Immanuel Herrmann

Immanuel Gottlob Herrmann (born July 29, 1870 in Rommelshausen , † May 22, 1945 in Neu-Finkenkrug ) was a German university professor and social democratic politician.

Life

The son of the teacher Johann Jakob Herrmann (* 1836, † 1889) and his wife Christiane grew up with seven siblings. He attended grammar school in Stuttgart and, after passing the state exam, attended the evangelical-theological seminars in Schöntal and Urach . As a member of the Tübingen monastery , he then studied Protestant theology at the University of Tübingen . From 1892 to 1893 Herrmann completed a year of voluntary military service, which he completed with the rank of Vice Sergeant in the Reserve. In 1894 he began studying mechanical engineering and electrical engineering at the Technical University of Stuttgart . In 1898 he passed the first state examination for mechanical engineers and was then an assistant at the electrotechnical institute of the TH Stuttgart until May 1899. From 1899 to 1901 he worked as an engineer at the Central Office for Scientific and Technical Investigations in Neubabelsberg and then initially became an assistant teacher and from 1902 associate professor for electrical engineering at the TH Stuttgart. His lectures dealt, for example, with the basics of telegraphy and telephony , electrotechnical measurement science , theory of alternating currents and power plants including lines .

During the First World War , Herrmann took part as a technical officer mainly in Flanders . In 1916 he received the Iron Cross 1st Class. From 1921 Herrmann was again an associate professor in Stuttgart. From 1927 he took radio technology into his teaching program. In 1929 Herrmann was appointed full professor. From 1919 to 1933 he was chairman of the Württemberg Freethinkers and Monist Association, and from 1929 to 1933 chairman of the German Monist Association . In March 1933, Herrmann was released from university service and taken into so-called protective custody by the new National Socialist rulers because of his political role during the revolutionary period of 1918 and 1919 .

politics

Immanuel Herrmann was a member of the SPD and from 1919 to 1920 held a mandate in the constituent assembly of the new people's state of Württemberg . January 15, 1919 to June 28 of the same year, he also was the last Wuerttemberg Minister of War before the dissolution of the Württemberg army in accordance with the provisions of the Versailles Treaty and the transfer of the new security forces in the provisional Reichswehr in accordance with Article 79 of the Constitution of the Weimar Republic . Herrmann was extremely pacifist and devoted himself with great idealism to the dismantling of the military in Württemberg. The actual military decisions, such as the deployment of Württemberg troops to overthrow the Munich Soviet Republic , were made by the head of government Wilhelm Blos or the entire cabinet .

family

Immanuel Herrmann married Else König in 1901. The couple had three children.

Publications

Immanuel Herrmann: The new Our Father. Not a helpless prayer, but a resolution to work. Jena: Volksbuchhandlung 1921. Herrmann wrote several volumes on electrical engineering topics in the renowned Göschen Collection .

References and comments

1. ↑ ^{a b} Festschrift for the 150th anniversary of the University of Stuttgart . Edited by Johannes H. Voigt, DVA, Stuttgart 1979, 343
2. ↑ Festschrift for the 150th anniversary of the University of Stuttgart . Edited by Johannes H. Voigt, DVA, Stuttgart 1979, 350
3. ^ Eberhard Kolb , Klaus Schönhoven: Regional and local council organizations in Württemberg . Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1976, pages 146 to 147

literature

• Frank Raberg : Biographical handbook of the Württemberg state parliament members 1815-1933 . On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-016604-2 , p. 349 f .
• Katja Nagel: Immanuel Gottlob Herrmann. In: Norbert Becker / Katja Nagel: Persecution and disenfranchisement at the Technical University of Stuttgart during the Nazi era, Stuttgart: Belser 2017, pp. 269–276.