Wilhelm Gärtner (teacher)

Wilhelm Gärtner (born September 1, 1885 in Johannestal near Reichenberg , Bohemia, † June 27, 1952 in Linz ) was an Austrian high school teacher, folk educator and local researcher.

Life

Wilhelm Gärtner attended the humanistic grammar school in Reichenberg and studied from 1904 to 1909 at the universities of Prague and Zurich. He passed the teaching examination for German, Latin and Greek and received his doctorate in 1910. From 1909 to 1916 he taught at the grammar school in Ried im Innkreis . a. Walter Hahland was his pupil, then he switched to high school at Spittelwiese in Linz, and in 1919 to Linz high school. He got involved in popular education and founded the "Regional Association for the Promotion of Popular Education in Upper Austria". When the head of the education office Otto Glöckel introduced “state consultants for popular education” with a decree of July 30, 1919 , gardeners and Adalbert Depiny were appointed as such in 1920 . From 1924 Depiny completed this task alone. Gardeners and Depiny were significantly involved in the expansion of popular education and both were also important local researchers and folk curators. In 1935 he was transferred to Gmunden for one semester because of his support for National Socialist activities . After Austria was annexed in 1938, he became the director of the grammar school and joined the NSDAP in 1941 . In 1945 he was therefore dismissed from school.

literature

• Wilhelm Gardener. In: Biographical Lexicon of Upper Austria. 9. Delivery in 1963.
• Ernst Wenich: Wilhelm Gärtner and the new beginnings of popular education in Upper Austria after the First World War. In: Upper Austrian homeland sheets . Year 35, Linz 1981, pp. 86–98, digitized version (PDF) in the OoeGeschichte.at forum.
• Ernst Wenich: Some personal memories of Wilhelm Gärtner. In: Upper Austrian homeland sheets. Year 39, Linz 1985, pp. 246–255, digitized version (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at.
• Wilhelm Gärtner: A humanist becomes a National Socialist. In: Christian Angerer, Maria Ecker (ed.): National Socialism in Upper Austria: Victims. Perpetrator. Opponent. StudienVerlag, Innsbruck 2014, ISBN 978-3-7065-5212-7 , pp. 145–146 (reading sample, books.google.de ).