Freerk Haye Hamkens

Freerk Haye Hamkens (real name Wilhelm Schirrmann, born 1902 , died 1985 ) was a German historian and author .

Hamkens studied prehistory, folklore and comparative religious history with Hans Hahne in Halle, among others . In 1929 and 1934 he was Wilhelm Teudt's assistant in Detmold and from 1933 to 1935 he was a research assistant in Teudt's Association of Friends of Germanic Prehistory . During the time of National Socialism in 1934/35 he was part of Julius Andree and Wilhelm Teudt's excavation workers at the Externsteinen . In the years leading up to the end of the war, he published works on “symbol research”, which gained popularity under the prevailing pseudo-scientific-esoteric Nazi ideology ( Karl Theodor Weigel ).

Hamkens was in the Wehrmacht from 1941 to 1945 and then a prisoner of war until 1948. He then settled in Flensburg , where he also died.

Hamkens had privately created a photo archive of the excavations at the Externsteinen, which he published in 1971 in the right-wing extremist Grabert Verlag . Due to the current changes in terrain and weathering of the stones, the archive enjoys a source value. Hamken's attempts to prove a pre-Christian (Germanic) cult site continuity for the Externsteine meet with skepticism in interdisciplinary scientific research.

Fonts

The Nordic year and its symbols. Berlin, Nordischer Verlag Ernst Precht, 1936
The Bordesholm Altar from Master Brüggemann . Insel-Verlag, Leipzig, 1936
The symbols in the Schleswig Cathedral. Between paganism and the Christian world. Westphal, 1942
Symbols on gravestones from Schleswig to Flanders. 1944
Old German Imperial Eagle. 1944
The Externstein. Publishing house of the Deutsche Hochschullehrer-Zeitung Grabert, Tübingen, 1971
The Externstein. Paths and aberrations of research. First edition, Weecke Horn, 2000, ISBN 978-3-88080-068-7

Individual evidence

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↑ The Externstein. Paths and aberrations of research . Weecke, Horn 2000, ISBN 3-88080-068-5 , pp. XXII .
↑ ^a ^b Ernst Fleischhack: Lippisches Autorlexikon . tape 1 : Living authors and authors who died after January 1, 1983, with addenda. Wagener, Lemgo 1986, p. 82 ( online ).
^ Friedrich Hohenschwert et al .: Externsteine §3 Research History. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 8, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1994, ISBN 3-11-013188-9 , pp. 37-49.

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SURNAME	Hamkens, Freerk Haye
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Schirrmann-Hamkens, Freerk Haye
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German author
DATE OF BIRTH	1902
DATE OF DEATH	1985

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[2] The Externstein. Paths and aberrations of research . Weecke, Horn 2000, ISBN 3-88080-068-5 , pp. XXII .

[Autorenlexikon-3] Ernst Fleischhack: Lippisches Autorlexikon . tape 1 : Living authors and authors who died after January 1, 1983, with addenda. Wagener, Lemgo 1986, p. 82 ( online ).

[4] Friedrich Hohenschwert et al .: Externsteine §3 Research History. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 8, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1994, ISBN 3-11-013188-9 , pp. 37-49.