Georg Schmidgall

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Georg Schmidgall

Georg Schmidgall (born February 23, 1867 in Rutesheim , Kingdom of Württemberg , † February 17, 1953 in Tübingen ) was a German administrative officer. He became known as a student historian .

Life

As the son of a Swabian pastor , Schmidgall attended the Realgymnasium Stuttgart . From 1886 he studied camera science at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen . There he became a member of the ( fraternity ) association Normannia Tübingen . After the final exams, he entered the Württemberg civil service. Not enthusiastic about the service, in 1906 he took over the economic management of the Protestant orphanage in Stuttgart . Its 200th anniversary awakened his old passion for history .

In 1919 he was a co-founder of the Württemberg regional association of the right-wing liberal German People's Party . With the relocation of the Württemberg state orphanage, he moved to Ellwangen in 1923 . After 25 years of service in 1931 as Councilor retired , he returned to Tübingen.

Student history

Schmidgall has been publishing contributions on the history of students since around 1905, and in 1911 in Schwäbischer Merkur . He dealt with the Tübingen Seniors' Convention of the extinct Corps Suevia I (1807), Obersuevia (1808) and Franconia (1808). Schmidgall's collection of Studentica , which was already important at the time , was exhibited in the State Trade Museum in Stuttgart and in the University Library of Tübingen in 1921 .

In his “second life” he devoted himself entirely to (Tübingen) student history. Scarcely had he returned to Tübingen in 1932 when he anonymously published the “Walk through Tübingen” with 300 comments. He dealt with student orders and student customs , student songs and couleur . He devoted himself to the history of corporations in Altdorf near Nuremberg , Bonn , Breslau , Dorpat , Erlangen , Freiburg im Breisgau , Gießen , Göttingen , Greifswald , Halle (Saale) , Heidelberg , Hohenheim , Jena , Marburg , Munich and Stuttgart . He wrote the only report on Transsylvania , the extinct corps of the Transylvanian Saxons in Tübingen (1855–1857). Like no other, he has worked through the history of the Tübingen original fraternity and its development into fraternities .

When Erich Ludendorff opposed the “freemasonized” customs of the corporations, Schmidgall defended the state father (student union) .

He initiated the first student historians' conferences in Stuttgart (1924, 1925) and Tübingen (1926). He reported on all meetings of the working group of student historians in the interwar period and on the liaison system in the time of National Socialism and the post-war period . From 1927 he was a member and from 1933 a committee member of the Burschenschaftliche Historischen Kommission (BHK), from which the Society for Burschenschaftliche Geschichtsforschung (GfbG) emerged. Schmidgall died shortly before his 86th birthday.

Peter Goeßler wrote in 1947:

"If student history has acquired the respected role and valuation as a special department of German cultural history and if Tübingen student history is one of those researched in exemplary fashion for others, then Schmidgall deserves the greatest credit."

- Peter Goessler

estate

Much of Schmidgall's collections went to the Tübingen University Archives since 1943 . The mass came to the institute for university studies in Würzburg, parts of it in the archive of the German fraternity . Schmidgall's daughters left the estate to the Tübingen University Archives in 1976. It includes 45 numbers with pamphlets and press clippings (1817–1973) and 80 numbers with pictures, silhouettes , photographs and photo plates (1799–1983).

Works

  • Older connected life in Tübingen . Landau 1910
  • What do the student historians want? Tübingen 1934
  • with Max Doblinger: History and membership registers of fraternities in old Austria and Tübingen from 1816 to 1936 . CA Starke , Limburg 1940. GoogleBooks
  • Tübingen Konviktoren and the liaison system. With special consideration of "Elvacia" and the theologians from Ellwangen . Schwabenverlag , Ostfildern 1949. GoogleBooks

editor

  • Contributions to the history of Tübingen students (December 1937 to summer 1941). DNB 010088172
  • Contributions to German student history . DNB 010006915

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Tübingen sheets
  2. ↑ a b Einst und Jetzt , Vol. 13 (1968), pp. 132-137
  3. ↑ Baden-Württemberg State Archives
  4. ^ Tübingen students 100 years ago
  5. ↑ D. Langewiesche, G. Schmidt: Concepts of Germany from the Reformation to the First World War (2000)
  6. ↑ Harald Lönnecker : When heroes become problems. Hindenburg and Ludendorff as honorary members of academic associations . GDS Archive for University and Student History 6 (2002), pp. 30–41
  7. ↑ Communication from Harald Lönnecker (2013)
  8. ↑ Inventory signature: UAT 214
  9. ^ University archive Tübingen

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Schmidgall, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative officer and student historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Rutesheim , Württemberg
DATE OF DEATH 17th February 1953
Place of death Tübingen