Hans Schwalm (geographer)

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Hans Schwalm (* 16th August 1900 in Bremen ; † 11. December 1992 in Tübingen ) was a German geographer and SS - Ahnenerbe Researchers.

Life

In his youth, Schwalm was a wanderer . He studied shipbuilding at the Technische Hochschule Berlin-Charlottenburg and then geography , geology , physics and mathematics at the Humboldt University in Berlin . Now he became an assistant at the University of Heidelberg . He also studied history , art history , economics and philosophy and was 1927 with the dissertation climate, settlement and agriculture in the Peruvian Andes-nordbolivianischen to Dr. phil. PhD .

In 1926 Schwalm became Scientific Secretary of the Foundation for German Folk and Cultural Soil Research in Leipzig . The focus of his interest was on geopolitics and the situation of the German minorities in Europe. Together with the scientists Jan Petersen, Otto Scheel and others, he published newspapers for ethnic Germans in Germany's neighboring countries. He was co-editor and main editor of the concise dictionary of border and foreign Germanism published in Breslau in 1932 .

After Hitler came to power , Schwalm joined the NSDAP on May 1, 1933 and worked for the party official examination commission for the protection of Nazi literature . From 1933 to 1936 he worked in the SA in Kiel and took over management positions in the Hitler Youth , where he rose to the position of Bannführer (until 1938). From 1934 to 1935 he was a lecturer in German folk research at the University of Kiel and then moved to Berlin . In 1938 he began to work in the Research Association of German Ahnenerbe of the SS as the closest collaborator to SS-Hauptsturmführer and literary scholar Hans Ernst Schneider . In the winter of 1939/1940 after the Hitler-Stalin Pact and the beginning of the Second World War , he accompanied Schneider on Ahnenerbe research to evaluate archives in the Baltic States .

In February 1941 Schwalm became an associate professor (from April 1, 1941 full professor) for folk teaching, border and ethnic German at the University of Posen . From October 1941 to June 1942 he, meanwhile SS-Untersturmführer , headed the Ahnenerbe -ommission für Kultur der Unterkrain ( cultural commission for the German resettlement representative for the province of Ljubljana ), which evaluates the archives and church records regarding the German minority in Slovenia and the repatriation of the Germans should prepare. The South Tyrol Commission also worked on this .

In the autumn of 1942 Schwalm was transferred to Oslo as SS-Hauptsturmführer to head the Ahnenerbe-Subdivision Norway . He was practically Heinrich Himmler's personal representative in Norway.

At the end of the war, Schwalm came back to Lower Saxony via Lübeck and Schleswig . He now worked at the Lower Saxony Academy for Spatial Research in Hanover and then at the Federal Research Center for Regional Studies and Spatial Planning in Bonn .

From 1959 to 1968 Schwalm was associate professor for geography of Eastern Europe at the University of Tübingen .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joachim Lerchenmüller , Gerd Simon : Change of masks. How SS-Hauptsturmführer Schneider became the FRG university rector Schwerte and other stories about the agility of German science in the 20th century . Society for Interdisciplinary Research. Tübingen 1999. p. 203.
  2. ↑ a b Hans Joachim Schädlich : "Different". Novel . Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek 2003; P. 164.
  3. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 571
  4. ↑ Hans Schwelm: Note about a meeting in Veldes on October 6, 1941 (accessed on February 26, 2016).
  5. ↑ Michael Kater : Das Ahnenerbe der SS, 1935–1945: a contribution to the cultural policy of the Third Reich . Munich, 2006. p. 169.
  6. ↑ Jan Hecker-Stampehl: T. Emberland et al. (Ed.): Jakten på Germania (accessed on February 26, 2016).
  7. ^ A b Ingo Haar , Michael Fahlbusch : Handbuch der Völkischen Wissenschaften: persons, institutions, research programs, foundations . KG Saur Verlag , Munich 2008, pp. 268 and 354.
  8. ↑ Uni-Tuebingen: Schwalm, Hans (1900–1992) ( Memento from January 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on February 26, 2016).

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personal data
SURNAME Schwalm, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geographer and SS-Ahnenerbe researcher
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH December 11, 1992
Place of death Tübingen