Willy Stegemann

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Willy Stegemann (born March 5, 1889 in Magdeburg ; † May 16, 1946 in the Soviet special camp No. 1 Mühlberg ) was a German classical philologist .

Life

Willy Stegemann attended the Wettiner Gymnasium in Dresden, did military service for a year after graduating, and began studying at the University of Leipzig in 1909 . He studied classical philology, history and education. Among his academic teachers were Erich Bethe , Justus Hermann Lipsius , Franz Studniczka and especially Richard Heinze , in which Stegemann 1913 with a thesis De Iuvenalis dispositione doctorate was.

After the teaching degree (1914), Stegemann took part in the First World War as a soldier . Although wounded several times, he remained active until the end of the war in 1918. After his return he worked as a teacher at the grammar school in Zwickau . In addition to his teaching activities, he wrote articles for the Realencyclopadie der classical antiquity , which was edited by Wilhelm Kroll and Karl Mittelhaus . His articles mainly dealt with speakers and rhetoricians of the Second Sophistic . His article Antonius Polemon: The main representative of the Second Sophistics was accepted by the University of Graz as a habilitation thesis in 1942 .

After the Second World War , Stegemann at the grammar school in Zwickau was commissioned to sort out the fascist literature from the school library. In September he was arrested by the Soviet military administration and imprisoned in an NKVD camp, special camp No. 1 in Mühlberg . He was considered missing since September 25, 1945 and was declared dead by the Zwickau District Court on May 27, 1957. The date of death was determined to be December 31, 1951. The tracing service of the German Red Cross found in 1978 that Willy Stegemann had died on May 16, 1946. The place and cause of death were generally not disclosed by the Soviets. Only after the fall of the SED dictatorship were official lists of deaths published in the camp.

literature

  • Willy Stegemann's curriculum vitae in his dissertation De Iuvenalis dispositione , Leipzig 1913
  • Documents from Ingrid Roth, daughter of Willy Stegemann

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Initiative group Lager Mühlberg e. V. (Ed.): Book of the Dead - Special Camp No. 1 of the Soviet NKVD, Mühlberg / Elbe , Mühlberg / Elbe, 2008, p. 183, ISBN 9783000269998

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personal data
SURNAME Stegemann, Willy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stegemann, Willy Gustav Paul; Stegemann, Willy Friedrich (wrong name form)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH May 16, 1946
Place of death Special camp No. 1 Mühlberg