Gerhard Storz was the son of a Lutheran pastor from Wurttemberg who at various stages distinguished himself in theatre productions, as a scholar, an educationalist, a politician and an author-journalist, sometimes pursuing one career at a time and sometimes several in combination.
14 Facts About Gerhard Storz
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Gerhard Storz was born in Rottenacker, a village along the upper reaches of the Danube in the hills to the south west of Ulm.
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Gerhard Storz attended school at Ehingen and then between 1916 and 1918, served as a volunteer in the wartime army.
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Gerhard Storz attended Tubingen University between 1919 and 1922, studying Classical philology, Archaeology, Philosophy and Germanistics.
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Gerhard Storz received his doctorate for a dissertation entitled "The linguistic presentation of the concept of truth in Greek literature before Plato".
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Gerhard Storz worked at the Wurttembergische Volksbuhne Theatre in Stuttgart as an actor-producer between 1923 and 1925.
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Gerhard Storz then moved to the Badisches Staatstheater in Karlsruhe where he stayed till 1927 before moving on again, this time to the National Theatre Mannheim.
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Gerhard Storz remained at the school till 1943, described during this period by his son as "a committed teacher, a convinced humanist and a secret opponent of National Socialism", able to conduct discrete but regular "reality checks" with his fellow intellectual and friend, Dolf Sternberger, who was secretly opposed to the Nazi project.
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On 1 June 1933 Gerhard Storz became a member of the party sponsored Nazi Teachers' Association.
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Not for the first time, Gerhard Storz sustained a parallel second career, writing for the Frankfurter Zeitung between 1935 and 1943, when after the withdrawal of government support and several years of declining readership the newspaper was suppressed.
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Gerhard Storz returned to the school in Schwabisch Hall where he had been teaching before his conscription: in 1947 he was appointed school director.
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Gerhard Storz expanded the network of education colleges and involved himself in plans for the establishment, during the 1960s, of universities in Konstanz in Ulm.
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Gerhard Storz accepted guest professorships in the United States, notably at Middlebury, Vermont and Kansas, Lawrence.
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From as early 1927 Gerhard Storz was a writer of scholarly and literary pieces and a compiler of translations.