Hans Christoph Schöll

Hans Christoph Schöll (actually Wilhelm Johannes Christoph Schöll, born March 21, 1888 in Heilbronn , † August 15, 1958 in Heidelberg ) was a German antiquarian , author and folklorist .

Life

Hans Christoph Schöll, who grew up in his hometown Heilbronn, completed an apprenticeship as a bookseller at the local bookstore A. Scheurlen (owner Theodor Cramer) from 1903 to 1906 . He then worked as an assistant in the bookstore JJ Heckenhauer in Tübingen , until he served as a one-year volunteer in the 10th Württemberg Infantry Regiment No. 180 in Tübingen, but was dismissed after two months as "unusable early on".

In 1909 he met his future wife Maria Wilhelmina Tschinke at a Wandervogel meeting in the Westerwald , with whom he moved to Heidelberg in 1913 after the birth of their first child and opened a book and art second-hand shop. Through his enthusiasm for the youth movement, he came into contact with Georg Stammler and was responsible for the first four of his publications, some of which were printed in several editions. With the outbreak of World War I , he volunteered for the Western Front and was seriously wounded near Ypres in 1916 . After the war he stopped his publishing activities and tried to participate politically as a member of the German Democratic Party in the construction of the Weimar Republic .

From 1922 to 1930 he organized numerous art auctions until these too were no longer profitable due to the economic depression . As early as 1927 the family had moved to a residential area owned by the city and in 1929 Schöll had hoped to be able to support the family with a curative education practice.

After the failure of this project, he made his Abitur in 1931 and studied theology , philosophy and education at the University of Heidelberg , albeit without a degree. Since 1935 he was entrusted with the provisional management of the city ​​archives , which he held until 1945. During this time his first studies of Germanic folklore appeared . At the end of the war, his private archive was destroyed and his wife died shortly afterwards. From 1947 he volunteered at the Volksbildungswerk for the district of Heidelberg and was the full-time director of this institution from 1950 to October 1957. In 1958 he died in Heidelberg.

For his publications, among others, the pseudonyms Ulrich Kienholt and Ulrich Schartenmayer d. J. Archives about him are in the Heidelberg University Library and the German Literature Archive in Marbach .

Publications (selection)

• The three eternal. An investigation into Germanic peasant beliefs . Diederichs, Jena 1936 (These contain, among other things, considerations on the origin of the three prayers , which, however, have found no support in science).
• In the most beautiful meadow. An old-fashioned songbook , with pictures by Ludwig Richter; compiled by Hans Christoph Schöll. Hyperion-Verlag, Freiburg i. Br. [1957]

literature

• Peter Götz: Hans Christoph Schöll in memory. On the 100th birthday and 30th anniversary of death in 1988 . In: Badische Heimat 1989, Issue 2, pp. 145–147.
• Peter Götz: Hans Christoph Schöll . In: Baden-Württembergische Biographien Vol. 2, Stuttgart 1999, pp. 418-419.
• Eberhard Schöll: From Palermo to Heidelberg. Chronicle of a family between the German Empire and World War II. From the letters of Marie Schöll (1885–1945) . Self-published, Heidelberg 1994.

Web links

• Hans Christoph Schöll at the Heidelberg History Association
• Hans-Christoph Schöll at leo.bw

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Entry in Kalliope .