October 1920.

Editor and author of publications (selection)

  • Stylistic studies on the Livonian rhyming chronicle , 1912
  • Revolution and Empire 1789–1815 , 1948
  • Fateful year 1848 , 1948
  • Pre-march. The Metternich era 1815–1848 , 1948

Award

As a sign of recognition of his services, Werner Meyer was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze by Wilhelm Pieck on the occasion of his 70th birthday on July 15, 1956 in his official residence at Schönhausen Palace . The honor was given with the express reference to his previous professorship at the historical-philological faculty of the University of Education in Potsdam.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heller, Gisela: Potsdamer Stories , [revision] Berlin 1993, p. 175; ISBN 3-7605-8650-3
  2. ↑ Müller, Arno : "... for me the nine years in Potsdam were of great importance". In: University of Education Potsdam. Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift 1948–1968, Volume 12, Issue 1, 1968, pp. (45–58) 57; ISSN 0138-290x, DNB 011139439
  3. ^ Print by H. Adler, Greifswald 1912
  4. ↑ Mention and thanks of Werner Meyer in his résumé of 1912
  5. ^ Heller, Gisela : Potsdamer Histories , Berlin 1986, 2nd edition, p. 224, DNB 860672271
  6. ^ Curriculum vitae from 1912, printed in Werner Meyer's "Inaugural Dissertation", Appendix, p. [175]
  7. ↑ Müller, Arno : "... for me the nine years in Potsdam were of great importance", in the Pädagogische Hochschule Potsdam. Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift 1948–1968, Volume 12, Issue 1, 1968, pp. (45–58) 55 f .; ISSN 0138-290x, DNB 011139439
  8. ^ Heller, Gisela : Potsdamer Stories , Berlin 1986, 2nd edition, p. 224; DNB 860672271
  9. ↑ Personnel forms for teachers of secondary schools in Prussia, here: Werner Meyer, sheet 3
  10. ^ Archive database BBF; Dr. phil. Albert Wüllenweber
  11. ↑ Kaiser-Wilhelm-Straße was renamed Hegelallee after the Second World War.
  12. ^ Address book of the city of Potsdam 1938/39 , under the heading “Schools / Municipal Schools”, ISBN 978-3-88372-042-5
  13. ↑ Hegelallee 30 in Potsdam; History of this Potsdam school
  14. ^ Heller, Gisela : Potsdamer Histories , Berlin 1986, 2nd edition, p. 236 f., DNB 860672271
  15. ↑ Müller, Hugo: About my impressions and experiences in the founding year of the Brandenburg State University . In: University of Education Potsdam. Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift 1948–1968, Volume 12, Issue 1, 1968, pp. (87–98) 97; ISSN 0138-290x, DNB 011139439
  16. ^ Encyclopedia of photographers, company logo and address of photographer Meyer
  17. ↑ 173 pages; Book format octave, Buchdruckerei Hans Adler, Greifswald
  18. ^ Potsdamer Verlags-Gesellschaft, Potsdam. 222 pages; DNB 453360718
  19. ^ Potsdamer Verlags-Gesellschaft, Potsdam. 168 pages; DNB 453360726
  20. ^ Potsdamer Verlags-Gesellschaft, Potsdam. 224 pages; DNB 453360734
  21. ^ Neue Zeit , August 30, 1956, p. 2
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Werner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meyer, Werner Robert Julius Alexander (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German high school teacher, ministerial advisor and university professor for modern history
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Reval
DATE OF DEATH 1959
Place of death Potsdam