Ewald Erb

Ewald Johann Erb (born October 3, 1903 in Bredeney near Essen , † April 26, 1978 while passing through Dresden ) was a German literary scholar .

Life

Erb was the son of the architect Paulus Erb . His brother Alfons Erb was the founder of the Maximilian Kolbe plant .

Ewald Erb studied history , German and ethnology in Cologne and Bonn . In 1933 he was expelled from the University of Bonn for communist activities. In 1937 he moved with his wife Elisabeth to Scherbach in the Rhineland to " overwinter National Socialism ". There the daughters Elke , Gisela and Ute Erb were born. Erb worked until his convening in 1941 the tax office in Rheinbach . As a soldier in the Wehrmacht , he was brought before a court martial in 1944 for preparation for high treason and disruptive military force . In 1945 he was taken prisoner by the British .

In 1947, Erb became a research assistant at the Institute for History at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg , and later he switched to the German Institute. In 1949 he brought his family to Halle from the Rhineland .

His most important works in the field of Marxist literary studies are the volumes 1.1 and 1.2 ("From the Beginnings to 1160") of the eleven-volume history of German literature (edited by Klaus Gysi , Kurt Böttcher , Günter Albrecht , published in 1963 and 1964) by him . Paul Günter Krohn - Collective for Literary History) and Volume 1 of the three-volume German History, published in 1965 (edited by Hans-Joachim Bartmuß , Stefan Doernberg , Ernst Engelberg and others), on which he worked.

Web links

• Literature by and about Ewald Erb in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gabriele von Törne: Scherbach was refuge from the Nazis. ( Memento from October 10, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Bonner General-Anzeiger , August 18, 2010