Christoph Kaempf

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Christoph Kaempf (born February 22, 1913 in Löbau Sa .; † May 1, 2001 in Heidelberg ) was a German lawyer and Japanologist.

Life

During the final exam at the Löbau grammar school , Kaempf received first prize from the Saxon Minister of Education for best performance in mathematics. At the University of Leipzig , the University of Brno and the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen , he studied mathematics for one semester and then law, as well as East Asian languages ​​from the start. He became a member of the Corps Lusatia Leipzig , the Corps Marchia Brünn and the Corps Rhenania Tübingen . He passed the first state examination in law at the Dresden Higher Regional Court and was awarded a Dr. iur. PhD. At the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin he passed the diploma examination for Japanese.

Between November 1933 and June 1937 he was a member of the SA . On March 1, 1938, he joined the NSDAP . He had been a member of the SS since January 25, 1939 . In the literature cited there is no information on its denazification .

From 1937 to 1938 he did the preparatory service at the German Consulate General Kobe-Osaka in Japan. After two years as a soldier in the Western campaign , he was placed in 1941 for the press department of the East Asia Department of the Foreign Office uk. He spent the rest of the war as an officer on the Eastern Front. After his release from Soviet captivity in 1949, he accepted a teaching position for Japanese studies at the University of Tübingen until 1953. For the next ten years he taught at the Faculties of General Education, Law and Literature at Kyoto University. In 1955 he was co-founder and from 1956 to 1978 director of the German-Japanese cultural institute in Kyoto and from 1963 from 1978 also head of a branch of the Goethe-Institut. After his retirement, Christoph Kaempf settled as a freelance writer in Grein (Neckarsteinach) . He was married to a daughter of Nobel Prize winner Richard Kuhn .

Honors

literature

  • Maria Keipert (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 2: Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: G – K. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2005, ISBN 3-506-71841-X .
  • Christoph Kaempf: curriculum vitae (written in 1980). Trier. In: Märkerbrief. No. 91.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 87 , 1046; 1996, 94 , 217; 1996, 133 , 1059
  2. ↑ Dissertation: The Tenno, an organ of the state? Consideration of the change in Japanese state thinking .
personal data
SURNAME Kaempf, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and Japanologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Löbau
DATE OF DEATH May 1, 2001
Place of death Heidelberg