Alfred Bohmann

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Alfred Bohmann (born September 12, 1906 in Gossengrün , Falkenau district , Bohemia ; † February 17, 1983 in Bonn-Bad Godesberg ) was a German journalist, author and statistician.

Career

Alfred Bohmann was born the son of the kuk gendarmerie warden Martin Bohmann and Albina, daughter of the senior teacher in Serles near Buchau, Alois Eissner, in Gossengrün No. 42.

He attended elementary school in Gossengrün, his birthplace. In 1925 he graduated from the state high school in Aussig . In 1926 he passed a supplementary matriculation examination in Latin at the German state grammar school in Prague. He then studied German , history and legal history at the University of Prague . From 1930 Bohmann worked for German newspaper publishers in Aussig, Dux and Prague, and after 1938 in Reichenberg and Brüx. From 1940 to 1945 he did German military service. He was a member of the NSDAP (membership number 6,709,973), the SS and, since 1942, SS-Scharführer . After the Germans were expelled from Czechoslovakia after the Second World War , Bohmann lived with his family in Munich, where in 1949 he took over the editing of the Aussiger Bote . In 1955 he got a job at the Federal Statistical Office in Wiesbaden. He continued his studies at the university in nearby Mainz. His doctorate as Dr. phil. took place in 1958. After this degree, Bohmann was taken over by the Foreign Office in Bonn. He was a member of the Johann Gottfried Herder Research Council . After the Second World War he was the author of studies, writings and especially statistical works.

Honors

Adalbert Stifter Medal

Publications (selection)

  • The Sudeten Germans in numbers. Handbook on the existence of the Sudeten German ethnic group in the years from 1910 to 1950. The cultural, sociological and economic conditions as reflected in the statistics. Edited by the Sudeten German Council, Munich 1959.
  • People and boundaries. 4 volumes. Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik, Cologne.
    • Volume 1: Structural change of the German population in the Polish state and administrative area. Cologne 1969.
    • Volume 2: Population and Nationalities in Southeastern Europe. Cologne 1969.
    • Volume 3: Structural change in the German population in the Soviet state and administrative area. Cologne 1970.
    • Volume 4: Population and Nationalities in Czechoslovakia. Cologne 1975.
  • Population movements in Bohemia from 1847 to 1947 with special consideration of the development of national conditions. Dissertation. Lerche publishing house, Munich 1958.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Baptismal register Gossengrün 1883 - 1915, fol. 196: Baptized on September 17, 1906 under the first name Alfred Franz; The parents were married in Luck on June 5, 1906
  2. ↑ Tobias Weger : “Volkstumskampf” without end? Sudeten German Organizations, 1945–1955 (= The Germans and Eastern Europe . Volume 2). Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 2008, ISBN 978-3-631-57104-0 , p. 587.
  3. ↑ Aussiger messenger. 1983, p. 121.

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personal data
SURNAME Bohmann, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eissner, Albin (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, author and statistician
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Gossengrün , Falkenau District , Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH 17th February 1983
Place of death Bonn-Bad Godesberg