Max Rumpf (sociologist)

Max Rumpf (born November 13, 1878 in Berne , † October 19, 1953 in Haar near Munich ) was a German sociologist. He formulated a sociology in which the focus was not on society but on nationality .

Life

After graduating from the old grammar school in Oldenburg and studying law, which he completed with a doctorate , Rumpf became a private lecturer at the University of Göttingen in 1908 , then in 1911 a professor at the then commercial college in Mannheim and finally in 1927 professor of sociology, folk research and civil law the later Hindenburg University in Nuremberg , where he retired in 1943 . After 1945 he continued his research until his death.

In his main works, Rumpf names two basic strata of the people: the natural-cultural peasantry and the civilizing way of life of the urban working class . According to Carsten Klingemann , Rumpf represented a “conservative peasant sociology” with which he was unsuccessful in the Third Reich. The journal Volksspiegel, which he had a major influence on as publisher . The magazine for German sociology and folk science ceased publication in 1938.

Fonts (selection)

German folk sociology in the context of a social theory of life . University bookstore Krische & Co., Nuremberg 1931.
Social life teaching. Your system and its economic nature . University bookstore Krische & Co., Nuremberg 1932.
Religious folklore . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1933.
German peasant life . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1936.
German craft life and the rise of the city . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1955.

literature

Wilhelm Brepohl: Rumpf, Max. In: Wilhelm Bernsdorf , Horst Knospe (Hrsg.): Internationales Soziologenlexikon. Volume 1: Articles on sociologists who died by the end of 1969. 2nd revised edition. Enke, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-432-82652-4 , p. 363.
Hans-Peter Haferkamp: Rumpf, Max Theodor. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 254 f. ( Digitized version ).
Max Rumpf: From the memories of an Oldenburg high school student around 1900. Oldenburger Jahrbuch 86 (1986), accessed on December 30, 2013 .

Individual evidence

^ Otthein Rammstedt : German Sociology 1933-1945. The normality of an adjustment. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-518-28181-X , p. 100.
^ Wilhelm Brepohl : Rumpf, Max. In: Wilhelm Bernsdorf , Horst Knospe (Hrsg.): Internationales Soziologenlexikon. Volume 1: Articles on sociologists who died by the end of 1969. 2nd revised edition. Enke, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-432-82652-4 , p. 363.
^ Carsten Klingemann: Sociology and Politics. Social science expert knowledge in the Third Reich and in the early West German post-war period . VS, Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 3-531-15064-2 , p. 269, note 500.

personal data
SURNAME	Trunk, max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH	November 13, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berne
DATE OF DEATH	October 19, 1953
Place of death	Haar (near Munich)

[1] Otthein Rammstedt : German Sociology 1933-1945. The normality of an adjustment. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-518-28181-X , p. 100.

[2] Wilhelm Brepohl : Rumpf, Max. In: Wilhelm Bernsdorf , Horst Knospe (Hrsg.): Internationales Soziologenlexikon. Volume 1: Articles on sociologists who died by the end of 1969. 2nd revised edition. Enke, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-432-82652-4 , p. 363.

[3] Carsten Klingemann: Sociology and Politics. Social science expert knowledge in the Third Reich and in the early West German post-war period . VS, Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 3-531-15064-2 , p. 269, note 500.