Goswin Frenken

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Goswin Frenken (born August 2, 1887 in Hottorf ; † January 23, 1945 in the Flossenbürg concentration camp ) was a German literary scholar and victim of National Socialism.

Life

Goswin Frenken was the son of the Cologne Higher Regional Court President Josef Frenken and Maria Eleonore von Meer. Frenken studied German in Bonn and Berlin . He received his doctorate on April 29, 1914 under Karl Strecker and Gustav Roethe on the Exempla of Jakob von Vitry at the Philosophical Faculty of the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . During the First World War he was taken prisoner by the French. After his release, he continued his academic career at the University of Cologne, where he received his habilitation in 1922 . In November 1929 Frenken was appointed a non-official associate professor for Middle Latin Philology and Comparative Literature History of the Middle Ages . Frenken was considered an "apolitical loner" and embodied, according to Frank Golczewski , the "type of the" slightly eccentric, committed, non-bourgeois scientist ".

Stumbling stone in front of the main building of the University of Cologne .
Stumbling stone in front of the residential building at Erftstrasse 16

In May 1933 Goswin Frenken became a member of the NSDAP . But in the same year he was, because of "derogatory remarks about Hitler," which he had made in the drunken state denounced . In November 1934 his teaching assignment was withdrawn, but at the beginning of 1935 he was given again after some intercession. After further critical remarks about Hitler, which again included alcohol, Frenken was arrested on April 3, 1935. On April 10, 1935, the proceedings were discontinued by the Cologne Public Prosecutor because Frenken was not aware that his statement could come to the public; it was a private conversation. On May 20, 1935, however, the Gestapo Berlin protested against the termination of the proceedings. Frenken was then arrested again by the Gestapo with an arrest warrant dated September 27, 1935 and expelled from the party. By judgment of the Cologne special court of January 17, 1936 (AZ: 1 S Ms 91/35) Frenken was acquitted in special court proceedings, but his teaching license was revoked. After further critical remarks, Goswin Frenken was sentenced to three months in prison by the 4th Large Criminal Chamber of the Cologne Regional Court on April 23, 1937 and was imprisoned in the Klingelpütz prison in Cologne until June 27, 1937 . On December 2, 1937, the Berlin University revoked his doctorate. In 1941 Frenken was imprisoned by the Gestapo. From September 20, 1944, he was imprisoned in the Flossenbürg concentration camp (prisoner number 25636), where he died or was murdered on January 23, 1945. The exact circumstances of his death are not known.

In front of his apartment at Erftstrasse 16 and in front of the main building of the University of Cologne, the artist Gunter Demnig laid two stumbling blocks in memory of Goswin Frenken .

Works

  • The example of Jacob von Vitry. Beck-Verlag, Munich 1914.
  • Sources on the life of Charlemagne BG Teubner-Verlag, Leipzig / Berlin 1921.
  • Cologne library history in outline. Klemens Löffler and Goswin Frenken. Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1923.
  • To the catalogs of the cathedral library (in Cologne) from 833. Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1923.
  • Miracles and deeds of the saints. F. Bruckmann-Verlag, Munich 1925.
  • The patronage of the Cologne churches and their age. F. Bruckmann-Verlag, Munich 1925.
  • The oldest Schwankammlung of the Middle Ages (The Mensa philosophica of a Cologne Dominican) , In: Yearbook of the Cologne History Association, Volume 8–9, Cologne 1927, pp. 105–121.
  • Cologne manuscripts with historical content. To the fight between emperor and pope . Cologne History Association, 1934.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Book of the dead January 23, 1945, Flossenbürg concentration camp
  2. ^ Goswin Frenken: The exempla of Jacob von Vitry: a contribution to the history of narrative literature of the Middle Ages. Inaugural dissertation to obtain a doctorate approved by the Philosophical Faculty of the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin. CH Beck, Munich 1914, 87 pp.
  3. ^ Frank Golczewski: Cologne University Teachers and National Socialism: Approaches to Personal History . Studies on the history of the University of Cologne, Volume 8, Böhlau-Verlag, Cologne 1988, p. 223
  4. ^ Ulrich Soénius , Jürgen Wilhelm (ed.): Kölner Personen Lexikon . Greven, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-7743-0400-0 , pp. 164 .
  5. ^ Leo Haupts: The University of Cologne in the transition from National Socialism to the Federal Republic (=  studies on the history of the University of Cologne . Volume 18 ). Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar 2007, ISBN 978-3-412-17806-2 , pp. 190/191 .
  6. ↑ Erich Meuthen : The new university, data and facts, Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 1988, 467 pages, page 47
  7. ^ Resistance and persecution in Cologne 1933–1945, Cologne 1974, 423 pages, pp. 290–294
  8. ↑ In the literature, two different years of death are given in 1944 and early 1945.
  9. ↑ Andreas cantilever: 1933 - university archives and the research of National Socialism. Contributions to the colloquium on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Cologne University Archives on April 8, 2008 . forum: university archive issue 1, Cologne 2010, ISSN  1869-9294 , p. 12
personal data
SURNAME Frenken, Goswin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar and victim of National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH August 2, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Hottorf
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 1945
Place of death Flossenbürg concentration camp