Werner Puttfarken

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Werner Heinrich Puttfarken (born September 9, 1889 in Hamburg ; † February 17, 1964 there ) was a German headmaster and historian .

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Werner Puttfarken was the son of the customs officer Erich Puttfarken. He first attended the preschool of the Realgymnasium of the learned school of the Johanneum in Hamburg and then a grammar school in Rostock . At Easter 1908 he passed the matriculation examination at the Matthias Claudius grammar school and began studying classical philology , history and philosophical propaedeutics . Puttfarkenn studied from 1908 to 1910 at the University of Munich, 1910/11 at the University of Berlin and from 1911 to 1913 at the University of Kiel . After he had passed the teaching examination for secondary schools in the subjects of philosophical propaedeutics, Greek, Latin and history in 1913 with distinction, he received his doctorate on November 7, 1914 in Kiel with the text “The Asyndeton among the Roman poets of the archaic and classical times” Felix Jacoby . Due to the First World War , in which Puttfarken participated as a soldier from December 1914 until the end of the war, the doctorate was not completed until December 30, 1919.

Werner Puttfarken completed a year of instruction and probation at the Johanneum School of Academics from 1913 to 1915, where he was appointed senior teacher on July 1, 1918. Due to the war, he did not take up this activity until June 1919. Puttfarken also taught history at Heilwig Gymnasium in 1928/29 and Latin at the school named after Elise Averdieck from 1929 to 1932 . In 1928 he represented the Johanneum in a committee for the design of the curriculum for history lessons and from 1929 to 1933 created a list of all students of the Johanneum from 1529 to 1802 with the title "Album Johannei". Puttfarken participated in the Association for Hamburg History and in 1928 created a tabular overview of the history of Hamburg that could be used as teaching material. From mid-1935 to mid-1937 he was first chairman of the Patriotic Society .

On January 6, 1933, he was elected headmaster of the Johanneum and confirmed in office in July 1933. Puttfarken, who had been a member of the National Socialist Teachers' Association since April 1933 and joined the NSDAP on May 1, 1933 , was considered "politically reliable". In the June 1933 issue of the magazine "Das Johanneum", Puttfarken signed a pledge to the National Socialist state. From April 1934 to September 1936 he was the local group leader of the NSDAP and interim block leader . From July 1, 1938, he was head of the school as senior director.

Puttfarken acted conspicuously anti-Semitic, presumably both in order to be able to distinguish himself to the authorities, but also because of his inner conviction. He tried to reduce the number of students of the Jewish faith and was aggressive in doing so. He complained several times to the competent authority that there were too many non-Aryans at the school. At the same time, he praised the anti-Jewish measures he had taken.

From 1936 he became involved with the teacher Ernst Fritz, who was subject to an "anti-state sentiment". After he had protected three students in 1942 who had shot arrows at a picture of Adolf Hitler , he was transferred for this reason and on September 2, 1942 head of the Johanneum High School. The real reason for the transfer, however, is likely to have been that it created an appropriate position for his successor, Erwin Zindler . Puttfarken was given leave of absence in June 1945 and was suspended from work three months later.

From April 1947 until his retirement on April 1, 1955, he worked as a teacher at the secondary school for girls, then he taught for another three years with half hours. In the context of denazification in 1952 it was classified as "unencumbered". Puttfarken then received the title and remuneration of a senior degree director, but not such a function.

Werner Puttfarken in literature

Ralph Giordano described Werner Puttfarken in his novel Die Bertinis under the slightly modified name "Pottferk".

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ W. Puttfarken: Das Asyndeton . Kiel 1920, p. Title page: "Speaker Prof. Dr. F. Jacoby" .
personal data
SURNAME Puttfarken, Werner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Puttfarken, Werner Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German headmaster and historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH 17th February 1964
Place of death Hamburg