Herbert Schlenger

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Herbert Schlenger (right) at the award ceremony of the International Rowing Regatta at Kiel Week (1963)

Herbert Schlenger (born April 10, 1904 in Neumittelwalde ; † December 3, 1968 in Kiel ) was a German geographer , historian and folklorist . Schlenger held chairs for geography at the Universities of Graz (1954–1957) and Kiel (1957–1968). His main focus was Silesia .

Live and act

Herbert Schlenger was born as the son of a police officer in the Silesian border town of Neumittelwalde. At the teacher training college in Oels in 1924 and the Provincial Collegium Breslau in 1926 acquired Schlenger the university admission. Since 1924 he studied geography, mathematics, physics, philosophy and history at the University of Wroclaw . With Max Friederichsen he received his doctorate in June 1930 with a work in Silesian culture and geography. Hermann Aubin carried out the second report . In the fall of 1930 he passed the scientific examination for teaching at secondary schools. From 1930 to 1932 he did the educational preparatory service for teaching at secondary schools in Breslau and passed with distinction. In the fall of 1932 he was appointed as a study assessor.

Schlenger was particularly encouraged by Aubin. He was initially a research assistant and assistant to the Historical Commission for Silesia . In the 1930s, Schlenger belonged continuously to Aubin's Wroclaw working group, which dealt specifically with "Eastern Issues". Aubin placed him in 1932 as an assistant to Adolf Helbok in Berlin for the Atlas of German Folklore. In the autumn of 1934, at Aubin's instigation, he was again an employee of the Historical Commission for Silesia and a research fellow of the Emergency Association of German Science . At the suggestion of Aubin and Friedrichsen, Schlengers habilitation took place in Breslau in 1936 without submission of a paper. Schlenger joined the NSDAP in 1937 . However, there was no doubt about his political reliability under National Socialism. In a report by the head of the Wroclaw National Socialist Lecturer in June 1936, he was certified that he followed "all phenomena of public political life not only with interest but also with expertise", so that "there was not the slightest reason to suspect that he was ever <sic!> hostile to the National Socialist movement ”. In 1938, Schlenger became a lecturer in geography at the University of Wroclaw and assistant at the seminar for historical regional studies and finally head of the newly established Office for Silesian regional studies (1940) at the provincial administration in Wroclaw. The military service prevented the exercise of the office, because shortly after the beginning of the Second World War he was drafted into the air force and deployed on the Eastern Front as a meteorologist . In November 1944 he was appointed adjunct professor at the University of Breslau.

Schlenger was captured by the Soviets in 1945. He was released after four years. Since 1950 he was a member of the Herder Research Council in Marburg. He was one of the founding members. Under Aubin's presidency, Schlenger became a research assistant at the Herder Institute, representative of the institute's director and head of the cartographic department. From 1951 to 1968 he was chairman of the Historical Commission for Silesia. In 1952/53 he was visiting professor for geography in Cologne. In 1954 he was appointed full professor of geography at the University of Graz . In 1957 he went to Kiel. He turned down a call to the Free University of Berlin . He rejected the 1959 election as President of the Herder Research Council. In 1961 he became dean of the natural sciences faculty and in 1963/64 he was rector of Kiel University. In addition, Schlenger was elected first chairman of the Association of German University Teachers in Geography in November 1962 . From 1952 to 1968, Schlenger was editor and co-editor of the journal for East Research .

Schlenger published works on the history of settlements and historical cartography, especially on the Silesian region. Together with Theodor Kraus , Emil Meynen and Hans Mortensen, Schlenger was the editor of the large atlas of Eastern Central Europe (1959).

Fonts

List of publications published in:

  • Gerhard Sandner (Ed.): Problems of cultural space from East Central Europe and Asia. Herbert Schlenger on the occasion of his 60th birthday, April 10, 1964, dedicated by friends, students and employees (= publications of the Geographical Institute of the University of Kiel. Vol. 23). Geographical Institute of the University of Kiel, Kiel 1964, pp. 15–22.
  • Ludwig Petry : Herbert Schlenger. In: Zeitschrift für Ostforschung 18 (1969), pp. 1–14, here: p. 14 (with list of publications from June 1964 to December 1968)

literature

  • Ernst Birke: Obituary for Herbert Schlenger. In: Reports on German regional studies 44 (1970), pp. 207–212.
  • Ludwig Petry: Herbert Schlenger. In: Zeitschrift für Ostforschung 18 (1969), pp. 1-14.
  • Eduard Mühle : The 'Silesian School of Eastern Research'. Hermann Aubin and his Wroclaw working group during the National Socialist years. In: Śląska republika uczonych - Silesian Republic of Scholars. Slezká vědecká obec. Vol. 1, Wrocław 2004, pp. 568–607, here: pp. 574ff.
  • Eduard Mühle: For the people and the German East. The historian Hermann Aubin and the German Ostforschung (= writings of the Federal Archives. Vol. 65). Droste, Düsseldorf 2005, ISBN 3-7700-1619-X , especially pp. 249-251.
  • Karl Schodrok : University Professor Dr. phil. Herbert Schlenger in memory. In: Schlesischer Kulturspiegel 4 (1969), volume 1–3, pp. 1–2.
  • Hugo Weczerka : Prof. Dr. Herbert Schlenger †. In: Mitteilungen der Südosteuropa-Gesellschaft 9 (1969), No. 1/2, pp. 26–28.

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Remarks

  1. ^ Herbert Schlenger: Forms of rural settlements in Silesia. Contributions to the morphology of the Silesian cultural landscape. Wroclaw 1930.
  2. ^ Eduard Mühle: The 'Silesian School of Eastern Research'. Hermann Aubin and his Wroclaw working group during the National Socialist years. In: Śląska republika uczonych - Silesian Republic of Scholars. Slezká vědecká obec. Vol. 1, Wrocław 2004, pp. 568-607.
  3. ^ Eduard Mühle: The 'Silesian School of Eastern Research'. Hermann Aubin and his Wroclaw working group during the National Socialist years. In: Śląska republika uczonych - Silesian Republic of Scholars. Slezká vědecká obec. Vol. 1, Wrocław 2004, pp. 568–607, here: p. 575.
  4. ^ Thekla Kleindienst: The development of West German East European research in the field of tension between science and politics. Marburg 2009, p. 65, note 153.
personal data
SURNAME Schlenger, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geographer, historian and folklorist
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Neumittelwalde
DATE OF DEATH 3rd December 1968
Place of death Kiel