Willi Walter Puls

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Willi Walter Puls (born January 9, 1908 in Hamburg ; † December 5, 1980 there ) was a German geographer and educator . During the Second World War he worked in leading positions in the SS main office of the Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle .

Willi-Walter-Puls-Medal of the Association of German School Geographers

Life

Willi Walter Puls was the eldest son of the elementary school teacher Willy Puls. From 1914 to 1917 he attended elementary school and until 1926 the secondary school branch of the Johanneum grammar school in Hamburg . After graduating from high school in March 1926, he studied mathematics and natural sciences at the University of Hamburg and University of Jena until February 1931 . On February 27, 1931, he passed the examination for teaching at secondary schools in geography , chemistry and mathematics. From April 1, 1931 to March 31, 1933 he was a trainee lawyer at the Aufbauschule, the German Oberschule and theLichtwark School in Hamburg. On April 20, 1932 he received his doctorate as Dr. rer. nat. with Albrecht Burchard on the subject of the natural conditions on the Bulgarian coast of the Black Sea and their influence on the economy and traffic . On January 10, 1933, he passed the pedagogical examination. He then did six months of voluntary labor service and taught from October 1, 1933 as a study assessor at the German Higher Private School in Gråsten , the former Gravenstein, in Aabenraa (Aabenraa) and Tonder (Tondern).

During the Weimar Republic , Puls joined the right-wing national youth organization. He also belonged to the follow-up groups of the Freischar Junge Nation and the Greater German Federation until it was dissolved. On May 1, 1933, he joined the NSDAP and later the SS . Since 1934 he was also the Hitler Youth leader in Denmark , 1935/36 deputy country leader.

Puls was appointed to October 1, 1937 as a lecturer for geography and methodology of home and geography lessons at the college for teacher training in Elbing . He was appointed representative of the NSDAP for the national German school system and worked since 1938 at the SS main office Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle as a colonial and Eastern Europe expert.

In August 1939, Puls was withdrawn. As sergeant d. Res he took part in the German attack on Poland with the 228th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) . He was stationed as an occupation soldier in Warsaw when he was caught UK in the spring of 1940 . On May 1, 1940, he took over the management of the school department at the Volksbund für das Deutschtum Abroad (VDA) in Berlin . At the same time he was employed from April 1, 1941 to May 1945 as a lecturer and teacher at the Elbing Teachers Training College. However, he was largely released from his teaching duties.

The exact date of his entry into the SS can no longer be determined. At any rate, at the beginning of the war, Puls switched from the General SS to the Waffen SS . On January 30, 1943, Puls received the rank of SS-Untersturmführer . He took over the management of Office V of the Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle. This department was responsible for the German language education and took over the training, culture and education work among the minorities, which the VDA had previously done. On June 21, 1944 he was promoted to SS-Obersturmbannführer with the professional leader service rank (Volkstumsarbeit) Sturmbannführer . He headed the Main Office for the German East in the Foreign Policy Office of the NSDAP and was also appointed acting federal leader of the Federation of German East on December 13, 1942 , which he liquidated by June 23, 1943.

After the end of the Second World War, Puls initially worked as a construction worker and was probably not denazified until 1948 because of his considerable political burden (Cat. IV). He was a founding member of the Freideutschen Kreis Hamburg , an alliance collective movement of former members of the alliance youth movement , 1952 to 1956 board member and spokesman, since 1973 chairman. From 1949 to 1973 he taught as senior teacher at the Lerchenfeld grammar school in Hamburg-Uhlenhorst . Then he switched to the Peter-Petersen-Gesamtschule (now Irena Sendler -Stadtteilschule) in Hamburg-Wellingsbüttel as head of the grammar school branch . Puls made a name for himself as a textbook author, was a member of the German-Polish textbook commission and editor of the magazine Gegenwartskunde .

Puls was the first chairman of the Association of German School Geographers from 1966 to 1978 and then honorary president until his death. The Association of German School Geographers has been awarding the Willi Walter Pulse Medal in his memory since 1983.

Fonts

  • The natural conditions on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast and their impact on the economy and transport. Jena, Math.-Naturwiss. Diss., 1930., Darmstadt 1932.
  • North Schleswig. The separated part of the Nordmark. Klinkhardt, Leipzig 1937.
  • The colonial thought in elementary school lessons. A teacher's manual. Willi Walter Puls. Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1938.
  • The German colonies. Willi Walter Puls. Hillger, Berlin, Leipzig 1939.
  • (Ed.): Our colonies. Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld 1941.
  • (Ed.): Geography for higher schools. Edited by Emil Hinrichs. Diesterweg, Frankfurt am Main, Bonn 1953.
  • with Hans Lippold and Emil Hinrichs: Economic and cultural geography of Germany, people and earth. 2nd Edition. Diesterweg, Frankfurt am Main 1954.
  • Schleswig-Holstein. Economic considerations in class. Willi Walter Puls. Hirt, Kiel 1955.
  • with Emil Hinrichs and Fritz Baer: Die Erde. 2nd Edition. Diesterweg, Frankfurt am Main 1959.
  • Willi Walter Puls (Ed.): Supplements of the Institute for Film and Image in Science and Education, Munich. Heering, Seebruck am Chiemsee 1963.
  • with Hans Carstensen: spatial planning and regional planning. Methods and working methods illustrated using Schleswig-Holstein as an example. Diesterweg, Frankfurt am Main 1967.
  • with Adolf Karger: The Soviet Union as an economic power. Diesterweg, Frankfurt am Main 1967.
  • Lacq, a focus of the economy in the south of France. In: Geographical Rundschau. 19, No. 11 1967, pp. 420-425.
  • New US research in Antarctica. In: Geographical Rundschau. - Braunschweig, vol. 20 (1968), no. 10, pp. 395-396. 1968.
  • Freedom of learning materials and school book censorship. In: Contemporary Studies. 19 (1970) 1970, pp. 399-406.
  • (Ed.): Fischer regional studies. ed. by Willi Walter Puls. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1970ff.
  • Cabora Bassa. Construction or Destruction? ; Power plant on the Zambezi in Mozambique. In: Geographical Rundschau. 23, No. 3 1971, pp. 95-99.
  • Environment. Hazards and protection. Federal Center f. Polit. Education, Bonn 1971.
  • Guest workers or immigrants? In: Geographical Rundschau. 27, No. 2 1975, pp. 49-60.
  • Latin America. 26th edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verl, Frankfurt aM 1975, ISBN 3436014346 .
  • Willi Walter Puls (Ed.): Environmental issues as a topic of geography lessons. Westermann, Braunschweig 1975.
  • (Ed.): Quantitative methods in research and didactics of geography. ed. by Willi Walter Puls. Westermann, Braunschweig 1977.
  • On the status of the international textbook revision. First West-East Dialogue on Textbook Issues June 1976. In: Geographische Rundschau ; 29, pp. 205-206 (1977).

literature

  • Alexander Hesse: The professors and lecturers of the Prussian Pedagogical Academies (1926-1933) and colleges for teacher training (1933-1941) . Weinheim 1995, pp. 588f.
  • Ann-Katrin Thomm; Old youth movement, new democracy. The Freideutsche Kreis in Hamburg in the early Federal Republic of Germany. Wochenschau Verlag, Schwalbach / Ts. 2010.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Valdis O. Lumans: Himmler's Auxiliaries. The Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle and the German National Minorities of Europe, 1933-1945. The Univ. of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill 1993, p. 143 identifies the director of Office V as "Dr. Adolf Puls ”. His further biographical information is limited to the statement that Adolf Puls was a member of the party, but had avoided membership in the SS until 1944. (Ibid., P. 54) Lumans did not evaluate the SS-Fuehrer's personnel files, but rather derived his claim about SS membership from a comparison of the business plans of the Mittelstelle from 1943 and 1944. (Ibid., P. 267, note 42). Ann-Katrin Tomm, on the other hand, bases her biographical information on Willi Walter Puls on his SSO / SS leader personnel files and the denazification files. ( Old youth movement , pp. 88f., 381.) They are therefore to be regarded as applicable. Based on his personnel files, Willi Walter Puls' Nazi past already referred to: Alfred Pokrandt: "The West German School Atlases in the Service of the Bonner State", in: Yearbook for Education and School History 9 (1969), p. 226.
personal data
SURNAME Pulse, Willi Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geographer
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH 5th December 1980
Place of death Hamburg