Bernhard Sommerlad

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Bernhard Sommerlad

Bernhard Sommerlad (born January 17, 1905 in Halle (Saale) ; † March 31, 1979 in West Berlin ) was a German journalist, publisher, historian and writer.

Life

After graduating from high school in Halle, Sommerlad initially worked as a volunteer and officer candidate in the Reichswehr . He then studied history , geography and philology at the Friedrichs University in Halle from the summer semester of 1925 . He became active in the Corps Borussia Halle , which reciprocated him in 1926. He was involved in university politics and was the editor of the Halle university newspaper. 1930 doctorate he became Dr. phil. After training as a journalist, he was a press officer in the Reichswehr, then head of the internal affairs department at the Deutsche Zeitung .

In the time of National Socialism he became a department head in the staff office of the Reichsbauernführer . Allegedly he made an anti-Semitic contribution. Sommerlad was Unterscharführer in the SS. He also wrote an anti-Semitic article with his abbreviation in the seventh edition of the SS Leithefte in 1937. During World War II , he was captain of the reserves in the flak on the war front , most recently on the Channel Islands ; as part of the Atlantic Wall , they were the only British territory occupied by the Wehrmacht . The day after the unconditional surrender of the Wehrmacht , he was taken prisoner by the British , from which he was released in 1948.

With his older brother Wilhelm Sommerlad he received the ribbon of the Halle successor corps Saxonia Frankfurt am Main in 1949 . From 1951 to 1972 he was at the Walter de Gruyter publishing house . From 1957 to 1961 he held a lectureship in economic history at the Free University of Berlin . From January 20, 1961 until his death he was chairman of the Teltower AHSC in Berlin . In 1972 he was awarded the Lusatia Leipzig ribbon in Berlin . As a retiree , he devoted himself to student history . His genealogical investigations into the origin of Silvia von Schweden geb. Sommerlath.

Awards

Works

  • News about the family Andreas Pitterlin and their blood relatives . 1929. GoogleBooks
  • The libraries of the Teutonic Order in its German balles . Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen 47 (1930), pp. 6–12.
  • The Deutschordensballei Thuringia from its foundation to the end of the 15th century 1930 DNB 571566006 (Dissertation University of Halle 1930, 79 pages), also in: Thuringian-Saxon Journal for History and Art . Volume 19, in the book trade under the title The German Order in Thuringia , as: Research on Thuringian-Saxon history . Issue 20.
  • The Italian trains of the German emperors . 1936. GoogleBooks
  • From the darkroom of serfdom . 1938.
  • An original proofreader . Börsenblatt für den deutschen Buchhandel , Vol. 10 (1954), pp. J13 – J14.
  • Characters of the book trade . Börsenblatt für den deutschen Buchhandel Vol. 11 (1955), pp. J49 – J50 and J75 – J77.
  • The authors' fees Georg Andreas Reimers . Börsenblatt für den deutschen Buchhandel , Vol. 11 (1955), pp. 750-752.
  • The German Didot . 1956. GoogleBooks
  • For Walter de Gruyter's 100th birthday on May 10th . Börsenblatt für den deutschen Buchhandel , Vol. 18. (1962), pp. 821–823.
  • Life pictures. Alexander Georg Achilles Neoborussiae Halle [1833–1900] . Einst und Jetzt , Vol. 9 (1964), pp. 149-152.
  • The German Order of Knights in Central Germany . Lecture given on April 22nd, 1966 at the annual conference of the Central German Cultural Council in Bad Mergentheim. GoogleBooks
  • Walter Bloem on the 25th anniversary of his death . Deutsche Corpszeitung 3/1976, p. 137.
  • The corps student Robert Schumann . Einst und Jetzt , Vol. 22 (1977), pp. 75-86.
  • Central Germany in German History , in: Central German Culture Council (Hg.): From Germany's Center , Part 3, Central Germany - Attempts at a conceptual definition under scientific aspects. Bonn 1978, pp. 25-58.
  • Wartburg Festival and Corps students . Einst und Jetzt , Vol. 16 (1979), pp. 16-42.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Author's lexicon on student and university history
  2. ↑ a b c Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 19/617; 149/238; 87/1205.
  3. ↑ Dissertation: The German Order in Thuringia. History of the Deutschordensballei Thuringia from its foundation to the end of the 15th century . GoogleBooks
  4. ↑ Marius Hetzel: The Contestation of Racial Mixture in the Years 1933-1939 . Tübingen 1997
  5. ^ Bernhard Sommerlad: The Jews "persecutions" in the Middle Ages . Ed .: Reichsführer SS. No. 7 . Berlin 1937.
  6. ↑ Queen Silvia of Sweden and the ancestors of her name stem . Genealogy No. 1 / Jan. 1978
personal data
SURNAME Sommerlad, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, publisher, bookseller, historian and writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 1979
Place of death West Berlin