Erich Bromme

Erich Bromme (born August 10, 1906 in Großbockedra ; † May 30, 1986 in Berlin ) was a German historian and settlement geographer who worked in East Thuringia before and during the Second World War. After the end of the war he went to West Berlin and was a leader in the German Freethinkers Association , which was newly founded in 1951 . In addition to a series of writings critical of religion, he also published on settlement archeology , advocating the thesis of the Slavic legend , which is generally rejected as historical revisionist .

Erich Bromme was submitted to the University of Jena in 1929 with a dissertation that was published in Halle in the same year: The Principality of Saxony-Weimar at the Time of the Thirty Years' War. Representation based on the state visit files from 1603 - 1643 . In 1932 he also submitted a second mathematical and scientific dissertation to the University of Jena on Oelknitz , A Contribution to the Geography of Settlements in Thuringia , which was again printed in Halle the following year. Then Bromme worked as a teacher in Meuselwitz near Altenburg with the title of student councilor . In 1939 he published the work Gemeinnutz und Eigennutz in two thousand years of German history in the Akademie-Verlag Halle . In addition, between 1935 and 1949 a number of smaller studies and essays on settlement geography, archeology, folklore as well as medieval and early modern history of East Thuringia were published, for example about his place of residence Meuselwitz, the Windischen place names in Thuringia as a response to a publication by Martin Wahler or the Leuchtenburg .

After the end of the Second World War, Bromme went to West Berlin . In 1947 his study, published in 1939, was placed on the list of literature to be sorted out by the German Administration for Popular Education in the Soviet Zone of Occupation . In West Berlin he became active in the free-thinker movement, representing the “Association for Scientific Weltanschauung”, which in Berlin in the 1950s advocated “free-spirited humanism” and, above all, for the introduction of life science lessons for students who did not take part in religious education , started out in West Berlin and held a leading position in the German Freethinkers Association (DFV). Since 1960 there has been a series of works on various religions, in addition to Christianity, also on Islam, as well as works critical of religion. The typefaces, which are often only copied in small editions, are mostly lectures held at the meetings of the Federation for Scientific Worldview. By the 1970s at the latest, he believed that he had uncovered several alleged falsifications of history. In 1975, for example, the book Falsification and Error in History and Theology was published. Revolution in the Orient and Occident through the deallocation of the "Holy Scriptures" .

In addition to these writings critical of religion, several works on settlement research appeared in 1982, in which he defended völkisch theses, for example in The Basics of Settlement Research with a View to the East of Germany , which appeared in the same year under the abbreviated title Fundamentals of Settlement Research . His publication Christian Persecution of Teutons and Christians in Germany followed similar tendencies : June 25, 1982 .

According to a comment in a lecture by the Berlin cultural scientist Horst Groschopp , Bromme had anticipated an expulsion from the SPD by resigning from his functions. According to some documents in the estate of Walter Dornfeldt, he was “probably a secret Ludendorffer ”.

Web links

• Literature by and about Erich Bromme in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1947-nslit-b.html
2. ↑ PDF at www.horst-groschopp.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.