Emil Lehmann (folklorist)

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Emil Lehmann (born November 18, 1880 in Turn near Teplitz , Northern Bohemia ; † August 22, 1964 in Loschwitz ) was a Sudeten German folk researcher and educator.

biography

Emil Lehmann, the son of a master bricklayer in Turn (Trnovany), Teplitz-Schönau district in Northern Bohemia , studied philology and philosophy at the universities in Prague, Heidelberg and Berlin; Student of Adolf Hauffen and August Sauer with a doctorate in philosophy in 1908 in Prague, from 1906 to 1928 high school teacher in Graz, Prague, Landskron, Aussig and Turn. During the global economic crisis and high unemployment, his work in the civil service ended. Germans in the First Czechoslovak Republic (1918–1938) faced particular difficulties.

Emil Lehmann in 1928 Managing Director of the "Association of German Public Education" in Liberec in northern Bohemia, who later called himself "Goethe's home" and as a propaganda center of the nationalist movement of the Sudeten Germans for a large German solution was interpreted the problems. Together with Josef Blau , he had been the publisher of Heimatbildung since 1919 . Sentenced to prison in the so-called Mährisch-Ostrauer high treason trial in 1935, Lehmann fled to Dresden . He got a job at the local teacher training institute and became honorary professor for folk organization and folklore at the Technical University of Dresden . For his publications in the knowledge subject of Eastern research , folk organization and folklore, he received recognition decades later.

After the end of the Second World War in May 1945, Lehmann's writings are said to have been placed on the list of literature to be sorted out in the Soviet occupation zone and the German Democratic Republic (GDR) :

  • U-boat and barbed wire (Ostpreußischer Heimatverlag, Heiligenbeil 1931),
  • Borderlands returned home in the southeast (together with Adolf Helbok ; Reclam , Leipzig 1939),
  • On holy land mark (Kraus, Reichenberg 1941), folklore in elementary school (Dürr, Leipzig 1943) and
  • The importance of folk research in the German-Slavic border area (Burgverlag, Krakow 1944)

In the post-war period in Germany , his son, the sociologist and publicist Ernst Lehmann , continued his father's folklore research. Father's book Wir Sudetendeutsche (Potsdam 1925) was published again in 1992 in Kiel under the title Sudetendeutsche Landeskunde . Text passages on anti-Semitism (up to 1945) should be abbreviated compared to the original text from 1925 . The folklorist Emil Lehmann wrote this issue with the politician Hans Krebs, who was executed in Prague in 1947 after a high treason trial .

Works

Directory in H. Herrmann, H. 1940

  • German Volkstum on outposts , 1918
  • Sudeten German Heimatgaue , 43 booklets, 1919 ff.
  • Landskroner Heimatbuch , 1918, 1920
  • Landskroner and Schönhengster Heimatbücherei 1919 ff.
  • Hölderlin's poetry (dissertation), 1922
  • New folk tales from Schönhengstgau in 1924
  • The Sudeten German. An overall view , Potsdam 1925
  • Sudeten German border people , Dresden (Voices of the landscape, 8)
  • with Hans Krebs : Wir Sudetendeutsche , 1925, 1937, from 1992 under the title Sudetendeutsche Landeskunde , Kiel.
  • Folklore in elementary school , 1938
  • with Fritz Ranzi and Adolf Helbok : Borderlands returned home in the southeast - Ostmark. Sudetengau. Reich Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. A manual . Philipp Reclam jun., Leipzig 1939.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-h.html
  2. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-l.html
  3. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1948-nslit-l.html
personal data
SURNAME Lehmann, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Sudeten German nationality fighter
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Turn near Teplitz , Northern Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH 22nd August 1964
Place of death Dresden