Heinrich Wieschhoff

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Heinrich Albert "Heinz" Wieschhoff , (born August 1, 1906 in Hagen , † September 18, 1961 near Ndola , Northern Rhodesia ) was a German ethnologist and political advisor.

School and study

Wieschhoff grew up in Bönen- Altenbögge. During his studies he became a follower of cultural morphology and a student of the ethnologist Leo Frobenius . He received his doctorate on Rhodesia from the University of Frankfurt in 1933 . Then he worked at the Frobenius Institute . For a time he was considered a possible successor to Frobenius.

Professional activities in the USA

1936 moved to the United States. There he became a US citizen and curator of the Africa Department of the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania .

During World War II, he worked as a consultant for Africa issues in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), a US intelligence agency and forerunner of the CIA, from 1942 to 1945.

After the founding of the UN, he started working there in connection with trust issues. He later became the Africa adviser to UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld . Together with the latter he was killed in an unexplained plane crash in 1961 during a peace mission in the Congo .

Works

  • The African drums and their non-African relations , Stuttgart 1933.

literature

  • Pia Bosch: "Turning Point Africa". From Hagen to Washington. The ethnologist and diplomat Heinrich Wieschhoff. In: Fabian Fechner u. a. (Ed.): Colonial pasts of the city of Hagen , Hagen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063343-0 , pp. 64-66.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 50th anniversary of Heinrich Wieschhoff's death. , wa.de of September 17, 2011, accessed on September 18, 2011
  2. ^ Reference to Wieschhoff's activity in the museum on the university's homepage , accessed on February 2, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Wieschhoff, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wieschhoff, Heinz; Wieschhoff, Heinrich Albert; Wieschhoff, Heinrich A .; Wieschhoff, HA
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ethnologist and political advisor
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Hagen
DATE OF DEATH September 18, 1961
Place of death near Ndola , Zambia