Fritz Valjavec

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Friedrich Maria Ludwig called Fritz Valjavec (born May 26, 1909 in Vienna ; † February 10, 1960 in Prien am Chiemsee ) was a Hungarian-German historian with Austrian-Hungarian or Yugoslav and finally German citizenship. He was the defining personality of German Southeast research in the 20th century. More recently, he began to come to terms with his role in the National Socialist “research on opponents” and his direct involvement in the National Socialist war of extermination .

Life

origin

Vajavec was born as the son of an Austrian civil servant employed in Agram ( Zagreb ) and a Danube Swabian mother. Oral tradition has it that he was adopted as an illegitimate child. He first grew up in the small town of Werschetz in Banat . After the fall of the Habsburg Monarchy , he became a Yugoslav citizen. From 1919 he lived in Budapest and graduated from the German grammar school there . In Budapest he also came into contact with Jakob Bleyer and Edmund Steinacker , the leading representatives of the political movement of the Hungarian Germans. Valjavec's first works appeared in Bleyer's German-Hungarian homeland sheets .

Studied in Munich

In 1930 the family moved back to Vienna. After Valjavec had difficulties getting the Abitur he had taken at the Reichsdeutsche Oberschule Budapest recognized in Hungary , he went to Munich on a scholarship arranged by Bleyer to study history with Raimund Friedrich Kaindl , Arnold Oskar Meyer and Karl Alexander von Müller , among others . In 1934 he received his doctorate on Karl Gottlieb Windisch . Then Valjavec worked in the Southeast Committee of the German Academy , but fell out with the academy director Karl Haushofer . In 1935 he received a grant from the German Research Foundation to work on a "History of the Germans in the Southeast from 1780-1918" and became an employee of the Southeast Institute headed by Müller . There he became managing director in 1937 and deputy director in 1943.

Engagement and career during National Socialism

"Volkstumsarbeit"

Valjavec not only pursued his scientific career, but was also politically active. He acted as a liaison for the Volksbund der Deutschen in Hungary in Munich. Although he did not openly distance himself from his sponsor Bleyer, he let it be known in his private correspondence that he did not consider him to be the dominant leader of the German minority in Hungary during the revolutionary period of 1918/19 . He was more oriented towards those radical Hungarian Germans who, based on national convictions, preferred segregation to integration and dissimilation to assimilation. In 1933 he joined the NSDAP (on May 1, 1933; membership number 3.202.280) and the NS student union .

Especially in the student union, Valjavec made connections that should prove to be helpful. In the winter semester of 1934/35 he set up a south / east branch for the student union and worked with Franz Ronneberger in training students for stays abroad. This created a network of students whose purpose was not least to indoctrinate German minorities in the Danube region in a National Socialist manner within the framework of so-called "land services" and with scientific camouflage .

By sending such students, Valjavec wrote in a work plan for the nationality work of the Foreign Office of the Munich universities in 1936 , “the guarantee for a solid selection of the team is given, and also given the possibility of inconspicuously, expediently camouflaged to carry out the national political work and above to contribute to the development of a National Socialist science through a lively connection between practical commitment and creative intellectual work. "

Looking back in 1980, Ronneberger recalled the culture-critical and enthusiastic motivation of folk researchers in Southeastern Europe research:

“We believed that we could find something in the peoples of the East that we were already missing in the rapidly urbanizing civilization of the 'West': the original, the young, the unspoiled. We were looking for the simple life, the grown, the simple human encounter. [...] For the early days of Southeastern European research, the impulses did not come from scientific curiosity for an untreated field. The political idea that the German Reich was predetermined by its location and its fate in a special way and obliged to support the peoples of this area released from imperial domination in their search for their identity and independence, was inevitable. "

- Franz Ronneberger : Interim balance of research on Southeast Europe. (1980)

Together with Ronneberger, Valjavec also set up a "South East Press Report" and came into contact with Franz Alfred Six . Due to such activities and connections, Valjavec succeeded in giving the Munich Southeast Institute a central role within National Socialist nationality work in general and Southeast research in particular.

"Opponent Research" for the SD

In 1936 Valjavec published the first issue of the new magazine Südostdeutsche Forschungen . In his programmatic introduction he argued, on the one hand, that the reconstruction broadcast of the German settlements in the southeast could be shown on the basis of the interaction between the intellectual and economic superiority of the German settlers and the surrounding people and culture. He did not want to have the biological and hereditary health issues of settlement history neglected either. On the other hand, he emphasized how important it was to recognize the values ​​of the Southeast European peoples in order to strengthen cooperation with the “foreign science of the countries concerned” for the benefit of both parties and, from the outset, to undermine the accusation that German science is culturally nationalistic Pursue goals.

Valjavec, for example, tried to win over historians and humanities scholars from south-eastern European countries for his journal. In doing so, of course, he also pursued the goal of playing off authors from different countries against each other in the interests of National Socialist foreign policy . He also used his contacts to compile reports for various parts of the party, armed forces and government.

In 1938 Valjavec completed his habilitation with the study "The German cultural influence in the near southeast" and became a private lecturer and then a dietician at the University of Munich . The Munich Southeast Institute , which had found itself increasingly in financial difficulties, was integrated into the SS in 1940 . It is not known exactly when Valjavec entered the SS. In 1934 he apparently belonged to the SS Reitersturm . In 1942/43 he noted in his own private notes that he had refused an invitation to join the SS. At least he was only able to produce his Aryan certificate in the summer of 1939 , and he was temporarily stateless after Yugoslavia revoked his citizenship in 1939 because of his political activities .

However, this only stood in the way of his career to a limited extent. In March 1940 Valjavec was appointed to the "Chair for History and Regional Studies of Southeast Europe" at the German Institute for International Studies (DAI) in Berlin, headed by Franz Alfred Six . At Valjavec's instigation, the Southeast Institute was finally incorporated into the DAI . Valjavec had thus positioned itself within the "enemy research" of the SS. The aim was to track down those groups abroad who were particularly viewed as opponents, i.e. to identify Jews , Marxists , liberals , etc., and to build up national data collections. He worked in a network with Wilfried Krallert , Kurt Marschelke , Walter Schellenberg , Hans Joachim Beyer , Harold Steinacker , Alfred Krehl and later the Reinhard Heydrich Foundation .

Schellenberg was supported by Valjavec in 1940, for example, with the creation of a “Handbook for Yugoslavia and Greece” that was to be given to the Waffen SS and the police in the event of a war with these countries, including a comprehensive list of the people to be arrested contained. In addition, since the beginning of the Second World War , Valjavec had been traveling to various Southeast European countries to report to the security service of the Reichsführer SS (SD) on the respective situation on site.

Interpreter of special command 10b of Einsatzgruppe D in Chernivtsi

Valjavec was naturalized on June 10, 1941. In June 1941 - whether in the run-up to the German attack on the Soviet Union or shortly afterwards is controversial - Valjavec took leave of absence from the university. He was assigned as a political advisor and interpreter to Sonderkommando 10b ( Sk 10b ) , commanded by Alois Persterer , of Einsatzgruppe D , which was deployed in the Romanian-Ukrainian border area, in northern Bukovina and Bessarabia . In the SS he held the rank of SS-Untersturmführer . In July 1941 the Sk 10b reached Chernivtsi , where it arrested and murdered communists , Jews and Freemasons or those who were believed to be. According to a report by the commando , 682 of around 1,200 arrested Jews had been shot by the beginning of August and 16 of 50 "communist functionaries" captured. On August 29, the shooting of another 3,106 Jews and communists was reported.

What Valjavec did as a member of the Sk 10b cannot be reconstructed in detail. One of his tasks seems to have been the inventory and digging of libraries whose book holdings he secured for the Munich Southeast Institute . Another task was to mobilize the Ukrainian minority against the Romanian occupation forces on behalf of the SD . For this purpose Valjavec stayed in Chernivtsi until the beginning of December 1941, while the Sk 10b had already moved on to the Ukraine . Gerhard Grimm thinks that Valjavec did not have any shooting training, so that his involvement in the murders is not to be assumed. Michael Fahlbusch , on the other hand, points out that only very few command officers of the Einsatzgruppen can even be proven that they shot themselves and asks whether this could be of any importance in view of the overall context.

Meanwhile, Ingo Haar cited a new file found in 2005 from the Ludwigsburg Central Office for the Prosecution of National Socialist violent crimes . According to this, on July 8, 1941, Valjavec was directly involved in an execution of 100 Jews by the Sk 10b in Chernivtsi. In an interrogation of members of the commando by the Munich public prosecutor's office, the witness Karl Finger , Teilkommandofführer des Sk 10b , testified in 1962 that Valjavec himself reported about the central action of July 8, 1941 and fired “shots in the neck” at the killing site.

Professor in Berlin

Back in Berlin, Valjavec resumed teaching. He tried to find professorships in Prague and Innsbruck . But Six declared Valjavec to be indispensable. On February 1, 1943 Valjavec received an extraordinary professorship at the Faculty of Foreign Studies at the University of Berlin , which he held until 1945. No files from the Southeast Institute have survived for the period from 1940 to 1945 .

Career break and rehabilitation after 1945

Revival of the Southeast Institute

After the end of the Second World War, Valjavec was initially unable to continue his scientific career. He was one of the 24 historians who were dismissed for political reasons, although he emphasized that he had not been deposed individually at the University of Berlin. Apparently he had not been "de-Nazified" . The Southeast Institute was renamed the “Munich Institute for Cultural Research” in 1945 and was about to be dissolved. However, Valjavec managed to put pressure on the Bavarian government through political connections to restart the Southeast Institute . Achim Oster , a friend of Valjavec and head of the security policy department in the Federal Chancellery , informed Konrad Adenauer and was able to arouse his interest in continuing the old work of the institute. In 1951, the Southeast Institute was run as a separate institute, which was to work closely with Theodor Oberländer's East European Institute . Basically, the Southeast Institute continued its research on opponents, only now with a focus on the communist regimes in Southeast Europe . Valjavec claimed the position of managing director, which he was only to receive in 1955.

"Documentation of the eviction"

In the meantime, Valjavec not only published his book on The Origin of Political Currents in Germany , but also organized the "Documentation of Expulsion " in 1951 together with Hans von Spaeth-Meyken on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Expellees, Refugees and War Victims . The aim was to set up a file that was supposed to record evacuations , expulsions and eyewitness reports. Valjavec worked on the "Southeast Area". The ministry soon changed the focus of the documentation in favor of questioning people who had fled to West Germany in order to organize a “documentation of inhumanity”. In cooperation with the Bavarian associations of expellees , Valjavec sent interviewers specially trained by him to the witnesses placed. He invested the fee from the surveys in the development of the Southeast German cultural work of the expellees , which emerged from his "Southeast German Research Center" founded in the late 1940s. The overall project of the documentation was transferred in April 1952 to a new editorial group headed by Theodor Schieder , who found that Valjavec's reports contained gross exaggerations and falsifications and that the eyewitness reports collected were partly fictitious. Theodor Oberländer, who took over the Ministry of Expellees in 1953 and extended Valjavec's contract, helped in this situation.

Rehabilitation as a scientist

Valjavec represented the southeast German country teams in the East German Cultural Council . He also established the Southeast Europe Society (1952) and the Southeast German Historical Commission (1957). He worked as general secretary of a "German-Hungarian Society" under the chairmanship of Ludwig Karl Maria von Bayern , as co-editor of the book series of the commission, the Southeast German Archive (1958ff.) And in 1952 took over the publication of the anthology Historia Mundi (1952-1960) by Fritz Kern, who died in 1950 . In the same year he also founded the Scientific Service Southeast Europe as a new specialist journal of the Southeast Institute . In 1954 he taught as an honorary professor without the right to award doctorates at the LMU Munich. In 1958 he received a full professorship for "Modern and Southeast European History". Valjavec was questioned in the preliminary investigation against members of the Sk 10b that was initiated in 1957 . However, he died surprisingly of a heart attack before the investigation became more concrete.

Founding myth of southeast research and Nazi perpetrators

Fritz Valjavec's person and work are highly controversial. On the one hand, he is considered a capable and innovative historian. According to Elisabeth Fehrenbach, his study of the beginnings of political parties in Germany in 1951 was groundbreaking . His remarks on the formation of groups in the field of personnel policy, the position of civil servants, the role of journalism, the reading public, and the beginnings of the formation of associations in reading societies and Masonic lodges had outlined a broad spectrum of topics that were only gradually taken up again be. In addition, he took an interdisciplinary approach.

On the other hand, he represents the "fighting science" of National Socialism, whose primacy of research on opponents was continued by him after 1945. He was a "Janus-headed apparition" who served himself up to National Socialism, but had a distant relationship to the National Socialist worldview and even had connections to the church resistance around the Jesuit Father Alfred Delp due to pronounced church-religious convictions .

Valjavec's work was also fed by an anti-modern impetus after the Second World War.

“For thirty years it has become clear that with the disappearance of religious influences, a moral relativization and, in general, a dissolution of all concepts of value is becoming more and more widespread. With the spread of external forms of culture of occidental origin all over the world, there is a loss of real cultural power, which limited the world validity of modern culture to external, material and technical things. [...] The triumphal march of modern technology and industrialization with all its manifestations is at the same time the triumphant march of a certain culture which, precisely because of its triviality and intellectual unpretentiousness, has great success with the masses and somehow seems to be the expression of an age in which only the The masses and the masses count. At the same time, this modern machine culture levels all the peculiarities and peculiarities of the countries, peoples and continents. [...]
One can therefore say that modernity creates an increasing cultural leveling in certain things, but that this process does not come into its own without restriction and that in certain, and in essential things, special forms assert themselves, sometimes a conscious one, yes even experience increased care. […] It is unmistakable that the individual world religions also bring about a preservation of the cultural peculiarity and thus work against intellectual and civilizational leveling out on their own. Universalism stands against internationalism here. "

- Fritz Valjavec : Word and Truth 4 (1949)

The meeting of the Southeast German Historical Commission in October 2002 dealt in more detail with the history of Southeast research in the Third Reich. Up until now, Valjavec had been stylized as the founding myth of the Southeast Institute. The most heated discussions of the conference flared up about his person and role. While Michael Fahlbusch and Norbert Spannenberger emphasized Valjavec's political commitment to National Socialism, Gerhard Grimm and Krista Zach protected him. Grimm goes so far as to attribute a greater distance to National Socialism to Valjavec than, for example, Ludwig Beck and Carl Goerdeler , due to culturally critical private pressure from 1941 .

Valjavec enjoys an unbroken high reputation among displaced persons' associations. It deserves a first-rate place in German cultural history, says the East German biography of the Cultural Foundation of German Expellees .

A critical biography based on Valjavec's extensive correspondence and personal testimonies is still pending.

Its 2,300-volume library is located in the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies .

Fonts

Monographs

  • Karl Gottlieb von Windisch (1725–1793). The life picture of a southeast German citizen of the Enlightenment period. Schick, Munich 1936.
  • The German cultural influence in the near southeast. With a special focus on Hungary. Schick, Munich 1940.
  • Josephinism. On the intellectual development of Austria in the 18th and 19th centuries. Rohrer, Brno 1944.
  • The emergence of political currents in Germany 1770–1815. Oldenbourg, Munich 1951.
  • (Ed.): Festschrift on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Munich Southeast Institute 1930–1955. Munich 1956.
  • History of German cultural relations with Southeastern Europe. 1958.
  • Southeast Europe Bibliography. Oldenbourg, Munich 1959.
  • with Jörn Garber : The emergence of political currents in Germany, 1770–1815. Athenaeum [u. a.], Kronberg / Ts. 1978, ISBN 3-7610-7212-0 .
  • History of the Occidental Enlightenment. Herold, Vienna 1961.
  • Commemorative publication for Fritz Valjavec (1909–1960). Verl. D. Südostdeutschen Kulturwerk, Munich 1963.
  • Selected essays . Munich 1963.

Essays

  • The German bourgeoisie and the beginnings of the German movement in Hungary. In: Southeast German Research. 1938, pp. 376-394.
  • Sources on the beginnings of the German movement in Hungary. In: Southeast German Research. 1939, pp. 465-508.
  • The development of German Southeast Research and its current status. On the history and methodology. In: Southeast Research. 1941, pp. 1-37.
  • Romania in 1940. In: Yearbook for Politics and Foreign Studies. 1941, pp. 354-373.
  • Hungary in 1940. In: Yearbook for Politics and Foreign Studies. 1941, pp. 338-353.
  • Hungary and the question of the entire Austrian state at the beginning of 1849. In: Historische Zeitschrift. 1941, pp. 81-98.
  • Southeast Europe. In: Yearbook of World Politics. 1942, pp. 383-435.
  • Southeast Europe and the Balkans. Research goals and research opportunities. In: Southeast Research. 1942, pp. 1-8.
  • On the criticism and methodology of Southeast Europe research. In: Southeast Research. 1942, pp. 218-223.
  • The historical development of German research on Southeast Europe. In: Yearbook of World Politics. 1943, pp. 1055-1092.
  • The Woellner religious edict and its historical significance. In: Historical yearbook. 1953, pp. 386-400.
  • The Josephinian Roots of Austrian Conservatism. In: Festgabe offered Harold Steinacker on the completion of the 80th year of life, May 26, 1955. 1955, pp. 166–175.
  • et al .: The peculiarity of Southeastern Europe in history and culture. In: Südosteuropa-Jahrbuch. 1957, pp. 53-62.
  • The cultural achievements of Southeast Germany in history. In: Southeast German Archive. 1958, pp. 66-75.
  • The Germanness in Southeast Europe. In: The Collapse of German Abroad in Eastern Europe. 1959, pp. 11-24.
  • The question of nationality in Austria after 1848. In: Austria, 1848–1918. 1959, pp. 33-46.
  • Cultural-political problems of Southeast Europe since 1945. In: Südosteuropa-Jahrbuch. 1959, pp. 18-33.

Community works

  • with Fritz Kern : Historia mundi. A manual of world history in 10 volumes. Leaning [u. a.], Munich a. a. 1961.
  • with Fritz Baade and Felix von Schroeder : World history of the present. In 2 volumes. Francke, Bern 1963.
  • with Felix von Schröder: History of German cultural relations with Southeast Europe. 1965.
  • with Gertrud Krallert-Sattler: Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria. Oldenbourg, Munich 1956.
  • with Gertrud Krallert-Sattler: Yugoslavia, Hungary, Albania, Southeast Europe and larger areas. Oldenbourg, Munich 1959.

literature

  • Gerhard Grimm : Georg Stadtmüller and Fritz Valjavec. Between adaptation and assertion. In: Mathias Beer u. Gerhard Seewann (Ed.): Southeast research in the shadow of the Third Reich. Institutions - content - people. Oldenbourg, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-486-57564-3 , pp. 237-255 ( Southeast European Works 119).
  • Ingo Haar : Friedrich Valjavec: A historian's life between the Vienna arbitration awards and the documentation of the expulsion. In: Lucia Scherzberg (ed.): Theology and coming to terms with the past. A critical inventory in an interdisciplinary comparison. Schöningh, Paderborn u. a. 2005, ISBN 3-506-72934-9 , pp. 103-119.
  • Ingo Haar: murders for a career. A scandalous source in the planned center against eviction. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . January 17, 2005.
  • Josef Matthias Hahn: Fritz Valjavec in memory. In: Südostdeutsche Semesterblätter. 1960, ZDB -ID 537707-9 , pp. 1-2.
  • Hans Hartl : Fritz Valjavec. [Obituary]. In: Eastern Europe. 10, No. 2/3 1960, p. 215.
  • Karl Nehring: At the beginning of “Southeast Research”. Fritz Valjavec's correspondence with Gyula Szekfű 1934–1936. In: Southeast Research. International magazine for history, culture and regional studies. 50, 1991, ISSN  0081-9077 , pp. 1-30.
  • Karl Nehring: The correspondence from Fritz Valjavec 1934–1950. People and institutions. In: Southeast Research. International magazine for history, culture and regional studies. 53, 1994, pp. 323-354.
  • László Orosz: The Connections of German Southeast Research to Hungarian Science between 1935 and 1944. An outline of the problem based on the correspondence between Fritz Valjavec and Elemer Jalyasz. In: Márta Fata (ed.): The image of Hungary in German historiography. Steiner, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-515-08428-2 , pp. 126–167 ( series of publications by the Institute for Danube Swabian History and Regional Studies 13).
  • Gerhard Seewann : The Southeast Institute 1930–1960. In: Matthias Beer (Ed.): Southeast research in the shadow of the Third Reich. Institutions - content - people. Oldenbourg, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-486-57564-3 , pp. 49-92 ( Southeast European Works 119).
  • Norbert Spannenberger : From ethnic German young scientist to protagonist of National Socialist Southeast European policy. Fritz Valjavec as reflected in his correspondence 1934–1939. In: Matthias Beer (Ed.): Southeast research in the shadow of the Third Reich. Institutions - content - people. Oldenbourg, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-486-57564-3 , pp. 215-236 ( Southeast European Works 119).
  • Harold Steinacker : The cultural historian Fritz Valjavec (1909-1960). A picture of life. In: Southeast German Archive. 3, 1960, ISSN  0081-9085 , pp. 3-13.
  • Krista Zach: Friedrich Valjavec based on his private diary-like notes (1934–1946). In: Mathias Beer (Ed.): Southeast research in the shadow of the Third Reich. Institutions - content - people. Oldenbourg, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-486-57564-3 , pp. 257-274 ( Southeast European Works 119).

Web links

Individual evidence

In the anthology

  • Matthias Beer and Gerhard Seewann (eds.): Southeast research in the shadow of the Third Reich. Institutions - content - people. Oldenbourg, Munich 2004 ISBN 3-486-57564-3 . (= Southeast European Works 119).
  1. ^ Gerhard Seewann : Das Südost-Institut 1930–1960 , p. 79.
  2. ↑ Norbert Spannenberger : From ethnic German young scientist to protagonist of National Socialist Southeast European policy. Fritz Valjavec in the mirror of his correspondence 1934–1939 , p. 223f.
  3. ^ Gerhard Seewann: Das Südost-Institut 1930–1960 , p. 60.
  4. ↑ Quotation from Mathias Beer : Ways to Historicize Southeast Research. Requirements, approaches, topics , pp. 18, 22.
  5. ^ Gerhard Seewann: Das Südost-Institut 1930–1960 , pp. 58–62.
  6. ^ Gerhard Seewann: Das Südost-Institut 1930–1960 , p. 62f.
  7. ↑ Krista Zach: Friedrich Valjavec based on his private diary-like notes , pp. 267, 269f.
  8. ^ Gerhard Seewann: Das Südost-Institut 1930–1960 , p. 82.
  9. ^ Gerhard Seewann: Das Südost-Institut 1930–1960 , p. 80.
  10. ^ Gerhard Grimm: Georg Stadtmüller and Fritz Valjavec. Between adaptation and assertion , p. 248.
  11. ^ Gerhard Seewann: Das Südost-Institut 1930–1960 , p. 79; Michael Fahlbusch: In the service of Germanness in Southeast Europe. Ethnopolitical advisors as perpetrators for crimes against humanity , p. 208.
  12. ^ Gerhard Seewann: Das Südost-Institut 1930–1960 , p. 68.
  13. ↑ Michael Fahlbusch: In the service of Germanness in Southeast Europe. Ethnopolitical advisors as perpetrators for crimes against humanity , pp. 208f.
  14. ↑ Michael Fahlbusch: In the service of Germanness in Southeast Europe. Ethnopolitical advisors as perpetrators for crimes against humanity , p. 209.
  15. ^ Gerhard Grimm : Georg Stadtmüller and Fritz Valjavec. Between adaptation and assertion , p. 251.
  16. ↑ Michael Fahlbusch: In the service of Germanness in Southeast Europe. Ethnopolitical advisors as perpetrators for crimes against humanity , p. 209.
  17. ^ Krista Zach: Friedrich Valjavec after his private diary-like notes , p. 270.
  18. ^ Krista Zach: Friedrich Valjavec after his private diary-like notes , p. 262.
  19. ^ Gerhard Seewann: Das Südost-Institut 1930–1960 , pp. 86–91.
  20. ^ Gerhard Seewann: Das Südost-Institut 1930–1960 , p. 58.
  21. ^ Gerhard Grimm: Georg Stadtmüller and Fritz Valjavec. Between adaptation and self-assertion , p. 254.

Further evidence

  1. ^ Fritz Valjavec: Ways and Changes in German Southeast Research , (1936). In: Fritz Valjavec: Selected essays . Munich 1963, pp. 19-21.
  2. ^ Ingo Haar: Friedrich Valjavec. A historian's life between the Vienna arbitration awards and the documentation of the expulsion . In: Lucia Scherzberg (ed.): Theology and coming to terms with the past. A critical inventory in an interdisciplinary comparison , Paderborn 2005, p. 111. An abridged version of this lecture: Ingo Haar: Morden für die Karriere. A scandalous source in the planned center against eviction. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , January 17, 2005. See also the quote from Fingerschen's statement that he has not named Valjavec so far in order not to endanger it in: Andrej Angrick: In the interplay of forces. Impressions of the German influence on national politics in Chernivtsi before “Barbarossa” and after the attack on the Soviet Union. In: Alfred Bernd Gottwaldt, Norbert Kampe (ed.): Nazi tyranny: Contributions to historical research and legal reappraisal. Berlin 2005, p. 339.
  3. ↑ Ingo Haar: The German "Expulsion Losses" - On the genesis of the "Documentation of Expulsion". In: Tel Aviver Yearbook for German History 2007, pp. 254f.
  4. ↑ Ingo Haar: Murder for a career. A scandalous source in the planned center against eviction. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , January 17, 2005.
  5. ^ Elisabeth Fehrenbach: From the Ancien Régime to the Congress of Vienna . Munich 2001, p. 188.
  6. ↑ Cf. The Development of German Southeast Research and Its Current Status , (1941). In: Fritz Valjavec: Selected essays . Munich 1963, p. 56.
  7. ↑ Edgar Hösch : Southeast Europe in the Historiography of the Federal Republic after the Second World War up to the 1980s. In: Dittmar Dahlmann (Ed.): Hundred Years of Eastern European History. Past, present and future. Stuttgart 2005, p. 114f.
  8. ^ Fritz Valjavec: Selected essays . Munich 1963, p. 365f.
  9. ^ Report from the conference “Southeast Research in the Shadow of the Third Reich (1920–1960). Institutions, content, people “ Dietmar Müller in: H-Soz-u-Kult , December 19, 2002.
  10. ^ Anton Tafferner: Valjavec, Fritz . In: Ostdeutsche Biographie (Kulturportal West-Ost).
  11. ↑ Brief description of the library .
personal data
SURNAME Valjavec, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Valjavec, Friedrich Maria Ludwig (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian-German historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH February 10, 1960
Place of death Prien am Chiemsee