Gustav Bebermeyer

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Gustav Bebermeyer (born October 16, 1890 in Salzelmen , † June 19, 1975 in Tübingen ) was a German philologist and folklorist . He was a professor at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen .

Life

Gustav Bebermeyer studied German and history in Munich and Göttingen. In 1913 he received his doctorate in Göttingen. During the First World War he served as a volunteer on the Western Front, most recently as a reserve lieutenant. Bebermeyer completed his habilitation in Tübingen in 1921 and was appointed associate professor in 1925. Until 1933 he was a member of the DNVP and the Pan-German Association .

The National Socialist seizure of power enabled him to make an extraordinary career leap. In March 1933 he signed the declaration of 300 university lecturers for Adolf Hitler . Bebermeyer joined the NSDAP in 1933 and was given a full professorship in 1933. In 1933 he was also appointed "Representative of the Minister of Culture with special powers at the University of Tübingen" and thus took on a central role in bringing the University of Tübingen into line. Bebermeyer acted according to the motto: "It doesn't matter whether a university professor is more or less on leave." From 1933 he headed the first institute for German folklore in Tübingen (today: Ludwig Uhland Institute for Empirical Cultural Studies) was explicitly founded with a National Socialist orientation.

In 1945 Bebermeyer was arrested and released on the orders of the French occupying forces. He only escaped detention due to a long hospital stay. In 1949 he was classified as a follower in the arbitration chamber proceedings and retired with full pension payments. In 1954 Bebermeyer received the "academic rights of a non-compulsory university lecturer", in 1958 he retired. From 1955 until his death Bebermeyer taught again at the University of Tübingen.

literature

  • Sabine Besenfelder: State Necessary Science. The Tübingen Folklore in the 1930s and 1940s . (= Investigations by the Ludwig-Uhland-Institut of the University of Tübingen, Volume 94), Tübinger Vereinigung für Volkskunde, Tübingen 2002, ISBN 3-932512-17-0 .
  • Michael Grüttner : Biographical lexicon on National Socialist science policy . Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, p. 19, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 .
  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 . (Updated 2nd edition).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Heiber : University under the swastika . Vol. II, Vol. 1, Saur, Munich a. a. 1992, p. 142. ISBN 3-598-22630-6
  2. ^ Sabine Besenfelder: Science necessary for the state. The Tübingen Folklore in the 1930s and 1940s . Tübingen 2002, p. 492 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Bebermeyer, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Brine elm
DATE OF DEATH June 19, 1975
Place of death Tübingen