Armin Tille

Franz Armin Tille (born February 26, 1870 in Lauenstein ; † April 14, 1941 in Beuel ) was a German archivist , librarian and historian. His older brother was the Germanist, philosopher and functionary of business associations Alexander Tille .

Life

In 1907 Armin Tille became librarian in the state parliament of the Kingdom of Saxony in Dresden , in 1910 head of the secret main and state archives in Weimar and in the Weimar Republic the organizer of the state archives in Thuringia that came into being after 1920. From 1926 to 1934 he was director of the Thuringian State Archives. His successor as head of today's Thuringian Main State Archives was Willy Flach in 1934 .

Together with the Leipzig history professor Erich Brandenburg , the lawyer Dr. Hans Breymann and the businessman Arthur Dimpfel, he was involved in the establishment of the Central Office for German Personal and Family History in 1904 . In addition to his genealogical interests, Tille represented social Darwinist positions and later saw himself as a pioneer of National Socialism . In his function as director of the Thuringian State Archives, he welcomed the considerations on "rendering inferior people sterile" in a letter to the State Ministry on May 3, 1933. As a group of people for compulsory sterilization , he named convicts, auxiliary students, “mentally inferior”, deaf-mute, blind-born, vagrants and also “any mixed race in which one of the parents was colored (namely negroes)”. He pointed out the importance of support from genealogists as well as the use of archival sources. Tille advised that "the need to socially exclude the inferior should always be publicly emphasized, but the measures taken for this purpose should be discussed as little publicly as possible". In the following years he published articles such as B. Blood and soil as the basis of the national community (1933), the expulsion of Jews was not cheap (1936) and the origin of the term "National Socialism" (1938).

Works

• Armin Tille, Rudolf Kötzschke : Karl Lamprecht . A memorial from the German history papers . In: German history sheets . 16, 1915, pp. 159-186. ( Digitized version of the University and State Library Bonn )
• Armin Tille: Overview of the contents of the smaller archives of the Rhine province , In: Publications of the society for Rheinische Geschichtskunde . 1899 ( University and State Library Düsseldorf )
• Armin Tille: The rural economic constitution of the Vintschgau, mainly in the second half of the Middle Ages . Wagner University Press, Innsbruck 1895.

literature

• Festschrift for Armin Tille's 60th birthday presented by friends and employees . Weimar 1930.
• Willy Flach : Armin Tille in memory (1870–1941) . Jena 1942.
• Bernhard Post: Armin Tille (1870–1941) . In: Thüringer Archivarverband (Hrsg.): Lebensbilder Thüringer Archivare . Rudolstadt 2001, ISBN 3-00-007914-9 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Armin Tille in the catalog of the German National Library