Gerhard Heilfurth

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Gerhard Heilfurth (born July 11, 1909 in Neustädtel ; † March 11, 2006 in Marburg ) was a German cultural and social scientist and folklorist .

Career

Heilfurth comes from an old family of miners , craftsmen and pastors from the Ore Mountains . From 1920 he attended high school in Schneeberg . He then studied German , sociology , folklore, history and religious studies at the universities of Leipzig , Heidelberg and Palermo .

According to the newspaper Neues Deutschland , Heilfurth was active in the National Socialist German Student Union and in training for the Hitler Youth in the 1930s . On May 31, 1933, he joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) . In 1935 he was with the dissertation The Ore Bergmannslied doctorate . In 1936 he was an assistant at the German Folk Song Archive in Freiburg im Breisgau , and in 1937 he moved to the folklore department of the German Institute at Leipzig University. In 1938 he received a far-reaching research contract from the Ruhr mining industry for the overall folklore of mining .

During the Second World War Heilfurth was a regimental adjutant of a Croatian infantry division and was appointed lieutenant on March 1st . The promotion - the local researcher Mehlhorn found out from the war diaries of this unit - took place while the troops were in operations called "White I" and "White II". From January to mid-March 1943, a total of 2506 partisans were captured and 616 were shot dead. To what extent Heilfurth was guilty of war crimes has not been determined.

In 1949 he was appointed lecturer at the Friedewald Social Academy . In 1952 he was appointed director of studies there , and in 1954 director of the academy . In 1959 he was appointed professor to the newly created chair for folklore at the Philipps University of Marburg , after having been professor of German philology , folklore and sociology at the University of Giessen for several years . In 1960 he founded the Institute for Central European Folk Research in Marburg . He was succeeded in 1980 by folklorist Peter Assion .

Prizes and awards

Publications

  • The Erzgebirge miner's song. An outline of his literary history. Schwarzenberg / Erzgebirge 1936.
  • Neustädtel in the Ore Mountains. Pictures of the development and nature of a small town in the Ore Mountains. Glück-Auf-Verlag, Schwarzenberg 1937
  • (Ed.) Anton Günther . Complete edition of the lyrics, poems, sayings and stories. Glückauf, Schwarzenberg / Erzgebirge 1937.
  • The miner's song. Essence, life, function. A contribution to illuminating the existence and transformation of the socio-cultural elements in the construction of industrial society. Bärenreiter, Kassel u. a. 1954.
  • (Ed.) Anton Günther: A selection of his poems, songs, sayings and stories. VEB Friedrich Hofmeister, Leipzig 1956.
  • Good luck for! History, meaning and social strength of the miner's greeting. Essen 1958.
  • Folklore beyond ideologies. On the problem of the subject in the field of empirical research (= publications of the University of Marburg. Volume 9). Marburg 1961.
  • (Ed.) The Erzgebirge folk singer Anton Günther. Life and work. Wolfgang Weidlich, Frankfurt am Main 1962.
  • The sacred and the world of work using the example of the veneration of the prophet Daniel in the coal and steel industry of Central Europe. Marburg 1963.
  • Contributions to custom, festivals and celebrations, conventions, customs and folklore / folk research in Wilhelm Bernsdorf (Hrsg.): Dictionary of Sociology. Enke, Stuttgart 1969.
  • The mining industry as a trailblazer in the social and cultural development of the industrial society of Central Europe (= Leobener Grüne Hefte. Volume 140) Vienna 1972.
  • "Miner's Song". In: Handbuch des Volksliedes , ed. by RW Brednich et al., Volume 1, Munich 1973, pp. 761-778.
  • Mining and its culture. A world between dark and light. Zurich 1981, ISBN 3-7611-0587-8 .
  • Mining culture in South Tyrol. Bolzano 1984, ISBN 88-7014-363-5 .
  • Individual trains in the historical and cultural face of the Ore Mountains with views of its surroundings. Contributions to the exploration of a regional world in the East Central European border area (= series of publications of the Commission for East German Folklore in the German Society for Folklore. Volume 44). Marburg 1989, ISBN 3-7708-0906-8 .
  • The Erzgebirge folk singer Anton Günther. Life and work. Sachsenbuch, Leipzig 1994, ISBN 3-910148-89-1 .

literature

  • The leader in the heart . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , November 19, 2004, p. 10.
  • Honorary doctorate from Prof. em. Dr. phil. habil. Gerhard Heilfurth October 17, 1991. Ed .: Rector of the PH Zwickau. Zwickau 1991.
  • Katja Margarethe Mieth (Ed.): Gerhard Heilfurth (1909–2006) on her 100th birthday. Contributions from the colloquium of the Saxon State Office for Museums . Chemnitz 2011, ISBN 978-3-942780-00-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Article on Heilfurth in the newspaper Neues Deutschland , February 1, 2005.
  2. ↑ https://www.neues-deutschland.de/artikel/66774.ein-ehrenbuerger-in-unehren.html
personal data
SURNAME Heilfurth, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German folklorist
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Neustädtel
DATE OF DEATH March 11, 2006
Place of death Marburg