Bernhard Struck

Bernhard Friedrich Eduard Struck (born August 28, 1888 in Heidelberg , † October 8, 1971 in Jena ) was a German ethnologist and anthropologist .

Life

Struck studied ethnology in Heidelberg and Berlin from 1906 to 1911. From 1913 to 1915 he was a research assistant at the Museum of Ethnology and Animal Science in Dresden and was then called up for military service until 1919. Struck received his doctorate in 1921 from the University of Tübingen and in 1923 became curator at the Museum of Ethnology and Animal Science in Dresden. Struck completed his habilitation in 1924, whereupon he became a private lecturer in anthropology and ethnology at the TH Dresden .

At the university he taught in 1927, first as a titular professor and from 1933 to 1936 as an associate professor of anthropology and ethnology. He undertook several research trips, including with Elly Beinhorn , and was a member of the scientific advisory board of the German Hygiene Museum from 1927 to 1933 . Struck taught in 1936 as an associate professor and from 1937 to 1955 as professor and head of the Institute for Anthropology and Ethnology in Jena.

During the time of National Socialism he was a member of the Nazi teachers' association , the Reichskolonialbundes , the Reichsbund der Deutschen Officials and the Reichsluftschutzbund . He was co-editor of the Zeitschrift für Rassenkunde and had contacts with the SS-Ahnenerbe . In November 1933 he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler .

Works (selection)

• Anthropology and ethnology (no year)
• Races, peoples and languages ​​of Africa (no year)

• Draft of an overview map of the main language families in Africa , edited and drawn by Bernhard Struck, Berlin, D. Reimer, 1914 (ÖNB)
• Sketch of the Hamitic language areas in equatorial East Africa , designed and drawn by Bernhard Struck, Berlin, ES Mittler, 1911. From: Communications from the German Protected Areas, Supplement No. 4, 1911; Map 3 (ÖNB)

literature

• Dorit Petschel : 175 years of TU Dresden. Volume 3: The professors of the TU Dresden 1828–2003. Edited on behalf of the Society of Friends and Supporters of the TU Dresden e. V. von Reiner Pommerin , Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-412-02503-8 , pp. 948-949.
• Salomon Wininger : Large Jewish National Biography with more than 11,000 biographies of well-known Jewish men and women of all times and Countries. A reference work for the Jewish people and their friends . Volume 6, Tipografia “Arta”, Czernowitz, undated (1931), p. 57f

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Second updated edition. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 610.