Hermann Wendt (military historian)

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Hermann Wendt (1936)

Hermann Wendt (born February 11, 1909 in Danzig-Langfuhr ; † 1940 on the Canal de la Marne au Rhin ) was a German university professor of war history.

Life

Hermann Wendt's parents were the Danzig ophthalmologist Carl-Friedrich Wendt and his wife Dorothea geb. Baumgart . Hermann Wendt attended the Kronprinz-Wilhelm-Realgymnasium in Langfuhr. After he had passed the Abitur there at Easter 1927, he studied middle and modern history as well as German and English at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen . In the summer semester of 1927 he became active in the Corps Suevia Tübingen . As an inactive he moved to the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin . His teachers in Tübingen were Adalbert Wahl , Johannes Haller , Hermann Schneider , Walter F. Schirmer , Heinrich Dannenbauer and Hermann von Mangoldt . In Berlin he heard from Albert Brackmann , Erich Marcks , Hermann Oncken , Wilhelm Dibelius , Michael Freund , Walter Elze , Hans-Friedrich Rosenfeld and Wilhelm Weber . Returning to Tübingen, he traveled to Paris and Verdun in the summer of 1929 - with special permission from the French General Staff ( Service historique ) - to study war history . On December 2, 1930 he was promoted to Dr. phil. doctorate ( very good ). In the summer semester of 1931 he was in Würzburg, in the summer semester of 1932 in Kiel. At the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität he attended courses in war history in the winter semester 1930/31 and in the winter semester 1931/32. The lecturers were Edmund Wachenfeld and Walter Elze .

In March / April 1933 he traveled to Lake Garda , Mantua and Verona, the battlefields of the Mountain War 1915–1918 . Due to the colloquium on May 2, 1933 and his habilitation thesis , he received the Venia legendi for war history on May 20, 1933 in Tübingen . Until December 1933 he received no salary, but from the Tübingen Jubilee Foundation 120 Reichsmarks as a study grant . As a private lecturer , he was given leave of absence from the Technical University of Danzig for the summer semester of 1934 . With regard to the location of the Free City of Danzig , his teaching assignment for the German student body was “camouflaged for reasons of foreign policy”.

The University of Tübingen appointed him associate professor . He was drafted into the army and was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd class in 1939 . He fell at the age of 31 on the Rhine-Marne Canal.

Memberships

Works

  • The Italian theater of war in European conflicts - its significance for the conduct of war on France's north-eastern borders (= writings of the war history department in the history seminar of the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität). Junker & Dünnhaupt, Berlin 1936 (habilitation thesis). GoogleBooks

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Personnel file in the Tübingen University Archives, call number 126/757.
  2. ↑ a b Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 129/904.
  3. ↑ a b Hermann Wendt's own curriculum vitae, Tübingen University Archives, call number 131/1220.
  4. ↑ Dissertation: Verdun 1916 - Falkenhayn's attacks in the Maas area with the direction of Verdun as a strategic problem .
  5. ↑ Index card of Dr. Wendt, Hermann; February 10, 1936 (University Archives Tübingen)
personal data
SURNAME Wendt, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wendt, Lauritz Carl-Friedrich Hermann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German war historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig-Langfuhr
DATE OF DEATH 1940
Place of death France