Georg Gerullis

Georg Gerullis (born August 13, 1888 in Jogauden near Tilsit (today a desert in the municipality of Pagėgiai , Lithuania ); † August 9, 1945 in Riga ) was a German Baltist and university professor of Prussian-Lithuanian descent.

Life

The son of the farmer Peter Gerullis and his wife Anna geb. Jokutat had received his first training at the village school in Bittehnen and was taught by private tutors. In 1903 he moved to the Royal Provincial School of Littau . From 1909 to 1912 he studied philosophy , classical philology and history at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin and the Albertus University in Königsberg . In Konigsberg he was in 1912 for Dr. phil. PhD . In 1913 he served as a one-year volunteer in the Prussian Army . From 1914 to 1918 he took part in the First World War as a soldier , most recently as a lieutenant in the reserve .

Back from the war, he was 1919-1922 school teacher (from 1920 teacher ) in Königsberg. In 1919 he completed his habilitation with a thesis on Baltic philology . As a private lecturer , he headed the Lithuanian seminary of the theological faculty.

From 1922 to 1933 he was associate professor for Baltic and Slavic languages at the University of Leipzig . He was a liaison professor of the National Socialist German Student Union .

In February 1933 he became chairman of the National Committee for the Renewal of Leipzig University . Since April 1, 1933, personnel officer in the Saxon Ministry of Education , he was proposed to Minister on May 6. However, he did not take up the office in order to be able to keep his position in the Prussian Ministry for Science, Art and Public Education , to which he had been appointed on April 12, 1933 as Ministerial Director and Head of the University Department. In November 1933 he was given temporary retirement.

In 1934 the ministry appointed him full professor for Baltic philology at the University of Königsberg. Against the vote of the faculty, he was appointed rector for the academic years 1935/36 and 1936/37 . Since 1936 he was a corresponding member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences .

After quarrels with Gauleiter Erich Koch , he was deposed on March 25, 1937, and returned to Berlin University for the second time in 1937 as a professor of Baltic Philology.

During the Second World War he served as an officer in the army , from which he was released in early 1945 as a major in the reserve . He was a major in the control center II Ost and in the front reconnaissance command 203-205 and headed the airborne battalion Dallwitz . On May 8, 1945, the Soviet military administration in Germany arranged for him to be arrested and sentenced to death by shooting by the SMT of the 8th Guard Army on the basis of Article 58.2 of the RSFSR's Criminal Code . The charge was war crimes . The sentence was on August 9, 1945 enforced . The Chief Military Prosecutor of the Russian Federation (Glawnaya Vojennaya Prokuratura - GWP) rehabilitated him on February 8, 2002.

Works

• The old Prussian place names are collected and linguistically treated . Berlin: Association of Scientific Publishers, 1922.
• The oldest Lithuanian linguistic monuments, up to 1570 . Heidelberg 1923.
• Lithuanian dialect studies . Leipzig 1932.

Memberships

• Sturmabteilung (1931–1933)
• National Socialist German Workers' Party (from 1931)

literature

• Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon on National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , p. 59.
• Kurt Forstreuter : Gerullis, Georg , in: Altpreußische Biographie , supplementary volume 1, p. 921.
• Helmut Heiber : University under the swastika , Part II: The capitulation of the high schools , Vol. 2, Munich, Saur, 1994, pp. 325 ff. ISBN 3-598-22631-4 .
• Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
• Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 1931.
• Lietuviu Enciklopedija , Vol. 7, pp. 187 f.
• Ulf Morgenstern : "Now it is sheer pleasure to be a Nazi." The Leipzig Baltist Georg Gerullis (1888–1945) between university and Nazi politics . Universität Leipzig Journal H. 5 (2007), pp. 10-11.
• Kazys Morkunas: Jurgio Gerulio kursai tarmems tirti . Archivum Lithuanicum, Vol. 2 (2000), pp. 283-290.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Leipzig professor catalog
2. ↑ Dissertation: De Prussicis sambiensium locorum nominibus . Koenigsberg 1912
3. ↑ Rector's speeches (HKM)
4. ^ Members of the SAW: Georg Gerullis. Saxon Academy of Sciences, accessed October 20, 2016 . 
5. ↑ Sûreté de l'Etat Allemands recherchés. (PDF) p. 14 , archived from the original on August 26, 2014 ; Retrieved on August 26, 2014 (French, CEGES-SOMA document; Control Center II East, FAK203 and FAK205). 
6. ^ Antonio J. Muñoz, Oleg V. Romanko: Hitler's White Russians: Collaboration, Extermination and Anti-partisan Warfare in Byelorussia, 1941-1944 , Europa Books 2003, p. 60.
7. ↑ Klaus-Dieter Müller, Thomas Schaarschmidt, Mike Schmeitzner, Andreas Weigelt: Death sentences of Soviet military tribunals against Germans (1944-1947): A historical-biographical study. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2015. p. 179.

Web links

• Georg Gerullis in WorldCat