Emil Franzel

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Emil Franzel (born May 29, 1901 in Haan near Dux in Bohemia , Austria-Hungary ; † June 29, 1976 ) was a German historian , journalist, author and Sudeten German politician.

Life

Franzel studied history, German, geography and political science. In 1925 he passed the state examination and received his doctorate. From 1924 to 1937 he was a freelance writer, until 1937 he belonged to the German Social Democratic Workers' Party in Czechoslovakia and published in part under the pseudonym Karl von Boeheim . In 1936 he took over the Prague people's education center Urania.

From 1939 he was a librarian at the Bohemian State Museum in German-occupied Prague and a history teacher at the Prague Police School. In July 1941 he was drafted into the Schutzpolizei reserve, which was subordinate to the SS .

After the war and the expulsion of the Germans from Czechoslovakia a . a. Member of the Catholic Ackermann community and an important and opinion-giving representative of Sudeten German post-war journalism. In his historical publications he remained conceptually arrested in the “ Herrenvolk ” rhetoric even after the Second World War ; in his Sudeten German History of 1958 , for example, there is talk of a possible “layering of master peoples and lower peoples” in relation to the prehistory and early history of Bohemia and Moravia . From 1951 until his retirement in 1963 he worked for the Bavarian State Library in Munich . From 1953 to 1963 he was the ministerial representative for the state library system in Bavaria.

He was a founding member of the Sudeten German Landsmannschaft and the Sudeten German Council . In 1962 he received the Sudeten German sponsorship award. In 1968 he was awarded the Konrad Adenauer Prize of the Germany Foundation .

Publications (selection)

  • King Heinrich VII of Hohenstaufen. Diss. Phil. Prague 1929.
  • History of our time 1870–1950. Munich 1952.
  • Sudeten German history. Augsburg 1958.
  • The Danube region in the age of the nationality principle (1789–1918). Munich 1958.
  • Longing for the old streets. Vienna 1964.
  • Franz Ferdinand d'Este. Model of a conservative revolution. Vienna 1964.
  • The expulsion. Sudetenland 1945/1946. Bad Nauheim 1967.
  • The Sudeten Germans. Settlement area, nature and history of the ethnic group. Eckartschriften Heft 25, ÖLM , Vienna 1968.
  • History of the German people. From the Germanic tribes to the division after the Second World War. Munich 1973.

Journal articles (selection)

literature

  • Alexandra Habermann et al: Lexicon of German Scientific Librarians 1925–1980 , Frankfurt a. M .: Klostermann 1985, ISBN 3-465-01664-5 , pp. 82-83.
  • Vanessa Conze: “Against the Wind of Time”? Emil Franzel and the “Occident” between 1930 and 1950. In: Looking back into the future. Political public and intellectual positions in Germany around 1950 and 1930. Edited by Alexander Gallus and Axel Schildt. Göttingen: Wallstein 2011, pp. 181–199.
  • Thomas Keller: Emil Franzel (1901–1976): Biography of a Sudeten German intellectual . Hamburg: Diplomica 2012

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Thomas Keller: Emil Franzel (1901-1976): Biography of a Sudeten German intellectual. Diplomica-Verlag, 2012, page 67.
  2. ^ Emil Franzel: Sudeten German History . Bechtermünz, Augsburg 1997, ISBN 3-86047-307-7 , The original population, p. 16 .
personal data
SURNAME Franzel, Emil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boeheim, Karl von (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian, journalist and politician (DSAP)
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Haan
DATE OF DEATH June 29, 1976