Heinrich Wolfrum

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Heinrich Wolfrum (* 27. August 1902 in the courtyard ; † 27. November 1983 in Hedemünden ) was a German historian and for a few years a lecturer at the West Prussian Academy of teacher education / teacher training college (as of April 1, 1941.) Elbing . He continued the title of professor.

Life

Wolfrum attended the humanistic grammar school in Hof and studied history and German in Munich and Jena. He obtained his doctorate in 1936. phil. at the University of Jena . As early as 1935 he was appointed lecturer in history at the Elbing College for Teacher Training, which shortly thereafter awarded him the title of professor. At the beginning of the war the HfL was closed, Wolfrum served as a tank destroyer officer and was wounded several times. At the same time as the early historian Werner Radig from Elbingen , he went to the Generalgouvernement in Krakow . During the Second World War he headed the Warsaw branch of the Krakow Institute for German Ostarbeit from 1942 . There he campaigned for a permit to move to Germany for the family of the logician Jan Łukasiewicz .

After 1945, after being denazified, he worked in Detmold as a grammar school teacher from 1952/53, a teacher in 1953, then at the Felix Klein grammar school in Göttingen, and in 1967 he was appointed senior teacher and retired. He became involved in research on the East and in the Göttingen working group from 1946, of which he was the first editor of the series. He was cultural adviser at the National Association of Lower Saxony the Landsmannschaft West Prussia and received the 1975 West Prussia Medal , 1976, the Gold Medal of East Prussia . Wolfrum was a popular speaker on historical topics of the German East.

Quote

“However, we hold to the realization that the reason for the first attack by the German state and people in the East was not the so often assumed 'drive to the East', but the sober need to take precautionary measure against a deadly threat from the Far East ! The successful defense against the danger from the East was the hour of birth of the German East, and the law according to which he took office was the protection of Germany and the entire West and all of its values! ”(Wolfrum: The emergence of the German East, its essence and His meaning , p. 21. In: The German East in Classes , edited by E. Lehmann, Weilburg / Lahn 1956, p. 19–30)

Fonts

  • The church and school visitation from 1650-1652 in Sachsen-Weimar , Stadtroda 1935 (= Jena dissertation)
  • Prussia and Bohemia, a historical sketch of their political relations , in: Elbinger Jahrbuch 15 (1938) (Festschrift for Bruno Ehrlich )
  • The creation of the Copernicus monument in Warsaw: a look back at the 400th year of the astronomer's death , Warsaw Culture Papers. The Governor of the Warsaw District, Propaganda Department, Warsaw 1943
  • The Göttingen working group , in: Research and literature. Overview of East German archives, institutes, scientific institutions and libraries , ed. v. Minister of Social Affairs of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Düsseldorf, Troisdorf 1951, pp. 27–31
  • The emergence of the German East, its essence and its meaning , in: The German East in Classes , ed. by Ernst Lehmann , Weilburg / Lahn 1956, pp. 19–30
  • The Marienburg. The main house of the Teutonic Knights Order and its history , Rautenberg, Leer 1972 (3rd edition 1986) ISBN 3-7921-0084-3
  • The German East in German Literature , 1973

literature

  • Jerzy Kłoczowski, Witold Matwiejczyk, Eduard Mühle (eds.): Past experiences: Germans in East Central Europe in the historiography after 1945 , Inst.Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej, 2000
  • Alexander Hesse: The professors and lecturers of the Prussian educational academies (1926-1933) and colleges for teacher training (1933-1941) . Deutscher Studien-Verlag, Weinheim 1995, ISBN 3-89271-588-2 , p. 799–800 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  • Christoph Kleßmann: Research on Eastern Europe and Habitat Research in the Third Reich , in: From Politics and Contemporary History 7/84, p. 43

Web links

Single receipts

  1. ↑ Second professor next to Edward Carstenn at the Elbinger HfL
  2. ↑ To clarify the historical truth , in: Das Ostpreußenblatt , August 28, 1982, volume 35, p. 12
  3. ^ Hans-Christoph Schmidt am Busch, Kai F. Wehmeier: Heinrich Scholz and Jan Łukasiewicz . In: Forum (for Eastern European History of Ideas and Contemporary History), Volume 11, Number 2, 2007, pp. 107–125.
personal data
SURNAME Wolfrum, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH court
DATE OF DEATH November 27, 1983
Place of death Hedemünden