Wilhelm Matthew

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Wilhelm Matthäus (born July 3, 1881 in Duisburg , † April 4, 1968 in Traben-Trarbach ) was a German teacher and senior studies director , SS officer and art collector.

Life

After attending middle school in 1893, Wilhelm Matthäus was accepted into the quinta of the municipal grammar school, where he passed the final exams in 1901 . He then studied geography, English and French at the Philipps University of Marburg . During his studies he became a member of the Alemannia Marburg fraternity in 1901 . After three semesters he went to the Sorbonne in Paris for two semesters and was then accepted into the philosophy faculty of the University of Greifswald in September 1903 , where he received his doctorate in 1905.

Empire and Weimar Republic

School trip with Dr. Matthew (center) on October 26, 1913 at the Shanghai International Institute
Bodhisattva Mahasthamaprapta , bronze, Ming Dynasty , China; from the Matthew collection

He worked as a teacher at the German school in Rome and then from 1905 to 1914 senior teacher and first director of the newly founded Kaiser Wilhelm School in Shanghai (Weihaiwei Road 30).

In 1925 he became director of the state reform high school in Traben-Trarbach in the patronage area of ​​the city of Rheydt . After the "Association of the former students of the grammar school and the Lutherhaus zu Traben-Trarbach ad Mosel" founded in October 1926 at the unveiling of a plaque of honor for the 60 members of the house who remained in the war, " Black-White-Red " instead of the black-red had flagged the golden flag of the Weimar Republic , Matthäus was quoted as head of the school in Berlin. The political radicalization associated with the increasing economic hardship also made itself felt at the Traben-Trarbacher Gymnasium, which is why Mattäus had to urge political tolerance as early as 1930.

From 1931 to 1933 he was a member of the Stahlhelm-Bund . In 1931 he founded the local group Traben-Trarbach of the Association for Germanism Abroad (VDA), which he led.

time of the nationalsocialism

After the seizure of power on January 30, 1933, the new spirit of National Socialism finally moved into the grammar school. After demonstrations controlled by the alumni and a student strike by the Hitler Youth against Matthäus, he had to leave school. His successor A. Schneller ran the school in line with National Socialism.

In May 1937, Matthäus became a member of the NSDAP . At the end of 1939, Matthäus, then lieutenant in the reserve , was assigned to repatriate the Wolhynia Germans to the Reich as area plenipotentiary "Wo II" in Kostopol , which was divided into five local districts . Territorial representative "Wo I" ( Luck ) was Alfred Karasek and "Wo III" ( Vladimir-Wolynsk ) was Karl Hösterey. In his report on the experiences with the Russians and ethnic Germans, Matthäus described the attitude of the ethnic German resettlers with the words: “Everywhere we were received with enthusiasm, as liberators from hardship and distress, so to speak. Your trust in us was limitless. They entrusted everything to us (...). "

After joining the SS (SS no. 391 971) he was used in the replacement battalion north from June 1940, where he held the rank of Oberführer . In January 1942 he was transferred to the Reichsführer SS command staff as Hauptsturmführer . On November 9 of the same year he was promoted to Sturmbannführer of the reserve. In November 1942 he was appointed head of the school and department of the newly established Waffen-SS vocational school in Mittweida , which he was the first in command. The school was used to train war disabled members of the Waffen SS to become school helpers for deployment in the East. From May 1 to July 6, 1943, he was entrusted with running the business as commander of the SS discharge center in Mittweida. From November 1943 he worked as a Sturmbannführer in the Race and Settlement Main Office (RuSHA) until mid-1944. After that he was a second time commander of the school in Mittweida until the end of the war.

After 1945

After the war, Matthäus lived in Traben-Trarbach again. From its founding in 1959 until his death in 1968 he was head of the Traben-Trarbach public education center, which was then headed by senior teacher Wittkowsky. It was thanks to Matthäus that the Orchestergemeinschaft Traben-Trarbach e. V. developed from a string orchestra to a symphony orchestra with wind instruments.

Wilhelm Matthäus died three months before his 87th birthday. His grave, in which his wife Maria Anna Matthäus, née Frick (1888–1968), who married Frick on November 20, 1926 in Cologne, was buried, is in the Traben municipal cemetery.

Fonts

  • About formally significant text changes in the manuscript Q to the text of the Lothringerlied. In particular about the archaic series connections introduced by Q. [Diss .; 44. p.] FW Kunike, Greifswald 1905.
  • Introduction. In: The fortress Mont-Royal and its importance in the history of the Rhineland. A lecture by the Heimatbildner Dr. Ernst W. Spies. Ed. by Wilfried Gibbert, BoD, 2017, p. 9. ISBN 3-744-87776-0

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Spelling also Mathäus
  2. ↑ 103-China-2. Retrieved June 1, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b curriculum vitae in the dissertation.
  4. ↑ a b c d Matthäus, Wilhelm. In: Hans-Christian Harten: ideological training of the SS and the police in National Socialism. Compilation of personal data. 2017, p. 298. ( pdf )
  5. ^ Hugo Böttger (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1911/12. Berlin 1912, p. 130.
  6. ^ Stefan Manz: Constructing a German Diaspora: The "Greater German Empire", 1871-1914 . Routledge, 2014, ISBN 978-1-317-65823-8 ( google.de [accessed June 1, 2018]).
  7. ↑ German School - Kaiser Wilhelm School. In: The Directory & Chronicle for China, Japan, Corea, Indo-China, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Sian, Netherlands India, Borneo, the Philippines, & c. With which are incorporated "The China Directory" and "The Hong Kong List for the Far East". For the Year 1912. Vol. 50, The Hochgong Daily Press Office, 1912, p. 879.
  8. ^ A b c Günter Böse: The state high school.
  9. ↑ Alumnate Lutherhaus in Traben-Trarbach.
  10. ↑ Trabener and Trarbacher and Traben-Trarbacher associations in retrospect.
  11. ↑ Chronicle. Traben-Trarbach grammar school.
  12. ↑ Carina Vogt: "Heim ins Reich!" The National Socialist policy towards the so-called "Volksdeutsche" and its consequences. [Dipl.arb.]; University of Vienna, Vienna 2011, p. 90. ( pdf )
  13. ^ Stephan Döring: The resettlement of the Wolhyniendeutschen in the years 1939 to 1940. [= Vol. 3 of Military Historical Studies ]; Peter Lang, 2001, p. 89.
  14. ^ Stephan Döring: The resettlement of the Wolhyniendeutschen in the years 1939 to 1940. [= Vol. 3 of Military Historical Studies ]; Peter Lang, 2001, p. 113.
  15. ^ Lutz Reichardt: Volksbildungswerk and adult education center. In: Günther Böse: The secondary and vocational schools.
  16. ↑ The musical and traditional associations.
  17. ↑ tombstone. billiongraves.com.
personal data
SURNAME Matthäus, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mathäus, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher and director of studies, SS officer and art collector
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Duisburg
DATE OF DEATH 4th April 1968
Place of death Traben-Trarbach