Johann Wilhelm Mannhardt (sociologist)

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Johann Wilhelm Mannhardt (born September 17, 1883 in Hamburg-Eppendorf ; † September 10, 1969 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German sociologist , political scientist and professor at the University of Marburg for "ethnology and national studies as well as border and foreign German".

Life

Johann Wilhelm Mannhardt was the son of the ophthalmologist Franziskus Mannhardt (1846–1927), a brother of Julius Mannhardt . He passed the Abitur at the Johanneum and studied geography , history , law and political science at the universities of Heidelberg, Berlin, Freiburg i. Br. And Greifswald, where he became Dr. iur. received his doctorate . Before the First World War , he visited England ( Oxford ), Canada and the United States . After the war he planned a national political education and training work to renew the intellectual and political life, which was to take care of the borderland Germans and Germans abroad in particular . In 1920, at his instigation, the "Institute for Border and Foreign Germanism" was founded in Marburg, to which a student residence hall was attached. Both institutions formed the " Deutsche Burse zu Marburg ". Mannhardt completed his habilitation in 1925 on "Frontier and German Abroad as a Subject". In 1927 he became associate professor, in 1929 full professor at the University of Marburg. His scientific achievements were regarded as low, but he was an active functionary.

Mannhardt joined the NSDAP in 1933 and was a member of the NS teachers' association . In November 1933 he signed the professors' declaration of Adolf Hitler at German universities and colleges . In the " Association for Germans Abroad " (VDA) he was an overseas consultant after a long trip around the world (1928/29) until June 1935, when he fell out of favor with Rudolf Hess (cf. curriculum vitae of the Romanian German Friedrich Benesch ). Mannhardt wanted to keep Germans abroad out of the party politics of the NS state , which led to a conflict with the NSDAP and to the transfer to the University of Breslau in 1935, where he did not take up his post. Instead he worked for the Wehrmacht as an expert on ethnicity issues in the Reich Ministry of War in Berlin. In 1939 the Burse, where many ethnic Germans from Southeast Europe studied, was closed and reopened in 1941. Mannhardt wanted to exclude women from studying.

Mannhardt last served as colonel and regimental commander in World War II . In 1952, after great difficulties, he was able to reopen the Burse as a private institution and separate from the University of Marburg ("Deutsche Burse zu Marburg, Institute for Folk Science"). In 1958 he was a co-founder of the General German Cultural Association for the Promotion of German Schools Abroad . At the end of his life he mainly stood up for the “ Federal Union of European Ethnic Groups ” and was co-editor of the magazine Europa Ethnica .

Fonts (selection)

  • The police duties of the seaman's office . Gräfe & Sillem, Hamburg 1913. Also dissertation Greifswald 1914.
  • The Hamburg University and the Hamburg businessman . Meißner, Hamburg 1913.
  • Trench people . German Volkstum, Hamburg 1919.
  • Fascism . Beck, Munich 1925. At the same time as The Sociological and Political Significance of Fascism Dissertation Gießen 1925. Was placed on the list of literature to be segregated in the Soviet occupation zone after the end of the war .
  • Border and foreign German as a subject (inaugural lecture). G. Fischer, Jena 1926.
  • University, Germanness and abroad . NG Elwertsche Verlh., Marburg 1927.
  • South Tyrol: A struggle for German people . E. Diederichs, Jena 1928 ( German people 62).
  • University revolution Hanseatische Verlags-Anstalt 1933. Was placed on the list of literature to be segregated in the Soviet occupation zone after the end of the war.
  • The University in the Crisis of Time . Braumüller, Stuttgart and Vienna 1965.
  • Building blocks for folk science . G. Fischer, Stuttgart 1965.
  • People and state . Braumüller, Stuttgart and Vienna 1973.

literature

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personal data
SURNAME Mannhardt, Johann Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist and sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH 17th September 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg-Eppendorf
DATE OF DEATH September 10, 1969
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau