Ernst Lehmann (historian)
Ernst Lehmann (born September 11, 1906 in Graz , † 1990 in Pulheim ) was an Austrian historian, Sudeten German nationality fighter and co-founder of the Witikobund .
Ernst Lehmann, son of the popular activist Emil Lehmann , was pastor of the German Evangelical Church in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia in Friedland in northern Bohemia until his expulsion .
Along with Eugen Lemberg and Karl Valentin Müller , he was one of the ideological pioneers of the Sudeten German people's movement in the interwar period, during National Socialism and in the Federal Republic of Germany .
Even after 1945 he was able to get involved in using Ostkunde as a subject in schools. Lehmann joined the Ostforscher network . He found great recognition in the Sudeten German milieu, but critics accused him of his German national-folk ideas, the Witikobund is often classified as right-wing extremist .
In For Deeper Roots , he describes his lifelong struggle for recognition of the rights of the Sudeten Germans.
Publications
- To deeper roots. Sudeten German memories on the abyss of the substitute religion , Sudetenland publishing house, Munich 1979
- Integration of displaced persons and refugees in West Germany as a teaching task a handout , Hannover-Linden: Jäger, 1964
- Mithrsg .: About faith and home. Evangelical building blocks for the Sudeten German view of history. With a continuation up to the present and articles about the special developments in Silesia , Melsungen, Faith and Homeland, 1957. (= Writings of the Association of Evangelical Sudeten Germans, Volume 3/4)
- (Ed.): The German East in Classes , Weilburg / Lahn 1956
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| SURNAME | Lehmann, Ernst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian historian, Sudeten German nationality fighter and co-founder of the Witikobund |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 11, 1906 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Graz |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1990 |
| Place of death | Pulheim |