Wilhelm Ament

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Karl Wilhelm Ament (born November 1, 1876 in Zweibrücken , † November 13, 1956 ) was a German psychologist and publisher .

Life

He was the son of the Bavarian Colonel Andreas Ament and his wife Lilly, daughter of the publisher Carl Buchner from Bamberg, who died in 1886. After attending grammar schools in Zweibrücken and Bamberg, Wilhelm Ament studied natural sciences, philosophy and psychology at the University of Würzburg . There he received his doctorate in 1900 under Oswald Külpe as Dr. phil. Subsequently, he mainly dealt with scientific studies in the field of child psychology, some of which he also published.

In 1909 Wilhelm Ament became a member of the Historical Society in Bamberg. In 1918 he joined the DVP and then switched to the DNVP . In 1931 Wilhelm Ament became a member of the Stahlhelm and Harzburg Front . In 1931 he joined the SA and finally in 1937 the NSDAP .

In 1909 Wilhelm Ament took over the CC Buchner Verlag in Bamberg, which he had inherited from his mother's side . In order to improve the poor order situation, he also published ideologically adapted books during the National Socialist era, such as a 1934 textbook by Alfred Klotz on racial history . In 1928 he bought the school book program from the Nuremberg publishing house Carl Koch and in 1950 put the management of the publishing house in the hands of his son-in-law.

Wilhelm Ament was Chairman of the ETA Hoffmann Society from 1938 until his death in 1956 . This society was founded with the help of the Bamberg poets' circle on June 14, 1938 during a week of juggling culture .

family

Wilhelm Ament married Klara, nee Blancke, on February 17, 1912, who worked as a teacher at the Froebel seminar in Cassel and was the daughter of the estate owner Walter Blancke. The three daughters Freia (* 1913), Ingeborg (* 1914) and Gudrun (* 1924) emerged from this marriage.

Works (selection)

  • The child's soul. A comparative life story. With 44 pictures and a vignette by Erich Heermann , 4th, improved edition, Stuttgart, 1914.
  • Language history of the child in natural language levels , Bamberg, 1921.
  • Guide to the natural materials cabinet of the Bamberg Lyceum , Bamberg, 1923.
  • Bamberg, the Franconian imperial and episcopal city, the city of romanticism and the ETA Hoffmann. Guide to settlement u. urban historical basis. With book decorations by Hans Bayerlein, four four-color panels, three of which by Fritz Bayerlein , Bamberg, 1929.
  • ETA Hoffmann in Bamberg. Short guide to places of remembrance and the collection in the ETA Hoffmann-Haus , Bamberg, 1951.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hartmut Lehmann, Otto Gerhard Oexle: National Socialism in the Cultural Studies. 1. Subjects - milieus - careers . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2004, ISBN 3-525-35198-4 , p. 327.
  2. ^ Racial history and prehistory in the service of national education . Buchners Verlag, Bamberg 1934
  3. ^ Hartmut Lehmann, Otto Gerhard Oexle: National Socialism in the Cultural Studies. 1. Subjects - milieus - careers . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2004, ISBN 3-525-35198-4 , p. 334.
personal data
SURNAME Ament, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ament, Karl Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychologist and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Zweibrücken
DATE OF DEATH November 13, 1956