Hans Schmauch

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Hans Schmauch (born August 13, 1887 in Danzig ; † August 12, 1966 in Sankt Augustin ) was a German high school teacher . He gained importance as a regional historian of Warmia and West Prussia .

Life

As the son of a railway official, Schmauch grew up in Schlochau in West Prussia . He attended grammar school in Schneidemühl , where he passed the school leaving examination in 1906. He studied Catholic theology at the seminary in Pelplin , where he dealt with Eastern European church history. He then studied at the University of Breslau - there he became a member of the KDStV Salia in the Cartell Association of Catholic German Student Associations - and the University of Königsberg, history and German studies. In 1916, in the middle of World War I, he passed the state examination. He became a teacher at the boys' school in Wormditt and at the grammar schools in Bartenstein and Rößel . After completing a doctoral thesis with Albert Brackmann , he was promoted from Albertus University to Dr. phil. PhD. In October 1918 he came to the Wormditter Progymnasium as a teacher . Their son Joachim was born in February 1924 . After 14 years he was transferred to the Oberlyzeum in Marienburg . Only the expulsion in 1945 ended this activity. After the war he taught until his retirement in 1952 as a teacher at the secondary school in Kaufbeuren . He died the day before his 79th birthday.

Warmia

Schmauch completed his habilitation in July 1932 at the State Academy in Braunsberg . As a part-time lecturer, he taught there from the winter semester 1932/33 up to and including the winter semester 1944/45. In 1939 and 1943 he was proposed by the faculty for an unscheduled professorship . The NSDAP prevented the appointment both times. The work on the history of Warmia brought him more and more to Nicolaus Copernicus . Against Aleksander Birkenmajer and Wojciech Wasiutyński , he proved his German ancestry. Two years after his retirement in 1954 he set up the Institute for East German Church and Cultural History in Königstein im Taunus . In 1956 he moved it to Ingelheim am Rhein . In July 1961 he handed it over to the University of Bonn . Since 1956 he has lectured at the Albertus Magnus College in Königstein. In the same year, the University of Mainz appointed him honorary professor for East German regional and church history. He did not give up his lectures until he was 75.

Schmauch sat on the board of the Historical Association for Warmia since 1926 and became its chairman in 1937. In 1954 he ensured that the association was reactivated. From the spring of 1956 he again published the magazine for the history and archeology of Warmia . Until his death he sat on the board of the Historical Commission for East and West Prussian State Research . In 1961 he became first chairman of the newly founded Copernicus Association . He justified the contributions to the history of West Prussia , but did not live to see the publication of their first volume.

Local politics

In East Prussia, Schmauch was involved in local politics. From 1920 to 1925 he sat for the Center Party in the district council of the Braunsberg district . In Wormditt he was city councilor for twelve years and there from 1927 to 1931 city councilor. Even after the flight and expulsion of Germans from Central and Eastern Europe in 1945–1950 , he made himself available as a politician. From 1947 to 1956 he was a councilor in Kaufbeuren . He was deputy mayor for four years. He operated the settlement of the Gablonzer industry in Neugablonz .

Honors

Fonts (selection)

  • On the history of the St. Johannis parish church in Wormditt. For the 550th anniversary . Verlag F. Majewski, A. Dargel Nachf., Wormditt 1929.
  • with Franz Buchholz: Tax lists of the old town Braunsberg from 1453 and 1579. Contributions to the family, economic and constitutional history of Old Prussia . In: Magazine for the history and archeology of Warmia . Issue 77. Historical Association for Warmia , Braunsberg 1934, pp. 394–473.
  • Nikolaus Coppernicus and the Prussian mint reform . In: Staatliche Akademie zu Braunsberg, personnel and course directory . 3rd Trim., Gumbinnen 1940.
  • The invisible. Palatine folk tales. With 10 drawings by Heiner Schumann (= Amgrün Strom , Volume 2). Musen-Verlag, Neustadt / Haardt 1949.
  • Nikolaus Kopernikus (= Göttingen working group. Series of publications , issue 34). Holner, Kitzingen / Main 1953.
  • with Johannes Papritz , as publisher: Kopernikus-Forschungen . Hirzel, Leipzig 1943.

literature

  • Leo Juhncke, Old Prussian Biography , Vol. 3, p. 1056 f.
  • Contributions to the history of West Prussia , issue 1, thank you article for the 80th birthday.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dissertation: The occupation of the dioceses in the Teutonic Order State (until 1410).
  2. ↑ a b c d culture portal west-east
  3. ^ Habilitation thesis: Warmia and Poland in the 15./16. Century .
  4. ^ H. Schmauch: Nicolaus Copernicus - a German . Germany and the East, Vol. 22 (1943)
  5. ^ Paul Mai: Institute for East German Church and Cultural History eV, 1988–2010 . Böhlau, Cologne 2011 GoogleBooks
personal data
SURNAME Schmauch, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German high school teacher, regional historian of Warmia
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig
DATE OF DEATH August 12, 1966
Place of death Saint Augustine