Hermann Gumbel

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Hermann Gumbel 1920

Hermann Gumbel (* thirtieth November 1901 in Frankfurt am Main ; † 11. February 1941 in Kaliningrad ) was a German Germanist and historian .

Life

Gumbel attended the Frankfurt Realgymnasium model school . From 1920 he studied at Frankfurt University , where, with the exception of a trip to Finland and a semester in Munich , he studied German and art history up to and including his doctorate in 1924 with Franz Schultz . In the same year Hermann Gumbel received an assistant position. After his habilitation in 1928, Gumbel taught in Frankfurt as a private lecturer in modern German literary history. From the winter semester 1935/36 to the winter semester 1939/40 Gumbel was a non-civil servant associate professor for German philology. In the winter semester of 1938/39 he was a professor in Jena and in the following winter semester in Königsberg. In 1940 Gumbel became a full professor at the Albertus University in Königsberg .

Gumbel died in 1941 due to a "brief, severe illness".

Relationship to National Socialism

In a letter accompanying an expert opinion by the Frankfurt National Socialist Lecturers' Association , Hermann Gumbel was described as "clearly National Socialist" and emphasized that he was doing the subject in the National Socialist sense. The latter also seems to be borne out by the list of courses that Gumbel held in Frankfurt from 1933 onwards. A somewhat more differentiated picture emerges if, for example, his courses and research before 1933 are considered: Thomas Mann and Ricarda Huch do not fit into a National Socialist research program.

Fonts (selection)

  • About the basics of literary style criticism explained in the prose works of Ricarda Huch . Frankfurt am Main, 1924.
  • Nordic folk songs from Finland and Sweden . Frankfurt a. M .: M. Diesterweg, [1925].
  • Old farmer's cocks . Jena: E. Diederichs, 1925.
  • Old craftspeople . Jena: E. Diederichs, 1928.
  • German special renaissance in German prose . Frankfurt a. M .: M. Diesterweg, 1930.
  • The spiritual face of the present person . Kassel: Neuwerk-Verl., 1931.
  • Nordic folk songs from Finland and Sweden . With Erich Spohr. Frankfurt a. M .: Diesterweg, [1933], 2nd ed.
  • German culture from the age of mysticism to the Counter Reformation . Potsdam: Athenaion, 1936.
  • EG Kolbenheyer . Stuttgart: Truckenmüller, 1938.

literature

  • Gumbel, Hermann . In: Internationales Germanistenlexikon. 1800-1950. Edited by Christoph König , arr. by Birgit Wägenbaur, Vol. 1. Berlin, New York 2003, pp. 637–638.
  • Ernst Klee , The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Frankfurt am Main 2009.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Archive of the German Youth Movement (AdJb) inventory P 1 No. 1260. Listed on Arcinsys Hessen
  2. ↑ a b Victoria Pluschke: Hermann Gumbel - USE: Universität Studieren / Studieren Erforschen . Goethe University Frankfurt, January 11, 2018, accessed on March 31, 2019 .
  3. ^ Christian Hallier: Hermann Gumbel to the memory . In: Poetry and Volkstum . tape 41 , 1941, pp. 267 .
  4. ^ Frank Estelmann, Olaf Müller: Adapted everyday life in Frankfurt German and Romance studies: Frank Schultz and Erhard Lommatzsch in National Socialism . In: Jörn Kobes, Jan-Otmar Hesse (Hrsg.): Frankfurt scientists between 1933 and 1945. Series of publications of the Frankfurt University Archives . tape 1 . Wallstein Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-8353-0258-7 , pp. 39 .


personal data
SURNAME Gumbel, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH 1941