Annemarie von Gabain

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Annemarie von Gabain (born July 4, 1901 in Mörchingen , Lorraine, † January 15, 1993 in Berlin ) was a German Turkologist and Sinologist . She made important contributions to research into the German Turfan collection.

Life

Her father Arthur von Gabain came from a Huguenot family and was a general . Even so, her mother raised her Catholic. Annemarie von Gabain first spent her school days in Mainz , where her father served in the 1st Nassau Infantry Regiment No. 87 , and later in Brandenburg, where she graduated from high school on February 13, 1920. She then went to Berlin to complete a university education. She enrolled in mathematics, sinology and turkology . She wrote her dissertation in Sinology. Von Gabain studied Turkology with the Turkologist Wilhelm Bang-Kaup .

From 1935 to 1937 Gabain taught as a visiting professor in Ankara for the purpose of founding a Sinological Institute. From the summer semester of 1938 to the winter semester of 1944/45 she lectured at the Berlin University . In December 1939 Gabain joined the NSDAP ( membership number 7,311,591). She supported the rescue operation for the Polish Islamic scholar and Turkologist Tadeusz Jan Kowalski , who had been deported as part of the Krakow special . At the beginning of the 1940s she belonged with Gerhard von Mende and Olaf Hansen to a group of scientific advisers for the SS study of peoples, ethnic groups and tribes in the former territory of the Soviet Union. History, distribution, race, creed (published by the Reichsführer, Race Office and the Institute for Border and Foreign Studies ). The aim of this study should be the basis for a “popular reorganization”, “one of the most serious and first problems in the reorganization of the Eastern area ” (cf. General Plan Ost ), “without which the Bolshevik remnants can never be eliminated”; the "majority of the people's communities" were certified to "also pass the prerequisites for achieving a truly popular level of development due to their inadequate racial heritage". "It seems to be determined by fate, after intensive contact with modern civilization, to biologically die out, to be dissolved or to be melted into real peoples."

Towards the end of the war, Gabain belonged as head of the literature department to the “Turkestan Working Group” of the DMG , which was founded at the end of 1944 at the instigation of SS-Obersturmführer Reiner Olzscha . Gabain was employed as a research assistant at the Prussian Academy of Sciences , where she published the Ozbek grammar in 1945 with the help of Uzbek members of the Turkistan Legion .

From 1946 to 1949 Gabain worked at the Heimatmuseum in Bad Reichenhall . From 1949/50 until her retirement in 1966 she was an adjunct professor for Turkish Studies at the University of Hamburg . In 1959 she became a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR , in 1969 a foreign member, and in 1990 a full member.

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  1. ↑ Jens Peter Laut: Annemarie von Gabain 1901-1993 . In: Finnish-Ugric research . 52, 1995, pp. 367-374. Retrieved July 2, 2012.
  2. ↑ Arthur von Gabain ( Memento from July 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Mehmet Ölmez: Annemarie von Gabain . In: Türk Dilleri Araştırmaları . 1993, pp. 289-292. Retrieved July 2, 2012.
  4. ^ A b Ekkehard Ellinger: German Oriental Studies at the Time of National Socialism 1933–1945 . Deux-Mondes-Verlag, Edingen-Neckarhausen 2006, p. 480.
  5. ↑ Ekkehard Ellinger: German Oriental Studies at the Time of National Socialism 1933–1945 . Deux-Mondes-Verlag, Edingen-Neckarhausen 2006, p. 167.
  6. ↑ Ekkehard Ellinger: German Oriental Studies at the Time of National Socialism 1933–1945 . Deux-Mondes-Verlag, Edingen-Neckarhausen 2006, p. 39.
  7. ↑ Ekkehard Ellinger: German Oriental Studies at the Time of National Socialism 1933–1945 . Deux-Mondes-Verlag, Edingen-Neckarhausen 2006, p. 69.
  8. ↑ This group also included Konrad Bittner, Karl Bouda, Dagobert Frey , Richard Meckelein, Günther Holtz, Albrecht Penck , Fritz Rörig , Wolfgang Seuberlich, Bruno Kurt Schultz , Micheil Zereteli , Max Vasmer , Erhard Wetzel and Eugen Wieber, see. Carsten Klingemann : The sociological folk theory of Max Hildebert Boehm and the National Socialist Germanization policy . In: Rainer Mackensen , Jürgen Reulecke , Josef Ehmer (eds.): Origins, types and consequences of the construct “population” before, during and after the “Third Reich” . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2009, p. 356.
  9. ↑ Ekkehard Ellinger: German Oriental Studies at the Time of National Socialism 1933–1945 . Deux-Mondes-Verlag, Edingen-Neckarhausen 2006, p. 267.
  10. ^ Quotes from the Leipzig edition of 1942, pp. XVII and XII, quoted by Ekkehard Ellinger: Deutsche Orientalistik zur Zeit des Nationalozialismus 1933–1945 . Deux-Mondes-Verlag, Edingen-Neckarhausen 2006, p. 268.
  11. ↑ Ekkehard Ellinger: German Oriental Studies at the Time of National Socialism 1933–1945 . Deux-Mondes-Verlag, Edingen-Neckarhausen 2006, pp. 266, 267.
  12. ↑ Ekkehard Ellinger: German Oriental Studies at the Time of National Socialism 1933–1945 . Deux-Mondes-Verlag, Edingen-Neckarhausen 2006, pp. 146, 147.
personal data
SURNAME Gabain, Annemarie von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Turkologist and Sinologist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Mörchingen , Lorraine
DATE OF DEATH January 15, 1993
Place of death Berlin