Johann Ulrich Folkers

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Johann Ulrich Folkers (born March 12, 1887 on the Krummhörn Marschenhof near Wüppels ; † January 16, 1960 in Jever ) was a German folklorist , history didactic and farmhouse researcher at the Rostock Pedagogical Institute (from 1935 University for Teacher Training ) and a National Socialist racial theorist .

Life

Johann Ulrich Folkers was the son of a farm owner from Wangerland . He graduated from the Jever high school and studied German, history and Protestant religion at the University of Kiel, among others . In 1910 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on folk tales . As a high school teacher he worked in Husum , Kiel and Haldensleben before he became a senior teacher in Rostock from 1913 to 1928 . He took part in the First World War. In 1928 he became professor of history at the Pedagogical Institute, which after the formation of the state of Mecklenburg in 1935 became a college for teacher training and trained non-grammar school teachers. He dealt with Low German folklore and published until 1960 on the architecture of the north German farmhouse .

On May 1, 1933, Folkers joined the NSDAP and from 1934 took on important functions in the NSLB . So he headed the Reich Working Group for Spatial Research . The textbook History of the German People , which he revised and which was used in elementary schools from 1935 , became particularly well known . In 1939 his professorship was expanded to include geopolitics . As a Reich clerk for geopolitics , Folkers was active throughout the Reich in the area of ​​National Socialist teacher training. In November 1933 he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler .

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In the post-war years he retired to his father's farm in Wüppels. After retiring, he first published folkloristic writings on the East Frisian Gulfhaus . As early as 1954, however, he turned back to socio-political issues. In his later publications, he primarily focused on the social and economic historical factors of the north German farmhouse. Folkers was a frequent guest of his colleagues in the GDR. The East German folklorist Karl Baumgarten praised him in 1960 as the "undoubtedly most important representative of Mecklenburg farmhouse research".

Fonts

  • On the style criticism of the German folk tale , dissertation, Kiel 1910.
  • 'Round houses in Mecklenburg villages', in: Mecklenburgischen Monatsheften (1926).
  • The Lauenburg farmhouse , Ratzeburg 1927.
  • The farming village in the Duchy of Lauenburg , in: Lauenburgische Heimat 3 (1927), no. 1, pp. 2-18.
  • On the question of the extent and whereabouts of the Slavic population of Holstein and Lauenburg . Kiel 1928.
  • 'The medieval settlements of foreign colonists in north-west Germany', in: Volk und Rasse 2 (1927) and 3 (1928).
  • 'On the question of the extent and whereabouts of the Slavic population of Holstein and Lauenburg', in: Journal of the Society for Schleswig-Holstein History 58 (1928), pp. 430–458; 59 (1929), pp. 339-348.
  • The Mecklenburg farming village (together with Carl August Endler ), Rostock 1930.
  • History of the German people: told to the Mecklenburg youth , together with Heinrich Timm . 14.-18. Ed., Beltz, Langensalza 1930–1933.
  • 'On the history of the development of Frisian house construction', in: Niederdeutsche Zeitschrift für Volkskunde 8 (1930), pp. 66–110.
  • 'Mecklenburg in der Neugliederung des Deutschen Reiches', in: Zeitschrift für Geoppolitik 8 (1931), no. 7, pp. 517-524.
  • 'Siedlungsformen der Westschleswigschen Geest', in: Nordelbingen 9 (1933/34), 308–329.
  • History of the German people. Created according to the new official guidelines for German youth (with the participation of Heinrich Timm and Paul Wolff ), Beltz, Langensalza 1935, 12th edition 1942. (taking into account the racial-historical regulations of National Socialist education ).
  • History of the German nutritional status , 3rd edition Langensalza: Beltz, 1937
  • Geopolitical history and popular education , Vowinckel, Heidelberg a. a. 1939.
  • 'The sequence of layers in the old stock of Lower Saxon farmhouses in Mecklenburg', in: Hermann Teuchert (ed.), Folklore contributions: Richard Wossidlo on January 26, 1939 as thanks given by friends and admirers and the publisher , Neumünster 1939, pp. 112–128 .
  • 'The historical significance of the land acquisition as a selection process', in: German Archives for State and People's Research 5 (1941), pp. 506–569.
  • The law of growing spaces , Vowinckel, Heidelberg u. a. 1943.
  • Co-editor of the historical didactic journal Past and Present .
  • ' Status and tasks of the Gulfhausforschung ', in: Zeitschrift für Volkskunde 51 (1954), pp. 17–36.
  • ' The Vorwerk Upjever. Its significance for the history of the development of the Frisian farmhouse ', in: Oldenburger Jahrbuch 54 (1954), pp. 147–156.
  • 'Gulfhaus and Gutsscheune', in: Nordelbingen 22 (1954), pp. 76-107.
  • 'On the question of rural exodus in the North Sea marshes: diagnosis and therapy', in: Neues Archiv für Niedersachsen (1954), H. 4/6, pp. 81-105.
  • 'Deutsche und Slawen', in: Zeitschrift für Geoppolitik 26 (1955), no. 9, pp. 467–473.
  • 'The state of farmhouse research in Mecklenburg', in: Mitteldeutsches Jahrbuch (1956), pp. 143–157.
  • 'Vom Wesen des Friesentums', in: Yearbook of the Society for Fine Art and patriotic antiquities to Emden 36 (1956), pp. 7–38.
  • Mecklenburg , Münster: Aschendorff 1961 (House and farm of German farmers, ed. By Gustav Wolf , vol. 3).

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SURNAME Folkers, Johann Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German racial ideologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Krummhörn farmhouse near Wüppels
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 1960
Place of death Jever