Ernst Anrich

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Ernst Anrich (born August 9, 1906 in Strasbourg ; † October 21, 2001 in Seeheim , Hessen ) was a German historian and National Socialist .

Life

Before 1945

The son of the theology professor Gustav Adolf Anrich studied history, Protestant theology and German studies in Königsberg , Heidelberg , Berlin , Tübingen and Bonn since 1924 . In 1931 he received his doctorate from Fritz Kern in Bonn . In 1928 he joined the NS student union and in 1930 the NSDAP . He was a member of the German Academic Guild and co-founder of the "Ernst Wurche" guild. In 1931, however, he was expelled from the party and the federal government again because of attempts to overthrow the Reich Youth Leadership ; a re-entry failed because of Baldur von Schirach . From 1932 Anrich was a private lecturer, from 1938 associate professor for modern history in Bonn and from January 1940 to March 1941 as a full professor at the Department of History at the University of Hamburg . In cooperation with the SS and the Reich Security Main Office , Anrich became the Reichsdozentenführer's representative in the same year for the development of the Reich University of Strasbourg . He was there from 1941 to 1943 in an additional function dean of the Philosophical Faculty and from 1941 to 1943 lecturer at this university.

Anrich was a member of the SS and a leader in a "Scientific West Staff" set up at the OKW ; he had founded this "staff" for the Nazi reorganization of the western area in April 1940 himself. This staff unit worked in particular for the Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle and was supposed to work out plans as to which areas in the West were suitable for annexation by the German Reich from a national political point of view . She was also responsible for planning the forced relocations required for this.

After 1945

Anrich lived in Tübingen after the war . From 1949 he was the founder and director of the Scientific Book Society (WBG) in Darmstadt . There, works by Hermann Aubin , Franz Steinbach , Franz Petri and other historians from the field of Western research from the period before 1945 were published largely unchanged in compilations and as individual publications . He also published his own works with the WBG and various other publishers, including right-wing extremist Grabert Verlag . In 1966 he gave a keynote speech at the 2nd party congress of the NPD; as a result he left the WBG. In 1967 a speech by him appeared as a special edition in the Deutsche Nachrichten , the NPD party organ. In November 1967 he became a member of the board and the presidium of the NPD; In 1971 he became one of three deputy federal chairmen of the NPD. In 1975 he left the governing bodies of the party; In 1976 he left her. Anrich was a member of the Witikobund and the Evangelical Emergency Community in Germany .

Fonts (selection)

Before 1945

  • The Yugoslav Question and the July Crisis 1914 , phil. Diss. Bonn 1931.
  • English politics in July 1914 , Habil.-Schrift, Bonn 1932.
  • Three pieces about the National Socialist worldview. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1932.
  • New school design based on National Socialist thinking. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1933.
  • People and state as the basis of the empire , Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1934.
  • Universities as intellectual border fortresses , Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1936.
  • The history of the German western border. Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1939 a. 1943.
  • The threat to Europe from France. 300 years of striving for hegemony out of presumption and fear. ( France against civilization , volume 1, publications of the German Institute for Foreign Policy Research and the Hamburg Institute for Foreign Policy , volume 56). Edited by Matthias Schwabe (that is Karl Epting , Paris) Berlin 1940 (Anrichs France - "Knowledge" was continued in 1951).
  • France and German unity in the past 300 years. Broscheck, Hamburg 1940.

These 7 writings were put on the list of literature to be sorted out by the German Administration for Popular Education in the Soviet Occupation Zone .

  • Germania and Europe . A book on the threshold of our age. W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1941.
  • Richelieu and Alsace. In: Franz Kerber (Ed.): The Alsace. The realm's gate and shield. Hüneburg-Verlag , Strasbourg 1942 ( yearbook of the city of Freiburg im Breisgau , volume 4).
  • German history from 1918–1939. Teubner, Leipzig 1943.

After 1945

  • Must there be enmity between Germany and France? Frankfurt 1951.
  • The idea of ​​the German university and the reform of the German universities , Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1960.
  • Modern physics and depth psychology for the unity of reality and thus science. One try. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1963.
  • The socialism of the left. Not progress, but regression and total destruction. National-Verlag , Rosenheim 1973.
  • Life without historical awareness. An indictment against today's history class. Grabert, Tübingen 1988.

literature

  • Burkhard Dietz (Ed.): Reach to the West. The "West Research" of the ethnic-national sciences on the north-western European area 1919-1960. Volume 2. Waxmann, Münster 2003, ISBN 3-8309-1144-0 ; therein to Anrich in particular. Hans-Paul Höpfner: Bonn as a spiritual fortress of the western border? and Gjalt R. Zondergeld, “We want to go west!” The magazine “Westland” as a meeting point for researchers in the West. Pp. 655 ff. (The volume can be viewed and searched online on Google books ).
  • Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon on National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , pp. 14-15.
  • Lothar Kettenacker: Ernst Anrich and the Reich University of Strasbourg. In: Christian Baechler, François Igersheim, Pierre Racine: Les “Reichsuniversitäten” de Strasbourg et de Poznań et les résistances universitaires 1941-44. Strasbourg 2005, ISBN 2-86820-268-3 , pp. 83-96.
  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. Updated edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-596-16048-0 , p. 17.
  • Peter Schöttler : The historical "West research" between "defensive struggle" and territorial offensive. In: Peter Schöttler (Ed.): Historiography as a science of legitimation 1918–1945 . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-518-28933-0 , pp. 204-261.
  • Werner Treß: Ernst Anrich. In: Wolfgang Benz (Hrsg.): Handbuch des Antisemitismus. Hostility to Jews in the past and present. Volume 2: People. Part 1: A - K. De Gruyter Saur , Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-24072-0 , pp. 23-26.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 1924–1931 Chairman of the scientific "Institute of the Alsace-Lorraine in the Reich", ELI, at the University of Frankfurt am Main
  2. ^ Frank-Rutger Hausmann : Hans Bender (1907–1991) and the 'Institute for Psychology and Clinical Psychology' at the University of Strasbourg 1941–1944 . Ergon, Würzburg 2006, p. 25 (+ note 31).
  3. ^ According to Griff nach dem Westen , 2, p. 838, note 115, and p. 788 an OKW facility, following a note “ Zilliken ” dated May 30, 1940, Archive Landscape Association Rhineland , Brauweiler Abbey , ALVR 4585. Earlier authors on the other hand name the SS as the client.
  4. ↑ Additional title of the organization: "Spatial planning options for drawing up boundaries and dividing the border areas in the west." Materials on this can be found in the Federal Archives (Germany)
  5. ↑ Peter Schöttler: The historical "Westforschung" between "defensive battle" and territorial offensive. P. 245; Herwig Schäfer: Legal teaching and research at the University of Strasbourg 1941–1944 . Mohr Siebeck , Tübingen 1999, p. 32 f.
  6. ↑ Peter Schöttler: The historical "Westforschung" between "defensive battle" and territorial offensive. P. 224.
  7. ↑ polunbi.de
  8. ↑ polunbi.de
personal data
SURNAME Anrich, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and National Socialist
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Strasbourg
DATE OF DEATH October 21, 2001
Place of death Seeheim , Hesse