Hermann Mitgau

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Johann (es) Hermann Mitgau (born May 23, 1895 in Braunschweig , † December 14, 1980 in Göttingen ) was a German sociologist and genealogist . During his research career he tried to explain social relationships through inheritance processes. He had already joined the Wandervogel in Braunschweig in 1911 and was a leading member of the Feldwandervogel during the First World War . Even in old age he remained connected to the youth movement and its research.

Life

The son of a mechanical engineer and agricultural industry council, he graduated from the Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Braunschweig in 1914 and then volunteered as a war volunteer. He belonged to the East Frisian Infantry Regiment No. 78 and was used in battles in East Prussia and wounded. After a stay in the hospital he was able to use the garrison again and came to the government administration in Brussels .

From 1918 he studied in Marburg and at the University of Heidelberg with Max Weber , Alfred Weber and Karl Mannheim , received his doctorate there in 1922 and - after working for the general student committee , an association for student aid and as a research assistant - in 1930 with a thesis on social issues Generational fate qualified as a professor . In 1930 he became professor of folklore and civic education at the Pedagogical Academy in Frankfurt / Oder. After its dissolution, he was a lecturer at the Berlin School of Politics from 1932 to 1933 . From 1934 to 1939 he taught as a professor of folklore and family research at the college for teacher training in Cottbus and in Schneidemühl .

After the " seizure of power " in 1933, Mitgau became a member of the SA and from 1934 of the National Socialist teachers' association . Since 1937 he was a member of the NSDAP . In 1938 he applied for admission to the SS , to which he belonged from 1943 with the rank of Untersturmführer of the SD . After 1939 he was involved in setting up the planned Reich Institute for Population Science and Population Policy in Munich and worked on a research assignment for the State Statistical Office in Munich. He participated in the war again in 1942 and 1944/45.

In 1923 he married Marianne Pomnitz and had three children with her. In 1945 his family fled from Schmellwitz in the Spreewald to the west.

From 1946 until his retirement in 1963 Mitgau was professor for history didactics at the University of Education in Göttingen.

Mitgau's main focus in explaining social developments was genealogy . He also used clan structures and lines of descent to explain class and status formation, especially in connection with social mobility . He emphasized the importance of the hereditary blood association and gender in earlier class-hierarchical stratifications. Horst Knospe therefore assigns Mitgau's research to a sociological hereditary science . But the connection between the legal concept of inheritance and sociology also means tradition and tradition .

Fonts (selection)

  • 5 years of folklore and clan studies at the College for Teacher Training in Cottbus 1934–39. Association for local history, Cottbus 1941.
  • Inheritance and career change in the craft. Investigations into the fate of generations in the structure of society. Wichern-Verlag, Berlin 1952.
  • Classical forms of existence seen genealogically. Investigations into the fate of generations in the structure of society. Heinz Reise, Göttingen 1953.
  • On the development of genealogical sociology. A look over the fences of the specialist disciplines. Degener, Neustadt an der Aisch 1966.
  • Genealogy as a social science. Collected Treatises. Heinz Reise, Göttingen 1977.

literature

  • Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Günter Scheel (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon. 19th and 20th centuries. Hanover 1996, p. 420 f.
  • Horst Knospe: Mitgau, Johan-Hermann. In: Wilhelm Bernsdorf and Horst Knospe (eds.): Internationales Soziologenlexikon. Volume 2, 2nd edition, Enke, Stuttgart 1984, p. 580 f.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Christian Harten, Uwe Neirich, Matthias Schwerendt: Racial hygiene as an educational ideology of the Third Reich. A bio-bibliographical handbook. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2006, p. 254 f.
  2. ↑ Hermann Mitgau. In: Hinrich Jantzen: names and works . dipa-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1972, pp. 201–204 (= biographies and contributions to the sociology of the youth movement, volume 1)
  3. ↑ Harten Neirich, Schwerendt: eugenics as an educational ideology of the Third Reich. P. 254
  4. ↑ Harten Neirich, Schwerendt: eugenics as an educational ideology of the Third Reich. P. 255
  5. ↑ See article in the Sociologists' Dictionary, see literature.
  6. ↑ See Genealogy as a Social Science. Collected treatises, see literature.
personal data
SURNAME Mitgau, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mitgau, Hermann; Mitgau, Johann Hermann; Mitgau, Johan-Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH December 14, 1980
Place of death Goettingen