Alexander Schenk, Count of Stauffenberg

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Alexander Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg campaigns against nuclear armament and for the creation of a nuclear weapons-free zone , February 1958.

Alexander Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (born March 15, 1905 in Stuttgart , † January 27, 1964 in Munich ) was a German ancient historian . As a young man he was a member of the circle around the poet Stefan George .

Life

Together with his twin brother Berthold , he was the son of the Württemberg court marshal Alfred Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg and his wife Caroline, née. Countess Üxküll-Gyllenband , born; his younger brother Claus was one of the central figures in the failed Hitler assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 . He comes from the Swabian noble family von Stauffenberg .

Alexander Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg began studying law in Heidelberg after graduating from the Eberhard-Ludwigs-Gymnasium in Stuttgart . However, he soon switched to studying classical antiquity in Jena , Munich and Halle . Like his brothers, he belonged to the circle around Stefan George . He received his doctorate on Johannes Malalas under Wilhelm Weber in Halle (Saale) in 1928 and completed his habilitation in 1931 under Joseph Vogt in Würzburg with a thesis on Hieron II for Ancient History . He then taught in Berlin , Gießen and Würzburg, where he was appointed a regular associate professor in 1936 and a full professor in 1941. In December 1942, he accepted an offer at the University of Strasbourg , but was no longer able to take up the professorship, as he initially served as an officer on the Eastern Front and from June 1944 in Athens as an officer. The transfer to Athens was arranged by Rudolf Fahrner .

After July 20, 1944, Stauffenberg's brothers were executed , Claus the night after the unsuccessful assassination attempt, Berthold three weeks later. According to his daughter, Alexander was also an accessory to the assassination plans. He was taken into " kin custody" with his wife, the aircraft engineer and pilot Melitta Schiller , and the sisters-in-law . Besides his wife, who released on September 2, 1944 for the war effort engineering tasks again, but shortly before the war ended on a test flight that wanted to use them to a rescue attempt of her husband, was probably shot down by an American fighter pilot, the family Stauffenberg remained in various concentration camps in Imprisonment and was deported to South Tyrol with the hostage transport of prominent concentration camp prisoners. There, Alexander von Stauffenberg, together with his family members and other prominent hostages, was freed from the custody of the SS guards on May 4, 1945 through the initiative of Captain Wichard von Alvensleben .

After the end of the Second World War, Alexander Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg lived for a while in Überlingen on Lake Constance, where Rudolf Fahrner , Gemma Wolters-Thiersch and Marlene Hoffmann also stayed. In 1948 he was appointed as the successor to Helmut Berve , who had initially been dismissed from university as a National Socialist activist, to the chair for Ancient History at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , which he held until his death. In 1951 he was the driving force behind the founding of the Commission for Ancient History and Epigraphy (which later became part of the German Archaeological Institute ) and its first chairman until 1956. Politically, he opposed the West German emergency legislation, against nuclear armament and for the German Unit one.

In his scientific work, Schenk von Stauffenberg dealt with a wide range of topics; The focus was in particular on late antiquity as well as ancient Sicily and Greater Greece .

Stauffenberg married Marlene Hoffmann (1913–2001) for the second time in 1949. They had two daughters.

His grave is in Stephanskirchen in Upper Bavaria .

Publications

Scientific works

  • 1931 The Roman imperial story at Malalas. Greek text of Books IX – XII and Investigations . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart (revised version of the dissertation Halle-Wittenberg 1928).
  • 1933 King Hieron the Second of Syracuse . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart (revised version of the Würzburg habil. 1928).
  • 1947 Poetry and State in the Ancient World . Rinn, Munich (collection of articles).
  • 1948 The Empire and the Great Migration . Rinn, Munich (collection of articles).
  • 1963 Trinakria. Sicily and Greater Greece in Archaic and Early Classical Times . Oldenbourg, Munich.
  • 1972 power and spirit . Edited by Siegfried Lauffer . Callwey, Munich (collection of articles), ISBN 3-7667-0210-6 .

Seals

  • 1948 The death of the master. For the 10th anniversary (of the hangover of Stefan Georges) . Delfinverlag, Überlingen / Lake Constance. (15 sheets)
  • 1951 Aeschylus: Agamemnon . Delfinverlag, Überlingen / Lake Constance.
  • 1964 monument . Edited by Rudolf Fahrner . Küpper (formerly Bondi), Düsseldorf
  • 2005 Imperial Chants . For the 100th birthday ed. by Gudula Knerr-Stauffenberg. Private printing, Prien (27 sheets)

literature

Representations
Obituaries

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung: The forgotten brother. Retrieved November 2, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Peter Koblank: The Liberation of Special Prisoners and Kinship Prisoners in South Tyrol , online edition Mythos Elser 2006
  3. ↑ Karl Christ: The other Stauffenberg: the historian and poet Alexander von Stauffenberg . CH Beck, 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-56960-9 ( google.de [accessed November 6, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Stauffenberg, Alexander Schenk Count of
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schenk von Stauffenberg, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ancient historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 1964
Place of death Munich