Herman-Walther Frey

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Herman-Walther Frey (born March 26, 1888 in Berlin-Schöneberg ; † April 28, 1968 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German administrative lawyer , musicologist and art historian .

Life

Frey was born as the son of the Berlin art historian Carl Frey (1857-1917) at 17 Maaßenstrasse. As a child he developed a keen interest in art-historical and music-historical topics through his father. After studying law, he worked for the Reich Finance Administration from 1920 to 1935. In 1930 he joined the NSDAP , and in 1933 also the SA . In addition, he became a member of the German Christians . From 1935 to 1945 Frey was a consultant in the Science Office of the Reich Ministry of Education , where he was able to influence numerous academic careers. Within the ministry, he was in charge of music and theater studies, prehistory and early history, oriental studies and art history as well as Protestant and Catholic theology.

After the war ended, Frey was interned in the American camp in Altenstadt near Schongau in Bavaria from August 1945 to November 1946. Then he lived as a retiree and hobby researcher in Freiburg. In his arbitration chamber proceedings in 1949 Frey was finally classified as a "fellow traveler".

Frey was the father of the prehistorian Otto-Herman Frey .

Publications (selection)

  • The literary estate of Giorgio Vasari . Edited and provided with critical apparatus by Karl Frey, foreword by Herman-Walther Frey. Volume 1, 1923; Volume 2, 1930.
  • The literary estate of Giorgio Vasari. Volume 3: New Letters from Giorgio Vasari. [1557-1573]. Ed. And ext. by Herman-Walther Frey, A. Hopfer, Burg bei Magdeburg 1940.
  • Ruggiero Giovannelli : Missa vestiva i colli for eight voices a cappella. Edited by Herman-Walther Frey. Gregorius-Musikverlag, Münster 1958.
  • The diaries of the Sistine Chapel in Rome, 1560 and 1561 (Diarium 5 fol. 156–192, Diarium 6), ed. u. explained by Herman-Walther Frey. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1959.
  • Michelagniolo Buonarotti . The letters . Translated by Karl Frey. Newly edited with extended notes. by Herman-Walther Frey. de Gruyter, Berlin 1961.

literature

  • Michael Custodis (Ed.): Herman-Walther Frey: Ministerialrat, Scientist, Networker: NS University Policy and the Consequences. Waxmann, Münster 2014, ISBN 978-3-8309-3107-2 .
  • Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon on National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , p. 53.
  • Sabine Ehrmann-Herfort, M. Matheus (Ed.): From secrecy to international and interdisciplinary research. The music history department of the German Historical Institute in Rome . De Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2010, p.
  • Mitchell G. Ash, Wolfram Niess, Ramon Pils (eds.): Humanities in National Socialism: The example of the University of Vienna. Vienna University press, 2010, p.?.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Birth register Schöneberg I No. 157/1888 .
personal data
SURNAME Frey, Herman-Walther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer, musicologist and art historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Schöneberg
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 1968
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau