Hermann Rudiger

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Hermann Rüdiger (born May 30, 1889 in Hamburg , † March 26, 1946 in Ludwigsburg ) was a German geologist and polar researcher and, as a National Socialist, from 1941 headed the German Foreign Institute in Stuttgart .

Life

Hermann Rüdiger was the son of the Hamburg historian Otto Rüdiger . After graduating from the Johanneum School of Academics , Rüdiger studied history and geology and received his doctorate in 1912 from the University of Rostock . During his studies he became a member of the Skaldia Rostock singers (in the Sondershäuser Association ).

As a geologist, he was part of the crew of the ship Herzog Ernst , which undertook an Arctic Ocean expedition in 1912 under the leadership of Herbert Schröder-Stranz and Captain Alfred Ritscher . Of the 15 crew members, only seven survived, including Christopher Rave and Hermann Rüdiger. Rüdiger had one foot amputated by Rave while he was fully conscious.

In 1923 he became an employee of the German Foreign Institute (DAI) in Stuttgart. In 1922 he took up the term Danube Swabia, introduced by the Graz geographer Robert Sieger , for Germanism in the Pannonian region and spread it. During the National Socialist “seizure of power” in the DAI, he ensured that his long-time managing director Fritz Wertheimer was thrown out as a Jew , but he was only given the editor of the DAI magazine “Der Auslandsdeutsche”. The Transylvanian Saxon Richard Csaki, who was "tried and tested in the popular struggle", became managing director.

In 1934, Rüdiger received a teaching position as a lecturer at the Hohenheim Agricultural University . In 1940 he was appointed head of the Geographical Institute at the TU Stuttgart . In 1939, Rüdiger headed the commission of the German Institute for International Affairs (DAI) to document resettlement in occupied Poland together with Karl Götz (among others, DAI Gaureferent).

Hermann Rüdiger developed into a staunch anti-Semite and became a National Socialist, in the SA he last had the rank of SA Brigade Leader (General). From 1941 he headed the German Foreign Institute. After the end of World War II , he was arrested in autumn 1945 and interned by the US armed forces in the Ludwigsburg internment camp. There he died under unknown circumstances.

Fonts

  • The Sorge-Bai: From the fateful days of the Schröder-Stranz expedition , 46 pictures and 5 plates based on drawings and photographs by Christopher Raves, Reimer, Berlin 1913, reprint: Edition Fines Mundi, Saarbrücken 2007
  • Germany's contribution to the solution of polar problems: A contribution to the history of polar research , Rieger, Munich 1912 and Boysen, Hamburg 1913, at the same time inaugural dissertation at the University of Rostock
  • The Germans on the central Danube (Hungary, southern Slavia, Romania). 2nd supplementary edition Munich 1927.
  • The Danube Swabians in the southern Slavic Batschka. Fonts d. German Foreign Inst. Stuttgart. Abroad u. Home: Stuttgart 1931

literature

  • Ernst Ritter: The German Foreign Institute in Stuttgart 1917–1945. An example of German Volkstumsarbeit between the world wars . Steiner, Wiesbaden 1976, ISBN 3-515-02361-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Johannes H. Voigt (ed.): Festschrift for the 150th anniversary of the University of Stuttgart: Contributions to the history of the university , DVA 1979, ISBN 9783421019370 , p. 300
  2. ^ Association of Alter SVer (VASV): Address book. Membership directory of all old men. As of October 1, 1937. Hanover 1937, p. 206.
  3. ^ Edgar Hösch, Karl Nehring, Holm Sundhaussen, Konrad Clewing: Lexicon for the History of Southeast Europe , Southeast Institute, Munich, p. 201
  4. ^ Ernst Ritter, The German Foreign Institute in Stuttgart , p. 74
  5. ↑ Frank Thadeusz: Harakiri im Polarmeer , in: Spiegel online - One day from April 5, 2008, accessed on August 15, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Rüdiger, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist and polar researcher
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 1946
Place of death Ludwigsburg