Alfred Thoss

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Alfred Thoß (born March 13, 1908 in Obergrochlitz ; † March 2, 1991 in Bad Eilsen ) was a German historian and author.

Life

He was the son of a carpenter and grew up in a suburb of Greiz . After attending school, he studied history, German and physical education as well as biology at the University of Jena . In 1933 he received his doctorate with a history of his hometown Greiz before 1700, which was reprinted in 1990, as Dr. phil.

Thoss completed a legal clerkship in Gera and joined the NSDAP in 1933 (membership number 2,889,346). He became managing director of the Nordic Society's farmers 'office and lecturer at the farmers' college in Goslar.

In 1936 Alfred Thoss was SS-Untersturmführer in Scandinavia.

He can be traced back to Berlin in 1944, after the Second World War he lived in Hamburg . Alfred Thoss is buried in the ancestral home of Conneforde .

Works (selection)

  • The history of the city of Greiz from the beginning to the end of the 17th century with special consideration of the legal, constitutional and Economic development (= contributions to medieval, recent and general history , Volume 3), Jena: Fischer, 1933.
  • Henry I (919-936). The founder of the first German people's empire , Goslar: Blut und Boden Verlag, 1936.
  • Bridges to the heroic past . In: Adolf Hitler - a man and his people. Special edition Illustrierter Beobachter , Munich: Franz Eher Successor, 1936.
  • German peasantry (= people at work, volume 4), Langensalza, Berlin, Leipzig: J. Beltz, 1937.
  • Return of the ethnic Germans (= series of publications of the NSDAP, group 3, vol. 14), Berlin: Rather (branch), 1941.
  • (with Emil Hoffmann): The fourth trek. Performance and homecoming of the Germans from Bessarabia , Berlin, Leipzig: Nibelungen-Verlag, 1941.
  • Waffen-SS fighting in front of Leningrad (= War Library of the German Youth, Issue 151), Berlin: Steiniger, [1944].

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Himmler's teacher. The ideological training in the SS 1933-1945 , 2014, p. 562.
  2. ↑ Patrick Salmon: Scandinavia and the Great Powers 1890-1940 , 202, p. 208.
  3. ^ Thuringian Literature Council
personal data
SURNAME Thoss, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and author
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Obergrochlitz
DATE OF DEATH March 2, 1991
Place of death Bad Eilsen