Carl Manfred Frommel

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Carl Manfred Frommel (born December 13, 1884 in Hamburg , † April 3, 1938 in Würzburg ) was a German student union leader, journalist and student historian.

Life

Frommel came from an old Baden family. His father was the go. Councilor Carl Frommel. The theologian Emil Frommel was his grandfather, Carl Ludwig Frommel was his great-grandfather and Wilhelm Frommel (agricultural master) was his great-great-grandfather. Without a specific professional goal and without a degree, he studied philosophy, law and medicine at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . On April 25, 1906 , he renounced the Corps Bremensia . Immediately after the reception on November 24, 1906, he was elected Fox Major . In 1910 he was active again for three months. In 1912 he was involved in the formation of the first cartel of corporation associations, a forerunner of the General German Arms Ring (ADW). After participating in World War I as a company commander, Frommel returned to Göttingen. He made a contribution to founding the German student body , where he was appointed student secretary in 1919. Through his journalistic engagement he had a great influence on her development. He was also the long-time editor of his press organ, the Deutsche Akademische Rundschau , for which well-known authors such as Karl Jaspers , Wilhelm Mommsen , Theodor Seitz , Carl Duisberg and Fritz Haber wrote.

“Frommel's contributions to the establishment of the German student body are probably far greater than was generally known at the time. He had made himself - more or less - their almighty secretary. "

- Hermann Mitgau

For the Allgemeine Deutsche Waffenring, Frommel temporarily acted as chairman of the constitutional committee. In addition, he held numerous functions for the Kösener Seniors Convents Association (KSCV). He was co-editor of the Kösener yearbooks Wende and Schau (1930, 1932) and from 1934 to 1936 editor of the Deutsche Corpszeitung. In 1931 he became a corps loop bearer of the Starkenburgia . He also made great contributions to the presentation of the association at the Pressa , the 1928 international press exhibition in Cologne. As early as 1922 he suggested the founding of the Historical Commission of the KSCV and became its first secretary. Afterwards appointed to the library council, he looked after the collections of the Association of Old Corps Students , which Wilhelm Fabricius von Marburg had given to the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . Frommel himself enriched the association's library and graphics collection with his private holdings, which comprised around 12,000 numbers. Both formed an essential basis for today's Institute for Higher Education . After the dissolution of the associations in 1935, the entire inventory was transferred to the Marienberg Fortress . Frommel also moved to Würzburg. He suffered from multiple sclerosis with an emphasis on the legs and died of a heart attack at the age of 53. Married since 1926, he left behind his wife and two children, aged 3 and 7. When he was cremated in the fire hall in Meiningen , the first stanza of Gaudeamus igitur was sung at his request . Present were Louis Denecke and Carl Heyer , who gave the eulogy.

estate

Frommel's estate is in the Kösener archive in the Institute for Higher Education at the University of Würzburg (inventory N 5).

Honors

Works

  • The members of the Bremensia zu Göttingen from February 25, 1811 to the present . Goettingen 1912.
  • Memorandum on Academic Press . Goettingen 1922.
  • The university history collection at the University of Frankfurt am Main . Deutsche Corps-Zeitung 48 (1931/32), pp. 90-94.

Editorships

  • Georg Kloß : The Idiotikon der Burschenssprache , edited with an introduction by Carl Manfred Frommel, Frankfurt a. M. 1931.

swell

  • Archive of the Allgemeine Deutsche Waffenring (ADW), Institute for University Studies, Kösener Archive (holdings B 6).

literature

  • Friedhelm Golücke : Author's lexicon on student and university history , Cologne 2004, pp. 105–106.
  • Robert Paschke : Carl Manfred Frommel Bremensiae (FM) Starkenburgiae IdC In: Then and now. Yearbook of the Association for Corporate Student History Research, Vol. 1 (1956), pp. 109–112.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b CV and obituary in the Nationale des Corps Starkenburgia (No. 780)
  2. ↑ a b Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 39/1064; 37/780.
personal data
SURNAME Frommel, Carl Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German student union leader, journalist and student historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH April 3, 1938
Place of death Wurzburg