Fritz Ranzi

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Friedrich Ranzi (born February 21, 1909 in Kaltern , Austria-Hungary , † July 5, 1977 in Innsbruck ) was an Austrian historian. Throughout his life he was in favor of connecting Austria to Germany. Like no other, he dealt with the identity problems of his home country using the example of student associations in Austria .

Life

Ranzi's mother Maria Ranzi b. Paris came from the South Tyrolean nobility. The father was the Innsbruck tax officer Hans Ranzi (1882-1965), next to Karl Schönherr and Franz Kranewitter the third playwright in Tyrol . He wrote his most important stage plays in the 1920s under the pseudonym "Hans Renz" .

Baptized in the name of Friedrich and called Fritz, Ranzi attended elementary school in Landeck (Tyrol) and the Bundesrealgymnasium Innsbruck . There he passed the final examination in June 1929. In the winter semester of 1929/30 he enrolled at the University of Innsbruck for medicine. He became active in the Corps Athesia. For unknown reasons, he switched to philosophy, history, geography and German studies. He attended lectures and exercises by Heinrich Hammer , Richard Heuberger , Richard Marek (geographer), Friedrich Metz , Harold Steinacker , Otto Stolz , Hermann Wopfner and Adolf Helbok . For years he was chairman of the German-Liberal University Committee . After the First World War he converted from Catholicism to the Evangelical Church AB

Leipzig

He left the corporate state (Austria) “for political reasons” and went to the University of Leipzig for the winter semester of 1935/36 . He was brought there by his corps brother Helbok, who, as a National Socialist in the Austro-Fascist corporate state , had been removed from office and appointed to the Leipzig chair in 1935. Ranzi heard from Hermann Heimpel , Rudolf Kötzschke , Rudolf Lehmann , Bruno Schier , Heinrich Schmitthenner and Kurt Tackenberg . As advised by Helbok, Ranzi wrote a population science doctoral thesis. After graduating in autumn 1936, it was created at the Institute for German National and Folk History . On February 7, 1938, he was the dean's office of Erich Brownish the rating "very good" for Dr. phil. PhD. The curriculum vitae in the dissertation is signed "Friedrich Ranzi". The later publications operate under the nickname "Fritz". After he had been a scientific volunteer assistant for a while, he became head of the research department at the Institute for Regional History and Settlement Studies. He later worked in the same function in Innsbruck.

Daidalia

As a soldier in the Wehrmacht, Ranzi was in Königsberg (Prussia) in 1941/42 . Assigned to the Albertus University to study medicine , 18 members of the Air Force wanted to set up a student union . Ranzi advised them to establish a secret alliance. On December 15, 1941, Daidalia , named after Daidalos , was founded in the Daeblitz restaurant . The blue-silver-blue color was a reference to the colors of the Luftwaffe. The ribbon was always worn under the uniform. The Bund met at Daeblitz's or in the pathology cellar. After Helmut Motekat , student leader of the comradeship “Hermann von Salza”, had become a member of the Daidalia, on February 3, 1942, the union became part of the comradeship. Worn by the old men of the Königsberg fraternity in Gothia , it made reconstitution possible during the war (until 1944) with the young daidals of Gothia as the only Königsberg union. As spirit rector , Ranzi received Daidalia's ribbon of honor. As a corps student he couldn't wear it; But he remained loyal to the Daidalen throughout his life. In 1943 he was seriously wounded in the German-Soviet War . At the end of the war he was taken prisoner by the Soviets and worked in a hospital. He was then sent to a concentration camp in Poznan for seven months .

Homecoming

When Ranzi returned to Innsbruck at the end of 1945, he was expected to be dismissed from the university's academic service. It was probably also due to his commitment to connecting Austria . From 1947 to 1951 he was chief accountant in the accounting service of the French mission and military director in Innsbruck. He then worked as a journalist for various Tyrolean weekly papers until 1954. In 1955/56 he was secretary in the Austrian youth hostel organization . Most recently, he was department head at a Viennese advertising company based in Innsbruck until retirement. He lived on Langstrasse. His Heiteres Tiroler Reisebrevier , a "declaration of love for Tyrol" was not published.

In the early 1950s he was committed to the reconstitution of his corps. He wrote Athesia's corps history (1962/1976) and dealt with the "German Corps in Austria". His insights into the Austrian mentality conflicts are as clear and topical as they were 60 years ago. "Rones" was a regular drum doctor in his corps. The Corps Frankonia-Brünn zu Salzburg awarded him the ribbon on November 20, 1964. Ranzi gave it back on June 26, 1972 at his own request. With the Daidalia ribbon and his wife, he took part in 1974 as a guest of honor at the 120th foundation festival of the Königsberg Goths in Göttingen. As a diabetic, he often rode his bike and sustained head injuries when he fell on his bike at the Inn . He fell down the bank and drowned. He was buried in the Westfriedhof (Innsbruck) . He left his wife Martha Ranzi nee Silber, the daughter Maria Huebner geb. Ranzi and four grandchildren. Athesia made him an honorary member posthumously .

Works

  • with Adolf Helbok and Emil Lehmann : Borderlands returned home in the southeast - Ostmark. Sudetengau. Reich Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. A manual . Philipp Reclam jun., Leipzig 1939.
  • Königsgut and Königsforst in the age of the Carolingians and Ludolfingers and their importance for the development of the country. A contribution to the history of the development of the entire German living space. With 2 cards . (= Adolf Helbok (Ed.): People in History. Vol. 3). M. Niemeyer Verlag, Halle ad Saale 1939. (Review in: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History. German Department . Vol. 60 (1940), Issue 1, pp. 358–361. Abstract )
  • The SC associations of the Vorkösener time in Austria . Once and Now, Yearbook of the Association for Corporate Student History Research , Vol. 1 (1956), pp. 61–76.
  • Overview of the existing and suspended Kösener and vorkösener corps in Austria . Einst und Jetzt, Vol. 6 (1960), pp. 114-117.
  • Corps and fraternity in Austria changing ideas . Einst und Jetzt, Vol. 6 (1956), pp. 73-85.
  • History of the Academic Corps Athesia in Innsbruck . Innsbruck 1961.
  • with Adolf Helbok and Margit Gröhsl: Memories - a lifelong struggle for popular historical research . Innsbruck 1963.
  • 340 years of Wiltener Schützen 1625–1965 . Innsbruck 1965.
  • Austria - ideal and reality. A folk and cultural historical review with regard to our present . Innsbruck 1968.

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Remarks

  1. Dissertation: Königsgut and Königsforst in the age of the Carolingians and Ludolfingers and their significance for the development of the state; a contribution to the history of the development of the whole of Germany .
  2. The founders were Carl-Wilhelm Abernethy, Anselm Basold, Karlheinz Beckmann, Jürgen Dischereit, Hans Dittmann, Otto Dorscheid, Hans Dullenkopf, Josef Erdmann, Wolfgang Fugmann, Egbert Günther, Leo Koslowski , Elimar Mayerweg, Wolfgang Meyhöfer, Hans Powalla, Paul Reiss , Dieter Röhl, Walter Therstappen and Jochen Winter.
  3. The Daeblitz restaurant was on Wagnerstrasse. 47/48. The owner was Otto Hill.

Individual evidence

  1. a b Obituary notice from the Gothia fraternity for Fritz Ranzi in the Ostpreußenblatt of November 5, 1977, volume 45, p. 23
  2. ^ Lexicon Literature in Tyrol
  3. Kösener Corp lists 1960, 72/230
  4. a b PhD files in the Leipzig University Archives
  5. a b c d e f Hans Dullenkopf: Dr. phil. Fritz Ranzi, historian . In: Königsberger Burschenschaft Gothia zu Göttingen (Hg.): Gothenmitteilungen. News sheet of the Königsberg fraternity Gothia zu Göttingen , issue 36, Göttingen March 1978, pp. 25-28.
  6. ^ Copy of the birth certificate in the Stephan Schaumberger private archive, Linz
  7. ^ Bernhard vom Brocke: Population science - Quo vadis? Possibilities and problems of a history of population science in Germany . Leske + Budrich, Opladen 1998 (GoogleBooks)
  8. a b Thomas Thamm: Corporate students in Königsberg / Prussia 1918 to 1945 . Historia Academica (Student History Association of the Coburg Convent) 34, Würzburg 1995, p. 138
  9. ^ The Corps Athesia in Innsbruck from 1961 to 2011 , p. 67
  10. ^ Archives of the Corps Frankonia-Brünn
  11. ^ Obituary in the archives of the Corps Athesia