Adolf Helbok

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Adolf Helbok (born February 2, 1883 in Hittisau , Vorarlberg , † May 29, 1968 in Götzens , Tyrol ) was an Austrian historian , folklorist and national socialist racist who, in 1933, first defined the “völkisch blood community” as the subject of history.

Life

Adolf Helbok completed a year as a volunteer in the Austro-Hungarian Army (1904–1905). He studied history and classical philology at the University of Innsbruck and was active in the Corps Athesia in 1905. In 1910 he graduated with honors. During the First World War he worked for the Red Cross in Vorarlberg. The University of Innsbruck in 1919 awarded him the instructor for Austrian history and economic history . In the same year he married his wife Dora. The marriage remained childless. In 1924 he was appointed associate professor ad personam. Since that year he has also been the editor of the magazine Volk und Rasse .

In 1933 he and his wife joined the NSDAP (membership numbers 1.531.808 and 1.531.807). In the corporate state in 1934 removed from office because of his Nazi activities, he went to Berlin , where he in the German folklore Atlas worked. From 1935 he was full professor for economic history at the University of Leipzig . In the same year he brought Fritz Ranzi to Leipzig. After teaching in Innsbruck from 1941 to 1945, he was relegated from the University of Innsbruck on July 23, 1945 by order of the provisional state government for Tyrol because of his NSDAP membership, and in 1950 he was given permanent retirement.

His two-volume main work, German Folk History , was published in the 1960s by the right-wing extremist Grabert-Verlag and is still being reprinted today.

Works

  • Regests of Vorarlberg and Liechtenstein up to 1260. Bern: Wyss, 1920.
  • The German Tribes and Modern Folk Research . In: Folklore gifts. John Meier offered on his seventieth birthday , Berlin: de Gruyter 1934, pp. 54–67.
  • People and state of the Teutons. In: Historische Zeitschrift 154 (1936), pp. 229-240.
  • German settlement. Essence, expansion and meaning. Halle (Saale): Niemeyer, 1938 (Volk, vol. 5).
  • The place names in German, in terms of settlement and cultural history. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1939. Throughout. ND 1944 (Göschen Collection, Vol. 573).
  • German history on a racial basis. Halle (Saale): Niemeyer, 1939 (People in History, Vol. 1).
  • The Teutons in Bohemia and Moravia. In: The Bohemia and Moravia Book. People's struggle and realm. Prague / Amsterdam / Berlin / Vienna: Volk und Reich, 1943, pp. 135–139.
  • German folk history. Characteristics and achievements of the German people. 2 vol. Tübingen: Verlag der Deutsche Hochschullehrer-Zeitung, 1964–67.

literature

  • Wolfgang Meixner : "... a truly national science of the Germans ...". The historian and folklorist Adolf Helbok (1883–1968) , in: politically reliable - purely Aryan - committed to German science. The humanities faculty in Innsbruck 1938–1945 ( Skolast 1-2 / 1990), pp. 126–133.
  • Alexander Pinwinkler : Historical population research. Germany and Austria in the 20th century , Wallstein Verlag: Göttingen 2014, here especially pp. 146-160.
  • Martina Pseditschek: Adolf Helbok (1883–1968). "I was a striker and a striker". In: Karel Hruza (ed.): Austrian historians. CVs and careers 1900–1945, Vol. 3, Vienna a. a .: Böhlau 2019, ISBN 978-3-205-20801-3 , pp. 185-312.
  • Konrad J. Kuhn , Anna Larl: Continuity of Thought, Austrification and Critique of Modernization. Adolf Helbok and folklore in Austria after 1945 , In: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Volkskunde, LXXIII / 122 (2) 2019, pp. 241–273.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Laurenz Müller, Dictatorship and Revolution: Reformation and Peasants' War in the Historiography of the "Third Reich" and the GDR , Lucius & Lucius 2004, p. 78
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 78 , 134
  3. ^ Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 242.
personal data
SURNAME Helbok, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian folklorist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Hittisau , Vorarlberg
DATE OF DEATH May 29, 1968
Place of death Götzens , Tyrol