Anton Ernstberger (historian)

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Anton Ernstberger (born November 22, 1894 in Mallowitz , † October 15, 1966 in Erlangen ) was a German historian and professor at the universities in Prague and Erlangen .

Life

Ernstberger attended elementary school in Welperschitz and then, until 1913, the grammar school in Doupov in West Bohemia . He then began to study law at the University of Vienna and took part in the First World War from 1914 to 1918 after the outbreak of war. After the war he attended the University of Prague law school again and received his doctorate in 1921 for Dr. jur.

After two years of legal practice, Ernstberger decided to study history at the German University in Prague . In 1926, Theodor Mayer received his doctorate in philosophy . He then continued to study history at the universities of Vienna and Berlin until 1930 and as a Rockefeller scholarship at the University of London . As a result he became a research assistant at the historical seminar of the University of Prague , in 1932 the habilitation for modern history followed with Wilhelm Wostry .

From 1935 he taught as an associate professor and from 1942 to May 1945 as a full professor for general history of the modern age at the German University of Prague, which became a Reich University in 1939. Ernstberger was a member of the SdP from 1938 . Ernstberger was admitted to the NSDAP in 1940 after an application for membership in the party made in 1939 had failed due to previous lodge membership. He also joined the National Socialist Lecturer Association . At the Reinhard Heydrich Foundation , he and the historian Heinz Zatschek headed the Regional History Institute for Bohemia and Moravia .

After the end of World War II , in the course of the occupation of Prague by the Red Army on May 10, 1945, he was arrested by a group of Czech people in the Carolinum university building and taken to the internment and labor camp for Sudeten Germans in the former tobacco factory in the town of Tachau in western Bohemia from where he managed to escape to Bavaria via Mies and Karlsbad in November 1945 .

After teaching at the Philosophical-Theological University of Regensburg under Rector Josef Engert and in Bamberg , he was full professor for modern and recent history at the University of Erlangen from 1947 to 1961 . In 1954 and 1955 he was dean of the philosophy faculty of this university.

In 1930 he became a member of the Institute for Historical Research in London , in 1942 a member of the German Academy of Sciences in Prague and in 1955 of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in Munich.

Anton Ernstberger devoted himself primarily to archive and source research with a special focus on the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) and the centuries that followed. In 1960 he received the Nordgau plaque of honor and in 1962 the Bavarian Order of Merit .

He is the brother of the architect Karl Ernstberger .

Publications (selection)

  • The German Freikorps in Bohemia in 1809. People and Empire, Prague 1942.
  • Bohemia - Franconia - Europe. Collected Essays. 2 volumes. Lassleben, Kallmünz 1959 ( publications of the Institute for Franconian State Research at the University of Erlangen. Volume 1).

literature

  • K. Erik Franzen, Helena Peřinová (editor): Biograms of the members of the Historical Commission of the Sudetenland in the founding year 1954. In: Stefan Albrecht (Hrsg.): The "Sudetendeutsche Geschistorschreibung" 1918–1960. On the prehistory and founding of the Historical Commission of the Sudetenland (publications of the Collegium Carolinum; Volume 114). Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-486-58374-8 .
  • Walther Peter Fuchs : Anton Ernstberger 1894–1966. In: Yearbook for Franconian State Research. 27 (1967), Verlag Degener & Co , ISBN 3-7686-9037-7 , pp. 1-14. (published by the Central Institute for French Regional Research and General Regional Research at the University of Erlangen)
  • Heribert Sturm : Biographical lexicon on the history of the Bohemian countries. Volume 1, Munich / Vienna 1979, ISBN 3-486-49491-0 , pp. 317-318, published on behalf of the Collegium Carolinum , research center for the Bohemian countries. ISBN 3-486-49491-0 .
  • Josef Weinmann: Egerländer Biographical Lexicon with selected people from the former administrative district of Eger. Volume 1. Männedorf 1985, ISBN 3-922808-12-3 , p. 130.
  • Historical magazine . 205 (1967), p. 787.
  • Watch out for the bad. Home book for the district of Mies ( Stribro ), Pilsen ( Plzeň ), Staab ( Stod ), Tuschkau (Touskov) and Wiesengrund (Dobrany). Volume 60 (1966).
  • Heimatkreis Mies-Pilsen e. V .: The home district of Mies - country and people at Mies and Radbusa. 1955.
  • Sudeten German newspaper . Newspaper of the Sudeten German Landsmannschaft Munich. November 27, 1964.
  • Rudolf Ohlbaum: Bavaria's fourth tribe - the Sudeten Germans - origins, new beginnings, personalities. Munich 1980.
  • Messages from the Sudeten German Archive e. V. Munich, 44 (1978).
  • Helmut Preußler: Yearbook of the Egerländer. Nuremberg 1968.
  • Viktor Aschenbrenner : Sudetenland, European cultural magazine. Bohemia , Moravia , Silesia , quarterly journal for art, literature, science and folklore. Issue 7, 1957 and Issue 8, 1966, pp. 306f.
  • Robert Werner: Brown spots on the priest's skirt. Studies on the denial and suppression of the Nazi past by the Regensburg theologians Josef Engert, Rudolf Graber and Theobald Schrems. Regensburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-9814689-6-0 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ K. Erik Franzen, Helena Peřinová (editor): Biograms of the members of the Historical Commission of the Sudetenland in the founding year 1954. In: Stefan Albrecht (Ed.): The "Sudetendeutsche Geschichtsschreibung" 1918–1960. On the prehistory and founding of the Historical Commission of the Sudetenland (publications by the Collegium Carolinum; Volume 114), Munich 2008, p. 228.
  2. ↑ Andreas Wiedemann: "The Reinhard Heydrich Foundation as an Example of National Socialist Science Policy in the Protectorate", in: Christiane Brenner , K. Erik Franzen, Peter Haslinger , Robert Luft (eds.): History of the Bohemian countries in the 20th century . Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 2006, p. 162.
personal data
SURNAME Ernstberger, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Mallowitz
DATE OF DEATH October 15, 1966
Place of death gain