Helmut Ibach

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Helmut Ibach (born March 24, 1912 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ; † September 1, 1996 in Bezau , Vorarlberg ) was a German historian , journalist and publicist . Ibach was initially involved in historical studies, so he wrote the first monograph on Konrad von Megenberg . After 1945 he played a leading role in the founding of the Bavarian Catholic Academy and in the 1950s he worked in various positions in the editorial offices of national Christian newspapers and magazines etc. a. as head of the arts section at Rheinischer Merkur . He was also founding chairman of the Bavarian Press Club (1953–1957). Ibach worked for almost two decades in the academic and educational field of the German Armed Forces , most recently as chief government director . He was a carrier u. a. of the Federal Cross of Merit .

Life

Ibach, baptized a Roman Catholic , was born the son of a civil servant and his wife, a descendant of Carl Benz . In 1923 he became a member of the Catholic Youth League New Germany . He was then Mannheim group leader of St. Michael, head of the Langemarckgau, the Südmark and the Freiburg elderly group St. Bernhard. After the Second World War he re-established the groups in Heidelberg and Mannheim and in 1948 formulated the “Heidelberg proposal” presented in Bad Brückenau .

After attending school in Mannheim , he studied history, German, political science and journalism at the universities in Heidelberg, Freiburg im Breisgau (among others with Martin Heidegger ) and Leipzig. In 1936, he was at Hermann Heimpel at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Leipzig with a thesis on the life and writings of Conrad of Megenberg to Dr. phil. PhD. From 1937 to 1939 he worked as an assistant on the Old High German dictionary . 1940 followed the habilitation on vocabulary and terminology of the old high German Benedictine rule . From 1939 to 1946 he was a research assistant with a teaching position at Heidelberg University . In the meantime he was a soldier (1940/41 and from 1942 to 1945); he was taken prisoner of war .

He was then a brief editor at the Goethe-Institut in Brussels, then a journalist for several Christian magazines: from 1946 to 1949 he was a member of the editorial team of the monthly magazine Wort und Truth and the youth magazine Fährmann , and from 1949 to 1957 of the weekly newspaper Rheinischer Merkur , where he headed the feature section . From 1952 to 1955 he was editor-in-chief of the magazine Neues Abendland , and was also a board member of the Occidental Academy . From 1953 to 1957 he was the founding chairman of the Bavarian Press Club. From 1954 to 1957 he was a member of the Extended Board of the Society of Catholic Publicists in Germany. In 1956 he became provisional chairman of the board of trustees of the Bavarian Catholic Academy in Munich. From 1961 he worked for the association magazine Königsteiner Officer Letters of the Königsteiner Officer Circle ( Association of Catholic Soldiers ).

Ibach, reserve officer of the Bundeswehr (in the 1960s in the rank of captain of the reserve), was from 1957 to 1962 lecturer in political science at the Bundeswehr school for internal leadership in Koblenz. From 1962 to 1965 he was an assistant in the Fü BI subdivision (Inner Leadership) in the Bundeswehr headquarters in Bonn. He played a key role in the conception of the “Preliminary Guidelines for Educational Work within the Vocational Training of Officers” from 1965. From 1966 to 1969 he was head of the scientific group at the Air Force Officer's School in Neubiberg. After he was deputy head of the Scientific Institute for Education in the Armed Forces in Siegburg in 1969/70, he became a lecturer in the scientific group at the Army Officer School III in Munich in 1970 . From 1974 to 1976 he worked at the command academy of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg. In 1976 he was retired and worked as a freelance publicist.

He was married and had three children. His estate is in the Mannheim City Archives .

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Ibach's dissertation Life and Writings of Konrad von Megenberg (1938) was the first monograph on Konrad von Megenberg . Previous work is now overtaken by the author's results. The work is characterized, for example, by the use of handwritten traditions. Scientists like Richard Scholz and Edward Schröder therefore praised the work.

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • Life and writings of Konrad von Megenberg (= New German Research, Medieval History Department . Vol. 7). Junker u. Dünnhaupt, Berlin 1938.
  • with Georg Stadtmüller , Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte : Citizenship and State Order in Past and Present (= series of publications by Kommunal-Verlag , 6). With a foreword by Hans Peters , Kommunal Verlag, Recklinghausen 1959.
  • with Ferdinand Kuhn (ed.): German citizenship . Kommunal Verlag, Recklinghausen 1960.
  • Small military postil. Soldier directional images from 3 millennia . Fromm, Osnabrück 1962.
  • Lechfeld, field of fate . Publisher Winfried-Werk, Augsburg 1966.

literature

  • Hans Filbinger : The self-assertion of the Bund New Germany in Mannheim against the demon of National Socialism, shown using the estate of Dr. habil. Helmut Ibach (1912-1996) . In: Mannheimer Geschichtsblätter NF 9 (2002), p. 421 ff.
  • Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who . 33rd edition, Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1994, ISBN 3-7950-2015-8 , p. 610.
  • Stephen S. Taylor †, Ludwig Melsheimer (Ed.): Who's Who in the Catholic World . Vol 1: Europe . L. Schwann Verlag, Düsseldorf 1967, p. 320.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manfred Bierganz : Cardauns, Hermann († 1925) . In: Society for Rheinische Geschichtskunde (Hrsg.): Rheinische Lebensbilder . Volume 12, Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1991, ISBN 3-7927-1166-4 , pp. 305–323, here: p. 309.
  2. ↑ Vanessa Conze: The Europe of the Germans. Ideas of Europe in Germany between imperial tradition and western orientation (1920–1970) (= studies on contemporary history . Vol. 69). Oldenbourg, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-486-57757-3 , p. 90.
  3. ↑ Vanessa Conze: The Europe of the Germans. Ideas of Europe in Germany between imperial tradition and western orientation (1920–1970) (= studies on contemporary history . Vol. 69). Oldenbourg, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-486-57757-3 , p. 51.
  4. ↑ Chronicle of the GKP Executive Board , gkp.de, accessed on September 2, 2015.
  5. ^ Bernhard von Zech-Kleber: Catholic Academy in Bavaria. In: Historical Lexicon of Bavaria . July 28, 2015, accessed September 2, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Frank Nägler : The wanted soldier and his change. Personnel armament and internal leadership in the years of establishment of the Bundeswehr 1956 to 1964/65 (= Security Policy and Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Germany , Volume 9). A publication by the Military History Research Office, Oldenbourg, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-486-58815-6 , p. 470.
  7. ↑ Claus von Rosen : Educational reform and inner leadership. Reform approaches for school staff officer training, illustrated using the example of the staff academy of the Bundeswehr (1966–1973) (= studies on domestic and foreign schools . Volume 22). Beltz, Weinheim u. a. 1981, ISBN 3-407-65122-8 , p. 136.
  8. ^ A b Christiane Reuter-Boysen: Pioneer for the university reform ?. Planning, foundation and development of the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich . Nomos, Baden-Baden 1995, ISBN 3-7890-3635-8 , p. 20.
  9. ^ Richard Scholz : Life and writings of Konrad von Megenberg by Helmut Ibach . In: Historische Zeitschrift 162 (1940) 3, pp. 597-599.
  10. ^ Edward Schröder : Life and writings of Konrad von Megenberg by Helmut Ibach . In: Journal for German Antiquity and German Literature 76 (1939) 1/2, pp. 84–86.
personal data
SURNAME Ibach, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian, journalist and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigshafen am Rhein
DATE OF DEATH September 1, 1996
Place of death Bezau , Vorarlberg