Herder Institute Riga
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The Herder Institute Riga - also Herder University Riga - was founded through the scientific Herder Society. In the new Republic of Latvia it was supposed to offer university courses to the (old) German minority.
history
After the Latvian War of Independence , Wilhelm Klumberg initiated the construction of the institute in Riga . It was opened on September 15, 1921 with a philosophical-theological, a Germanistic and a natural history-agricultural faculty. Although the university was recognized by the Latvian Parliament in 1927 , some of the exams had to be taken at other universities. The enrollment of Reich German students was later banned. Klumberg worked there (from 1926 as rector ) until it was dissolved in 1939, when all Baltic Germans were resettled under the German-Soviet non-aggression pact .
Employee
Well-known scholars were the prehistorian Carl Engel , the historians Hans von Rimscha , Reinhard Wittram , Leonid Arbusow and Jürgen von Hehn . Theologians were Carl Schneider and Rudolf Abramowski and, on the other hand, with reference to the Confessing Church, Herbert Girgensohn and Hans Joachim Iwand , who therefore had to leave Riga. The national economy took Walter Large , the business Karl Banse and Paul German , the philosophy Kurt Stavenhagen , the German Lutz Mackensen , the agricultural science Woldemar von Knieriem . After the Herder Institute was dissolved in 1939, many scholars worked at the University of Posen .
See also
literature
- Erik Thomson : Baltic Memorial Days. Wilhelm Klumberg . In: Jahrbuch des Baltic Deutschtums , vol. 33 (1986), pp. 177-181.
- Michael Garleff (Ed.): Baltic Germans, Weimar Republic and Third Reich . Böhlau, Cologne, 2nd edition 2008, ISBN 978-3-412-12199-0 .
- Peter Wörster : Institutum Herderianum Rigense. On the history of the Herder Institute in Riga . In: Baltica. Quarterly publication for Baltic culture . Issue 4/2006 [recte 2007], pp. 3–21.