Carl Jantke

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Carl Jantke (born September 21, 1909 in Elbing ; † July 19, 1989 in Hamburg ) was a German sociologist and social historian . Most recently he taught as a professor at the University of Hamburg .

Life

Jantke was the son of a director of the Schichau shipyard in Elbing, he studied economics and political science and became a member of the NSDAP in 1931. In 1934 he was at Arnold Bergstraesser at the University of Heidelberg with a thesis on the land-owning nobility in the eastern parts of Prussia doctorate . He then became Bergstraesser's assistant until he was removed from his chair by the National Socialists. In 1935 Jantke moved to the political science seminar at the University of Königsberg , where he worked as an assistant to Hans-Bernhard von Grünberg and completed his habilitation in 1939 . The title of his habilitation thesis was "Prussia, Friedrich the Great and Goethe in the History of the German State Thought".

In 1941/42 Jantke was a private on the Eastern Front . After being wounded, he spent a year in the hospital and was released from military service. In 1943 he resumed teaching at the University of Königsberg, the East Prussian Administration Academy and the Königsberg Commercial College. In the final phase of the war, Jantke was the head of the lecturers and lecturer association at the University of Königsberg.

After the Second World War he first worked at the Ludwig Neundörfers Sociographic Institute and in 1949 switched to the social research center at the University of Münster in Dortmund . Jantke became head of the department for "Economic and Social History, Spatial Research ". In 1953 he succeeded Helmut Schelsky as professor of sociology at the Academy for Community Economics in Hamburg and contributed to the development of the sociology textbook by Schelsky and Arnold Gehlen . In 1957 he took over the newly established chair for "Economic and Social History including Sociology" at the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Hamburg. In 1974 he retired .

Fonts (selection)

  • The state sense of the down-to-earthness of the Prussian nobility in the epoch of the Prussian great power development , Bruchsal in Baden, 1935 (also dissertation).
  • Prussia, Friedrich the Great and Goethe in the history of the German state idea. A political-historical study , Niedermeyer, Halle 1941 (also habilitation thesis).
  • Miner and colliery. The social working conditions of a mine in the northern Ruhr area as seen by the miners , Mohr (Siebeck), Tübingen 1953.
  • The fourth estate. The formative forces of the German labor movement in the 19th century , Herder, Freiburg 1955.
  • The propertyless. German pauperism and the emancipation crisis in representations and interpretations of contemporary literature , Alber, Freiburg i. B .; Munich 1965 (edited and edited with Dietrich Hilger).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon on National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , p. 84.
  2. ↑ Christoph Weischer: The company 'empirical social research'. Structures, practices and models of social research in the Federal Republic of Germany. R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-486-56814-0 , p. 65 .
  3. ^ Arnold Gehlen, Helmut Schelsky (editor with the collaboration of Carl Jantke): Sociology. A teaching and manual for modern social studies , Diederichs, Düsseldorf / Cologne, 1955.
personal data
SURNAME Jantke, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist and social historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Elblag
DATE OF DEATH July 19, 1989
Place of death Hamburg