Fritz Kubach

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Fritz Kubach (born May 21, 1912 in Heidelberg ; † 1945 missing) was a German scientist and science historian, editor of the first Munich Copernicus Complete Editions and a National Socialist science politician.

Life

Fritz Kubach studied mathematics and natural sciences at the University of Heidelberg from 1931 to 1935 . From 1935 to 1936 he was an assistant at the Baden state observatory in Heidelberg-Königstuhl and received his doctorate in Heidelberg in 1936 with a dissertation on Johannes Kepler as a mathematician .

In 1933 Kubach joined the NSDAP (membership number 3.143.166) and SA , and from the latter in 1936 he joined the SS (membership number 272.669). From 1934 to 1936 he was the main office manager for science in the Heidelberg student body and deputy guest leader in Baden . Since 1935 he was a volunteer member of the SD . Kubach's career as a National Socialist functionary was closely linked to that of Gustav Adolf Scheels . After he took over the leadership of the Reichsstudenten , he followed him to Berlin in 1936, became head of the department for science and education from 1937 and from 1940 to 1942 its authorized representative. From 1937 the focus of the Reich student leadership was in the Office of Science and Education . Since 1937 he gave the journal for the entire natural science. Organ of the Reichsfachgruppe Naturwissenschaft der Reichsstudentenführung , an organ of the Ahnenerbe . In 1944/45 Kubach was staff leader of the National Socialist German Lecturer Association . After volunteering several times, he was drafted into the Wehrmacht in May 1941 and was last lieutenant . In 1944 he was promoted to Sturmbannführer in the SS . He has been missing since January 1945.

Kubach championed Ernst Krieck's idea of university reform under adverse conditions until the last months of the war .

His marriage to Isa Kubach (née Koch; member of the geological association) had two children.

Fritz Kubach and the Copernicus Edition

Fritz Kubach was acquainted with members of the Kepler Commission of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences through his doctoral process . Following their example, he formed the commission for the Copernicus Complete Edition , which in addition to Max Caspar, who was also involved in the Kepler Edition, formed the proven Copernicus experts Robert Samulski , Hans Schmauch , Franz Zeller, Karl Zeller as well as August Faust , Wilhelm Führer , Karl Griewank , August Kopff , Rudolf Mentzel , Johannes Papritz , Rembert Ramsauer , Theodor Vahlen , Heinrich Vogt , and became editor of the first Munich Copernicus Complete Edition , of which only Volume 1 was published in 1944 and Volume 2 in 1948 due to the war. With the editor of the first volume, Karl Zeller, there was a substantive dispute because of the follow-up report. In 1947, the politically unaffected and recognized academic staff of the Edition reunited to form the Copernicus Commission. Kubach was described as the formal editor-in-chief who was impossible as a National Socialist politician and who was eliminated through death. Its introduction to the first volume has been exchanged for the copies that have not yet been delivered.

Publications (selection)

  • Johannes Kepler as mathematician (= publications of the Baden observatory in Heidelberg, Volume 11). [Dissertation]. Braun, Karlsruhe i. B. 1935.
  • Students build on! The 2nd Reich professional competition for German students in 1936/37. An accountability report. Edited on behalf of the Reichsstudentenführer.
  • Students build on! The 3rd Reich professional competition of German students 1937/38. An accountability report. Edited on behalf of the Reichsstudentenführer.
  • Contributions in: The study of natural science and mathematics. Lead-in tape. Winter, Heidelberg 1943 (study guide. Series of publications to introduce the entire scientific study).
  • Contributions in: Nikolaus Kopernikus. Portrait of a great German. New work in Copernicus research with excerpts from Copernican writings in German. Oldenbourg, Munich / Berlin 1943. Kubach's contributions therein:
Life and work of Nicolaus Copernicus. Pp. 1-26.
Small Bibliography of Copernicus. Pp. 286-304.
The Copernicus Complete Edition. Pp. 305-312.
  • as editor: Nikolaus Kopernikus Opus de revolutionibus caelestibus, manu propria. Facsimile reproduction. Oldenbourg, Munich 1944 (= complete edition. Volume 1, edited by Karl Zeller).
  • as co-editor: Journal for the whole of natural science. Organ of the Reichsfachgruppe Naturwissenschaft (Reichsstudentenführung). Berlin-Dahlem: Ahnenerbe-Stiftung Verlag 1, 1935/36-10, 1944; so set. Main title 1, 1935/36 - 2, 1936/37: Journal for the whole of natural science including natural philosophy and the history of natural science and medicine. Braunschweig: Vieweg (1935/36 - 1938/39)

literature

  • Michael Grüttner (Hrsg.): Biographical Lexicon for National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History, Vol. 6). Synchron Wissenschaftsverlag der Authors, Heidelberg 2004, p.?.
  • Gerhard Müller: Ernst Krieck and the National Socialist Science Reform. Motives and tendencies of a science teaching and university reform in the Third Reich (= studies on science and university history, vol. 5). Beltz, Weinheim 1978, p.
  • Norbert Jagemann: "The Study Guide". On the science policy of the SS (= Studies on Contemporary History, Vol. 47). Kovac, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-8300-1932-7 , p.?.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Declared dead in 1957 by order of the Munich District Court.
  2. ^ A b Gerhard Müller: Ernst Krieck and the National Socialist Science Reform. Beltz, Weinheim 1978 p. 496.
  3. ↑ a b c d e cf. Gerd Simon: Chronology Kubach, Fritz (PDF file; 266 kB).
  4. ↑ Nicolaus Copernicus. Portrait of a great German. Ed. Fritz Kubach. Oldenbourg, Munich, Berlin 1943,
  5. ↑ Hans-Jürgen Schuch, Werner Thimm: Small Copernicus Bibliography. In: Friedrich Kaulbach, Udo Wilhelm Bargenda, Juergen Bluehdorn (eds.): Nicolaus Copernicus on the 500th birthday. Böhlau, Cologne, Vienna 1973, pp. 265–270, here p. 265.
  6. ↑ On the character of the journal cf. Klaus Schlüpmann: Nothing in the specialist press (last accessed on March 3, 2010).


personal data
SURNAME Kubach, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German natural scientist and science historian, National Socialist party official
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg
DATE OF DEATH 1945