Wilhelm Hartke

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Wilhelm Hartke (born September 18, 1879 in Fürstenau , † April 8, 1966 in East Berlin ) was a German classical philologist , religious historian and theologian .

Life

Wilhelm Hartke studied classical philology and religious studies at the University of Heidelberg , the University of Bonn and the University of Berlin since 1897 . His academic teachers included Erwin Rohde , Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff , Hermann Diels and Hermann Usener . The doctorate took place in 1901 with Franz Bücheler on the subject of Sit tibi terra levis formulae quae fuerint fata , followed a year later by the state examination. Hartke saw himself as part of the ancient philological "Bonn School". In 1899 he came into contact with the social democratic pastor and member of the state parliament Christoph Blumhardt , who had a lasting impression on Hartke. In his vicinity he met Clara Zetkin and Georg Ledebour , among others .

Hartke first began to work as a teacher. Together with Gerhard Michaelis , he wrote the textbook of the Latin language for Teubner-Verlag , which was a standard work in German-speaking countries until the first years of the Nazi dictatorship (1938) and in the post-war period ( Ernst Klett Verlag ). Shortly before the outbreak of the First World War , Hartke submitted his theological dissertation to the University of Bonn with the title The Collection and the Oldest Editions of the Pauline Letters . He was injured shortly after he was drafted into the military and was able to complete his second doctorate while convalescing in 1917.

At the time of the Weimar Republic Hartke belonged to the circle of the school reformer Adolf Grimme . During the Nazi dictatorship he hated, he joined the resistance . He belonged to the " European Union " resistance group and was imprisoned in prison as an opponent of the Nazi regime. During this time, Hartke's wife saved his scientific documents several times during the Allied air raids. After the war, along with Wilhelm Heise and Heinrich Deiters, he was one of the theoretical heads of school reform in the Soviet occupation zone (SBZ). Until the end of 1947 he was the head of the main department for public education, science and art of the ministry of the same name in the provincial / state government of the Soviet Zone. He was a proponent of the old languages ​​rejected by large parts of the SED in school education. Since 1947 he was a member of the board of trustees of the Joachimsthalsches Gymnasium zu Templin Foundation , the first chairman of the board of trustees was Kurt Grünbaum , government director in the finance ministry of the provincial government of Brandenburg.

Hartke's main work was the Four Early Christian Parties , published in 1961, and their union to form the Apostolic Church , on which he had worked for about 60 years, including the preparatory work.

Wilhelm Hartke's son Werner Hartke was also a classical philologist, his son Wolfgang Hartke was a geographer.

literature

  • Simone Hannemann: Robert Havemann and the resistance group "European Union": a presentation of the events and their interpretation after 1945: a study, In: Volume 6 of the series of publications of the Robert Havemann Archive, Robert Havemann Society, 2001, ISBN 3- 9804920-5-2 , p. 155.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Handbook of German Science, Vol. 2: Biographical Directory, 1949
  2. ↑ a b Hartke: Four early Christian parties and their union to form the apostolic church . In: Das Altertum 8 (1962), p. 229
  3. ↑ Ludus Latinus
  4. ↑ “You have been dismissed, comrade”. Memories of the East Berlin Marxist Robert Havemann . In: Der Spiegel . No. 40 , 1970, pp. 177 ( online ).
  5. ↑ Günter Wirth: The Kant Society - a forum for intellectual debate . In: Berlinische monthly 7/1997 at the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein
  6. ^ Wilhelm Hartke: The C-classes in the curriculum of the high schools of the German Democratic Republic . In: Das Altertum , 3, 1957, pp. 187 f. Anke Huschner: Structural change in the school system in the Berlin and Brandenburg regions . In: Berlin monthly magazine ( Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein ) . Issue 11, 1997, ISSN  0944-5560 , p. 20-25 ( luise-berlin.de ).
  7. ↑ Wegener, Heinz: "The Joachimsthalsche Gymnasium - the Landesschule Templin. A Berlin-Brandenburgisches Gymnasium in the maelstrom of German history 1607 - 2007", Berlin 2007, p. 203; ISBN 978-3-929829-62-4
  8. ↑ Christoph Borcherdt: Wolfgang Hartke on his 80th birthday . In: Erdkunde , 42, 1988, p. 1
personal data
SURNAME Hartke, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist, religious historian and theologian
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Fürstenau
DATE OF DEATH April 8, 1966
Place of death East Berlin