Eugene Lemberg

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Eugen Lemberg (born December 27, 1903 in Pilsen / Austria-Hungary , † December 25, 1976 in Mainz ) was a German-Bohemian historian and sociologist.

Life

Eugen Lemberg, a son of the couple Vinzenz Lemberg (1870–1948), kuk captain, later kk administrative officer and the pianist Rosa, née Waldbrunn (1875–1950), from Pettau and grandson of Vinzenz Lemberg (1812–1879), cotton merchant in Grulich (Kraliky) from a family resident there since the 16th century, graduated from the high school in Leitmeritz. He belonged to the Volkisch-Catholic youth movement and studied, u. a. with Erich Gierach German studies , Slavic studies and history at the German University in Prague . After his promotion to Doctor of Philosophy in 1927 he was a research assistant in Münster , then taught at the high school Prague Stephansgasse and habilitation of Sociology in 1937 at the University of Prague.

In the summer of 1938, during the first Czechoslovakia , Eugen Lemberg joined the propaganda department of the Sudeten German Freikorps in Dresden . In the same year, after the Munich Agreement and the annexation of the Sudetenland as Reichsgau Sudetenland to the German Reich, he was senior director of the teacher training institute in Liberec (Reichenberg) in northern Bohemia . During the Second World War (1939–1945) he is said to have left the Roman Catholic Church and expelled as a member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP). During the war he served in the military, was taken prisoner and taught at the camp universities of Concordia in Kansas and Trinidad in Colorado .

In 1946 he was released and came to Hesse , where his relatives lived as expellees after the Germans were expelled from Czechoslovakia , campaigned for Hessian teacher training and as a ministerial advisor, became head of the school department in the Hessian Ministry of Education and Lecturer at the Pedagogical Institute in Kassel .

Eugen Lemberg was committed to research into the East . In 1956 he and others founded the Collegium Carolinum , a research center for the history of the Bohemian countries in Munich, and from 1959 to 1963 he was president of the Johann Gottfried Herder Research Council with extensive study trips. Since 1951 he was associate professor and since 1957 full professor for sociology of education at the University for International Educational Research (HIPF) in Frankfurt am Main, later the German Institute for International Educational Research .

His scientific interest was in the problems of the coexistence of peoples, especially the nation-state thinking and the integration and disintegration processes. Lemberg suffered from the problems of nationalist ideologues of the expellees from personal experience. The expulsion of entire ethnic groups and their consequences prompted him to study the sociology and ideology of mass forced deportation and the groups affected by it and their integration and impact. He regarded the Sudeten Germans as an ethnic group . He made himself increasingly unpopular with their numerous organizations in the period after the Second World War because he looked from the past to a future worth living in; on integration in the Federal Republic of Germany without claims to revision of expropriated land and property.

In 1964, Eugen Lemberg published his theory of nationalism , whereby he understood nationalism in its original, literal sense, in order to "use this word to denote the cohesiveness that integrates large national or quasi-national groups". He differentiated its manifestations and their excesses in other publications.

Eugen Lemberg worked closely with the Eastern researcher Ernst Lehmann , a co-founder of the then Witikobund and publisher of Eastern Studies journals. From 1960 to 1975 he was co-editor of the journal for East Central Europe research .

He was the father of the historian Hans Lemberg .

Publications (selection)

  • Basics of National Awakening in Bohemia . Reichenberg 1932, Gebrüder Stiepel ges.mbh, 1932 - 181 pages.
  • Paths and changes in national consciousness . Studies on history and becoming a people in the Netherlands and Bohemia; Münster (Westphalia) 1934.
  • The expulsion as fate and task. On the sociology and ideology of the East Expellees . Munich 1949.
  • The emergence of a new people from inland Germans and east expellees: Investigations into the structural change of the country and its people under the influence of the influx of expellees . Marburg / Lahn 1950, a. a. published in: Nationalism I and II, Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH, Reinbek near Hamburg, 1964.
  • History of Nationalism in Europe . Stuttgart 1950. Also included in Nationalism I; Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek near Hamburg, 1964.
  • Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union . Stuttgart 1950, second edition Salzburg 1956.
  • Peoples and ethnic groups in exile . Munich 1953.
  • Rethinking in exile . Bonn 1954, 4th edition 1957.
  • The displaced persons in West Germany: their integration and their influence on society, economy, politics and intellectual life . In 3 volumes, Hirt, Kiel, 1959 ( DNB 455246114 ).
  • Contributions to the sociology of education (ed.), Heidelberg, 1960.
  • Ostkunde. Fundamental and critical information on a German educational task , Hanover 1964.
  • Reformation in Communism , 1967
  • The representation of Eastern Europe in the German education system . Hamburg, Unesco Institute for Education, 1968
  • The German-Czech relationship since 1918 . Stuttgart, Kohlhammer, 1969
  • Ideology and society . Stuttgart, Kohlhammer 1971 (2nd edition 1974).
  • Anthropology of ideological systems . Weinheim, Beltz 1977 (2nd edition 1987).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eugen Lemberg: Nationalism: the knowledge of the 20th century in a paperback with encyclopedic headword, Volume 1: Psychology and History, Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH, Reinbek bei Hamburg, 1964, p. 332.
  2. ^ Eugen Lemberg: Nationalism: the knowledge of the 20th century in a paperback with encyclopedic headword, Volume 1: Psychology and History, Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH, Reinbek bei Hamburg, 1964, p. 20.
  3. See Hans Lemberg: Commentary on the contributions on Hans Lemberg . In: Bohemia . 1st 2004.